Corso: Endless Family-Style Italian - Niagara Falls, Ontario

Khalil

Visited this family-style restaurant with my partner, and the experience was a mix of highs and lows. The concept of serving three courses—salad, pasta, and a mix of seafood and chicken—with an option for pork that we chose to skip due to dietary restrictions.

breakdown of our experience:
• Food: The salad was fresh and enjoyable, and the white sauce pasta was creamy and well-prepared. The tiramisu dessert was good as well.
However, the chicken dish was excessively salty, and the shrimp lacked flavor entirely, which was disappointing for a seafood offering.
• Price: For two people, the total came to $170.
• Service: The service left much to be desired. While the staff was efficient, the waiters lacked polite and professional behavior, which detracted from the overall dining experience.

On a positive note, they said goodbye with a dessert box.

Overall, We’d rate the experience 6 out of 10.

Cʟᴇᴍᴇɴᴛɪɴᴇ Aᴍʏ

4.1 stars
Great value and amazing service. They offered an all you can eat menu when we got here and the portions were huge!

We even got free champagne. They had different pastas and my favorite was the lamb pasta. Nice and decent place to enjoy your dinner.

Twin T

Fantastic idea for unlimited food. The service was wonderful and so was the food. I found out later that you get a bottle of wine with dinner but I never had that offered, i could be wrong.

Joseph Whalen

A three star restaurant desperately trying to make you believe it’s a four star. The fixed family style menu cuts down on all those pesky choices for sure. But when one offers a limited menu at the prices Corso’s offers one would expect top quality ingredients. One would be disappointed.

Each round from the antipasto to the dessert is served with the intent to impress but the presentation misses that mark. Instead it’s more like a tiny buffet at your table.

The food was fine. But at $60 per plate I would have expected each round of food to impress more than the last, but they didn’t. None of the food was of particular note except perhaps the dessert.

Just about all of the meal was smothered in seasoning and sauce as to be almost obnoxious. The cut of steak we were offered was overcooked, over marinated and the whole meal was over priced.

The live piano player and the overall decors add to the effort to impersonate luxury but the overall experience didn’t hit the mark. And don’t get me started with the “complimentary bottle of wine” that comes with meal, it was like drinking a bottle of vinegar.

Parking is non-existent so expect to find some other form of transportation. Reservations are recommended and required during peak times.

Overall it was a pleasant experience even though it did meet expectations. It certainly wasn’t worth the cost.

Pinky Chaubey

We had a work party at corso. One of the best Italian restaurants with great food and service. For vegetarians they have chef special mushroom eggplant dish- I have never had anything like this, absolutely delicious. Pasta’s and desserts was also delicious. It’s a must try place.

Alicia Dalpe

Had an amazing night here. Our server Daniel gave us excellent service and the food was delicious. My boyfriend and I spent our first anniversary here and they gave us complimentary pasta to bring home! They had a piano player taking requests that even played our song 🙂 would definitely recommend going here!

Isabel Bowers

My family of 12 and I came here as we were celebrating christmas at the Hilton. We appreciated that this resturant was attached to the hotel and my mom was able to arrange with the resturant manager a private eating area to enjoy the Family Style Italian option. When we arrived at the resturant the four hostesses were very unkind and unfriendly. The main girl did not greet us at all nor did she smile. She asked us how many adults and kids there were and if we were familiar with the menu then proceeded to say “we don’t do private rooms” when we told her about our arrangement. After looking into it they were able to escort us to our area. The food was tasty with the option to add more vegetarian options which was lovely as my partner and I are vegetarian. They were generous with the food and we actually had to ask them to bring out less portions as we didn’t want to waste food and were getting full. The service was good and the servers and cleaning staff were attentive. Really enjoyed with Family Style option as none of us have ever tried this before but were just put off by the initial start to the night.

LaToya Reid

It was a nice evening. Great atmosphere and service was good as well. We didn’t really enjoy the appetizer, aside from the bread. The cheese was too thick and too much and neither of us enjoy cold cooked vegetables. The pasta was amazing and the entree’s with the cooked meats were equally delicious. It was a wonderful experience.