Delfinos Italian Restaurant

Wow, outstanding service and food. I don't understand why the rating is 3. Yelp you need to update your rating system. From the time we appeared here Ian the host welcomed us and got us a great table. He even made sure to get me a drink on the house for my birthday! Sharon our waitress was outstanding. Friendly and great service timing with our fantastic bread tray, appetizers, main course and dessert. Food was hot and delicious. Our compliments to the chef! They even allow 1/2 orders of pasta dishes, which is more than enough. The grouper was delicious and fresh. Too bad it's a private restaurant, then so many others could enjoy it.

After arriving at the 1-Star Hammock Beach Motel we were exhausted and chose to have dinner at Delfino's.It claims to be an Italian steakhouse. I'm certain nobody there is Italian, has been to Italy or possibly eaten Italian food.It's like a restaurant where the chef has 0 talent and tries to reinvent classics...then for whatever reason people are afraid to tell him it's garbage...literally hot garbage.What I found peculiar, and there must be tremendous amounts of theft, is when you check in with the host they take your room key.We sat and I asked our server if the hostess had forgotten to return it and she said no, I can have it back at the end of the meal. It appears they hold the room key hostage as ID and ransom for payment.This may also be a tactic to force people to pay for the food after they've tasted it. It's freaking awful. I wish I had taken pictures. I ordered the seafood linguine and I will say I was so hungry I just ate it. My wife had the short rib, ate 3 bites and we tossed it. My daughter had the chicken Marsala which I had not expected to be served on the bone. Also awful and added to the garbage.Our server was fine, maybe a little defeated working there; but, even an average performance would have been the highlight of the dinner service.It can only get better...more reviews tomorrow.

Note to everyone, this restaurant is only for hammock beach resort members and guests. Let me begin with a tip that can turn your experience from 3star to something higher:Request that the food be brought out right as it's done. Don't worry about the formalities of all dishes brought out at once. Service is great! Attentive and great to chat with. Food tasted good as we ordered the carbonara and porterhouse (medium). When the food was brought out, you can tell that both dishes had been sitting out as you can see that the sauce on the pasta was settled, didn't have that sheen you expect. The porterhouse, although delicious, when you take your first bite, you know it's warm to the mouth, but can tell it borders on being a touch to just room temperature. I want that steak brought out to me HOT. At this price point, warn the customer that the steak is hot, but let us decide how long to wait on the steak to cool down. That's my only gripe. Great atmosphere, great service, but I'm certain the food experience would be better if the food wasn't that cooked down. So request to be brought out immediately and I'm sure you'll be at 4-5 star rating. So if you're staying a Hammock Beach, definitely worth the try.

I don't understand the bad reviews. My wife and I had a wonderful Italian meal here with great drinks all for a very reasonable price. Our waitress was great and the ambiance was perfect. If we had more time, we would of eaten here again.

This place is 5 stars but affordable. The chef is willing to create dishes for me and my friend who are bariatric patients. The seafood is the best, I mean the best scallops and shrimp I've had to this day. If you're in the area, it's a must try. All of the staff is friendly and the presentation is great.

We had dinner here on 2/10/2024. Looking at some of the bad reviews, I'm wondering if there was a different chef in the past. I'm not sure but everything was delicious! And cooked perfectly. We were very happy. My husband had the porterhouse steak. It was perfection.

This place was absolutely delicious! We ordered the porterhouse and seafood pasta (not the exact name of the dish since I forgot it) both dishes were so tasty.You start off with bread, roasted garlic, olive oil, and chickpeas. It was the perfect compliment to our meals.The service was excellent! Waitstaff was very well educated on the menu items and were so helpful on what to order.I highly recommend this place if you are staying at the resort or a member, worth every penny! I will be back!

Great food and our waiter was amazing but the woman at the hostess stand was horrible. They are very rude and judgmental of appearances. Will not be coming back. The fact that a club we pay lots of money for treats their members like this is very unfortunate and makes me question being a member here.

Good morning,There was something frustrating about the Delfinos Italian Chophouse restaurant.I made a reservation for dinner on 12/24/23. I was hoping to capture a special moment with my family. But to our surprise, when we arrived, we were taken to the 2nd floor, an improvised place, where kitchen and cleaning utensils were displayed. I asked them to check the possibility of a table on the 1st floor, where the place would be in harmony with the Christmas atmosphere. But the employee approached me saying what was the problem with the table.I emphasized that I hoped to spend a pleasant moment with my family, and I would like to record through photos and immortalize this moment, but the location was not suitable.The waiters were perfect, very pleasant. However, we were told that there was no table available.I would just like to be informed in advance that we would be staying in an improvised location, so that I could assess whether I would accept it or not.Therefore, we ate quickly as we would like to leave the place as quickly as possible.We went to the lobby and ordered some good wine and called it a night.We will certainly not return to this place.

Made a reservation for my father's 80th birthday. We had family flying in from Chicago and Arizona. They had the reservation wrong and would not accommodate us. We will not be back.