Principato Di Ariis

Terrible experience! To forget! Nothing is taken care of, starting from the premises. The patio needs to be demolished, with half-broken wooden boards, a shack behind that if you are not careful, it might fall on you. The food? I can do it better at home. DO NOT GO THERE. The welcome is disastrous.

The dishes we tasted were nothing exceptional. Some of these were already prepared and reheated (so to speak), arriving barely warm at the table within 2-3 minutes of ordering. The ingredients of some dishes were not harmonious at all on the plate. The venue, characteristic, appears not very well maintained (e.g., dirty or stained chair covers, cobwebs on the walls, etc.). Overall, the bill was steep for the level of cuisine and service. We did not like the attitude shown by the management of the venue.

A romantic lunch (dreamed of) to forget On Easter Day they crammed 4 tables, 3 for 2 people and 1 for 3, along a corridor of the hall (the rest of the restaurant I did not get to see, so many of those people were compressed in it) , which seemed to me to be in a remote trattoria (with great respect for the trattorias, but here the matter was presented with a different imprint, chef and place of rare elegance ; the 4 tables were practically 1 single table of 9 so much we were attacked: if it were not for my innate sympathy and complicity with my husband, which led us to converse with our neighbors and to dilute among ourselves (incidentally, the others, all very disappointed) , I would have had to arm a good fight with the head of the organization, or at least negotiate on the price at the checkout (which I regret not having done) ; if only the lady had looked up to cross mine, or asked "everything well gentlemen?" ... I would have said everything there was to say, but clearly she did not, because she knew well that she had offered a questionable service, certainly far below expectations and advertising presentation (on this she was a wise professional I admit, she created such a wall of indifference to cut me off) ... I had booked well in advance, so I didn't even have to say (and in any case it wouldn't have been a valid excuse) that I begged at the last minute for an impossible reception, or that the accommodation had been emergency... even the day before they even called me to ask me what my dog was like, to give me a quiet place and not in passing, to make her feel comfortable too... and instead she was crammed under the table having everything closed around between our legs and those of other diners (who fortunately loved dogs, otherwise you know what cinema) ... We will never return, neither we, nor the other people at the table, 3 couples who saw the idea of a romantic lunch in 2 fade, and a family that had a memory of 10 years before, past ruined by the present... I certainly didn't eat for 60 euros, and I'm not talking about quantity: who goes to a restaurant that presents itself as they do, goes there for care, precision, accuracy, taste... I didn't find any of this either, a mild asparagus lasagna (which saw few asparagus since my pie didn't even have the shadow of that classic post-asparagus smell) , a poorly cleaned fillet of its rib, so hard in many bites (and my husband's was not even a single piece, but two endings assembled one on top of the other)... a warm and soft dessert (I don't know if it had to be so originally or it was parked so long before being served that it then arrived so on the table)... a house wine included in the price that we barely finished (for 120 in total, we would certainly have taken a decent bottle to drink eating elsewhere maybe a la carte, but I swear that their photos and their advertising have been able to intrigue even a careful person like me and then disappoint her badly). We shouldn't have even sat down, after seeing the accommodation reserved for us, but education and the desire to be well on Easter day prevented me from getting up and leaving and making a fight... I'm sure they are better than what emerged at Easter, as they continue to be open, but next time they think less about achieving covers and turnover and more about the dignity of a quality offer and service, equal to the accurate advertising they do.