IL Barocco - Palazzo Versace

This restaurant was a welcome positive change from the hell hole of a hotel within which it is contained (which I unfortunately had the displeasure of staying in). Lovely service and beautiful (if a little on the expensive side) food.

All are good except the lamb shoulder (for main) weren’t up to standard: overcooked and dry, bland . We expected a better cook technique here . Could be done better.

Great restaurant and customer service.

We were a little disappointed we the food from a value for money perspective. It was ok but not as good as we had expected. The other aspects of the dining experience could not be faulted. There was variability in the food quality. Some of the seafood had been frozen

Excellent service

Food was good. The service and staff were excellent!

Awful, 20mins to take our order then took 30mins to get a bottle of wine. Over 45mins for a cocktail and having waited nearly an hour and still no food we told them to cancel our order. All of a sudden our bruschetta (entree) was ready and we should sit back down and have dinner. Another couple walked out having waited over 1.5hours for food. A brief apology and a recommendation to have our food delivered to our room (Informed the waitress we weren’t staying at the hotel) and got charged full price for the bottle of wine we had just started drinking.

Superb experience for my partners birthday lunch. The seafood platter was the best I’ve had that was as fresh and healthy as could be prepared. Staff were great and the ambiance just added to the great experience.

We have been staying at the hotel and have loved it but the food at this restaurant was disappointing. There was nothing wrong with it, it was nice but not as good as we expected it to be for the price. The service was ok but not great and the food was pretty average

Venue lovely service disappointing . They told us 35 min wait for food but when it came to dessert and we asked if we could wait a bit to order we were advised to promptly order as the kitchen was closing ???? You think they would be more accomodating given the 35 min food delay ????

Absolutely fantastic evening, my wife and I went 2 out of two nights as we were both so happy with the service and the general ambience of the restaurant. We will be back on a fortnight’s time

Service was very good but the food was disappointing, the arancini balls were dry and tasteless and the seafood linguine was mushy and tasteless also.

Amazing food, especially the carbonara

Very chaotic. Had to wait about 10 minutes to be seated as only one person was assigned this task. Had to wait 20 minutes for our drinks to arrive. The main meal came before the drinks. Half way through our meal we were asked if we wanted salt or pepper. The meal was very average. We did not expect this from a hotel of the caliber of the Palazzo Versace.

Beautiful luxurious venue with friendly, professional and accommodating staff. Good with children, although we have very well behaved children. Food arrived promptly.

As we entered the venue we got asked to fill out the “online sign in” form by the doorman which was fine as it is expected everywhere. However, as we were filling it out there was no one to check and no one to show us the direction to the restaurant. I ended up going outside asking the doorman where the restaurant was. The waiter was super friendly and accommodating, although we waited over 45 mins (restaurant was not busy either) before our food arrived. Keeping in mind we had 3 kids with us. We ordered a seafood platter between my partner and I (which was recommended when I booked because they no longer did the seafood buffet, which was what we originally was looking for), and the platter was terrible.... it was not fresh at all (Crab had the flaky frozen taste) and nothing amazing about it. Definitely not worth $230. The youngest got a pizza from the kids menu and it was dry. Was a super disappointed experience considering it was a belated Father’s Day dinner. Just expected a lot more when we took a leap and decided to book a prime fine dining place like Versace.

The lamb shoulder roast was simply amazing

Awesome food and posh amenities :) Great customer service as well! Pricey but it’s expected, the name (Versace) speaks for itself :) Will definitely be back!

Staff very well trained and attentive as you would expect. Food plentiful and delicious. Setting with the Versace crockery was beautiful and would definitely go back.

Tasty lots of flavour..enjoyable excellent service.not my first time there and not my last. Superb.