Italo House — Restaurant in Sydney

My partner arranged a surprise party for me here a couple of years ago in the old location - we had a banquet buffet which was all you can eat pizza and entres; staff were amazing and kind, vegan options available and it was a great party!

The other times we have visited have also been a good experience, love the vibe, staff are very attentive.

Last time we went a few months ago we ordered the dining experience; they bring you random dishes that you may never think to order and everything was so tasty!

They brought us an entre which had cold meats with Parmesan, mozzarella with tomatoes and a pizza sided piece of bread - all of it was so tasty and morish!

They then brought out gnocchi which was a sweet potato one with kale and crushed nuts. I would never usually order this but we were obsessed with it so we were glad they included that!

The pizza wouldn’t be a pizza of choice, it had anchovies on there with olives. I would give the pizza a 3-4 star just purely because it’s not my kind of pizza but still super tasty, cooked really well and still ate the whole thing.

Desert was a Pana cotta and something else (I really can’t remember I think we were in a coma by this point) - but I remember we weren’t really fussed on it. The Pana cotta was fresh and nice on the pallet.

All in all a great...

When making my booking for my birthday meal I had requested a 3 course set menu that was offered when booking. When we arrived we were made to eat from the bottomless brunch menu. I had selected the non-drinks option as there were a number of the party who would not be drinking.

Once we had ordered our food options (2 pizza and 2 pasta's) and after already making clear that there would be 6 people of the 8 dining on the bottomless menu we received our food minus one of the pasta dishes. When we asked where the last dish was we were told that it had been removed as there were 2 less people. This is fine and I understand the reduction but we should have been made aware and asked what dish we wanted to omit... We had more vegetarians on the table so would have chosen to loose the meat pizza had we been given the offer. I'm sad to say that the staff who we dealt with couldn't have cared less... just shrugged their shoulders and walked off.

Then when it came to the bill they had put the premium package on - Good job we checked and got this corrected to the basic package!

All in all not a great birthday meal that was made quite...

While the service provided by Enzo was satisfactory, unfortunately, I can only give it a one-star rating due to the disappointing quality of the food. The dishes we ordered left much to be desired.

The prosciutto pizza lacked flavour and was notably deficient in salt, which made the semolina taste too prominent. We were extremely let down by the overall lack of taste.

Similarly, the rigatoni mushroom pasta was severely lacking in flavour. The pasta was too hard to eat, even for those who appreciate al dente. To make matters worse, the dish did not contain enough mushrooms, and there was no sauce to speak of. At $26, this was an unfortunate waste of money.

For these reasons, I cannot recommend this restaurant to anyone. Instead, I would suggest exploring other Italian restaurants in the area such as Pompei, which provides quality dishes at comparable prices.Will only provide 1 start for the...