Gino's Italian Restaurant

05/25/08

Italian Food with Personality

by susieq55 at Citysearch

Get out of your comfort zone-all the traditional items are great but if you want something excellent try one of the trout dishes or the mussels in zesty marinara or my new favorite the wine, butter and garlic--which even the appetizer size will do for a main course -just add an individual pizza (the best you will ever taste with a crust so light I don't know how it holds up to the toppings but it does!) which you can share if you choose and you are set. Service is very good and the whole experience has so much more charm than that of the italian chains around town.

09/24/09

Nothing "special"

by John Mc at Citysearch

I ordered the Veal Parmesan which came with a side of spaghetti. It was OK, but certainly not the best I ever had. The total cost of the meal (with tip) including a soft drink and a garlic bread appetizer was $29.00 which I thought was WAY too much. I also think that their prices are way too high for other things as well. They show on the menu that spaghetti is $10.99, but if you want either/both meatballs or sausage it is $2.50 each – that would mean that if you got both the total cost would be $15.99 for spaghetti with meatballs and sausage (not including a soft drink) which is ridiculous. The only reason I tried this place again is because Romano’s Macaroni Grill dropped veal from their menu (I sent them an email saying that an Italian restaurant without veal is like going to KFC and them not having “chicken”)!

• Pros: nice interior and pleasant staff
• Cons: overall pretty expensive

06/23/09

Bad Experience

by JD55 at Citysearch

After the wait staff screwed-up our order and served me before my wife got the Correct dish she ordered, we found the veal dishes were awful. THE NEXT DAY WE BOTH SUFFERED WITH SICK STOMACHS! I wouldn't feed my dogs there!

• Pros: none
• Cons: bad food bad service!

11/09/08

EXCELLENT

by f18hornet at Citysearch

This is a fantastic restaurant with delicious food! Excellent service tops off the great food making it my favorite restaurant.

• Pros: Service, Food
• Cons: None

05/08/08

HORRIBLE SERVICE EVEN WORSE PIZZA

by blueakuma at Citysearch

Service was horrible! We were sat right away however NO ONE came to clean the table, take our order or bring us any water, i had to get up and ask for it, then the waiter threw the bread at us. Another waiter was too personal and sitting down in the table with a family, perhaps she was family but that looks really bad! Too many waiters and not even a decent service and the place wasnt even crowded only three tables on a thursday night! The pizza was terrible also, took forever and tasted like a fridge pizza. Then cause i complaint the waiter kept comming every 5 minutes to ask "if eveyrthing was ok" it gets annoying after 5 times. The only good thing was the fresh baked bread and garlic oil. EVERYTHING ELSE WAS HORRIBLE!

• Pros: GOOD BREAD AND GARLIC OIL
• Cons: HORRIBLE FOOD AND SERVICE (YOU CALL THAT ITALIAN?)

04/17/08

Best Italian anywhere

by DWinne at Citysearch

Best Italian food in Austin Area. You will not find better Chicken Parmesan. Pizza is great too. If your idea of good Italian food is Olive Garden,you need to get over to Ginos.

• Pros: Pizza,Pasta,Salad
• Cons: Not next door to my house

12/15/07

Great food, great atmosphere

by gunnarsvg at Citysearch

5+ stars for food, 2 stars for frozen deep-fried appetizers. 4 stars, overall. :-) Our meal was stellar! The staff was awesome, and the environment intimate and friendly. However, I'd stay away from the fried appetizers. You can tell that these are bulk frozen cheesesticks and ravioli. A friend's father works as a restaurant supplier, and I'm 90% sure he's got boxes of identical cheesesticks and ravioli in his deep freeze. Everything was great, and I highly recommend it!

• Pros: Rich sauces, right-sized portions, friendly staff
• Cons: bulk frozen appteizers

11/29/07

generic Italian food, not very good.

by txrycetkb at Citysearch

Upon arrival, we were greeted with bread and garlic dipping oil. The bread was so-so, but the garlic dipping oil was great. Sadly, this oil was the highlight of my meal.

I ordered the eggplant parmigiana. It was $7.50. Not a bad price, if it had turned out alright.

First I received a salad. It was ok, nothing special. Just some lettuce and onion and tomato. It seemed more of a token effort than anything.

Unfortunately, after a long wait, they brought me chicken parmigiana instead of eggplant. Easy mistake to make, and the mistake was corrected quickly enough.

However, the eggplant I received was extremely limp and to be honest, kind of disgusting. It did not seem like there was any kind of thought put into it's preparation. Instead, it seemed as thought they slopped some overcooked eggplant onto a plate, added some cheese, and added a HUGE heaping of marinara over it. The spaghetti was overcooked as well. And they made up for it's inadequacy with marinara too.

Not the worst dining experience I've ever had, but if I can possibly steer my dining partners away, I won't be returning.

• Pros: dipping garlic oil
• Cons: service, food

11/07/07

Just like Lil Italy!!

by cherville at Citysearch

Our dinner at Gino's was a wonderful experience!! We celebrated our wedding rehearsal dinner and were very pleased with the service and food. Very friendly staff and excellent food. The pasta pescatore was a big WOW, if you like seafood. We also had veal marsala, ziti al gino, and the combo pasta!! Everyone kind of shared off each others as everything looked so good and the taste was awesome. This is a great place to hold your rehearsal dinner!! We will definitely be back!!

• Cons: NONE

10/11/07

Best Italian Pizzza Austin and Round Rock have!!!

by jenniferella at Citysearch

I just tried Gino's Italian Restaurant and was greeted by such a sweet hostess. She took me to my table and I could smell the yummy bread and garlic in the air. All of the employees were so nice and siad hi as I walked by to my table. We were greeted by our server Marissa who was super attentive and gaev the specials and went on her way to get our wine. They have a great wine list. We started out with Calamari and it was so tender. We had a yummy antipasta. Then from a recommendation from Marissa I had a Veal Chop special which was unbelievable. My husband had Baked Ziti. Then we had a cannoli which tasted like a true sicilian dessert. Can't wait to return. Probably this weekend.

• Pros: The food, service, and location