mondo

do not come here!!! service was horrible. ordered 2 entrees, they brought 1 and not the other. there were 5 people in entire restaurant.

never will gobackagain!!!

i prefer the bar atmosphere here as a pose to the main dining area. the small bites are wonderful and entrees are equally tasty. i'm a huge fan of asian inspired dishes, apparently so is susan spicer.
i usually don't care for happy hour... cheap drinks, crap food. against my better judgement i checked this happy hour out. i had a wonderful moscow mule (@full price) and settled for a warm gorgonzola app....bleh! there was nothing good about this. like i said, i hate happy hour- unfortunately the regular menu isn't available until 5:30. for you happy hour lovers- from 3-6, 1/2 off house special drinks, house wine, & tap beers. as for me, i'll only bebackduring regular dining times.

fantastic food and for the price one of the best deals in town. no matter what the soup of the day is get it. open fire pizza oven just adds to an already good atmosphere. will bebackas often as i can. i give it a 5 because that is as high as it goes.

lilly b. the service at lunch was "very" bad. after being seated waited 15minutes before we were noticed. the food was ok but had to send somebackto the kitchen as it was undercooked. bring a coat this is the coldest place ever !! will need to improve before i return.

when we went to mondo, it was a friday night and were told it would be a 15min wait, so we decided to go to the bar. i had a "mojito caliente," which was good, but extremely spicy even though the bartender made it mild. my guest had a "lawnmower" and thought it was very good since he is a fan of whiskey. once we sat down it took 10 minutes for our server to greet us when. he was helpful, but was hard to even hear the specials as the restaurant is loud. i felt like my throat hurt by the end of the night bc i had to talk over the noise. we started our meal with ceviche which was very good and decided to get a second order. my guest and i both ordered the butter lettuce, bacon, and blue cheese salad which we both sentbackas the lettuce tasted bad. for our main course i ordered the brazilian ribeye which i would recommend and he ordered the pizza which he thought was decent. for dessert we shared a lemon tart and german chocolate cake, which were both nothing special. i see how the restaurant is trying to be different with interesting international dishes, but it's not something i would recommend to a friend.

always a treat. being from lafayette, i don't get to come here often enough. i have a brother who lives in lakeview and introduced me to mondo. this visit was for lunch, and i thoroughly enjoyed it. i started with an appetizer special- salmon beignets. i thought they were yummy and smokey. my dining companion hated them, but he did enjoy his beet salad. i don't eat beets, so i can't comment. i had the fried shrimp bahn mi as my main. delicious! perfect shrimp, perfect baguette, loved the srirachi mayo. my friend had the blt to which he added oysters. he said the bacon was too much & overpowered the oysters, but he loved the bread. i'll definitely bebackagain & again. i love this place!

great ceviche!. this was my first time at mondo and it was fantastic. the atmosphere was comfortable and elegant. the menu had many interesting offerings and there were also many specials that i would have liked to have tried, everything sounded so good. the white sangria did not disappoint. i loved the ceviche, so fresh and light with tons of flavor. i was able to add shrimp to the curried cauliflower with naan entree which was delicious. will bebackfor sure.

been there 3 times. went there when first opened. place was so hot and noisy with wait of an hour for our food while the busboy doled out little slice of bread. food was average. second time was there for a luncheon and the food was terrible. the open faced roast beef sandwich was so fatty my friend couldn't eat it. the fish taco was cold. the waiter gave us one tiny cup of cream for our 8 cups of coffee. the third time our whole family went and the best food we had was the burger!!! thank goodness some other restaurants are openingbackup in lakeview. would not gobackto mondo unless there are no other options.


-----25 jul, 2010-----

mondo needs finetuning. four of us went to mondo's on a saturday night. the menu was eclectic, lots of interesting dishes, but nothing that was exceptional. our appetizers took 45 minutes to arrive. our entrees another 30 minutes. a waitperson comes by and lays down one small slice of french bread on our bread plate. we were so hungry we had to ask for more bread. as others have stated, the portions are small. the other problem is the noise is loud, making conversation difficult. i think the pizza oven makes thebackarea quite warm, especially when the restaurant is full. it's a place i would take my children on a weeknight, not out of town guests or for an evening of quiet dining. the burger was about as good as luke's. the creamy crabmeat on toast had soggy toast. lambchops were good, the roasted chicken was good. the desert with the baked berries from the wood oven was excellent.

awesome place!. i have to admit, i was a little nervous about dinner after reading some of these reviews. we went with a group of about 10 of us for a birthday. as we waited for our friends to arrive, we sat and had a drink at the bar. the manager greeted us right away and asked if we were first timers. he introduced himself, shook our hands and proceeded to tell us a little bit about the menu. the bartender was slightly witty and very polite. we were seated promptly as soon as our party arrived. we are all naturally loud anyway so we loved that it was loud in there! it made for a much more comfortable atmosphere, to be honest. we ordered about 12 different apps and snacks and everything came out timely and delicious! our waiter, marcus was awesome. he was extremely fun and helpful. i also thought the portions were very decent for the entrees. the food was wonderful, aside from a couple dishes being slightly undercooked, but the flavor was out of this world! we will definitely bebackhopefully sooner than later! thank you, mondo for an all around excellent dining experience!

i'd go back.. stopped into mondo for the first time on 1/17 for an impromptu dinner with my sweetheart. overall, a pretty positive experience but a few notes.

1. we were seated at the absolute worst table in the house. no big deal as we didn't have a reservation and being in the business myself, i understand what it means to have a bad table in a dining room-- you hate to seat it but sometimes you have to.

2. service was friendly although the waiter didn't exactly go out of her way to accommodate my vegan dining companion. i've heard that spicer's restaurants do a pretty good job of handling this but let's just say they didn't seemed overly enthusiastic about it. also, a note on service. i ordered the borscht soup--never received it. i guess the waiter just forgot.

3. the food. pretty solid. would have liked to have tried the beet soup---but that will have to wait. i had the mondo burger. cooked perfectly. the great hill blue that i chose for a topping was a little too salty/overpowering for the burger--but i enjoyed it anyway. should have chosen the fontina. my companions vegan dish was pretty solid, some sort of curried cauliflower with red kale. i'd say skip the crunchy fried hominy.

4. overall, i'll bebackwhen it's convenient.

i just gotbackfrom mondo which i delious very nice service ot fills u up very good roasted chicken very loud though medium temperature i would of liked it colder but overall i recomend it for everyone

katie g. service was exceptional!!! we live near by and are so happy to have this restaurant in the neighborhood. we ordered the thai shrimp/pork meatballs and civeche appetizers then had the gulf fish (red fish), and the blue cheese burger. lastly we had the beignets for dessert. the burger was nothing less than amazing, and the fish was delicious. i will bebackand can't wait to bring in friends and family. thank you chef spicer for helping in bringingbackour beloved lakeview :)

dishonest and hot as hades.. we ordered the margherita pizza tonight and it came out looking like dominos!! a typical margherita pizza is tomato, mozzarella and basil. this pizza was tomato paste, cheese and bits of what looked like parsley.

when we questioned the waiter, he acted like he had no idea. minutes later the manager walked up and denied that the margherita pizza had real sliced tomatoes. please!!! i was there on monday night and ordered the margherita pizza. susan spicer actuallly came out and served us. it had real sliced tomatoes, basil and mozarella cheese (no tomato paste).

i guess she was working the bayona restaurant tonight. needless to say, we won't be goingback-

plus, don't agree to sit in a booth -- no a/c vents. agree to sit only in middle of room - -if you don't mind becoming ill from smoke inhalation from the brick oven, but that's the best option because at least its cooler there.

what a dissapointment this has been. have been a fan of susan's for many years. i have eaten at bayonas more time than i can remember and to this day is one of my favorite restaurants. mondo on the other hand not hte same. i was there this past tuesday, waited for my entree for 50 minutes, even asked for the manager to come to my table, she appeared 15 minutes later with food in hand acted as if she had no idea what was going on. she offered no explanations or any apologies for the long delay. i live in lakeview but will not gobackin the future. the lack of concern from staff mainly lots of very young people was not very impressive.