First let me say i broke a rule and ate at one of the first restaurants in a tourist area…read more You're in Italy and they give you generic packaged bread sticks, no bread. We ordered a Caesar salad, yes I know it's not Italian, but it sucked, head lettuce, mini bagged croutons, very boring dressing, okay chicken and cheese. 20€. My wife ordered linguine in clam sauce and I got carbonara. The linguine was okay, the carbonara was inedible. It came and looked like it sat on a counter for 45 minutes. Tried to eat it but sauce was a clumpy gooey mess with a few pieces of guanciale. I complained and they took it off the bill.....kind of. Later I happened to look at an alert from CC company and it was way more than I expected, so I looked at the bill and they overcharged me. Went back and they still didn't charge me the correct amount. I just left out of frustration. Find another restaurant if you're in Sirmione.

great food. servings could be bigger for the price, but other than that amazing service!!!read more

The restaurant is located on the lake bank, friendly atmosphere, and the staff is professional and…read morecustomer friendly. It's a fish restaurant; we picked Sheff's salad which was disappointing but eatable after adding oil and spices. The sea bass fish for two and vegetables were okay, we ate better. Quite expensive place.

La Roccia - The trap of tourist traps: We stayed at Hotel…read moreAlveci (which actually is a really nice place), about 300m from the historic gate / draw bridge to old town Sirmione. Upon check-in we were handed a small card with a few of "their" restaurants - where we would get 10% off as guests of the property. Growing up in the Alpine region of southern Germany, and therefore having visited Lake Garda dozens of times before, we normally would have never dined at an establishment located so central in such a high tourist traffic area. But I guess we spent a bit too much time at Jamaica Beach (very northern tip of the Sirmione peninsula) and basically were just looking for a place to have a halfway decent meal on our walk  back to the hotel. So we remembered that little card issued by our hotel, checked the restaurant reviews online and decided on La Roccia as the supposedly best option. Boy, were we wrong. We ordered beef tartar to share, gnocchi with meat sauce, and pizza capricciosa. The tartar dish was the worst we have ever had. Not only totally blant, but also not diced/cubed, and the connective tissue not removed. The result was an extremely chewy dish of large chunky pieces of skirt steak (at best) covered in raw egg. Yuck. The pizza....well, any - even supermarket frozen / domino's /pizza hut - that we have ever had before, was better than this soggy, leathery piece of barely cuttable dough. A disgrace to Italy's national dish. And the gnocchi... never arrived. Despite blue tooth/.. POS devices used by the wait staff. "There was a mistake in the kitchen". Or the order was never put in. When it was time to pay we were directed to the register inside. We took out the 10%-off-card from the hotel (should have been 100% off) and presented a major credit card to pay for the disaster dinner What followed then was a classic Italian scheme from the 1990s tourist rip-off playbook: the POS wifi/blue tooth connection for payments conveniently failed at this very point in time (so the charge can not be disputed later). For some reason the connection seemed still to be working fine on the waiters' devices. Our only options were to either pay cash or wait indefinitely until the credit card payment pad may or may not come back online. The floor manager's command of English (who was able to perfectly seat and attend to guests from various contries before) all of a sudden ceased to exist and therefore was unable to understand what we tried to address. All he did was to show us a print out that the 10% off he took supposedly was the rate of state imposed taxes on food that he had to cover. Not our problem, if the incentive given by their partner hotel does not work out for your business, please don't offer it. Or make our guests feel bad about it. Especially not about a 60 Euro bill for a sub-par meal. The burden is shared, we also pay an annual fee and possibly interest rates to use credit cards. And yes, despite everything we left a 10% tip for our waiter. However, since we were really exhausted at that point late in the evening, and did not want to wait indefinitely, we ended up paying in cash: Win tourist trap. For a relaxed and tasty dinner experience just avoid this place. Yep, they did pull a fast one on us. Apparently the old rule still applies: "when in Rome - or Italy in general - do as the Romans do. Or at least research and eat where the locals eat.

Best place to eat in Sirmione,good service,great food. Good…read morewine at very good prices.

The food was very good and tasty. A big point is the location and view on the Garda lake. One star…read moreless because, we were sitting under a light were a lot of flies came to when it got dark.

Service was good. Food was fresh and pizza was amazing. The smoked trout was my favorite. The…read moreseafood linguine was good not spicy. If you like spicy ask for the chili oil. The caprese salad was okay but only came with one basil leaf.

This place is located inside of a small shopping plaza and was recommended by the receptionist of…read morethe hotel we stayed. Reservation is highly recommended, I believe it is solely because of its location. It is right in a popular tourist area. It has a clean and typical Italian restaurant feel. Service was good and the food was okay but not exceptional. It must be hard to be an outstanding restaurant in Italy because many restaurants are really good; it doesn't matter if it is an upscale or a local small restaurant. The pizza was a thin crust style pizza. It was crispy and delicious. We also ordered two Linguine with seafood, tomato sauce and chili pepper and were disappointed with the lack of spicy flavors. The waiter warned us that the pasta was spicy when we placed the orders. I guess we have a high tolerance of hot spicy food. This pasta did't deliver a hint of hot spicy flavors. I felt like the sauce was under seasoned. We also ordered a plate of fried vegetable & calamari. The coating was too thick for our liking. But the ingredients were fresh, I just personally perfect a thin coating. It was overall a pleasant dinning experience.

Great Italian Food with excellent view on lake Garda, good prices and good quality food. Mixed…read morevisitors, Italian, German and Dutch. We had pizza, steak and fish, all very nice.

The location of this restaurant is lovely and romantic-- the outdoor seating is straight out of a…read moremovie. The wait was long, but the servers were attentive and communicated with us about the wait (we got there at around 9pm on a Thursday). When we finally sat, it was worth the wait. The food was delicious and the pasta was everything. The house wine we got was not good and tasted cheap. Overall it was a great experience!!

This was a nice dinner to cap off our 3 weeks in Italy. The food and service were excellent…read more Don't forget dessert! The tiramisu was perfect.

Both the service and food was great! The service was quick and the staff was friendly and kind to…read moreunderstand our hasty situation with a parking ticket that was about to expire.

Wonderful place with really good food. Menu is fresh and healthy. We had salads and pizza, which…read morewere not like any of the touristic places elsewhere in town. We will definitely be back.