Cristallo Reviews Summary

Category: Italian restaurant Bournemouth

Address: 3 W Cliff Rd, Bournemouth, BH2 5ES, United Kingdom

Phone: +441202556767

Rating: 3.6
based on 140 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "The best steak risotto that i had in long time."
  • "Tiramisu light, creamy and tasty."
  • "Spaghetti Bolognaise was lovely and good portion size."
  • "Take away pizzas are good as well!!"
  • "Pizza pepperoni was good."
  • "The food was good, not the best Italian one, but tasty."
  • "The sea bass was cooked to perfection and the Belgian apple pie was incredible!"

Cons:

  • "The lamb steak was full of fat and only came with roast potatoes and broccoli veg with garlic butter that we said NO garlic!"
  • "The marinara had gritty mussels and smaller rubber bands in a sauce you can buy in the supermarket."
  • "The spaghetti bolognese seemed microwaved."
  • "The food was disgusting, the spagettii bolanase was burned, and rossoto with crab meet was the worst, there were baby crabs in it and the clams were raw."
  • "The risotto looked like cat' sick and the pizza had three poor pieces of ham."
  • "The calamari were rubber bands and greasy."
  • "Pizza was absolutely awful."

Service

Pros:

  • "The food and service were fantastic."
  • "The manager seemed great too and we shall definitely be visiting this restaurant again soon."
  • "Everyone there is polite and pay attention to everything!"
  • "Service can't fault."
  • "The service was great, and our waiter gave us a lot of attention."
  • "The staff were very friendly, highly recommend."
  • "Service was good and we would come back again in a heartbeat."

Cons:

  • "Fraudulent special offers in violation of trading standards: The owner places placards of alleged special offers in the pathway."
  • "Really bad experience! Would not reccomend and will never return!!!"
  • "The service was appalling! Will not go there again."
  • "Had to wait for a long time for it as well.."
  • "he was rude to my partner insinuating that she couldn't read!"
  • "Strongly do not recommend."
  • "Waited 45 mins for food had to keep asking for other guests waited over a hour food 8 guests while we waited walked out."

Atmosphere

Pros:

  • "Lovely atmosphere, and clean loos!!!"
  • "came here because of the good location near the beach."
  • "Everything was brilliant! The food, the staff, even the place itself gives a nice vibe!"
  • "Such a good atmosphere, staff really make you feel at home, and they are so accommodating."
  • "The place had lovely ambience with low lighting and lit candles."
  • "atmosphere excellent- guess what? it is fantastic."
  • "The inside decoration of the restaurant was really nice."

Cons:

  • "Kids in the background running around shouting out of control!"
  • "the atmosphere was so bad amongst the other tables."
  • "Screaming kids belonging to a member of staff in the back room next to us + overhead speaker made an unbearable noisy experience the entire time."
  • "No WiFi."
  • "No table ready for us which we had booked!"
  • "Everyone is running around, very unorganised."
  • "The toilets were horrible and had to push the door really hard to get in and out."

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