A'roma Dinings — Restaurant in Petaling Jaya

Driven by this place countless times and finally got the chance to go. We ordered the Charcuterie board, the Fettucine Ragu (our favorite of the evening), Margherita pizza (cheese was generous and slightly on the sweeter side, personally felt it could have used a bit more basil but still good nonetheless), Caponata vegetables on the side (a tad oily but great conta to all the meat and cheese), and the Focaccia bread. For dessert we got the Tiramisu. That was probably the only thing that we did not really like. But overall, we were tremendously happy with everything else that came out. The portion sizes were pretty decent, the quality of the food overall was pretty good (the pasta was a taaaad dry but nothing a quick mix with the sauce couldn't solve) and despite being super full, we still ate 90% of our food cuz we just could not stop eating it. To top it off, service was exceptional. For a non HALAL place, the portion size + the service all accounted for, the price was actually not bad (for comparison, buying a small plastic plate of 112g of Serrano ham from the supermarket was already half the price of the charcuterie board -which came with a variety of smoked meats and cheeses PLUS pickles, walnuts, couple olives, and [canned] peaches, so no complaints for the price at all). We had a great time, and forgot to take photos of the food except the charcuterie board and bread that came with it.

PS- Reading the reviews on here saying that the food is sub par and comparing it to cafe food makes me wonder what standards are we upholding. As someone who cooks, and spends time in the kitchen, knowing how much work goes into just making the complimentary biscuit, this definitely does NOT fall under "sub par...

Walked in to a nice cozy restaurant in the middle of Sea Park. Unexpected, and a pleasant surprise!

Service was warm, a little bit hurried, but enthusiastic. Unfortunate that the server started by telling us the (almost) 10 things that weren’t available.

Ordered a bread to share and 2x pastas.

Bread was good, but served with a strange pâté (which reminded me of canned dog food). Asked for olive oil & vinegar instead, which is what good Italian bread should be served with anyway.

Pastas arrived. A carbonara and a fungi. Both of which were bland, tasteless, and overall a disappointment. Fiancé and I were expecting to relive our Italian vacation with some amazing tasting pasta, but were really let down by just how “meh” tasting they were.

Given, the ingredients tasted like they were quality stuff... but the combination of tastes just didn’t work. We didn’t think you could screw up a basic spaghetti carbonara, but it was extremely tasteless.

To top it all of, the whole menu feels abit pretentious. Even when we were in Italy, we could understand what we were ordering when reading off the (broken English) menu.

Here, they have an extensive Italian inspired menu, with all the names in Italian, and descriptions that a normal person couldn’t understand. We ended up very confused, not able to imagine what we would be getting.

Needs to be toned down, we’re Malaysians ordering Italian food... we need to understand what we’re ordering.

I really wanted this place to be good... it’s really hard to find good Italian food in PJ. But overall, for the price, the experience was so-so. Definitely...

The food here was sub par and not worth the price at all. Felt like cafe quality food at a fine dining price point. Staff were polite and nice but seem to lack some standard. On top of all this, we were charged the wrong amount. Our bill came out to be 227.35 but we were charged 277.35.

When checking the final receipt, the amount stated was correct, and the waitress told me to tap my card. But when we got home, I was looking at my card notifications and saw that 277.35 was charged instead. We then headed back to the restaurant and talked to the staff about this mistake. The manager apologised and voided the wrong amount, and we had to pay again for the correct amount.

We ordered the focaccia, chicken galantine and beef ragu raviolli. The focaccia was ok as it was served warm, but the olive oil was almost tasteless unless you dipped into the balsamic vinegar. The chicken galantine had a decent tomato based sauce that paired well, but the protein itself was just barely warm. Pasta was decent and was served over mashed potato. It was quite underwhelming and felt like something was missing. The meal is not worth the money we paid. For this price, we were expecting something with more quality. The quality we got felt like something from a cafe, not a fine dining restaurant.

Most restaurants would come over and serve water to their guests before anything, but none were served to us. If the restaurant did not serve water and charged for it, it would be made known to their guests first before...