IL Montebello Restaurant — Restaurant in Yarmouth

Awful service, awful food, and it is expensive for what you get.

My wife and I have been there twice, first one was bad, we have it a second chance, but they failed.

On our first visit, I ordered pasta and meatballs, the menu said the sauce was homemade and the meatballs were also homemade. The sauce was spiced up jarred sauce, which can be good, but certainly not homemade. The "homemade" meatballs, small frozen meatballs you can get at the grocery store. And this meal was not cheap. Truly the worst pasta I've ever had at an Italian restaurant.

Our second visit was worse. My wife ordered the Affettati, "seafood salad," with Italian cold cuts, my wife asked what kind of seafood, the waiter said "shrimp, mussels, calamari, clams and scallops, she ordered it. The food came, which was meat some cheeses and peppers, etc, NO SEAFOOD. The waiter came by and she asked where the seafood was, he said it didn't come with any, we showed him the menu, he said that it was wrong and walked away, never asked if he could fix it, never apologized for the mistake, and never brought it up again. My wife decided to eat it, it was old and stale, nothing fresh for $26.00. I ordered the baked clams, which said fresh clams, but they were clearly frozen, and tasted horrible. Eventually the waiter came back, we got our check and left.

The sad part for us is that we live at kings way, we thought it would be great having a restaurant on the property to frequent, but it is not this place.

The atmosphere is an upscale hall. Tables haphazardly placed, the bar area is ok, the tv had a test pattern. The place zits on a golf course, but does not offer easy foods like, burgers, sandwiches, stuff to grab after playing golf. Instead, when they open during the day, you still only have the dinner menu.

The staff is not rude, but not attentive in anyway. No visits to see how things were, they had to be flagged down. When they did come they were nasty, not friendly, one guy acted like he was mad because we asked a question, and the rest just have attitudes.

Don't waste you time or money. The place is a microwave mill, nothing is fresh, and the seafood they have is not only not fresh, but old.

We will not be returning to our neighborhood restaurant, which sucks. But I will gladly make the trip out of the complex after golf, there are some pretty awesome places to eat in Yarmouth Port, and the staff in those, is always pleasant.

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We have rarely had such poor service in a restaurant in years. We made a reservation extra early because we had another engagement after dinner. However, the waiter seemed perplexed and bothered when we asked for separate checks. The restaurant was not crowded and he finally took our entree order after we had been seated for over 20 minutes - that was a bit long. But then it took over an hour from the time we ordered for our food to come (actually about 70 minutes). We asked the waiter about it on several occasions. He told us our orders were behind several other tables and asked us to be patient. In the meanwhile, about six or seven other tables that were seated well after us received their entrees. We finally got our meals and my dish was OK, really no complaints. But my wife's lasagna was literally burnt on top and she couldn't eat it. It was too late to ask for another lasagna or another entree because we were running late for our next engagement. We complained to the manager and, thankfully, he took her order off the bill. In all fairness, we have been to Il Montebello several times before with somewhat better results. However, this experience was...

My Chicken Française was cooked perfectly and the homemade linguine was a nice treat. The sauce was awesome. My wife had the branzino which was brought to the table and presented to her cooked whole. Then the presenter stepped away and filleted the fish expertly before returning to the table with the beautifully arranged dish and her vegetable selection. She is European and was happy to see that kind of effort and service made here. The fish was delicate and delicious. All of the servers were well mannered and pleasant. They were attentive but not overly so. We had a 1 y.o. with us, and requested a baby seat while making a reservation. We got a table next to a window & slightly removed from the other diners. While the baby wasn't too loud, there were a couple of screams. The other diners did not seem disturbed. We were happy about that. There was also a children's menu. The homemade limon cello was a nice end to the meal....