Brio Italian Grille

774 Spectrum Center Dr, Irvine
(949) 341-0380

Recent Reviews

Edwin Lugo

Service was great. Bread was perfect. Drinks were just right. Food was delicious ?

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Daniel Levin

The food was good but the portions were pretty small for the price you pay. We went on easter, and even though it was pretty empty at the time, the food took forever to get, to no fault of our server who was very nice. The bread they bring out is very good. I had a specialty cocktail, a Mule, with blood orange which was extremely good.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Phyo Aung

Horrible experience at Brio tonight. I had an online reservation for 10:00 pm and when we arrived at the restaurant, the waiters and all the employees who were working there did not even bother to open the door for us. When I had a reservation confirmed through my email. It is absurd that they close the door and decide to close just because they lack customers.Never coming back here again.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Bryce Leung

First time here. Great drinks and atmosphere. Veru mature crowd. Happy hour has some good offerings 5-7p!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Brklynroc

Food was fantastic, friendly, clean and the Manager Jill was very attentive!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

釣りがお仕事。

The taste was good, but I was especially impressed by the attentive service.A very nice restaurant with live music

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jeff A (jeff63a)

The food was average. Brio is super close to having excellent food. They just need to go the extra couple of steps. With the limited menu they have, Everything should be outstanding.Service was good but there is much room for improvement. Our server spent a lot of time chatting with the bartender rather checking in on his tables.I would eat here again if others in my party wanted to, but probably wouldn't choose it on my own.Parking: Can get busy on the weekend. Usually have to use valet.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Grilled Salmon Fresca, Soup, Bruschetta Sampler

Jolene H.

I was really excited to come to Brio! It was my first time and sadly, I had a very disappointing experience. If you're thinking about going to Brio, do not. Save yourself.The restaurant was not busy and yet we waited five minutes to be seated.When we were seated, the server said to not lean too hard on the table because it was broken... He was not joking. There were plenty of open tables but apparently they wanted us at the broken one.Our tablecloth was already stained when we sat down, so it wasn't fully clean.I went to the restroom during the visit. The women's restroom was disgusting: wet everywhere, paper towels all over the place and all over the ground, toilet paper on the ground, soap was out, and the first stall door handle came off in my hand when I shut the door! I was locked in for a few minutes until I managed to get out but when I went into another stall, that handle was broken too (it also came off in my hand). I put it on the best I could and left. As I was emerging, another woman in another stall told me her handles were broken and needed help getting out. What's going on with broken handles in the women's restroom? For an "upscale" eatery, it is unsafe and strange that half of the stalls had door handles that came off in your hands when you closed the door behind you. A male colleague did not have this experience in his bathroom but it's clear that no one is checking or maintaining the restroom for women. It was gross all the way around.I went to the front to tell someone about this poor state of the bathrooms. I waited five minutes at the front (it was not busy) and no one came.The food was served cold and with small portion sizes compared to the price.At the end of the meal, we asked the waiter to split our check. We had 5 people, 5 entrees, and 5 waters. The waiter said no and it was too hard to do. We only had 5 entrees and asked if he would reconsider and he said no. It is 1 entree per ticket. As someone with restaurant experience, it is not hard to split a check for 5 meals and just waters. He just didn't want to.Overall, it was a disappointing experience on all fronts and I had to overpay since our waiter would not split the check.There are plenty of other, cleaner, safer, more cost efficient restaurants nearby with better food and drinks, including one next door to Brio. I suggest you skip Brio and go somewhere else.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

TeleiaT

Feels run down. Reminded us very much of the macaroni grill. Food was fine. Not fabulous. Not terrible. They were nearly empty with maybe two servers working the entire restaurant.

The bartender was amazing and friendly. Once seated the experience completely changed. Our waiter was non existent, requested bread for the table twice and nerve received it. Once I asked the host it showed up. Our waters were never refilled and our food was served cold. Our waiter never checked on us once and we had to request the bill, we wanted dessert but were worried about how long it would take so we got one piece to go requested at the time of paying. I used to love Brio but will not be returning to this location.

Lianne P

We just went tonight (Sun, Feb 18) and I felt so bad for our waiter.The manager was prioritizing bussing tables (which weren't needed) over helping his waiters run food or drinks. The hostess kept sitting people for overwhelmed waiters and there were so many tables just being sat down at the same time which started to threaten the kitchen. There was no teamwork, no communication, and all tables were suffering. You could see it in customer's faces and exchanged painful looks.All of that being said, the food was good so kudos to the kitchen. Carpaccio and lamb in particular stood out as super tasty.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 2

Patrick Egkan

My family met for lunch to celebrate three siblings birthdays (there were 17 of us) and had a wonderful time. Our server Sarah was great, she was very attentive and made the experience that much better. I would highly recommend Brio Italian Grille and Sarah!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Oneseok Lee

The food is ordinary American Italian, and the service from the staff is good.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 4

Had to wait for the food a long time so by the time we got our food wasn't hungry anymore and the quality of the food wasn't all that good. Especially waiting that long would have thought it would be good.

Jesse Samaniego

Great place to eat. Staff is

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Grilled Salmon Fresca, Mezza Beef Carpaccio

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