Name: Gambino Restaurant & Rooftop
Item: Gambino Restaurant & Rooftop
Rating: 5
Author: Mrs Drex

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Mrs Drex

Saturday 8 February 20252025-02-08 22:42:26

Ambience

Moderate

Food

Service

NOTE: review is for the rooftop not the restaurant

Sunday night as the sunset, enjoyed a cocktail on the rooftop on a warm summers night.

Good food, good service, with a DJ playing tunes so was lively.

Pros
– outdoor dining with a nice view of the hills

Cons: under the pergola
If moderate / lively: What made it not conversation friendly?
📢 Loud background music
📢 Live music or DJ performances
📢 Speakers placed close to dining areas
📢 No option to lower music volume on request
📢 Hard, reflective surfaces (e.g., tiled floors, glass walls)
📢 Lack of sound-absorbing materials (e.g., no carpets or curtains)
📢 High ceilings that cause echo or sound bouncing
📢 Bare walls with no acoustic treatment
📢 Tables closely spaced with no privacy
📢 Open-plan seating without sound barriers
📢 No booth seating
📢 Large communal tables contributing to noise
📢 High occupancy or overcrowded
📢 No management of noisy groups or customers
📢 Large parties or events held in the same space as regular diners
📢 Open kitchen or bar area contributing to noise
📢 Frequent use of noisy equipment (blenders, coffee grinders, etc.)
📢 No outdoor seating or outdoor seating in a noisy environment (e.g., street noise)

HOT TIP:
it was lively under the deck, this place was fully booked and was where the DJ was playing. As it was under the pergola it was very echoey, so the music and the conversations bounced between the glass windows and the glass balcony fence. Tiled floor and pergola make it like a box of sound.
HOT TIP
Step outside the pergola and a completely different setting. Here it was ambient and the best spot.
Couches to relax on, open air, no music here and the sound didn’t travel from under the pergola, so conversation was easier.
Also if you go round the other side of the deck, was a separate dining area – no music or diners as this was the overflow area. I heard staff offer it to another table when they complained the noise was too loud.

Seated: Rooftop
Day of week: Sunday
Time: 7:00 pm
4 months ago

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