Gioia Ristorante — Restaurant in Chiang Mai Province

Gioia is an upscale restaurant inside a golf resort. I'm going to go a little against the consensus here and give them a 3 rating - really a 3.5 but that is not an option. First, the highlights. The atmosphere was nice. The furnishings are of good quality, and both indoor and outdoor seating are available. The service is friendly; however, there was one major issue that I could not overlook. My wife and I both ordered pasta dishes. Mine came out in almost record time (usually a bad sign of a microwave in action - more on food later). However, her's came out almost 10 minutes later, and my pasta was already cold. I can overlook this for a cheap and cheerful trattoria, but not for a restaurant that charges premium prices (THB 160 for a small bottle of local beer) and has premium items like Wellington on its menu. The food was 'ok,' not great. I had the Gorgonzola pasta. The pasta was al dente, and the accompanying asparagus was well-cooked. However, the sauce was a disaster. There was too much of it to start (see photo). Then, the taste. I got no hints at all of Gorgonzola. And it was under-seasoned. It was a lot more like an Alfredo sauce, and given the speed at which it was delivered, I am guessing it was fresh out of the microwave. I did not try my wife's pasta with bacon and dried chilies, but she said I made a better version at home... ouch. We came away comparing them unfavorably to the now (sadly) defunct Allegro at the Dhara Devi; a resort-based Italian restaurant that got it right. Gioia is trying hard to be an upscale restaurant, and I wish them all the best, but they need to take their game up a notch, given the prices they charge. PS - their pizza menu is just weird. There is no pepperoni, but they offer Hawaiian and several seafood-based pies. An Italian Nonna is rolling in her...

I went here to celebrate our 32nd wedding anniversary. This was our second visit to Gioia. On our last visit, we were pleasantly surprised with the excellent food and good service. On this occasion we were not disappointed and Gioia surpassed expectations in terms of good food, service and price.

We had a delicious Gioia Salad followed by a very tasty Salmon Wellington which we amply shared. There were accompaniments of fresh baked bread and various vegetables.

Both food and the service were top notch and the price which included a reasonable THB 300 corkage on a bottle of wine we’d brought was about THB 2,000, which with tips was we thought was extremely reasonable.

Have to have a special shout out for the extremely attentive staff. They made every effort to ensure we had a very enjoyable...

Ok I was there on 15.00 o'clock only 6-8 quest go after 5 minutes away and I was alone there ok the people where nice but I get not a napkin only paper when the food where served the food was to quik why the can't not make that FRESH 1 FOOD OK 1 FOOD to many water and to hot ( oven) and the pizza NO taste + to light bake ...you could not normal with 3 finger's it eat why than fell out each other the pizza was NO flavour ( my di) the bill was indeed to high water 25 bhat Coca-Cola 70 bhat Vat 130 bhat Magherita pizza 🍕 285 bhat Baked spinach cheese to quik and hot 🔥 out the ( magnetron) Spinach Gnudi 👍 OK TOTAL 1 PERSON 860 bhat...