Save your money - Worst burger I've ever eaten!!
I felt very compelled to write about the experience we had at Paradiso restaurant in Oakville. We were seated very quickly at a nice booth but it goes downhill from there.
I shared an order of flatbread bruschetta which was very soggy. The flatbread absorbed the liquid from the tomatoes and pesto and the bread became very mushy. There's a reason why most restaurants use crusty bread for their bruschetta.
My husband had the P.E.I. Mussels in marinara sauce and he noted that some of the mussels were cold.
Now let's get to the main event. My husband had the sausage pizza, emphasis on sausage as he noticed that there was far too much sausage on it. The pizza was a misshaped mess of sausage, copious amounts of cilantro (enough to call it a salad) and not much cheese or sauce on the pizza. The pizza was $18 but it tasted like it was a $4 frozen pizza. And it was the only pizza on the menu. You would think that they would have your basic margarita pizza on the menu.
My son and I had the Paradiso burger with BBQ potatoes. (Maybe 5 or 6 overcooked medallions covered in a copious amount of pepper).
The burger was made with Angus beef and chorizo sausage. It also had a house made ketchup and honey Dijon mustard along with something that tasted like BBQ sauce.
When I was deciding on my order, I had asked the waitress if the burger was spicy and she told me that it wasn't. To say that it was spicy is an understatement. My burger and potatoes were so hot that my mouth felt like it was on fire. I'm not one for spicy food, even mild wings seem hot to me. Which is why I make sure by asking ahead when ordering if it will be spicy or not.
Needless to say, I felt very sick that evening. Even my son's burger was spicy, and he had his with just the cheese and no condiments. The burgers that we received did not seem like they were worth the $19 that they charged us.
I've had better burgers at fast food places.
I think that when a person is taking your order, they should know the menu inside and out. We also had to ask to have our water refilled.
Our experience at Paradiso last night does not even compare to previous times we dined there. It used to be such a great restaurant. My husband and I had one of our first dates at Paradiso and we remember it fondly; The restaurant is not what it used to be.
The menu is very limited (only 2 pages) and not much variety for people with less exotic tastes in food. We would definitively not go back again.