Sopranos on Southbank — Restaurant in Melbourne

First some facts - all menu items have gone up between 25-33% since the same time last year. Traditional Pizza - from $17 to $22 large Gourmet Pizza - from $18 to $24 large Tony's Super Supreme - from $20 to $26 large Black Angus Scotch fillet - from $34 plus FREE sauce for 350gm..... to $38 plus $5 extra for sauce for 300gm!

And here's what the food looks like...this was a $28 half/half "Tony's Super Supreme"/Hawaiian (plus $2 extra for half/half, which I didn't know when ordering over the phone because I just asked "half half supreme and Hawaiian"). We assumed it was priced at a premium due to the addition of prawns....

But as you can see there is a single prawn on the supreme half cut up into tiny pieces! The Hawaiian is mostly ham and very little cheese. Very disrespectful to customers to do this.

We get there is inflationary pressure on prices at the moment but if you go to Queen Vic market you'll notice that meat and seafood prices haven't risen THIS much. I also live nearby and see that the place is fairly busy....

Which suggests to me the price and quality is poor because they can get away with it (plenty of hotels and short stay accommodation around).

Please don't waste your time or...

I lived opposite the restaurant for many years and on account of never being home only had takeaway from there once. I finally dined in and it was an interesting experience, I am out for dinner almost every night and have never seen a place so packed of a Monday! It was so full I couldn’t believe it and the waitress did a great job in spite of the numerous customers. To start we ordered the fried calamari. This lacked seasoning in its entirety for me and I didn’t enjoy the dish. Luckily it was onwards and upwards from there as both main and dessert were superb. We decided to share a pasta and a pizza for the second course; pesto gnocchi and the avocado chicken pizza. Both were absolutely delicious. Pesto can sometimes be too oily but this one was perfectly flavoursome and creamy. The pizza was old school style thick based yumminess with a generous topping of chicken, pineapple and avocado drizzled in bbq sauce. Very satisfying indeed. Dessert wise the chocolate pizza was the obvious choice. This had a perfectly crispy base and was super decadent. Conveniently located near crown casino it’s the perfect casual family friendly...

I had a terrible experience in this restaurant! I came to Melbourne with my family and booked a table there through a discount app called eatclub. When we arrived in the venue we were really bad greeted with the waitress asking us if we were the eatclub reservation, even before giving us a good afternoon, plus we arrived 2pm and the “chef” said they’d close 3pm. After that we noticed that the prices they have online were just for the takeaway menu ($6 dolars lower than the dine in prices) in my point of view to lure people. Once the waitress found out we would order a takeaway instead of a dine in meal because we misunderstood the deal, she got really angry and did not even give us attention anymore! The worst thing came at the end, when she was packing the takeaway with the “chef” she didn’t put any disposable cutlery even having in the venue and knowing we would eat outside and the chef said with these words to the waitress “are you gonna give them an extra bag for the takeaway? Even knowing they are having discount in the food?!” Hope you take my one star suggestion and try to find another...