I really want to like this place - who doesn't want a dark modern little Italian coffee & pasta place in Pemplefort?
Alas whilst it looks the goods with cute tables out the front and a modern interior with swirling gold script on the windows, the execution blows...
The main thing that is noticeable as you first arrive (and I've done this twice now), is that you cannot get served. No amount of "excuse-me"'s in German, English or Italian will garner a response from the just too cool staff who don't appear to do anything but wander around busy with each other.
The food is just okay. An opportunity to present a little more modern funky Italian faire, just ends up being the same stodgy, cheesy, oily flavourless Italian that seems to permeate Dusseldorf.
Coffee is pretty good (if you can get one), and is report on the cake - but I couldn't get one and had to leave... read more