Massimo Restaurant — Restaurant in Scotland

Visited tonight for a special birthday dinner and we weren't disappointed. 7 of us booked for 7:30pm and we had two young adults who have autism with us. They're used to going to busy places so they were fine once we sat at our table but it is a very busy restaurant that can be quite loud so be aware of that if you're looking for somewhere quiet!

From the outside Massimo looks pretty unassuming but don't let that fool you. You open the doors to a large entry, very nicely decorated, clean and inviting. The tables are close but not crowded and the chairs are comfortable!

The food is phenomenal. It's made to order so don't expect to get a pre-made lasagna that's just reheated (they don't have it on the menu for a reason). The ingredients are fresh and it's beautifully prepared.

Two of us had pizza, 2 had spaghetti Bolognese, 2 had prawn & chorizo linguine and one person had seafood risotto. We also had some cheesy garlic bread and chips on the side. Desserts were hot chocolate fudge cake with ice cream and tiramisu.

Service was excellent. Attentive but not over bearing. Just what you want.

If you want to visit you must book. It's highly unlikely you'll get a walk in any evening of the week - it's that popular! We can't fault it and will...

Reasonable food, prepared very quickly in decent portions, and not stiff with salt. The pizzas were the usual Napoletana soggy, stringy affair with far too much sauce, but that's typical of Scotch restaurants, and the proles will lap it up, never having had anything better. The ubiquitous open plan kitchen wasn't overly shouty or crashy. Decent enough overall, but nothing special.

The experience was badly let down by being served by a thinnish tallish surlyish young lad who sailed just the right side of openly hostile, snapped out his lines hurriedly, snatched menus aggressively, and made it very clear that he'd rather get back to his primary job of propping up the bar and chatting up the perfectly personable waitresses.

You can get away with uppity help in a properly exclusive restaurant that's booked solid, but the place was mostly empty. In the event, we felt unwelcome and rushed, didn't stay a moment longer or pay a penny more than was necessary, and won't be in any hurry to return to an establishment whose attitude far, far...

Restaurant wasn't busy but was very, very noisy. No idea why large groups were all huddled together at booths - couldn't hear to have a conversation. Staff friendly but obviously some inexperienced (food with no cutlery and added parmesan etc took a while to serve yet there were plenty of staff on). No lasagne on the menu, but you can order curried pasta dishes to your hearts content. The food was either claggy or bare - no in between - no idea what the risotto was trying to be (not creamy in the slightest-bulked out with chickpeas and anaemic cherry tomatoes though to hide lack of knowledge in cooking risotto). Completely bland, found 1 cut up mushroom in a mushroom risotto. No seasoning whatsoever. Plates had clearly been left under heat lamps (had that 'skin' over look) and were still served 5 minutes before the other dishes at our table. 'Scoops' of ice cream - more like curls, served in a teeny, tiny metal cup with a flat teaspoon- no wafer/flake as they had run out?! £5.95 for the privilege.. Clean venue and nicely decorated but...