Zio's Ristorante

Extremely welcoming nice and cozy with great calming music! Perfect especially for the winter! Super friendly staff. The food - absolutely scrumptious and delicious! I had a three course meal and each course was to die for! They even provided cheese and crackers in the end! No small portions of pretentious food. Fancy with large enough portions to get you nice, full and satisfied. One thing I would like to give special mention to is the chef! This guy was the highlight of the evening. Cheeky, funny and gets involved with the guests. Threw in a couple of glasses of free wine for us. Makes jokes and keeps you entertained while serving some of the most delicious food! The chicken in particular was so tender and delicious! Well done! I am so impressed and will definitely be back for more! Thank you.

The food was extremely beautiful. The presentation was gorgeous and the taste was delicious. We had duck breast and baramundi for fish of day. For desert we had Belgian white chocolate mousse which is one of the best chocolate mousse I've tasted. The manager is very friendly. They gave the best service for the customers. Would like to come back again for sure! :)

Very disappointed with experience at Zio's last night. Have been regulars but won't be going back. Two of us ordered crab but got chicken. Chef told us crab was frozen and we would like this better anyway!! (Were not told of unavailability when ordering). We told him we didn't want chicken and asked to look at the menu again. Never got to see a menu and waited about 20 mins before being presented with the crab after all! Must have been unfrozen! Meanwhile our other friend had finished her meal. We were charged for a bottle of sparkling wine $76 - we had 5 small glasses between us. Don't think it amounted to one bottle but decision was taken away from us. Bottle not opened at table and wasn't very bubbly. No compensation made for stuff up of meal. Not even a free coffee. Two of the main courses were unavailable due to a busy lunchtime apparently. Felt we were ripped off at $73 per head.

Perfect ambiance of refined elegance and understated chic. Exquisite cuisine with carefully selected meals, always freshly prepared and served in most appealing manner. Definitely an experience of fine dining that's hard to rival. If I have to pick one single dish out of their perfect menu over and over again, it would be the pan-fried king prawns. And believe me, their chocolate soufflé is worth the wait.

Our experience at Zios was simply fantastic. The food is simply fantastic and the atmosphere is lovely. The Chef came around to the tables to find out exactly how we would like our food prepared and made great suggestions on how he'd propose to modify the dishes to suit those with dietary restrictions. We'll be back as soon as we can.

My husband and I both 60 something's went to Zio's to celebrate our 2nd wedding anniversary on 9/3/16. When we arrived my husband said he booked a table for 2 and the head waiter/maitre de or whatever his title is said "sit where you like" pointing to a couple of empty tables, and there were a few, but when we decided to sit by the window he said in a harsh manner "that table is reserved" this was the start of a memorable evening all for the wrong reasons. We took a bottle our favourite wine the waitress opened the bottle and walked away after just putting the bottle down on the table. We had to ask the waitress for a ice bucket she brought one over and just put it down in the middle of the table, not even putting the wine into the bucket. What a bad start. The food was very ordinary for the outrageous prices they charge. If the food was good I would not be complaining but it was not. We had 3 courses each and the only good one was the lovely chocolate souffle. But what amazed us more was this head waiter I think someone called him Joe, he was more interested in the regular customers, kissing cheeks and so on, he. was fussing about them like the old rooster. We also noticed how many times he filled up wine glasses with the regulars, but not once did he attempt to fill our glasses up and neither did the 2 young girls serving, we were left to our own devises. Not once did he come over to us and ask if everything was ok. Well I suppose you have to keep the regulars happy to get your tip. All I can say is go somewhere else. We dine out quite a lot and this is one of the worst places we have been to. Its a shame as it's a lovely old terrace building. The food they serve is not worth the cost, it's very ordinary. And to top our evening off they have the nerve to charge 7.50 per person corkage. There are far better dining experiences around Melbourne. You have been warned. Visited March 2016 1 of 5 stars Value 1 of 5 stars Service 2 of 5 stars Food