đ¨ DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY. A $340 Culinary Disaster & Deceptive Billing.
I rarely leave reviews like this, but our experience at Paradiso's last week was so profoundly awful that I feel obligated to warn other families on the Peninsula. I took my cousin, his wife, my aunt, and my grandma out for what should have been a nice dinner. Instead, we spent 2.5 hours trapped in an empty restaurant being served substandard food, only to get hit with deceptive pricing at the end.
We split the bill 50/50 down the middle, and my half alone was $170. For a $340 total tab, here is what Paradisoâs considers "service":
The Service & Timing Breakdown:
The entire dining process took 2.5 hours. Mind you, there were only three or four other tables occupied in the entire restaurant. The staff was completely checked out. I was served a warm beer. My relative ordered a margarita with strictly NO salt on the rim. The server had to be asked twice for it, and when it finally arrived, it was coated in salt anyway. I asked to add meatballs to the side of spaghetti that came with my steakâthey never showed up.
The Absolute Failure of the Soups:
I ordered two bowls of soup for myself and my grandmother. They brought out cup-sized bowls that were barely half-full, and the soup itself was completely coldânot even lukewarm. My grandmother didn't want to cause a fuss, but I spoke up. The server took the bowls back to the kitchen, claiming she would fill them up. When they finally returned, they were filled to the top but clearly nuked in a microwave until they were blisteringly, dangerously hot. Zero care or restaurant quality whatsoever.
The Overcooked & Empty Food:
⢠The Filet Mignon ($46): The most expensive item on the menu was ironically the smallest dish at the table. It was entirely unseasoned and completely overcooked from my requested medium-rare to a dry medium. I didn't even finish it. The chicken wings we ordered as an appetizer were genuinely the best part of the meal, which is pathetic for a steakhouse.
⢠The "Seafood" Disasters: We ordered two plates of calamari and one "Captainâs Platter." What a joke. The calamari was nothing but paper-thin, fried, empty breading. The Captainâs Platter was the exact same storyâjust solid lumps of fried batter with little to no actual seafood inside. The Cajun Halibut was completely unseasoned, severely overcooked, and plated in a messy, unappetizing heap.
⢠The Rest: The beef quesadilla was a lukewarm, greasy hot mess that I wouldn't feed to my dog. The fettuccine Alfredo was served with completely the wrong noodles and barely any sauce.
The Deceptive Billing (The Final Straw):
When the bill arrived, I checked the math. My overcooked steak was priced $6 higher than what was listed on the physical menu. The greasy quesadilla was priced $4 higher. When I confronted the staff about the blatant overcharging, they defensively claimed that "the prices in the computer system didn't match the menu" and that they would "need approval" to fix it. If your prices went up, you verbally warn your customers before they orderâyou don't slip an extra $10 onto the bill hoping an explicit party of five won't notice.
The Realization:
During our 2.5-hour hostage situation, we noticed that like clockwork, people were walking in every 5 to 7 minutes to pick up to-go pizza orders. Those takeout customers got better, faster service than the fastest McDonald's drive-thru, while the sit-down tables were completely abandoned. It is clear this place could care less about dine-in customers anymore. They are a takeout pizza shop masquerading as a premium steakhouse.
Save your money, save your night, and take your family literally anywhere else. This place is running a premium-priced scam for subpar bar food.
To make the 2.5-hour wait even more awkward, there wasnât even any background music playing, just dead, uncomfortable silence while we sat forgotten at our table.
KD
Kaylahni Dohse
Jul 29, 2026
Came in 7:20, we were seated right away. Ordered and our starters came relatively quickly, but it was 8:20 by the time our food came and the mediocre meal wasnât necessarily worth the wait or the price. Husband ordered Chicken Marsala with Anna potatoes, he received a half overdone baked potato and when we asked about the Anna potatoes, our server said âoh, they must have been out.â I ordered the Chicken Parmigiana and it was decent but the chicken was also overcooked. We also had to wait long periods between water refills and our server only came by once 5 minutes before our food came out to say âyour food will be out soon guys.â Not a single apology for the delay or wait, didnât smile at us once, no warmth. After waiting for the check for 10 minutes after we were done eating, my husband eventually went up to the counter and paid since we had a cranky toddler who was well past his bedtime due to the wait. We may return eventually but definitely not during the fishing season. We paid about $60 for the two meals.