The Melrose Restaurant, Sea World Resort — Restaurant in Gold Coast City

We have never felt so ignored in our lives! You walk in and the staff basically avoid you so they don’t have to do anything. Finally pinned someone down and they said sit anywhere and that was it. We sat at a table and found it hadn’t been cleaned. There were only 5 other tables occupied in the restaurant, so it wasn’t that they were rushed off their feet and unable to get to cleaning it! We then sat at the table and wait and wait and waited for over 30 minutes for someone to take our order. Eventually I just eyeballed the staff until someone came over to us - to inform us we had to order at the bar! This isn’t mentioned on the menu and certainly wasn’t mentioned in the super brief encounter when we were put at a table. No problem ordering at the bar, just mention it! Then we ordered entrees plus mains. Mains came out first. Entree came after. When our meals were put on the table there wasn’t any words to be spoken from the staff! Food was just put on the table and they left!!! This has seriously been the WORST service I’ve encountered in a long time. Some little children went up to pick out icecreams and there wasn’t even any chit chat with them to make it fun, just nothing!! And that’s a shame because the food was okay, nothing amazing but not bad either. But the service is a disgrace and whoever has trained these young girls should be ashamed of themselves for thinking this level of ignorant behaviour...

We came here on our last night in the Gold Coast and I wish we came every night. We went into Surfers Paradise to Vapiano (worst meal I've eaten in a restaurant), we went out to a Chinese Restaurant, one night we got take away on the beach and all meals were just ok.

Then we found this place. So get this, the value is ridiculously good for an in resort diner. There were 3 of us, my husband and I shared a pepperoni pizza and pear and rocket salad. Both really fresh and tasty! My daughter (2) got the Spaghetti Bolognaise. She ate the whole thing and kept saying, it's tasty mummy (not too saucy so it didn't make a huge mess). She then got a free ice cream as part of her meal. We had some drinks as well. All this was $60. Every other night, dinner has been $120ish.

If you have kids, I would just do this every night, adults share a pasta or pizza and salad and kids can have a kids meal or some pizza. If you like soft drink you can get a large 1.25L for $7 to share at your table with the family. So you could really feed a family of 4 for $60 with 2 pizzas, soft drink and some garlic bread.

We went at right on 6pm and got a table no worries but this place gets super busy by about 6:30pm....

Stayed at Seaworld resort so had two main options for the nights we were eating there. Was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the food.

They were packed so we sat outside in the corridor and were served food in takeaway containers. Piatto di Gusto was my favourite. Generous serving of prosciutto, a few slices of toasted panini with capsicum dip, tomatoes, olive oil and balsamic glaze and rock melon. An assortment of beautiful flavours and textures.

Pizzas were fairly tasty. Very thin base and not too cheesy. Tried the Hawaiian, BBQ chicken and meatlovers pizzas. The latter two were better.

Pastas were well cooked. Al dente pasta, and great toppings. Had the fettuccini gamberi (prawn pasta) which was alright. The star was the spaghetti bolognese. Just enough meat, not too much sauce. And the spaghetti still had a bite to it. Winner!

It was very busy being school holidays so the staff did well for the massive crowd management and...