This was one time we probably should of took notice of some recent reviews. Two of the last three reviews were terrible, but gave the restaurant the benefit of the doubt.
We ordered pumpkin soup, garlic bread, 2 serves of garlic prawns and a Hawaiian...pizza for our 9 year old. The pumpkin soup was an ok flavour, was luke warm had some concentrated lumps in it that leads me to believe that it was either from a tin or pouch. The garlic bread was again store bought and nothing special. The first serve of garlic prawns came out and it was immediately apparent that they weren’t cooked. The meat was translucent. A few of them were cooked, but majority not. The prawns were sitting in an almost raw garlic creamy sauce that was dominated by the texture of minced garlic. We called the waitress over, who was quite busy. She had a look and then took them. We asked about the second serve. Was pretty obvious that they didn’t have the second serve on the docket. A few minutes later, I’m assuming it was the chef that came and apologised, however she seemed more concerned that we had ordered two serves. In the meantime the pizza arrived. It was very dry.
Our son said he enjoyed it. I tried some and didn’t have the same opinion as he.
The prawns returned. This time very cooked, almost a half of their original size. There was much less sauce on the plate as well. I’m not sure if the chef cooked them longer just to make sure, or wasn’t happy with us for saying something. The meal came with some dried out rice and a salad on the same plate.
I’m sorry to say we won’t be eating at Trimboli’s next time we are in St Helens.More