Toscanini's - Hillarys

We were 'walk ins' after a lovely day wandering the beach. We chose the 'surf and turf special and boy was it special, but NOT in a good way. The cafe owner made the cast of Wentworth look like **** cats and was not very welcoming.  The food arrived and our surf consisted of one prawn and two calamari rings on both steaks. the steak was rump. my steak was inedible, was all gristle  and was pushed aside. My partner persevered and may have been able to eat a quarter of his. I wont be going there again, really sad as Hillarys is a lovely place, not a good endorsement  for visitors

Toscanini's then Toscanini's now, untold changes to ownership, a scant lack of reinvestment, have contributed to the creation of this miserable pseudo-Italian restaurant. The tatty menus, disheveled just off the boat staff, is matched by the culinary incompetence of the kitchen. The pizza (ham was on the turn) at $24 was what can I say inedible (threw 3/4 away), never in my life have I thrown pizza away, its just not right, even bad pizza is yum for breakfast. The seafood extravaganza was conceived executed and eaten in poly saturated fats a la 'deep fryer', say no more. Not worth the 1 rating

After seeing the menu online and finding two different versions we decided to go along anyways because the price was great while still included a hot drink. When we arrived we found a third menu and unfortunately no hot drink included. We paid $42.50 for what would have cost $31.90 on the old menu including an orange juice, ours didn't include that. The scrambled eggs were fine, a little cold and too much pepper but the omelette was good. Don't think I'd be back.

The place looks reasonably nice but I was not a fan of the food as much as I wished I was. There is a standard menu but the food quality wasn't as good as you would expect it to be which was a shame

Below average food. Service was ok. Won't be going back. They had run out of gluten free bread so replaced with potato, when they bought it out they said the benedict also didn't have the hollandaise sauce as it had gluten? Had I known that before I wouldn't have ordered it. Ham with over cooked poached eggs and potato for over $20.