Giovanni & Luca Reviews Summary

Category: Italian restaurant

Address: Searock Apartments, Wilder Rd, Ilfracombe EX34 9AR, United Kingdom

Phone: +441271879394

Rating: 4.8
based on 150 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "Great quality fresh food, fabulous service & empty plates all round."
  • "The food was excellent and well priced."
  • "Lovely home cooked, top quality food."
  • "The fillet steak is simply superb."
  • "The food was delicious, particularly the mussels ❤ and save room for dessert, they are fab a really interesting choice as well as the good old favourite tiramisu."
  • "Very good quality food."
  • "The food was wonderful."

Cons:

  • "The spag bol needs works though. No sofrito which left it very bland."
  • "Italian restaurant largely catering for tourists, so service and food is poor as they are not planning on repeat customers."
  • "Food mediocre."
  • "Overpriced for very basic ingredients."
  • "Unfortunately, not as authentic as they claim, the mozzarella and tomatoes just lacked rich creamy classic Neapolitan style pie.. not to mention the pizza had no Basil!"
  • "The only reason this review has three stars is because I could, and did have a better pizza in the Wetherspoons less than 2 metres away."
  • "Lasagna came out so hot all the cheese had separated into oil and lumps."

Service

Pros:

  • "Comfy surroundings and charming and attentive staff."
  • "Fantastic restaurant, attentive staff and fantastic food."
  • "Everyone enjoyed their courses, great atmosphere & the service was excellent!"
  • "A lovely warm welcome from everyone at this family run Italian restaurant."
  • "The staff are very friendly and extremely helpful and the food is to die for!"
  • "All the staff were welcoming and attentive."
  • "The service was excellent as were the staff."

Cons:

  • "I don’t recommend any people who have ethnic background. Try others there are many great restaurants in this beautiful city."
  • "They charged for 2 lots of drinks, we only had one, they took the extra one off, when I checked my bank statement they had somehow added the extra round back on."
  • "The team were unable to seat us early so we had to cluster near the main entrance."
  • "One downside of this place is the price… our meal came to the best part of £100 and just seemed mega pricey for an Italian… also was charged £3.75 for a bottle of water on top of the bill when asked for normal water so watch out."
  • "Very poor service with staff shouting at each other in Italian in front of customers."
  • "It was a shame that the team have to wear masks, and there were some standing perspex barriers in place, which detracts from the experience."
  • "I don’t even want to give a single star. They were fully booked when I visited so tried to order for takeaway. But they said 'there was nothing left'."

Ambience

Pros:

  • "A really nice ambience."
  • "The general atmosphere of the place was very friendly."
  • "It has a nice vibe in there."
  • "Superb atmosphere."
  • "The atmosphere was lively and friendly."
  • "A really warm and welcoming atmosphere."
  • "Wonderful atmosphere!"

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