Giardino di Roma — Restaurant in Ghent

Terrible service. We arrived there and we told the waitresses that we needed sometime to look at the menu. They didnt care for what we said and kept coming from 2 to 2 minutes asking what we wanted. They came until it became unpleasant and we HAD to order. Also, on the table there was a bottle strong pepper oil that looked EXACTLY like olive oil bottle. There was nothing written on it and the glass was dark. Since it is an Italian restaurant, we thought it was indeed olive oil. However, it wasnt. My husband is allergic to strong pepper and felt sick after. They also didnt care and acted as if we were exaggerating. It was very desrespecting. In general the energy there is terrible, and we were extremely disappointed with the service. Unless you look rich, the waitresses will treat you like people who don't deserve to be there. Cherry on the top: someone stole our umbrella and a huge...

The menu was everything you need from Italian food. We saw many pizzas go by, and they looked to be enjoyed, but we ordered pastas. Everything we ate was great! The service was slow, over an hour to get our food, but they were completely full. Everything came out hot, so that's all you can ask. Wine we picked was moderately priced and good enough. Wish we'd tried the house wine. Loads of people had it.

We ordered the lasagna, puttanesca, spaghetti alle vongole, and ravioli in butter with sage. We were all please with our dishes.

One complaint: it appears that the bottles of water were 8€ each. Our wine was only 28€ so eek!

Seems to be family-run and actually Italian. We...

The staff are very friendly we didn't book a table, but they made room for us and made us welcome. The menu was good lots of choice and reasonably priced. I had pesto pasta and my bf had a seafood pizza. We had the house red which was lovely nice dry wine. We then had creme burlee for dessert which was delicious and a good size to share. Overall the food and the staff were great. Only odd thing is they share their toilet with the...