A lovely restaurant with ok, but not consistently great food...Did not live up to its reputation on a few counts. My lunch consisted of the €35 degustation menu and a 1/2 bottle of Nebbiolo. The key points
- the antipasti mix was HUGE for a degustation menu. It could have been lunch alone.
- The combination of the 4 antipasti items didn't rhyme. Tartare (I like it, but not everyone's cup of tea - the server should have checked), along with salt cod fritters,
Porcini mushroom mousse (amazing) and vitello tonnato. Just a mixed bag. Could have halved the quantities and I would have been happier.
- two primi The tortellini were ok. The gnocchi with seafood and stockfish was ridiculously over seasoned. You could taste nothing but salt with notes of shell fish.
- the beef cheek was beautifully cooked in Barolo wine and just fell apart....but, unlike the gnocchi, the cheeks were woefully under-seasoned. It actually seemed there was no seasoning at all.
- the dessert was a selection of 3 items, which were all lovely.
- but worst of all was the speed with which everything came out of the kitchen. There was barely a few minutes between each course. All the food was brought out over a period of just over 35 minutes. A person ordering the degustation menu naturally wants to savor the chef's efforts, and not be tasting Barolo-cooked beef cheeks two
minutes after eating marinara-sauced gnocchi.
All the negatives just should not be occuring at a restaurant that has picked up awards and is charging what it is. read more