Oli Joes - Gateshead

This is my second visit here and the food was equally as good, hot, tasty and excellent value. The service is also absolutely top notch with really friendly staff. Special mention to Claire who couldn't do enough for us and the lovely pleasant jake. I would 100% recommend this place.

Excellent lunch menu great value for money quickly served with a smile hot tasty and well cooked could not fault anything about our meal would certainly go again.

Visited this restaurant several times but felt the food and staff weren’t as good as when it first opened so haven’t been for over six months. This changed last night, everything was perfect. Three different starters, simple but beautifully presented and full of flavour. Main courses were fillet steaks cooked to perfection (one medium and one blue), the king prawns which came with it were huge and juicy, with the price being so much cheaper than you would expect to pay, however the quality, most definitely 100%. I had a calzone pizza which again had plenty of filling and the pizza dough was so tasty. A special thank you to the lady who served us, didn’t get her name, she was friendly and attentive without being intrusive definitely going back sooner rather than later.

I was looking forward to Oli Joe’s because, from the outside, it seemed to promise authentic Italian dining and a perfect place for our celebrations, but unfortunately, the character inside of the restaurant didn’t live up to my expectations at all and the atmosphere was rather flat and uninviting. A lovely, traditional menu without any of the usual surrounding charm you’d expect to go with it. The service and quality of food on offer both deserve to be matched with a bit more of a formal environment, in my opinion. We were able to choose our own table and felt like both the waiter and waitress were very welcoming and attentive. Our party was served quickly, and although some of the flavours lacked compared to other Italian restaurants I’ve tried (the garlic butter with the Pollo Kiev was a bit bland and the garlic mayonnaise tasted devoid of garlic), I was pleased that the effort was there with the presentation, and that the general ingredients were also of a good standard, which made for an enjoyable meal that‘s otherwise only let down by the setting. For a casual visit, it would have ticked most of the boxes— nice staff, decent food the prices aren’t bad — but I found the overall experience to be quite average for a special occasion and wouldn’t recommend it for that type of event, which is a shame because this place isn’t quite doing itself justice.

I ordered a pepperoni pizza yesterday for collection told it would be ready at a specific time , when I arrived for collection I had to wait 10 minutes before it was ready. Not much point in asking when you want it for if they just cook it when you arrive. Then when it did arrive I have never seen such a pathetic pizza 9 skimpy pieces of pepperoni on a full size pizza, when I complained I was told that was the normal “ration” they would not do anything about it . RUBISH