Don Giovanni contemporary italian and pizzeria — Restaurant in Ormond Beach

Date Jan 6 2024 Oh my God this place is absolutely amazing!! You will be happy handing them your $$$ the food was amazing you will be saying OMG!! after every bite , the atmosphere was amazing the service and staff were amazing every last bite was amazing & on top of everything amazing, I normally don't order dessert after I eat but something told me to ask about the dessert menu and when our server, whom we discovered was the owners wife ( she was amazing) started naming the desserts they offered I heard nothing after the hard shell bon bon and OMG!!! IT WAS AMAZING!!! Dinner tonight was a dinner to cry for (A very happy tummy cry) No need for olive garden anymore When we have Don Giovanni's 💯❤❤❤❤ Port orange location 🥰

Review part 2 Date January 20th 2024

I would like to add To my previous review. Let me just say I work from home and have a high demanding corporate job and i only get out on the weekends and i look forward to my weekends , so i decided to go back to Don geiovanis the following week On a Sunday After waiting all week To enjoy a great meal and discovered the restaurant was closed. I again waited another week and went back the following Saturday Jan 20th However this time my experience was a nightmare.We were greeted by our server named Tammy We ordered our appetizers and drinks She brought us our drinks and didn't get our drink order correct and didn't bring us the bread until after bringing our appetizers. We ordered our food 1 being a cold Italian sub my son had asked for And when it was brought to the table it was hot (he asked for a cold sub) my son was hungry so he began to eat it, while we waited for our server to come back to the table to check on us which took her forever to do and when she came we told her about the sandwich and she said she would have another one made & we waited it took forever we flagged her down and asked about the sandwich and she said the craziest thing we ever heard , she said that the chief said the only way a cold Italian sub was made is hot 🤦‍♀️ made absolutely no sense. Then we asked for to go containers and the check we were just so disappointed and wanted to leave, tammy came back with the check and to go containers my husband began to pack up the food and we gave her the payment for dinner she began to clear the table and grabbed more dishes then she could carry and ended droppings the dishes and glass went everywhere and all over me and she picked up a couple pieces off the table and walked away then finally came back with our credit card and walked away not bothering to clean up the rest of the broken dishes or the pieces that were all over the booth or check me for that matter. I was in total shock I could not believe that had happened and neither could the couple who watched it all happen, nobody else in the restaurant showed any kind of concern what so ever. We had to wipe off the booth so i could get out of it and we were stepping on broken dishes as we were leaving the table i was so upset when leaving the restaurant I had actually thought that I had found a hidden treasure to go eat once a week Where I could enjoy the atmosphere and get great service But after what happened and seeing no empathy or remorse from anyone in the restaurant & there is No way someone can break that many dishes and make that much noise and no one that works there notice I will not be going back. My advice would be If you still decide to go and experience the restaurant for yourself I would not advise having Tammy as your server. I was so very disappointed.

This happened at the port...

I really really wanted to give this place a good score because when they get it right the quality of the food is good and I feel like they have a solid menu. Needless to say, I had not been back in over a year, but I figured I’d give them a shot for a take out order. The last time I went they served me a pizza which was inedible and I ordered a meatball Parmesan sandwich and it had hardly any sauce on it But they are up the street from me so I figured we’ll try them again. Well, I gave instruction specifically over the phone that I wanted extra bread with the pasta dishes and an extra side of sauce with the meatball sub. Didn’t even care if I had to pay for it. The person on the phone said no problem. Then when I arrived to pick up my food I reiterated again is there extra bread in the bag? to which point the young lady said yes. Well when I got home, of course there was only two little tiny pieces of bread for two pasta dinners. And no extra side of sauce with the sub. I proceeded to call them on the phone and said hey I’m on my way back. I asked for extra bread. You only gave me two pieces. I’ll be there in two minutes. I live right down the street. I didn’t even mention the missing side of sauce. This was about 15 minutes prior to them closing to which point the girl on the phone stated that they had absolutely no bread left. Then said the kitchens closed sorry. We had also ordered pistachio cake slices at 12 dollars a piece which we didn’t discover until shortly after we ate our dinner that they were not right. The texture was off as if they were old. Overall very dissatisfied. I get it that things can get overlooked sometimes but when you spend 67 dollars for spaghetti, a kids pasta, a meatball sub and two sub par desserts it’s disappointing to...

We were really disappointed tonight. I had just flown in from Costa Rica—3.5 hours in the air, then drove from Orlando to Ormond—with one goal: to feed my family of five from what looked like a safe, gluten-free friendly local spot. I have Hashimoto’s and celiac disease, so I carefully researched this restaurant as a go-to option.

Their website says they close at 9 PM. I spent time reviewing the online menu, even though it doesn’t clearly label gluten-free items, and called at 8:30 to place a takeout order. I was told the kitchen was already closed. I was five minutes away. That’s completely unacceptable.

As someone who owns a service-based business and has worked in both front and back of house in restaurants, this is not how you do business. If you post a 9 PM closing time, your kitchen should stay open until 9 PM. Cleaning happens after hours, not before.

The woman who answered the phone was polite and apologized, but this goes beyond manners—it’s about poor operations and a lack of respect for paying customers. We were ready to spend over $100 tonight. Instead, we left hungry and frustrated. This was a huge letdown and not the welcome home I...