Buongiorno

Great italian restaurant on Pollokshaws rd. close to shawlands cross. Pastas were excellent. Pizza was nice but a little burnt round the crust which had to be cut off and discarded. Excellent Cappuccino coffee Staff were friendly and attentive. Lovely to see people sitting outside in a pavement cafe atmosphere. 17° in mid April in Scotland.🤗

I eat here every few weeks with my partner and occasionally with family including my mother who has Alzheimer’s. The quality of food is great, the staff extremely friendly and the atmosphere great - a real antidote to larger and chain type restaurants. I’ve never had a bad experience and have found the staff extremely sensitive to my mother’s needs. I did note the adverse review by someone who didn’t have this experience with her parents and wanted to write about my own very positive experience here. I’d encourage people to try Buongiourno for themselves.

I love this Italian family run restaurant. The staff are so friendly and the food is so good. I’ve tried the pasta and pizza and it’s always so hard to pick which one to go for! The ingredients are always fresh. The pizza is crispy too and they you can also customise your toppings. My fiancé and I have also been in for brunch and have had the ciabatta which they make in house. Being an Italian restaurant, the coffee is as you’d expect, so tasty! I’ve been in so many times and every member of staff has been friendly and professional. They are also accommodating to requests. Buongiorno is a Shawlands institution!

I’ve been a regular customer of BuonGiorno, for meals , coffee and cake catch ups with friends, since it opened, more years ago than I care to remember, always pleased with the food , the service, the wine, the cleanliness, the atmosphere , today was no exception. My son , granddaughter and I enjoyed a lovely after school meal of pizza, pasta, pollo Milanese , followed by ice creams, lemon meringue pie; all well cooked, well presented and pleasantly served. Excellent experience

I don’t recommend this place based on their appalling treatment of, and clear discrimination towards, my Deaf friends who were celebrating a special wedding anniversary. The wine served was wrong, (house wine, rather than the wine they ordered), and the main courses were not as listed on the menu. (A single lettuce leaf with balsamic vinegar is not “vegetables”. Potato wedges is not “baby potatoes”. You get the drift…) My friends raised these “mistakes” and “omissions” with staff several times but were shouted at and ignored. All of these incidents, on top of a cold and indifferent welcome, marred their evening. At the end, my friends reasonably asked for a discount as they did not get what they’d ordered. They already decided against dessert and coffee and just wanted to leave. The restaurant’s response was to lock them in the restaurant and call the police. That was a conscious decision by the staff member - a fire risk that the restaurant was knowingly, and illegally, undertaking against all its customers and staff. So unsafe. The restaurant may have thought they could dupe, bully and discriminate against Deaf people. Humiliate them even by shouting at them. They will find they are wrong. Don’t want unwelcoming staff? Don’t want to be duped with house wine or fobbed off with second rate food? Don’t want to be treated appallingly? Don’t want to be in a restaurant that’s a fire risk? Simple… Don’t go there.