Meloncino’s is situated on the second floor facing the outside of the mall at the V&A Waterfront and offers, like many other restaurants in the area, dreamy views. It features outside patio seating overlooking the railing, and an indoor dining area featuring a swanky interior of modern furniture, walls lined with wine bottles and numerous pieces of abstract art.

The food is typical of what you’d expect at an Italian restaurant, offering everything from pasta, to pizza, to gourmet sandwiches. Everything on the menu is also in Italian, but the descriptions are in English if you don’t know what they are. An extensive wine list compliments the long menu and features heavily on the reds. We started with the beef carpaccio, which while presented well, didn’t have any wow factor to it in terms of flavor. We both had individual pizzas, which seems to be what most of the other people in the restaurant were ordering as well. The margherita pizza came on the thick crust, while the Rustica came on the thin. If I had to choose again, I’d definitely go with the thick, which is more of a normal crust, while the thin was almost too thin to hold up all of the speck and pancetta on the rustica. The “thick” crust was also much tastier, especially the actual crust.

There are some photos of coffee advertising Meloncino’s house brand on the wall, so we were tempted to order and got a few of them as a post-meal drink. However, the coffee we were served looked nothing like the picture. The taste was good though, so there wasn’t that much to complain about.

Throughout the meal, the service seemed a bit pretentious at times, which was odd, considering the restaurant isn’t over-the-top fancy and fits nicely in with all the other themed restaurants in the area. We asked for indoor seats upon sitting, but had to sit outside. The hostess said the indoor tables were reserved, but after over an hour and a half of us eating outside, nobody showed up, and there were several tables still open.