Fortunato's has potential to be a 4 star rated restaurant and they only need to fix up a few things to get there IMO.
If you are looking to go on a weekend night I suggest you reserve a table as it was quite busy on Saturday around 7pm. You have the choice to sit inside or out and my party of 3 sat inside which was nice as it was lightly raining outside (can be seated undercover).
The tables have white sheets of paper over the tablecloths and if you're a regular you know that you can ask for crayons for your kids to deface the paper (there were kids all throughout the restaurant so this is a very child-friendly place).
Our waitress was efficient to begin with but not overly friendly and made me feel like she could be in a rush to get somewhere else, which is never a nice feeling for anyone. Our food arrived and this is where this restaurant goes off, garlic pizza to die for! It was golden, thick, crispy, loaded with garlic and cooked to perfection. Needless to say between 3 people it was gone in a flash. Next up we had 2 medium sized pizzas - Garlic Prawns (apparently it was VERY cheesy, perhaps a bit too much but was told it was still delicious), Capriciossa (holy crap this pizza was amazing, not traditional as the ingredients were heavily loaded but that's just the way I like it) and a Truffle Carbonara Fettucine pizza for my brother - looked like a big, creamy portion but that 14 year old smashed the whole bowl!
I didn't quite finish my pizza but this usually means you can take some home for leftovers the next day, except I didn't, because no one ever returned to our table. We were not offered a second round of drinks, our plates were not cleared, we were not offered dessert or coffee and even though we sat chatting for 20 odd minutes we ended up having to leave the table and go to the front counter to pay for the meal. The MIA service at the end of the night really put a damper on my experience which is unfortunate as the food was truly wonderful. read more