DOPPIO MALTO GLASGOW
DOPPIO MALTO GLASGOW
Booked in advance for Christmas lunch for a party of 12 mature ladies in the Glasgow venue. They could only offer us a 4pm option. We took it and when we arrived the restaurant was quite quiet although it did get much busier later. It started quite well, although the music was so loud it was difficult to hear what the waiter was saying and we had to constantly shout. Almost impossible to have a conversation.Apart from the noise we had a few other issues
The type on the menus is so small and the lighting so dim, it was hard for some of us to read it
Had to ask several times for cutlery
Much of the food, when it did arrive, was cold
We were served by a number of different waiters, some of whom we never saw again after we ordered.
Most of the staff were lovely, but there were clearly not enough staff as the day progressed to cover the large number of customers there.
There were two minor discrepancies on the bill we were issued. However we decided it was all too difficult to question it given the circumstances.
We were constantly told that we had to be out by 6.
When we were told that we had to leave as it was past 6, one of the party pointed out that we were still eating deserts and that the reason we were still there was because the service had been quite slow.
She was immediately told to ‘get out’ as our time was up, and this particular member of staff was actually quite rude.
Another member of staff did later try to apologise but by then we’d had enough and left.
While we all understand the pressures of working in a busy restaurant, especially pre Christmas, there was no excuse for this particular waiter’s behaviour. We were all extremely civil, completely sober, and trying to look past the rather disappointing food we had been given.
All in all a disappointing experience. None of us had been here before, and judging by our Christmas lunch, none of us will be back.
15 December 2023
Unprompted review