Uccello

10 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  10      Service  10      Value  10     

Beautiful food, beautiful atmosphere, beautiful people!

May 15, 2012 

6 Average

Food  6      Ambience  7      Service  6      Value  5     

Visited Uccello on the Thursday night before Easter. I had a "March into Merivale" special, which was the ragu pasta and glass of pinot for $33. My husband had the prawn pasta off the normal menu. The pastas were more like an entree size and normally wouldn't have kept either of us happy (we'd had big lunches).

My pasta wasn't particularly sophisticated had peas and cubes of carrot, but tasted nice enough and the pasta was aldente. The vibe is very funky and hip, maybe people having dinner before going to ivy pool bar. The service was a little slow, but there was nothing wrong as such. A little on the expensive side. Not how I like my Italian food experience, and not my favourite of the Merivale restaurants.

Apr 08, 2012 

7.5 Recommended

Food  8      Ambience  8      Service  7      Value  7     

Fantastic venue to enjoy an early dinner by the pool.

Mar 20, 2012 

5.3 Average

Food  7      Ambience  8      Service  4      Value  2     

Had lunch here recently and I quite liked the whole ambience, look & feel.
Food was good although I thought lacking in sides or veg with the center of plate. Maybe their way of getting you to order side dishes. Quite overpriced, I think.

Dec 03, 2011 

8.5 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  8      Service  9      Value  8     

I went to Uccello for "Lets Do Lunch" and it was fabulous. It was a gorgeous day and sitting near the pool was just perfect.

We had the lamb and tagliatelle - delicious. Add an extra glass of champagne and we were very happy.

Then it was back to the hustle and bustle of George Street - but very happy to know there is such a lovely oasis close by. We will be back.

Oct 24, 2011 

8.8 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  10      Service  8      Value  8     

I've heard all the hype and negativity, and I think people just need to check it out for themselves. I've eaten at Uccello a number of times since it opened and in the last year they have had a new chef, Eugenio Riva, he and his wife beverly had a great little restaurant in Darlinghurst called Riva.

His food is fantastic, clean, light and well executed. And how about that space, I've eaten there on various days of the week and it can be so different from one day to the next. Enjoy it earlier in the week for the room and ambience alone, or go friday and saturday as the Poolclub heats up so does the ambience in the restaurant.

The service attentive and friendly, occasionally hard to get someone's attention when the place is pumping and for value I guess it depends how you spend, I have walked out of there spending $160 for 2 or $800, so each to there own, I think the price of the food is comparable with all the other good italian restaurants in town. I will be going back!

Oct 21, 2011 

7.5 Recommended

Food  8      Ambience  7      Service  8      Value  7     

Excellent lunch - top service. Really enjoy the food here - menu excellent - a little heavy on the oil (plate swims a bit) but this doesn't detract from the meal. A favourite.

Oct 18, 2011 

7.5 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  8      Service  9      Value  6     

Had dinner with my friend here before drinks @ The Ivy on a Thursday night. We reached at about 645 pm and the place was rather empty although it did fill up quite well as the night progressed.

Service was really good with the staff being very friendly and did a good job explaining the menu and recommending wine/cocktails to us. We had the starter scallops to share as we weren't very hungry. The scallops were very well cooked but a tad too saltish for my liking.

We went straight to the mains but we ordered from the entree menu and the waiter was more than happy to upgrade them to a main size for us. My friend had the pasta special of the day with king prawn which had a good prawn taste to it with prefectly al dente pasta although it was way too salty. I asked her if she wanted to change it but she said it was fine with it although she agreed it was salty (I would have definitely have changed it as I had 1 bite and I already found it way too much for me).

I had the mushroom risotto which was well cooked in my opinion. Nothing extremely unforgettable but cooked nicely. Overall a good experience with decent wine and quality meals. Some thoughts that I feel could make the experience a little better:-

State in the menu the price of the entree/main for Primi options. Do state the price when explaining the specials (Rockpool Bar & Grill does this and I'm extremely happy that they do). Cut down on the salt in the food. I'm generally quite tolerant on saltiness but this was overboard.

Aug 30, 2011 

8.3 Highly Recommended

Food  8      Ambience  10      Service  9      Value  6     

I and 4 of my friends had a dinner last month. The ambience of the restaurant was good. Service was great. Before mains we got calamari to share, it was great but the portion was small. I had veal medallions which was delicious but quite expensive. Wines were good, again need to pay too much. If you want to spend too much money, it’s the right place.

Aug 28, 2011 

6 Average

Food  8      Ambience  8      Service  4      Value  4     

Great food and ambience but the service lets this place down.

Our meal started off nicely, beautiful breads and olives. Our food orders were taken but we had to chase the wine list (ie find a waiter and ask for the wine list).

I was in a party of 4 for dinner and we all loved the food. I started with Balmain bug salad, followed by crumbed veal and them a lovely semifreddo for dessert. The servings were a decent size. It's a nice room with an impressive fit out. We were seated in a large, comfortable leather padded "booth".

While we were ordering dessert, I ordered a glass of pinot and the waiter rolled his eyes and asked "with dessert"? (I guess he thought it was a bad food match?) I asked for it straight away but dessert came and went and the glass of wine never arrived. Eventually a waiter came to the table and said the glass of wine was coming but we asked for it to be cancelled because we had finished the meal and waited for so long.

To their credit, they did apologise and brought us some delicious petit fours. One of us ordered a tea that took 20 minutes after finishing dessert to get there. The restaurant on a Wednesday night was less than half full.

While the food at Uccello is lovely, I think with fine dining prices the level of service, and the attitude of one if the waiters, was inexcusable. If the service matched the prices, I would have given a better rating for value.

Aug 18, 2011