Vincenzo's — Restaurant in Newcastle upon Tyne

I’m not usually a Karen BUT... I ordered food here tonight which my husband collected for my birthday. I splashed out on a £19 meal for myself being my birthday (we ordered pasta and pizza too)- I ordered kind prawns in garlic and white wine sauce. It came with a pitiful 6 prawns and a side of chips. The whole think tasted of Lemon! I’ve never had lemon butter before but omg it was disgusting! It had a huge wedge of lemon in the tub and the flavour contaminated the entire meal, no garlic or prawns to be tasted! It was like lemon curd!!! I called to explain and was told by staff and the chef that it isn’t their fault the lemon contaminated the food as it was a take away so they can’t control the flavour due to travel!!! Also that 6 king prawns IS a main portion. I’m absolutely disgusted that my birthday meal is ruined and that no accountability was taken.

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Friendly staff but this restaurant lacks atmosphere and the food was pretty poor. There were so few patrons (during Happy Hour), clearly it's not a popular place. I had French onion soup, to start, that tasted as if it were out of a packet, left most of it. We shared a veggie pizza and cannelloni - the cannelloni was ok but the pizza was weird. Worst pizza I've had with a distinct lack of vegetables. Couldn't eat it as it was so tasteless. One of the waiters was new to the restaurant and whilst he was helpful he mustn't have any front of house experience as he was unaware that the food was so poor. We used a Groupon voucher that gave an allowance for starter and main. Even though my soup was a couple of pounds under the allowance, they still charged us 20p for the main. Seriously! One restaurant to avoid in the future,...

My husband and I were here recently and it was the worst meal we've had in our lives! Firstly, over £6 for a starter that consisted of two tiny bits of a crusty loaf, a QUARTER of a tomato and about an eighth of a lettuce leaf. Shocking presentation and way overpriced for what we had. Secondly, our main was a steak (which was nice) but it was slapped on a plate with NO VEG!? Again, awful presentation. Thirdly, the interior is tired looking and no authentic Italian feel at all. The only reason we stayed and ate our measly portions was because we had to pay for a taxi out from the city centre, and, not being from Newcastle, we didn't know where we were or where else to go. The website for this restaurant said it was in the city centre....so misleading, and not an...