Castello Ristorante Antico

I have been to this restaurant about 5 times, it’s hit or miss– I find when you go and they are not busy like midweek you get amazing service/​food/​portions for the value on menu. But I have been 2 times when it was super busy and service was slow, food portions were very small for cost of menu–
I still will return as the taste is there! just I will pick midweek slower times– the last a visited they renovated and it looks much more inviting

Overpriced even with Groupon voucher. We were first dinner of the evening arriving late for our reservation by 30 minutes ended up leaving 7:40pm for slightly over 2 hrs dinning. We ordered 2 fettuccine cremosa and one penne Alla vodka and calamari fritti. For dessert we had futarto and teramisou and ginger ale and ice tea. Bill was over $ 108 before voucher. Taxes and tip was $ 50. But our server had issue with our Groupon voucher and lost what we gave her earlier. My son like the penne with rosa sauce though I thought it was a bit too al dente. We enjoyed the dessert more than appetizer and entrée. Over all disappointed so we won’t give it another try. There was one fly bothering us too for such a fine dinning environment truly disappointing. BTW voucher cost us $ 39 which should cover one appetizer and two entrée and one dessert but when they were punching it in their system credit was $ 32/​entrée but the entrée we ordered was $ 22/​dish so it cause a huge confusion. I just wanted to pay and leave as my kids were sleepy. Not very fun at all.

This place does more catering and events than its operations as a restaurant. I’ve been to an event there and had a good time. You typically accept a lower standard of food, when being served in a large group.
There is a a smaller front area in the front which is designated for the day to day restaurant. Problem is the food in the restaurant is on par with the event catered food.
Don’t order the mussels, they are overcooked and not fresh. We got a seafood linguine special. The seafood was not fresh and had a chewy texture. The veal chop was cooked properly and fairly tasty.

I wish I could give this place zero stars.
Absolutely the worst garbage Italian food I have ever tasted. Came here with a big group of people and all everyone could talk about was how bad the food is.
Vegetables are obviously frozen and not fresh. Chicken looked as white as paper and was rubbery and disgusting. Sauce on the chicken was lemony and tangy as hell. Desert wasn’t awful but was not fresh.
Nothing is good about this place besides the décor. It is expensive, food is terrible and service is mediocre!
AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!

This family-​run restaurant, one of the largest in Woodbridge, is multi-​functional, and reflects the cuisine and style of Carnello (near Rome). Better than a home-​cooked meal, dining here is about the quality and the flavour more than any fancy presentation. The menu reads, «there is no love more sincere than the love of food.» Homemade pasta in tomato basil sauce, and rigatoni with porcini mushrooms, prociutto and tomato sauce, are simple delicious plates of pasta. «Did you enjoy your pasta?» we’re asked. We nod an obvious «yes» in appreciation. Panko crusted truffle infused risotto balls with tomato and fresh herbs are a decadent mouthful, while the the veal chop, marinated in Amarone and drizzled in rosemary sauce, is hearty and flavourful succulence. A plate of crisp fennel is offered to cleanse the palate. Its the pure ingredients and the love in their preparation that makes all the difference here.

The pasta is delicious… But we didn’t get the bread: s… And i started to wonder if this is an Italian Restaurant or not: s
— Pasta ¹⁰⁄₁₀
— Meat menu 8/​10, definitely this is no their forte
— Dessert 10/​10, has most Italian places, they really know how to make desserts
— Service 8/​10, even when the day i got there it was a party reserved, and the service on our table was pretty good and kind of fast.
— the Bad Experience: they placed our table right beside of the guy who sing for the restaurant, or the show man. And it was really laud. My friend and I couldn’t talk a word during the whole dinner… That was really annoying. They should leave the stage for him and not tables for dinner.
And the last thing again… NO BREAD!!! We had to order bruchetas instead: s
I’ll recommend this place for sure to my other friends. But to ensure a good experience, ask them if there is a party reservation, if yes, then ask them to sit you a bit far from them.

Just had dinner here on a groupon and should have had my friend check first before buying it.
Very slow service. Appetizer was calamari with spicy shrimp cocktail sauce from our of the jar not spicy tomatoe sauce. Veal was nice but meal was cold. We asked to sub pasta side for veggies they said no and surcharge $ 7.95. Pasta was over cooked. Bread was extremely hard but my company was great! That was the highlight of my meal! Waiting for geese cake is taking forever! Try Visantos it is far better!

yuk… manager is a retard! sent me home to printout my groupon! he would not redeem it off my iphone!

Overall 2.5 stars.
I came with my XO with a group buy coupon. There were about 5 tables including ours. The appetizers and desserts were fresh and tasted good. (See I am so tactful that I don’t mention the main courses).

Ordered petty much everything — salad, pizza, pasta, steak, dessert… See photos for food order
Quality is above average, but I found the food overpriced. Location is just a local family restaurant style-​like within a small plaza. We were seated at a 2 person table in a dark corner even we made reservation for our table of 3. When the restaurant got busier, our table is basically ignored. We had to chase after them for food or dessert that came late. There were flies were we were eating too…
I would not return again based on the overall experience.

Absolutely disgusting & unwelcoming.
I was there for a family religious party with a guestlist of approx. 30 people. From the beginning of the night I knew I was not going to be impressed. There was about 3 other parties going on when we entered.
Our party was seated; mingling and talking, without ONE single waitress taking orders for what we would like to drink. I’m not saying that I am too lazy to get up and get my own drink, but I am at a restaurant and it only makes sense to for a waitress to take orders. Regardless, I went up to order a drink to a «bartender» who most definitely had no schooling/​experience on making drinks. I had asked for a vodka with Cranberry and OJ, she literally filled the cup with a shot of vodka and rest was all Cranberry. When I had asked that I wanted OJ she only put a drop of juice and stated that she only wanted to put a little so it «looked nice».
Anyways, onto the Antipasto… Our table was plated with a mix of grilled veggies, cheese, proscuito, and olives but another waitress came to pick it up and place it on another table within seconds. Seriously? I do not know where they went to school, but putting a plate on one table and then taking it away and putting it on a another table isn’t very professional, mind you we did receive another plate within a couple of minutes.
The next course was two types of pasta. One lady came around giving a good portion of the red sauce pasta, but the other lady who came around with the white sauce pasta only put 8 little gnocchi’s on our plate. The host had to tell the waitress that she had paid for both pastas and that there should be more than enough on everyone’s plate. I guess it didn’t really matter how much pasta we had on our plate, it tasted like nothing anyways. (note; the lady serving the white sauce pasta got sauce all over my camera that was on the table, when I saw it I said «oh shoots» and picked up my camera to clean it, she just looked at me and walked away. Not even a sorry!) I have never gone to a restaurant and had to put SALT AND PEPPER on my food. My sister had asked another server for some more bread for our table, the server actually replied with «how many should I bring out?». Last time I checked a little bun only costs about 30 cents each. My sister had then ask her to just bring out a basket for the table. Which should’ve been self explanatory. The menu was set for all the adults to have lemon sorbet and the kids to have ice cream, the boy that the party was held for wanted lemon sorbet. My mother had asked our waitress for another sorbet, and she actually HESITATED, and said that they would have to see if that was okay. Seriously? Here someone is paying ALL this money and you can’t even accommodate them?
Are you ready for the worst part? On my way out, my mother and I saw the «bartender» smell the pitcher of coke, grab a funnel, and funnel it into a container. I should have snapped a picture and sent it to health and safety. That pitcher SHOULD have been tossed down the sink! I am so disgusted that a restaurant charging a big amount of money for a set menu would «save the coke» for the next people. I am even shocked that she did that in front of people. I am beyond disgusted. There are plenty of other restaurants in the city that have GOOD food and friendlier staff!
I will never ever return, and I will make sure to pass on my thoughts about this restaurant to everyone I know.
This restaurant is designed to hold different functions going on all at once. Please do not make an excuse that there’s a lot of people and it was overwhelming. I have been to functions at other restaurants and NEVER had issues like these!
Save your money!