Maurizio Dining & Co. — Restaurant in Cambridge

Visited with a friend on a Saturday evening (22 June) as several friends/colleagues had recommended it. We had high hopes and were looking forward to visiting. I don't usually post reviews but got to say we were extremely unimpressed.

We arrived about 8.30pm and were shown to a table and given menus. We were then abandoned/ignored for around 25 minutes. Nobody came to take a drinks/food order, despite it being quiet - most other people had already eaten. We tried getting the waitresses' attention and even shouted over but were still ignored. We were about to leave when the waitress eventually came to take our food order. We had to point out that we still wanted drinks as she only offered to take food orders. The food then arrived very quickly. We ordered a garlic bread pizza as a starter but our mains (two pasta dishes) arrived without any mention of the garlic bread, which we eventually received as an addition to the mains rather than a starter.

The food wasn't good - the pasta tasted like it was out of a packet with a sauce quickly thrown on it. Both mains were served on a pizza-type plate rather than bowl so the presentation was also unimpressive. We both said we could have made the meal ourselves at home for a fraction of the price. In fact, the olives were the best part of the meal. We quickly finished and ordered the bill.

It overall had a 'kids left in charge' feel to it - very unprofessional and amateurish, to say it's not exactly the cheapest of restaurants. It was not what we were expecting. The images of food on the website are very different to what we were served so maybe it was a particularly bad day. We certainly won't be returning and have informed our other friends/colleagues that it's very much gone down hill. There are plenty of better options in the Mill Road area, Beduoin is a...

Last night I went to Maurizios for an evening event with music and drinks. The night started well I bought a number of drinks and me and my friends were having a good time. Later in the evening the owner/Mum of the business came up to me and was like “who are you?! Why are you here”. And asked me to leave which I said I would straight away. As I was waiting she proceeded to be really rude and start talking to other guests behind my back and pointing… My friend was in the toilet and I just waiting for her and then leaving. The whole family then became really hostile as we were leaving, baring in mind we had done NOTHING wrong and had been good guests all night, and bought lots of drinks. As I left 2 guys from the event tried to fight me and intimidate me. Which was super scary. They also chased another of my friends down the road and hit him, he now has ice on his face and arm?!?! The whole family are cracked out and super rude. The pizza is good, it’s just a shame the restaurant is ran by the wannabe Mafia. 1/5 don’t go unless you wna get intimidated, spoken about and beat up.

EDIT: I didn’t use ANY foul language and I didn’t knock anything off your counter. I was nothing but respectful to everyone. The crazy mother/owner is super toxic and riled everyone up for no reason. The only reason I refused to leave was because I was trying to get my friend out the toilet and obviously wasn’t going to leave her in the establishment with a bunch of psychos. My friend is filing a police report after being assaulted. Well done!

EDIT 2.0: “we didn’t expect so much drama” the drama was instigated by your staff so I don’t see how it was unexpected. It’s lovely to see you being so professional online! A shame your staff are not like that in person after a...

The owner of the restaurant was rather rude to a group of people, who seemed to be part of a performance, she was also rude to me and my friend. We were asked to leave very abruptly, to what no-one seemed to offer resistance, and pushed while we were gathering and picking up our coats and belongings, while being intimidated by a group of individuals who seemed to be family/staff/regulars, I don’t know, but they appeared to be permitted to stay after the bar was being emptied. They definitely had the complicity of the owner. She however, motivated these youngsters to be openly aggressive in the premises, to the remaining customers, including me and and my friends. She definitely did nothing to stop it happening. I must said I didn’t hear any foul language or witness aggressive behaviour from any of the customers but I did from the staff. The people who had previously been threatening us were then prompted to chase some people in the street after they left from the door. At this point we left as they started shouting at us and we feared for ourselves. But didn’t know until now someone actually got assaulted, I’m appalled by it. I suppose this is part of their policy on ‘We don’t condone any form of violence and equally we’re not responsible for what happens once you’ve left the premises’ but will shout from the door while our staff/family/regulars beat you up. The guys, who were incredibly drunk, were clearly allowed by the owner to be threatening. It was my first time there and I must say that it was scariest night I ever had in Cambridge! The response given by the owner seems incredibly cynical when someone got physically assaulted. Independently of what could had happened...