Andiamo Ristorante, Orlando, Florida Restaurant Details

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We were staying at the Hilton for the Disney Princess half so we decided to carb load here the night before. I asked if there was room for two and after some contemplation the host said yes and asked us to wait for a few minutes at the bar while he prepared a table. The wait at the bar ended up being 15 minutes while we scanned over all the empty tables in the restaurant. The waitress took another 10 minutes to take our drink order, again, with a restaurant that wasn't even half full.

I ordered the lasagna and my husband ordered the chicken fettuccine alfredo. When the food arrived my husbands order was wrong and when he said so, she asked him if he was sure. As if we couldn't remember what we ordered. My lasagna was definitely reheated - it had that crispiness around the edges - which is not something I would expect from a restaurant charging me $25 for a plate of lasagna. While we were waiting for our food, a couple had to go find someone to take their drink order after sitting at the table for a long time.

Overall the food was subpar and overpriced, the staff was horrible, the wait times for a half full restaurant were terrible. Don't waste your time here. I would recommend walking the 5 or 10 minutes across the street to Downtown Disney and grabbing food there.

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We thought we had been incredibly lucky managing to reserve a table for 15 people at the last minute for dinner during the Christmas holidays. We were especially impressed that we were also able to push our table back by 30 minutes at even later notice.

We now understand that the truth is we were pretty much the only people insane enough to brave the culinary onslaught that is the Andiamo restaurant.

In an empty restaurant we valiantly waited 30 minutes for our drinks, 45 minutes for our starters and an hour and fifteen minutes for our main courses.

The chef appeared to be a highly skilled proponent of the "prison food" school of cooking. It felt as if all his years of experience running the kitchen at Guantanamo Bay came together to produce his finest two hours.

The Arugula salad was literally a plate of rocket leaves with some sundried tomatoes on the side. In fairness I do understand it is difficult to find asparagus in Cuba.

I then had sea bass with roasted red pepper sauce which was a very rare mix of the outright dreadful (the wet slimy sea bass) and the incredibly bland (the generic red sauce), and all for an exceedingly uncompetitive $32.

Pretty much all of our main courses arrived cold, impressive given we could only see one other table of inmates actually ordering and eating food.

In fairness I do think the waitress remained pretty friendly throughout although I'm nervous I may have been suffering from some form of Stockholm Syndrome by the end.

Even the 50% we received does not compensate for this absolute disaster of a meal. With so many top class restaurants inside and outside the park why would you chose somewhere which can only be described as positively inhumane? I now understand why so many at GB spend so much time on hunger strike.

P.S In case you are actually forced to eat at this restaurant (at gun point I assume) one guy did actually describe his grilled salmon as "warm and fine."

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Beautiful restaurant with delicious food and superb service. Julie was great.

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Love it

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Nice ambiance and very typical style and pricing for what you would expect in a Hilton restaurant. The portions are respectable, and the menu is varied. However, the food quality was marginal at best, and certainly not up to Hilton standards.
I had the chicken orecchiette, which the waiter corrected me by mis-pronouncing. The chicken was overcooked and tasteless. The orecchiette was nicely cooked, but the sauce needed a little help. Alas, we could not even get the waiter to bring salt and pepper to the table.
My daughter ordered eggplant parmesan which came out very thinly sliced and thus also overcooked. I think the breading was actually thicker than the eggplant.
The kids menu had three choices: pizza, spaghetti, or chicken nuggets. Instead, my son ordered the appetizer portion of shrimp scampi over linguini. They brought him buttered angel hair. Once they corrected the mistake, he only ate the shrimp. The pasta was rendered inedible by floating in butter. On the positive side, there was a generous serving of pasta for an appetizer, but that only underscores how much it was overpowered by the butter.
The service was abysmal. As much as it was clear that this Disney resort-area restaurant doesn't cater to children, it was even clearer that the waiter didn't care for children at all. Once the entrees were out, we got no attention from anyone. Not even to get our water refilled. Not even once.
Excluding the mandatory 18% gratuity (we were dining with friends), dinner for 4 was $85 for three entrees and an appetizer. No drinks.
Skip this restaurant, especially if you have any respect at all for Italian food. Even an Olive Garden would be preferable to the bad food and poor service here.