Without doubt the best value for money restaurant in Geelong that does not compromise on quality. The food and choice is excellent be it entree, main or dessert. A good choice of wines and cold beers. The staff are super efficient and friendly too

Good value for money. The calamari was heavy and sickly as a main, the salad was tasteless with minimal dressing. The Apple crumble was a cake with stick date sauce and not a crumble at all. This restaurant has really gone down hill.

The 5 different meals were all very good and very reasonably priced. Service was friendly and fantastic. Compliments to Dani and the other young ladies.

We attended a 70th birthday there and the platters of food were amazing. The food did not stop coming. The chicken skewers were so tender and delicious. Great pizzas. The staff are lovely and friendly. Definitely on our list of best eats when we return...to Geelong - which I hope is not too far away.More

Parking, not an issue. Ambience, noisy (as expected). Indoor and outdoor sitting areas. Staff, friendly and efficient. Cleanliness, acceptable. Food, very nice. Good selection of wine. Toilet, clean. Do we recommend? Definitely yes.

Attended a school reunion recently at Cucina One 12. The service from the staff was absolutely wonderful, and nothing was too much trouble. I would definitely recommend this restaurant to everyone who loves Italian food. The company was great and the service was exceptional. 10/10...from me.More

Huge menu to choose from, great prices and a taste to die for. Had our order delivered to the Holiday Park we were staying.Very quick service. The servings were large to say the least. Strongly recommend if you are in Belmont any time soon.

6 weeks ago a group of us dined at Cucina One12. It was my first visit to this restaurant. I didn't know about this restaurant until one of our group members recommended it. I've been living in Highton and Newtown for 30 years, but I...can't believe I never knew of this place. The food is excellent and so is the service. All the staff are friendly and helpful. I loved it so much I've been back a further 5 times in the last 6 weeks. One of those was a takeaway during lockdown. The food is very reasonably priced. Lunches are around the $16 mark - I recommend the seafood plate, but there are plenty of other good choices. For dinner, I recommend the $33/3-course menu or the $28/2-course menu. I chose the 3-course option: seafood grazing plate, rib-eye steak and sticky date pudding. YUM!More

I ordered the mussel entree. There was a 3 x 15cm trial of an offwhite sustance, that appeared like melted cheese that had not been browned. I thought weird to be on a mussel dish but then perhaps it was like oysters kilpatrick melted cheese....I put a fork full of this substance in my mouth and instantly realised it was bitterly distasful and offensively strong, but couldnt spit it out as I was with friends. The substance was completely raw minced garlic, massive amounts of it (about 3 tablespoons worth), which had not even attempted to be mixed into the dish. Who eats raw garlic straight up, awful experience. The rest of the night I couldnt taste anything but garlic, I couldnt even get the taste out of my mouth after brushing my teeth, it is repeating on me and I still have the unpleasant flavor in my mouth 8 hours later. I mentioned the inapproriatness of putting raw garlic on a dish to the young waitress, who was trying to do her best, she must of been about 16 years old. I asked her to feed this incident back to the kitchen. However, I feel due to her young age and inexperience she didint even report it back to the kitchen. The poor teenager must have felt she didnt have a voice in this over busy workplace. I didnt get even a sorry from any of the staff. The place is noisy and crowded, you cant hear yourself speak. The worst dinning experience I have had for some time. This if a factul honest non exagarated review. Seriously avoid this place for your own health, you potentially will get food poisioning from undercooked food or covid from an over crowded resturant!More

The prices are good but the quality is dismal. Staff seem to be disorganised and the mains came out 10 minutes apart leaving my partner waiting while I refused to eat until she got hers. Therefore my food was cold by the time we started...eating. Calamari was actually squid from new Zealand. Also local fish? I didn't know they farmed salmon in the Geelong region. When I went to the toilet I saw how unclean the kitchen was. I've had heart burn and an uneasy stomach all night. I won't be returning and I suggest to all of you that this place seems a gamble. The positive reviews here are clearly fake and/or paid for. Or written by people with no taste buds and fewer brain cells. Definitely not Italian. More like a ghastly Italian, American, Asian fusion . All done horribly. Wine was stale. I wish I could give no stars. Good luck if you eat at this pig trough.More

The service is always amazing, such friendly and helpful staff. Food is great quality, great value and kitchen puts out meals so quickly. We were also very impressed by the way their staff handled a customer trying to sneak in a person with residential address...in Melbourne (during Covid restrictions). The customer was aggressive and rude and the staff diffused the situation very professionally.More

Menu selection in these difficult times is excellent and quite extensive, food is wonderful, staff are friendly, pleasant and attentive. The atmosphere even with restricted seating and 2 sittings still makes for a nice evening out. Their $27 two courses or $32 for three courses...is truly great value and no menu item is restricted when selecting these options.More