Restaurants
Gambaros
Currently open
6:30 am - 8:00 pm
Shop 52, 1000 Ann St
Fortitude Valley, QLD, 4006
Gambaros
Italian Restaurant Fortitude ValleyAn Italian institution in Brisbane, Gambaro's at Fortitude Valley is a welcome addition to its legacy. Situated in the Emporium Hotel, this restaurant provided diners and travelers with the signature Gambaro's seafood dishes that have made it so popular with Brisbane locals for decades. Gambaro's fusion of contemporary and traditional Italian seafood dishes are created with the finest products to produce exceptional flavour. A take away bar allows for a quick meal and the ability to take the Gambaro flavour home with you.
Contact details
Dining Options
- Bookings
- Outdoor Seating
- Eat-in
- Take-Away
Cuisine
- Australian
- Seafood
Purchased a voucher for 2 "specialty soft shell crab burger" which seemed quite nice and looked great in the pictures, but after being greeted by a cold and disinterested wait staff we were pointed to a grubby table. After waiting and asking for our table to be cleaned and waiting some more our food eventually arrived and we were highly unimpressed. The cold chips and sad looking 'specialty' burger were something we could have thrown together at home for $5, not the overpriced $45 that they were asking for full priced. We were quite disappointed with the food, the service and the atmosphere. Would not recommend as we walked out hungry and dissatisfied.
This place was a real disappointment. I Purchased a $45 Voucher (Value $99) for a seafood basket for 2. The food was less than very ordinary with hot and cold seafood and was definitely not worth the stated value or the voucher value for that matter. The cold food was quite tasteless and consisted of 8 prawns, 4 oysters and 1 crab. The hot food was the usual calamari rings, crumbed fish, deep fried prawns and chips. The fried prawns were raw inside and the chips tasted like they'd been re fried. The voucher included 2 cold soft drinks and unless I insisted on my own choice from the fridge I would've been required to have a choice of sparkling mineral water or lemonade.
My partner was still quite hungry after the meal. We won't return!
Half a star for the apologetic wait staff.
Management were extremely rude. Did not enjoy this reastaurant at all. Nothing Italian about it at all but the seafood was nice. The waitress we had was lovely and polite but the manager needs to find some people skills! One star for the waitress and one star for the seafood. Will never go there again.