Fresh User Reviews for Pizza in Gold Coast

9 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  8      Service  10      Value  8     

Pork is superb along with the salt and pepper calamari. Give the spicy wagu meatballs a try, great! Pizza nice and light and crispy. All delicious. Service exceptional. Friendly staff very helpful. Nice ambience along Tedder avenue. Would thoroughly recommend.

Apr 07, 2012

8 Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  7      Service  8      Value  8     

Great pizza, best I have had for many years.

Mar 23, 2012

8.5 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  9      Service  7      Value  9     

We are local and our interstate friends wanted to go to dinner in Surfers. We really hadn't been into Surfers for some time, so we went to Nicolinis knowing they had been there for many years and still going strong. We all now know why. We had a great night, the food was fabulous, service was great and they have quite an extensive wine list which suited their menu well.

We have reaquainted ourselves with Surfers Paradise and also Nicolinis. Congratulations we will be back and will tell all our local friends to do the same.

Mar 22, 2012

9 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  9      Service  9      Value  8     

I ate here about a week ago on a friday night, and ended up hanging around for a few drinks well into the night for their 'Ladies Night' not only was my food amazing but the service from both restaurant and bar staff was great.

Since the new owners have taken over (who introduced himself to me and our table!) the service has improved incredibly. I'll be going back there!

Mar 14, 2012

9.5 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  9      Service  10      Value  9     

What can I say? Food is excellent and the staff did a fantastic job. Great value for money and good kids menu. Thoroughly enjoyed our outing at Blu Grotto on Tedder Ave. Look Forward to our next visit. Cheers

Feb 12, 2012

6.3 Average

Food  6      Ambience  7      Service  6      Value  6     

Average food, average service. 6 of us had dinner here. Some dishes lacked flavour, one was drowned in oil. There was absolutely nothing flash about this place. Perhaps, pizzas are their specialty? The waiters were distracted by the entertainment in the mall and forgot they had customers to wait on. There are much better places to eat at in Broadbeach. Disappointing.

Feb 09, 2012

7.5 Recommended

Food  8      Ambience  8      Service  8      Value  6     

Not a bad place to go for dinner. The food and service are both good. Maybe not the best value but you are eating in Boardbeach we will be back.

Jan 18, 2012

6.3 Average

Food  6      Ambience  6      Service  6      Value  7     

Coming from Sydney, I love Crust it's almost a ritual night in dinner. Though all crust I have ever been to in Sydney I loved, this would not be par to crust standards. The recipe is slightly different especially the pesto sauce on the vegetarian. I think with time, they should get the hang of it. But the base is close to crust perfect.

Dec 22, 2011

1.8 Not Recommended

Food  2      Ambience  1      Service  1      Value  3     

I too bought a voucher through Groupon for a meal deal for 4 and we were excited about going there as looked forward to the european dishes. Disappointing to say the least was our experience. We were forgotten as we sat outside (there is only about 6 tables in the whole place, 3 of which are outside) and we announced when we arrived we would sit outside.

We were basically the only people eating there. I was told when I went back inside after waiting awhile to ask if we could order now "Oh sorry, outta sight outta mind". Really? After starting to order, pretty much everything we wanted wasn't available. No stuffed cabbage rolls, no stuffed capiscums, no crocodile, no scollopini marsala pasta, no garlic prawns, only one serving of meatball spaghetti left etc which really left very little else to choose from and odd excuses as to why nothing was available.

It was a frustrating experience to order anything. Why have it on the permanant menu if its not made everyday? My mother had her pasta dish slopped all over white trousers when it was served to her. Very little apology. The meals were served higgledypiggledy, no particular order and a couple of the pizza's weren't what we ordered as well as one of the pasta's.

The goulash which pretty much was all that was available of their signiture dishes was like a bolognaise sauce with tiny chunks of meat in it and served with spaghetti. Never had such an awful goulash. They had their opportunity to impress new diners to their little establishment but, unfortunately, for them we won't bother going there again.

I also would never recommend anyone going there unless you're happy with very average food, a menu that which seems to be pot luck if what is advertised on it is actually available and dreadful service.

Response from Management:
A number of errors by this person. There were 10 people sharing meals for 8 people. The restaurant had 37 diners at the same time as this group and they were most definitely not the only ones there. We didn’t know this group were outside because they forgot to tell anyone. We thought they had left. There are 8 large tables and 37 chairs. All meals were available for them except crocodile and chicken breasts. The mother did not have a past dish slopped all over here, but she did have some sauce spill off the plate as it was handed to her because she moved and bumped the waiter. The group ordered 4 pizzas, four pasta dishes and two European meals and they ATE THE LOT. This shows they were all desperately hungry at the same time or that they simply enjoyed every morsel. They had a choice of 37 pasta dishes and 32 pizzas. Only two items were not available. No doubt this post was made by a competitor restaurant...well here is some news dearie, the quality of our food can’t be matched and if you need to resort to gutter tactics to win business away from us, you wont last long.

Dec 21, 2011

2 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  5      Service  1      Value  1     

We came here after a friend raved about how great the food was. I ordered a penne arabiatta, the penne was hard, no not al dente, hard. I had to pay for extra parmesan, which is a standard accompaniment to any pasta. There was more chilli in it than a curry and there was no flavour to the dish. I never add salt to any of my food but found myself constantly adding salt to every mouthful. All 3 friends accompanying me had the same issues with the pasta and lack of flavour. The bruschetta is a miniature serving for a full price. Thoroughly disappointed.

Dec 20, 2011

4 Below Average

Food  4      Ambience  4      Service  4      Value  4     

Sorry to disappoint the admirers of this restaurant but we didn't have the best experience there this evening. We are staying at a complex around the corner and wanted to dine in a nice Italian restaurant for our 7 year wedding anniversary, so we looked nicolini up on this site, read the reviews and decided to give them the benefit of the doubt.

So off we went with our 11 month old in tow. We ordered a Shiraz and their signature cocktail (not sure what it is called but it had lemon sorbet, champagne and vodka in it). The waiter tried to talk me out of it saying it is very sweet and would ruin my meal, but I love sweet drinks. Anyway, I told him it should be fine for me and he agreed to make it. With that order of drinks we ordered a small tropical pizza and asked them to bring that as soon as possible for our fussy, teething little one (we'll try anything at this stage).

So off he went while we were trying to decide which pizza dish to order and the waiter comes back with my drink saying that he changed the drink to make it more bitter. It tasted nice but I really would have prefered to make that decision for myself.

Anyway we ordered 2 pasta dishes and were told that they would probably come out before the pizza because the pizza guys had large take away orders. After a few minutes though the pizza arrived and it was delicious. The pasta dishes slowly followed. As my husband was digging through his fettucini marinara he saw something that at first glance he thought was a twig of dried thyme or something but as he moved it kind of shined.

To our surprise it was a piece of metal. It was a curly piece of jex or steelo about half an inch or so long. That just did it for us. The manager came around, apologized, took that dish and the drinks off the bill and hoped we would be ok with that.
Well, my worry was my little one. What if we gave him some of that dish to taste and he swallowed the metal! We left very disappointed. Would not recommend.

Dec 11, 2011