Gasparone - Full Menu

I wish I read the reviews prior to going to this restaurant! I’m not one for typically writing reviews but we arrived at what seemed to be a lovely beach front... read more I wish I read the reviews prior to going to this restaurant! I’m not one for typically writing reviews but we arrived at what seemed to be a lovely beach front restaurant which looked the part and we were standing at the entrance waiting to be seated for about 5/10 minutes with not one waiter approaching us to seat us although the restaurant was not busy at all, so we decided to seat ourselves, which proved to be difficult as many of the tables were dirty or had chairs missing from the tables. We didn’t see any waiters for about 10 minutes once we were seated as they all appeared to be talking to each other at the bar so my boyfriend went to go find a menu for food himself. When a waiter finally come over, we asked for drinks (1 beer and 1 corona) and two pizzas. 25 minutes had passed and there was still no sign of our drinks and within this time frame 4 other tables of people had left the restaurant due to not being served. The waiters had seen this also and didn’t seem to care one bit, it was almost as if they were happy that they would have less work!! I asked a different waiter what the hold up with the drinks was and he went to check. In the mean time, our pizzas arrived and still no drinks. The original waiter who took our drinks order came with our drinks 5 minutes after we got our pizzas and a second waiter came with the drinks after this also clearly no communication between them we took the second drinks because we didn’t know how long it would take them if we wanted another one anyway. Pizza was fine nothing special. I wouldn’t recommend this restaurant and it’s such a pity because it has so much potential as it looks amazing but the waiters and staff were very bad.

I noticed this restaurant while out for an early morning bike ride. It’s well situated and looks attractive from the outside. Serving pizza and ice cream, this... read more I noticed this restaurant while out for an early morning bike ride. It’s well situated and looks attractive from the outside. Serving pizza and ice cream, this looked the perfect place for a family dinner. We arrived about 9.00pm and were quickly seated, the restaurant was clearly busy. Staff were friendly and visibly working hard but unfortunately there were clearly not enough staff to meet the demand. The menu was limited, we ordered pizzas, which were mediocre at best. Kids meal was nuggets and chips (just the one option which we didn’t take) Looking at others’ dishes, the salads appeared presentable but the pasta dishes appeared plain and poorly presented, ingredients must have cost 50cents (if that). Service was so slow that we didn’t stay for desert, only having pizza. Desert choices were limited, ice cream ‘Cart Dor’ so not really inspiring and certainly not Italian. Finally, everything was premium priced, since every aspect was disappointing, I can’t say that the restaurant offers value for money. Remarkably when we left at 10.45pm, there were about a dozen people waiting to be seated. I can’t recommend and we will not be returning.