This is the best Italian restaurant and deli in Newcastle. The food is always the best and the service excellent . All the staff are friendly, bellisimo
Jules
Worst experience ever as far as restaurant experience.
Staff not very attentive, helpful or friendly and only concentrate on filling your wine glass. We tried it a second time to give it the benefit of the doubt to our disappointment. We had to ask for the menu's, we had to ask the staff to take our order, we were then informed the food choices we made were not available, with no alternative, we then had to wait over an hour for our food which we only received because we asked where it was. Staff are very rude and unhelpful. We would not go back to this restaurant, turned a very nice evening sour.
Iain Gibbons
The restaurant is a bit more pricey than the norm, but I had heard good things about it (heard lots of bad things now) so went with a client early July 2009. The interior is excellent and the restaurant was busy (good sign) but it went downhill rapidly from there.
The staff are nothing short of arrogant - the main waiter needs a personality!
When we came to order we were told the pizza chef had gone home, so no pizzas. So ordered starters and pasta. I ordered a stuffed pepper at £6.95 - what i got was half a pepper filled with rice, with an olive on top - with a little bit of tasteless oily tomato sauce. It was served so hot it was steaming and I had to wait 5 minutes to cool down. It was awful, but not wanting to cause a scene when I was with a client I said nothing.
Then the main course arrived. I ordered a penne arribiata - simple - pasta with a spicy tomoato sauce. First off, the portion size would not have filled my 6-year never mind me, then as soon as I put my fork in I could tell the pasta wasnt cooked - al dente is good - this was totally undercooked to the point the pasta clinked when knocked together - then the arribiata sauce - no spice to it at all, no flavour to it all all - this restaurant managed to make a tomato sauce that doesnt even taste of tomato!
This was the final straw, so I complained and along came the senior waiter - wow, what an attitude problem - "You have a problem?" "Yes, the pasta is undercooked, the sauce is tasteless and has no spice to it at all, and whilst were on the starter was awful too".
His response - "you talking about the starter or the main course?"
I said both, to which he replied "What you want me to do?"
I was so incensed, no apology nothing. I said take it away I dont want it and I dont want anything else to eat if this is the standard of your food. The response "OK" my plate was picked up and off he went.
My advice - Dont go anywhere near this overpriced, over rated, poor restaurant. There are 4 or 5 decent italians on Gosforth High St, from San Lorenzo, Bella Scicilai, Fifi's and even Pizza Express - Avoid Adrianos
Feedmefeedme
This was our first visit. An unfriendly waitress greeted us and led us to a table in the main thoroughfare, we asked if we could have a window seat but we told they were booked (2 tables remained empty throughout our meal) Calves liver starter was nice but mussels/clams were tasteless. Signature dish of roasted suckling pig was an expensive disappointment as mostly bone,gristle,fat & accompanied by nice veg but ? one potato between two of us!!
Sasi
Don't bother. Over priced, tasteless food with very poor service.
