Gondolier

I love here in berea, and have noticed a very interesting trend of all restaurants having very high ratings. Meanwhile, on community Facebook pages, you get the opposite.
My wife and I have eaten here for their lunch buffet 1x. It didn’t exactly impress us. I had the lunch buffet and this US my review. The 3 pizzas that were out out at lunch we’re only half a pizza at a time, so there was very little choice. 1 of those had been there since before we showed up and had already been showing its age. It was still there when we left. They advertise that there would be pasta also, to wich we were informed that although they were advertising it, they actually hadn’t ever started offering it on the buffet. My wife was informed that if she wanted it, she could purchase it off the menu. Other than that, I never got a second drink until my meal was over. I shared this with my wife since I was the only 1 that the waitress brought a refill for. The food itself was on the bland side. I only had pizza and salad since they weren’t offering any of the other lunch buffet items. The only good tasting pizza that I had was the ricotta pizza. I was able to secure 1 slice of a personal sized pizza. This is not to mention the wasted trips up to the buffet, since there would only be th st 1 old pizza sitting there looking worse and worse. I will try a dinner there before completely writing this place off permanently.

So happy to have this place here in Berea! Great food and friendly staff. The portions are very generous and the desserts are good as well. They have a great mix of Greek and mostly Italian, but they even have burgers and sandwiches. Highly recommended!

I have been to Gondolier twice, and will go there again!
It’s very nice and the staff are friendly.
The food is good and prices are reasonable.
Very good dessert.

For the options in Berea, it is quite good. It serves large (too large?) of portions. But the food is good and it was clean.

Stopped in here on our roadtrip from SC to OH. Very pleased. Super friendly staff, awesome owner walking around the dining room, delicious food. Calzone was fresh and loaded with cheese and feta. Chicken alfredo was probably some of the best we’ve ever had– organic, grilled chicken and fresh pasta in a flavorful but not goopy cream sauce. Complimentary breadsticks were fresh out of the oven and very good. I took off one star for ambiance simply because it’s a wide open space in a strip mall– feels very cafeteria-​ish rather than like an Italian restaurant. A little money put into décor and lighting would go a long way here. That being said, would definitely recommend and definitely return when we pass through the area again!

Love Gondolier and have enjoyed food at many of their locations.
Short of it– found a green mold ball with «fuzzies» growing out of it in the Parmesan shaker. I didn’t know what it was. Thought a pea got on my plate somehow and the waitress investigated and told me that they thought the Parmesan in shakers never went bad.
She was very embarrassed and very gracious and apologetic. She got another plate for me, and some freshly grated Parmesan and kept apologizing.
The restaurant was about ¾ occupied. I thought they would take the shakers away from empty tables and check them for spoilage.
No one did… ever.
No visit or apology from management, no concern that I had already eaten this spoiled cheese and no offer of a discount or free dessert.
And no way I will be back for another visit.
Waitress was superb in every way.

Stop in from fl great place to eat. great food service and clean and good sauce will come back in a couple of months.

This place was refreshingly clean, the service was outstanding, the atmosphere cozy… oh yea, did i say clean? Super clean… and the food was great. Deserts and cakes… out of this world. And very healthy servings. I took half of everything back with me and had a second meal. Dont be fooled because the place is around a bunch of fast good places. Its definarely not fast good.

Loved it! I got their chicken Alfreado, and was not disappointed! Also, their cakes are. To. Die. For. I’ve went their just to get cake.