Giardino's - Abington

Brought my daughter out after fireworks so she could have something to eat before bed , she is a picky eater and still enjoyed her jumbo meatballs while I enjoyed my martini and so ya very prompt service as well

I've driven by this restaurant for ages. stopped in for dinner with a friend. Staff is friendly enough and we were seated immediately. In short order, a bottle of still water and bread and dipping oil arrived. Sad to say, the bread was not good. Supposed to be focaccia, but it was dense and seemed stale. Oil was tasty, but we couldnt eat the bread. i ordered eggplant veal parm combo. friend ordered eggplant parm. My entree was correct but friend was served veal. Server took hers away but it was almost 25 minites before its replacement arrived. I tried to hold off eating my own dinner but it was silly to try. Finally the corrected entree arrived. Server was very apologetic and offered a free dessert to take home. We ate our meals, which did not skimp on portion size, but it was just meh for me overall. My veal was delicious, but the eggplant prep was texturally off--some undercooked, some eneven and hard to chew.

The outside looked great. Reviews looked good. So why not try for a date night? Worse decision ever. We ordered fried chicken wing app and they came out looking like mozzarella sticks. Literally wrapped in batter and fried like mozzarella sticks!! It was the weirdest tasting wings I have ever eaten. Then the entrees came. One seafood platter and a chicken parm. The seafood was flavorless and tasted like it was in old grease. The tomato sauce tasted like it was canned and expired. It actually started making my wife stomach turn before we even left the table. I understand a bad meal here and there but everything being awful hasn't happened in awhile. Maybe the disappointment of the year.

The food was excellent. We got bruschetta appetizer. Very good and plentiful and a great price. My husband got the grilled pork chop and I got steak tips. He loved the pork, best he's had and we know pork is hard to get right. My steak tips were amazing. I really did cut them with my fork. However, we will not be back. The decor was nice but the lighting was up so high you needed sunglasses. The worst part? The music. It was loud and heavy metal. It was awful and certainly did not go with the idea of an Italian Steakhouse. We mentioned it to our waitress and she said tonight was the bartenders choice. Okay, so play it in the bar area, not where people are trying to enjoy a nice night out. Such a waste fantastic food.

Meh. I ordered the chicken broccoli Alfredo and the chicken pieces were so thick and hard to chew, it was just unenjoyable. Some pieces of broccoli were cooked perfectly and others were very hard. My Diet Coke was flat and food took a looooong time to come out even though there were only a handful of tables. My cousins ordered salads but the steak dinner came out first? It was really odd. The bread also just wasn't good, it didn't taste right and didn't seem thoroughly cooked. Service was great and the inside was really nice but it took way too long for our dishes to come out considering 2 of the 6 were salads and the other two was a kids mac and cheese and pizza