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Nicolini's Italian Restaurant, Surfers Paradise

Restaurants, Italian, Pizza, Seafood, BYO

Overall 6.5  11

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

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Nicolini's Italian Restaurant, Surfers Paradise

Restaurants, Italian, Pizza, Seafood, BYO

Overall 6.5  11

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

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