Pablos Restaurant Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food is always good and the staff extremely polite and attentive."
• "Food is great."
• "Good Italian food, friendly staff and reasonable prices."
• "Great Italian food, and the service is exceptional."
• "Our food was tasty and prepared quickly."
• "Food was lovely, the seating area was vlean and the staff were very nice."
• "The food here is great."

Cons:

• "Only negative is it is slightly over priced."
• "Food was tasteless and bland and overpriced."
• "The chicken parm was cooked to oblivion and was so tough it couldn't even be cut with a serrated knife."
• "The base was burnt, and there was about a third of it which looked like it didn't have anything on, no sauce or cheese."
• "Some of the food came out frozen."
• "The food quality was bad and cold."
• "Worst pasta I have even had was meant to be a rich tomato sauce with pesto was just oil tasted foul."

Service

Pros:

• "The staff are always friendly and efficient."
• "Friendly efficient staff."
• "Particular praise for the staff who were attentive and helpful with the requests I made, nothing was too much trouble."
• "Upon arrival the staff where very greeting, throughout our meal the staff where very friendly and made sure we was well caterd for."
• "The service and food was absolutely excellent. Attentive and very friendly."
• "Staff friendly, welcoming, and attentive."
• "Staff are friendly and attentive, it can get very busy at weekends so it's advisable to book."

Cons:

• "Only thing was not enough staff...left waiting ages to order desserts and got forgotten about when we asked for the bill."
• "I alerted the staff who brushed it off very quickly and didn't offer a new pizza."
• "The service was almost the worst service I have experienced in a restaurant."
• "Waiter service could do with improvement, the chap who took our order gave the impression we were an inconvenience to him."
• "What let our evening down was the service."
• "The service was nice but the food not so nice."
• "Service was very poor when we arrived we were served our drinks and our order was taken our food was served quite quickly then that was it we were not asked again if we wanted anymore drinks."

Location & Atmosphere

Pros:

• "A busy, noisy restaurant on a Saturday night with a perfect view of the water."
• "Fabulous location on the harbour side."
• "Fantastic location- on a gorgeous day looking out onto the marina you could be anywhere in Europe."
• "Lovely atmosphere."
• "The glass construction gives great views over the waterfront and marina."
• "Great atmosphere in the place, was packed which is always a good sign."
• "Great place with a beautiful view of the marina."

Cons:

• "Will not be returning any time soon, if ever."
• "The music playing was so loud people had to raise their voices to talk to each other, and then even more to be heard over other people's conversations."
• "It is rather noisy inside when it is busy."
• "Very crammed so was extremely loud."
• "The acoustics are not very good, and the background noise made a conversation difficult."
• "We had our meal outside next to the inside restaurant. About three people are smoking next to us with the baby and toddlers around us."
• "Nothing special the food is frozen people from the kitchen I can hear them they speak so loud I hear it Albanian language they are not from Italy."

Value

Pros:

• "Definitely ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"
• "Highly recommend."
• "Very reasonable with all prices."
• "Other than that, a relatively inexpensive Italian in the harbour."
• "Excellent value for money as they came with a choice of sauce, salad or veg, chips or cubed potatoes and a glass of wine."
• "The pricing very fair indeed."
• "It was £33 before service for two pizzas, fries and 2 drinks. I feel this was good value."

Cons:

• "Lager over priced."
• "Drinks pricey-£4.50 for tall glass of coke. £7 for a glass of wine."
• "Side salad was an extra at nearly £5."
• "Couldn't justify the cost for what is essentially a very simple meal."
• "The last couple of meals have been poor and not cheap."
• "Delivery arrived 15 minutes later than stated."
• "When the bill came I noticed he had knocked off £2 (!!) of a £45 bill."