bicicletta

really enjoyed our meals; i had the bolegnese which was excellent but the real highlight was the margherita pizza. sara, our server, kindly recommended it and it was fantastic. great meal!

the ground beef and sirloin pattie was flavoursome and moist, the speck was thick, the tomato and beetroot were fresh, and the swiss cheese matched it all beautifully. but what really brought the burger together was a delectable mustard sauce. i’m not sure what the secret is, but bicicletta is worth going back just to try more of that mustard sauce.

what a great italian restaurant in the diamont hotel. the food and wine list plus excellent service is great.

it's nice to feel like your eating home cooked meal away from home which is exactly the experience i had this evening on a one night work trip. linguine ai frutti di mare had the freshest seafood the right amount of chilli and the perfect amount of sugo that gets left on the side of your mouth when you suck up the pasta. very impressed 👌

the service was good but that might be because the restaurant wasn’t full and everyone that was sitting down was already eating. i would love to come back and try their breakfast and high tea menu.

used to be much better. i used to go here weekly a few years ago and have overseen a dramatic decline in food, service, menu choices and a concurrent increase in prices. pizzas became more expensive with fewer ingredients, pastas became smaller and oilier again with fewer ingredients, bread disappeared entirely from the menu, staff turnover increased and then opening hours were reduced from all day to just dinner. the final straw was ordering two (overpriced) pizzas, both of which were incorrect when served (meat for a vegetarian). so sad to see such a great place wither and die.

spot on. all the dishes we ordered were delicious. from the antipasto to our 3 different pastas and desserts. will definitely be going back.

brought the whole family along for dinner and was told 'no worries' re baby, we have baby seats which they do, heaps of them but no where to change a baby. when i asked if there was a change table was told to use the bench in the mens toilet!! thanks for that. had to ask for our drinks 3 times but food was ok - very mediocre experience.

average fare. dining alone while travelling for work, i ordered a pasta and salad. they arrived promptly, and the arrabiata sauce had a pleasant kick, but the pasta itself was well undercooked. al dente is fine but this pasta was downright hard. the rucola salad was basic but fine, only criticism is slightly haphazard seasoning. overpriced for what was dished up.

this is a tale of two sittings. two radically different meals, a dinner and a breakfast.

don’t bother with this place for dinner. there’s lots of problems. at dinner the restaurant is noisy. annoyingly so. worse, the food is excessively ordinary and stupidly overpriced. i chose the barramundi with whipped ricotta and a capsicum and fennel salad. i would have had major issues with the dish had it been $29, but at $39 bumped up to $42 with the holiday surcharge it was nothing short of highway robbery. i felt financially defiled. it was a tiny piece of fish. well cooked but still tiny. the skin was cooked though so it wasn’t crisp but rather rubbery and chewy. the salad was small but ok. the whipped ricotta was a tiny little smear on the plate. the whole thing was barely entree size. my favourite thing on the plate was a half of lemon. i tried to squeeze the juice on my little bit of barra. i could barely extract a drop of juice. more attention had been paid to chargrilling the lemon than to ensuring there was still some juice left in it. ergo, it was there for decoration only.

my loved one had a spaghetti marina which was small salty and just ok. at $32 it was significantly overpriced too. i could go on and on about other aspects of our meal like our overpriced salad and mineral water, but i won’t. essentially, the restaurant is a poor option for dinner. the food is ordinary and very overpriced. portions are small. the establishment is aiming for a level that it can’t currently reach.

for dinner, i’d give this restaurant 1.5 to 2 out if 5 only. i would never eat here for dinner again.

unbelievably, breakfast was a totally different experience. a continental breakfast came as part of our deal. after the dinner experience we were expecting very little joy. but, breakfast is a lot better. like totally different. they have a super little continental breakfast here. it’s thoughtful, well designed and delicious. lovely cold meats, good cheeses, really good bread, lovely olives. etc. terrific oatmeal and natural yoghurt too. the toasted walnuts delighted in a way i find hard to describe. the coffee was not bad and the available fruits reasonable too. overall, it’s a good hotel breakfast.

service was ok both times. probably students i’d say earning extra cash. they did as well as they could.

this is not a restaurant. it’s a fairly basic cafe really. it’s not a dinner venue unless you’re into fairly average food at very high prices. breakfast though is good fun, substantive and quite reasonable. you’ve been advised.

the manager david has no customer service skills, and was rude from the outset. we weren't sure whether it was just us, but we were reassured (and saddened) to watch him mope around the restaurant all night and treat other tables in a similar way. hopefully he was just having a bad night, otherwise i hope he's able to find a career more fitting for his personality, like data entry or digging graves. fortunately the food was ok.

the lucifero pizza was just perfect for our light supper....light, not doughy, slightly crispy but not dry. as we were staying at peppers gallery, bicicletta is conveniently located downstairs. it has a warm welcoming ambience. wait staff were friendly. would like to try a full dinner next visit as the aromas coming from the kitchen were tantamount. a short stroll around bicicletta after supper finished off the day perfectly.

the food is pretty good. portion sizes are fair however the price is a bit steep. i ordered their gnocchi which i did not like, the sauce was very watery and had no flavour. i did however really enjoy the tortellini and their capricciosa pizza. the waiters/ss are friendly and attentive but overworked- need more staff.

hard choice- the risotto...the fettuccine...the linguini....after much internal debate i ordered the seafood linguini and it was delicious and fresh and good portion size for $28 but it did need more bisque as it was a little dry. would have been nice to have parmesan offered too. wait staff friendly but slow and inattentive. but the food is worth going for!

yum! lovely (hidden) italian restaurant in canberra. we visited her for a weekend and was recommended this place. the pizzas were oven toasted and delicious, the gnocci were light and fluffy and full of flavour.