Secreto Restaurant

The one thing you need to know about this place is that the wait time for food is longer than you will expect, especially if there are other tables in. It took 30 mins for starters and 45 mins for mains. But if you manage to survive the wait the food honestly is incredible, I can't deny that its perfect food, Darwens little gold mine, really. The downsides to our experience was. The service. we walked in and awkwardly stood at the door, waiting for someone to acknowledge us and then getting shown to our table by a 5 year old (must be the son) Took a while to take drinks order, long enough for us to ask for our drinks order to be taken, We had to ask for tables to be cleared, every corse, same again for the complementary pre starter, and also had to ask for top up drinks. There were some kids in along with the kid mentioned earlier, and the noise coming from them playing at the front of the restaurant was honestly jarring, toy card banging of windows and the floor every 30 seconds, shouting banging. It was just a lot going on, especially as it's only a small place like, 12 tables tops. We do want to go back again, but we will expect the wait time this time but if the service hasn't improved then it would be our last time and an updated review, I only gave 4 because it's a local business and the food was brilliant, everything else was appalling. ****** I returned ******* i can honestly say that i returned for date night and it was spectacular. No massive weight time, no child service although he was lingering around. Service was spot on. 52£ for 2 starters 2 mains a bottle of wine a beer and double whiskey. The value for money is crazy good.

Came for dinner in a large group tonight and it was 10/10. The food is genuinely the best food in Darwen at the moment. It was all super fresh ingredients and made from scratch. The quality of the ingredients is great (Steak & Prawns amazing!) The service is fantastic, couldn’t do enough for you and gave us a complimentary dessert as we were celebrating. Please visit and hope this restaurant lasts!!

We went on Saturday evening as a party of 8, ages ranging from 8 to 74. The food was absolutely delicious - so fresh and bursting with flavour. The staff are all lovely and the overall atmosphere is really chilled and warm. We are so lucky to have such a good foodie place in Darwen - this was our first visit, but it certainly won’t be our last!

Love this place. Love the food. Service isn’t always on point but the staff are always really friendly. We are regulars and wouldn’t go anywhere else for Italian/Greek. Everything I have had has been excellent. I have had fillet steak several times, medium rare and it’s perfect every time. Best part, it’s a 5 minute walk from my house. 😀

Very cosy and delightful little restaurant. Upon arrival we were greeted, had a little giggle over the 'early' Christmas decorations and was shown to our table. We were served with drinks quickly while waiting for the rest of our party to turn up. Seating by a cosy warm real fire place with soft music in the background was nice. There was complimentary olives and condiments at the start. I actually ate more olives than i ever have in one sitting as i dont like them (I'd like to like them!) but these were ok. Had the chicken liver patè for starters. Really nice, but as with most places the patè to bread ratio wasn't right so we asked for a little more bread. (Hate wasting delicious patè). My main was the Lasagne, which I really enjoyed. Nice crisp cheese topping and tasty right the way through. Topped with parmesan cheese (by the chef) a little unusual as normally the server asks if you would like parmesan but here they just seem to add it without asking. The wife ordered a steak medium rare, now I'm a chefs nightmare 'well done burn the edges' kind of chap so the sight of this medium rare was traumatic for me at best. Nevertheless wifey had some of the steak but left the majority of it. It may have been too rare for her taste (and didnt want to admit it) but she said she just wasn't enjoying it, something about the texture. She didn't raise it with the server so I just told her that's what you get for ordering it like that 😏. Dessert I had the profiteroles which was 3 large, fresh filled rolled that I popped in one at a time. I definitely had my fill and left stuffed..! For 4 of us, 3 beers, 2 soft drinks, 3 starters, 4 mains (Inc 2 steaks), and 3 Deserts it came to about £137, so £35 a head which we thought was reasonable. Thanks guys! See you again!