Restaurant Review - Tartufo, Brisbane
Tartufo Restaurant
1000 Ann Street, Brisbane
www.tartufo.com.au
07 3852 1500
Chef: Tony Percuoco
Now to the important bit, the scores. All out of 5.
Overall – 2.5. Not worth it.
Food - 2.5 Service - 2
Location - 3.5 Price - 3.5
Wine List - 2.5 Access - 4
Comfort - 3 Cleanliness – 4
There will be many who won’t care a word I write, and many may point to the recent 1 star that Gourmet Traveller (GT) Australia has given Tartufo. So, while I respect GT immensely I don’t know how they managed to get this restaurant so wrong! I don’t know who in the GT office fought and won the right to assign this a 1 star yet maybe a sacking is in order, as this is truly a mistake. I would also like to know if this is the same person who fought and won not to award 1 star to Tony’s infinitely superior restaurant Ristorante Fellini.
I wouldn’t normally begin to compare restaurants based on others reviews, yet if GT is seriously suggesting that Tank Restaurant (awarded 1 star as well) is on the same level as Tartufo then I might have to rethink my monthly subscription. Tank is head and shoulders, well the whole body above Tartufo that this sort of thing is nothing short of disgraceful. Sorry GT, yet come on, you need to justify this one to the wider community as there is not a single person I have met, or a person they have met who thinks you got this one right.
This may in fact be one of the shortest reviews I ever give. Tartufo is an average restaurant offering average fair. Sorry, yet there is no hiding this fact.
This review is coming ahead of others I had planned as this was such a disappointment and such a letdown that I just had to get it out the way.
Maybe Tony never shows his face here and concentrates all his time at Fellini's on the Gold Coast - now this is brilliant - yet his attempt to bring, what I assume to be Italian food to Brisbane is a miss, and a big miss. Try this for a go: porchetta Contadina, which is described as “kingaroy (qld) belly pork filled with lardo colonnata style, sage, rosemary and garlic served with cavolo nero, hot mustard fruits and pan juices”.
Instead, what I got was a big lump of pork chop - not pork belly - with a ring of fat big enough to cause an instant heart-attack with some stuffing – which was more cardboard and sage than anything else, and what tasted, looked like and (honestly) I think was a lumped pile of spinach on the side, along with not a drizzling or fine jus, yet a plate drowning brown liquid.
What has changed since this became Tartufo? Nothing! The previous French 'inspired' restaurant is now just a Italian 'inspired' restaurant. The decor is the same, the staff even look the same - right down to the clothing they wear.
The service at best is disappointing and at worst just appalling.
The only gleam on an otherwise disappointing night was that the starters were exceptional, yet one course doesn’t make a meal.
We decided to opt for the A la carte as the degustation menu looked a little to orchestrated (aren’t they all?), so we choose the meals we wanted rather than what would have been practiced to death and hence should be good.
This is where I will leave this review. This is such a disappointment and given the number of better and 'great' restaurants in Brisbane I couldn’t think of a single reason why you would waste your money here.
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This review, like all restaurant reviews - unless clearly stated, is based on a visit to the particular establishment within a 4 week period of the review. This could mean it was last night, or 3 weeks ago. In an effort not to identify dinners, usually sufficient time will have passed so that hopefully any little peculiarities cannot be recalled to specific dinners, should such an event have taken place.
This review, like all reviews is not to detail the experience in depth, nor detail the menu, nor provide photographic samples of the food, location or anything else. This review, like all reviews is intended to provide some basic information from which you, the reader, can make an informed decision as to whether this establishment is suited to your dining needs and tastes.
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1000 Ann Street, Brisbane
www.tartufo.com.au
07 3852 1500
Chef: Tony Percuoco
Now to the important bit, the scores. All out of 5.
Overall – 2.5. Not worth it.
Food - 2.5 Service - 2
Location - 3.5 Price - 3.5
Wine List - 2.5 Access - 4
Comfort - 3 Cleanliness – 4
There will be many who won’t care a word I write, and many may point to the recent 1 star that Gourmet Traveller (GT) Australia has given Tartufo. So, while I respect GT immensely I don’t know how they managed to get this restaurant so wrong! I don’t know who in the GT office fought and won the right to assign this a 1 star yet maybe a sacking is in order, as this is truly a mistake. I would also like to know if this is the same person who fought and won not to award 1 star to Tony’s infinitely superior restaurant Ristorante Fellini.
I wouldn’t normally begin to compare restaurants based on others reviews, yet if GT is seriously suggesting that Tank Restaurant (awarded 1 star as well) is on the same level as Tartufo then I might have to rethink my monthly subscription. Tank is head and shoulders, well the whole body above Tartufo that this sort of thing is nothing short of disgraceful. Sorry GT, yet come on, you need to justify this one to the wider community as there is not a single person I have met, or a person they have met who thinks you got this one right.
This may in fact be one of the shortest reviews I ever give. Tartufo is an average restaurant offering average fair. Sorry, yet there is no hiding this fact.
This review is coming ahead of others I had planned as this was such a disappointment and such a letdown that I just had to get it out the way.
Maybe Tony never shows his face here and concentrates all his time at Fellini's on the Gold Coast - now this is brilliant - yet his attempt to bring, what I assume to be Italian food to Brisbane is a miss, and a big miss. Try this for a go: porchetta Contadina, which is described as “kingaroy (qld) belly pork filled with lardo colonnata style, sage, rosemary and garlic served with cavolo nero, hot mustard fruits and pan juices”.
Instead, what I got was a big lump of pork chop - not pork belly - with a ring of fat big enough to cause an instant heart-attack with some stuffing – which was more cardboard and sage than anything else, and what tasted, looked like and (honestly) I think was a lumped pile of spinach on the side, along with not a drizzling or fine jus, yet a plate drowning brown liquid.
What has changed since this became Tartufo? Nothing! The previous French 'inspired' restaurant is now just a Italian 'inspired' restaurant. The decor is the same, the staff even look the same - right down to the clothing they wear.
The service at best is disappointing and at worst just appalling.
The only gleam on an otherwise disappointing night was that the starters were exceptional, yet one course doesn’t make a meal.
We decided to opt for the A la carte as the degustation menu looked a little to orchestrated (aren’t they all?), so we choose the meals we wanted rather than what would have been practiced to death and hence should be good.
This is where I will leave this review. This is such a disappointment and given the number of better and 'great' restaurants in Brisbane I couldn’t think of a single reason why you would waste your money here.
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This review, like all restaurant reviews - unless clearly stated, is based on a visit to the particular establishment within a 4 week period of the review. This could mean it was last night, or 3 weeks ago. In an effort not to identify dinners, usually sufficient time will have passed so that hopefully any little peculiarities cannot be recalled to specific dinners, should such an event have taken place.
This review, like all reviews is not to detail the experience in depth, nor detail the menu, nor provide photographic samples of the food, location or anything else. This review, like all reviews is intended to provide some basic information from which you, the reader, can make an informed decision as to whether this establishment is suited to your dining needs and tastes.
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