La Porchetta, Wagga Wagga

Great service and value, not to mention it tastes great! The food is always super fast, and they're open quite late, I've walked in at 9:30-10ish on a weekend and been able to get a table! Its nice being able to sit outside on the main street too.

We visited here recently out of the blue with a party of 25, absolutely no problems for the hostess or the wait staff. Food all arrived quickly and was lovely. Good variety of dishes to suit even the fussiest eater. I did ask for a tbone, and ended up with a fillet, they were the same price so I wasnt worried

Clearly they do not employ enough wait staff. Whilst we were shown to our tables and handed our menus pretty quickly, they then left us alone for way too long to attend other patrons.

The food, when it eventually arrived, was dreadful. I chose a pasta with chicken and avocado. The pasta was much less than al dente - too chewy and undercooked. The sauce was tasteless and watery and like soup at the bottom of the bowl. My dining partner's pizza was limp and soggy although covered with toppings, it too was rather tasteless.

The garlic bread had the most ridiculously tiny amount of garlic butter on it - less than half a teaspoon per slice if that and it was clearly not fresh garlic. Tasted like undercooked bread.

We decided to take our meals home and get out of there - it was way too noisy as the place is jam packed with tables for maximum revenue. The wait person was informed and asked to pack up our food. She promptly walked away and forgot about us!

Eventually, after getting the attention of another, we got our over priced (for what it was) food and got out of there. We will never return.

Maybe they assume country folks don't really expect much and don't have to try. They couldn't be more wrong.

It's a shame because the wait person who helped us out at last - not the person who was looking after our table - was a really lovely, very helpful person. I hope she gets a job at a restaurant that deserves her.