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| - This review is for my visit to Destingo's on July 29th.
My partner and I were looking for a place to eat in the area after discovering Terroni's had a one hour wait time. Both of us were craving Italian food and we'd heard good recommendations for Destingo.
When we arrived it was not too busy, we were initially greeted by a female waitress - very friendly and seemed attentive to the customers who were assigned to her. This review may well be different if she ended up being our waitress for the evening.. however this was not the case!
Instead we had a male waiter, menus came relatively quick but it took a while for him to take our drink order. From the looks of it, the guy was catering to two tables (including ours) while the other waitress took care of the rest (3 - 5 tables out on the patio area). My partner ordered a Ginger Ale, and given it was a pretty hot summers day, I ordered a refreshing cider. My initial choice was out of stock, no big deal, so I ordered a pear cider instead. We also ordered our food at the same time, a Margherita Pizza for the both of us to share, an Agnolotti Pasta dish for my partner and I ordered the Chicken Parmigiano with a side of vegetables.
The ginger ale came out pretty quick, but no sign of the cider. The male waiter was barely around at all, throughout the course of our entire meal for that matter. The lady waitress brought the Pizza to our table, and I had to ask her about the cider which still hadn't arrived. She was really nice and apologetic and brought it over in no time at all.
The pizza was very nice - I have no fault with this at all. Decently sized to share between two.
When our mains came out the pasta was good (according to my partner), the taste was good but the portion was a little on the small size.
The Chicken Parmigiano was very big in size, the taste was okay but nothing amazing, however the side of the vegetables was extremely disappointing. 1 baby potato, a thinly sliced zuccini and 2 tiny chopped grilled peppers hardly constitute a "side" in my opinion.
The waiter did not ask us how the food was. No refills for our water, and at no point did he ask if my partner wanted a refill on the ginger ale (which she finished pretty early on into the main course). He spent most of the time stood over by the cash register paying zero attention to his customers at all. When my partner went to use the washroom he rather rudely said "Over here" multiple times, getting louder each time in a rather rude manner when she was looking over at the kitchen (which itself is pretty nice - open concept which is a really neat idea) when he had already told her where the washroom was earlier in the night.
On a food level, based off of the food we had last night I'd give it perhaps a 3 star, but unfortunately the service we received from the gentleman waiter was so bad it really does warrant a 1 star.
I overheard a table over from us thanking the lady waitress for a wonderful evening for the attention they received and for making their night enjoyable. I wish we had her as our server for the night because ours was the polar opposite!
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