Fiorelli Restaurant — Restaurant in Melbourne

Overall an excellent experience. Amazing food, sensational service and pleasant ambiance.

Started with two amazing entrees, the chorizo and mozzarella arancini and the spinach and ricotta tortellini. Both delicious classics. The arancini was light and crisp. The tortellini was delicious and well flavoured.

The mains we had the pumpkin risotto, spaghetti marinara and the pappardelle mistero, with a side of hand cut potatoes. The pumpkin risotto had a delicious sweet taste, fun textures and was nice and creamy. The marinara was delicious, with perfectly cooked mussels and prawns. Unfortunately I wasn't a huge fan of the mistero as the curry had a slight raw bitterness to it. Perhaps a touch of coconut cream and some crispy curry leaves would help to eliminate some of the raw bitterness. The potato sides are deceptively simple. Amazing crunch, delicious flavour, especially when you squeeze out the roasted garlic and spread it on the potato. Highly recommend ordering this side dish.

For dessert we had the sticky date pudding and chocolate souffle. The sticky date pudding was rich, buttery and decadent. The chocolate souffle was amazingly light, well balanced in flavour and was cut through with the amazing vanilla bean ice cream.

Apart from the food, our waiter was amazing and perhaps it was one of the best service I have ever received from a restaurant experience in a long time. Very accommodating, attentive and hospitable.

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This was undoubtedly one of the most disappointing meals we have ever had. The muscles were almost nonexistent in size and were too salty. The salmon entree salad consisted of thin slices of salmon that would not have amounted to barely half a fillet, and sat on a mound of spinach totally drenched in a mayonnaise. Another at our table had the spaghetti Marinara. The prawns were over cooked and the flavour of this extremely ordinary. We also had the veal dish which was at best reasonable in flavour, hardly medallions, and were similar to cooked bacon in appearance. The calamari was chewy and presented crumbed, looking like the frozen chicken tenders you buy at coles..zero finesse and flavour, if any, overwhelmed by the breadcrumbs. The deserts we shared were awful. The crepes were like rubber in texture and flavour the strawberries cold and uninteresting. The ‘toffee’ like baskets the ice cream came in were particularly awful in their ‘pre made’ lack of flavour and appearance. The one star given is for the polite young staff who were very attentive. I should add, the place became increasingly colder as our ‘time limit’ became imminent! Not sure if this was intentional but it sure felt that way. With all the magnificent restaurants we have here in Melbourne, so many of which we have been fortunate Enough to experience, this will never be added to our list of...

21-4-22 FIORELLI Restaurant – Yes, Yes, Yes!!! When visiting Melbourne from the country for an unexpected short stay there are suddenly many decisions to make. To be able to find online a menu that appealed and was within walking distance of our accommodation seemed a ‘good’ discovery. In reality it was a ‘super, great’ discovery. The Homemade gnocchi (potato not pumpkin) with olives, made the venue decision, sight unseen. Fiorelli Restaurant was everything we hoped for, beginning with a warm friendly interaction as we passed a second time and decided to make a reservation before they opened. The building and decor were appealing, leading one to expect quality, and quality abounded- attentive friendly, high standard of service, high quality food with a WOW factor flavour, busy bustling atmosphere, yet a calmness exuded from the service staff. Looking around at the other diners there was a broad variety of couples, apparent groups of friends, and obvious families and I was struck by the thought that this restaurant suited all manner of age groups and dinning purposes/occasions. 22-4-2022 Well worth a second visit - two consecutive nights. Staff very obliging, opportunity to try different dishes that were of the same high standard as the previous night, and ohhh !!! the Arancini was...