Private company
ASK
Logo: askitalian.co.uk3
British casual dining restaurant chain
ASK Italian Restaurants Limited, trading as ASK or ASK Italian, is a British casual dining restaurant chain that serves Italian cuisine based in London, England. The chain, founded by brothers Adam and Samuel Kaye in 1993, and floated on AIM in 1995, was the subject of a public-to-private deal in 2004, after which it was merged with Pizza Express to form Gondola Holdings, later part of the Gondola Group. It was acquired along with Zizzi for £250 million by Bridgepoint Capital in February 2015.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
- Websitewww.askitalian.co.uk
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ASK Italian Restaurants Limited, trading as ASK or ASK Italian, is a British casual dining restaurant chain that serves Italian cuisine based in London, England.2
Controversies and legal
Controversies
In November 2015, the chain was one of seven restaurants surveyed that failed to meet a basic level of sustainability in its seafood.
In November 2019, Azzurri Restaurants admitted in court that a dish described as "lobster and king prawns" contained only 35% lobster, and had white fish and other ingredients mixed in and formed to appear as lobster meat. The dish was sold between 2014 and March 2019.
From Wikipedia’s article on ASK Italian, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
Timeline
- 1993Founded Founded1
Links
- Websitewww.askitalian.co.uk1
- X (Twitter)x.com/ASKItalian1
- Facebookwww.facebook.com/ASKItalian1
- Instagramwww.instagram.com/askitalian1
- WikipediaASK Italian
- More imagesWikimedia Commons
- WikidataQ4807056
Sources
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- 1WikidataASK on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaASK on Wikipedia
- 3Company websiteASK logo
- 4WikipediaASK on Wikipedia (revision used)
- 5Wikimedia CommonsASK photo by Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0