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Was on our way to Auckland and stopped in here for a quick meal. WOW what an experience, the meal was very poor. I thought the meat tasted off but I t…
Wallace Tulloch
Valentino’s Italian Restaurant
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I learnt the hard way to read reviews on here before you go to a restaurant in a small town like Turangi. A group of six of us visited this establishm…
Quartney
Valentino’s Italian Restaurant
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This is undoubtedly the worst meal I have ever paid for. The food was disgusting, dry, unappealing. The beer I ordered was flat. And all the prices we…
Thomas Roberts
Valentino’s Italian Restaurant
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9 Reviews on “Valentino’s Italian Restaurant”
This is undoubtedly the worst meal I have ever paid for. The food was disgusting, dry, unappealing. The beer I ordered was flat. And all the prices were ridiculously expensive for what you got in return. I have no problem spending a fair whack on dinner, but when i do so, I expect to get a decent meal and a freshly poured beer. Not difficult. And to top it all off the customer service was shocking. Very disappointed. Will not be going back.
This place is terrible, don’t bother eating Here. Staff are rude, and don’t have basic customer service. It took over an hour to get water on the table. The pasta Is bland and lacking flavour, and missing one key ingredient, SAUCE!!!!. You are better off going to the burgerking across the road, or going to the New world and buying some pasta from there. At least you will get sauce. Very expensive too. $25 for a main ouch. If you do complain you the staff, they seem to roll your eyes, or yell at you that you don’t know Italian.
Absolutely divine. The best service ever. We thought the meal sizes were generous and as close to Italy as you can get. We have dined here several times now and always come back. Price wise great and the kids loved the pizza. Thanks for a lovely evening.
We have a holiday home in Turangi and have eaten here many,many times and always enjoy it. The deep fried sage leaves are wonderful and the crowd favorite (pappardelle) is delicious, though decadent. The steak is also hard to pass up – always perfectly cooked and flavourful. The service is friendly and efficient. So surprised at the bad reviews; we love the place!
We dined here on the way to Taupo- quite frankly it would have been worth staying in the car for the extra 40 minutes or just having a burger from the nearby Burger King. Food was awful- particularly the kids meals that were the ‘value’ range frozen mini pizza. We ended up leaving most of our food it was so bad. Would not recommend that you eat here. The waitress did not ask ‘how was it’ when I paid, otherwise I would have told her! To top it all, the pricing is excessive as well
We holiday in Turangi yearly. Many years ago I must have received a great meal here because I put the number on my phone.We have dined here about 5 times and each time it has declined further.I hate the fact that they have Venison on the menu my favourite dish when dining out but 3 times in a row they had some excuse for not having any.This being the case remove it from the menu and make it a special.The seafood chowder was the saving item real nice and very generous in size.However the main courses with their included potatoes of the day were such a joke a garnish of veg salad that would have been the same size of what you get in a McD burger and the Potatoes of the day being budget chips.We did not hang round for desert as it would give extra $$ that they did not deserve went to burger King across the road.I have removed their number from my phone and will never return.
No Italian would like to eat here! Even I as a german without much gourmet cuisine experience can tell that. My girlfriend and me went there today. We got Spaghetti Carbonara and the Pollo di Marsala. The first one were a small portion of simple spaghetti from the discounter with undefinable sauce and bacon that had never seen a pan to a price of 23 bugs. The second one were two pieces of deep-fried discounter chicken fresh out of the microwave and french fries (both surely from the discounter, too) for 27 kiwi-dollar. Toilets were dirty, but we got the clue where to search for the ingredients for this cheap and delicious meal: A New-World discounter bag dressed the garbage can in the toilets for each gender.