October 2024 by Claire Hart
Lovely Italian restaurant with very good food and a nice atmosphere
October 2024 by Jes Rutter
Absolutely fantastic in all respects. Wonderful service - 2023
Not quite as good - 2024
October 2024 by Ben Foster
Fantastic service, quick service and well priced
October 2024 by Heidi Maguire
A really beautiful restaurant and excellent, welcoming staff. I chose the venue to meet with friends from abroad, as the views are the best in Weymouth and I love Italian food.
I'm vegetarian and usually have great success in Italian restaurants for pasta / pizza dishes, however I was surprised to see there were not many options... (I should have checked the menu beforehand!!)
Nonetheless, Oliveto were happy to accommodate adjustments to make my dish vegetarian - which was lovely. My friends who enjoy seafood said that the food was great.
Vegetarian options: Vegan escalopes was the only clearly marked 'vegetarian' option.
October 2024 by Angela Tate
Poor food no favour under cooked vegetables. Poor ice cream. Not good advert for Italian food
September 2024 by Mark Antell
A fantastic restaurant offering top tier food with spectacular views and friendly service.
September 2024 by Vanessa
We were asked to preorder our meals when booked 3 weeks in advance as we were a group of 9 so we did. Table booked for 8pm, shown to our table and then left for a long period of time without drinks menus. When we finally got to order our drinks, they arrived slow and table water was forgotten. The house red 3x bottles was ordered, turned out it was the cheapest on the menu(house usually is a good picked wine representative of the restaurant)no bread, olives or anything else offered.
Food started to come out quickly when it did. We were not asked how we wanted our steaks so when put in front of us, they were dry and chewy. No sauce, barely any rocket and shavings of Parmesan with a drizzle of sweet clearly not homemade balsamic dressing. I asked if there was cheese and biscuit option only to be told they have cheesecake. I could go on as all 9 of us left disappointed and will not be returning or recommending to anyone visiting Weymouth. We left a very generous tip as I am sure the serving staff were doing their best but even they could have made more of an effort, no checking in on our meals or thank you when we received the bill. We paid and left. Photo attached.
September 2024 by Clive Lewis
Good Italian food . Helpful staff . Worth a visit. Second visit for lunch was excelent.
Parking: Anumber of parking lots outside the restaurant but not cheap (£7 for 3 hours).
September 2024 by JackLDyble
Very disappointing, both service and food, portion size of burata as almost offensive, I've worked in hospitality for many years and would not recommend
this place!
September 2024 by Christina Ashman
The food was amazing and the staff were lovely, would definitely go back!
September 2024 by Jackie Roberts
Excellent Italian restaurant. We took our 9 year old grandson there whilst on holiday in Weymouth. Although Spaghetti carbonara was not available as a 'bambini option', we pressed and they provided a half portion our grandson loved it.
Food delicious, portions just right, service professional and friendly. It was not a problem for us but the restaurant is only accessible by steps so that would be a problem if you are less mobile.
September 2024 by Joshua Jones
Amazing, had a meal on a Sunday 7pm for anniversary
So accommodating and amazing with allergies
September 2024 by Linda Dunman
Beautiful location, very friendly and efficient waitress Hannah and well presented tasty food.
September 2024 by Jadwiga Bielecka
Very delicious food and very good service! Thank you!?
September 2024 by Alex
So we had been here before last year, which was 10/10 no complaints, everything perfect. However our most recent meal, on the day this review was written, has demoted our opinion on Olivieto, to another "what a shame they ruined it".
On checking in at our time, our waitress appeared to have some sort of panic, dismissing two other colleagues, muttering under her breath while she jittered around for some reason. This put us on edge, and I couldn't think of any time I've had such an awkward exchange being sat at a table.
I had booked our table a month in advance, asking for a table next to the window overlooking the sea for a date on a Tuesday night at 8pm. I didn't think that could be mismanaged, but it was. We were sat halfway down the room, and only one of us able to view out the window. The restaurant had the perfect table free, but I suppose the couple that booked that reserved it a month and a day in advance.
After some deliberation , Waitress Two took our orders. I asked for the specials, and Waitress Two questioned who served us as we should be told them beforehand. I wish I knew the staff names, but none of the staff introduced themselves to us - very ironic of you Waitress Two.
We both ordered the mussels and seafood risotto. Two of my mussels were dead and unopened. They also had switched from a terrific garlic, white wine sauce to a rather disappointing tomato based sauce for the mussels.
The seafood risotto featured four mussels (the only shell on seafood in the main course). Also featuring were three frozen mini prawns, plenty shell-off mussels and a few odd squid rings. To this, they added a good table spoon of parmesan they keep in a cupboard in the corner, making the whole mixture Mac and cheese inspired with whatever bits are going off in your freezer right now.
So we won't be returning until the previous chef/inspiration comes back, as our last visit had neither that evening.
