]> http://www.restaurantspy.com/taxonomy/term/31/0 Italy en http://www.restaurantspy.com/node/1205 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-image-10"><div class="form-item"> <img src="http://www.restaurantspy.com/files/maffei.gif" alt="Ristorante Maffei, Piazza Erbe 38, Verona, Italy." /> </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textfield-3"><div class="form-item"> <label>Address:</label><br /> Piazza Erbe 38, Verona, Italy. </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-6"><div class="form-item"> <label>Review:</label><br /> <p>I booked the Maffei some months in advance, as part of a trip to Verona to celebrate my wife’s birthday. The online booking system worked well and the web site gave a lot of information with regards to menus, wines and historic location.</p> <p>The restaurant premises are quite spectacular, being housed in a magnificent palatial building. We were greeted by very friendly staff and shown to our table, as well as ourselves, there was only one other couple in the restaurant, despite this being 9pm on a Friday night. I confess that the alarm bells did start to ring.</p> </div> </div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --> 2008 Italian Italy Rejected Review Views ££££/$$$$ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:07:14 +0000 http://www.restaurantspy.com/node/142 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textfield-3"><div class="form-item"> <label>Address:</label><br /> Piazza Augusto Imperatore 9- Viale della Frezza, 23, 00187 Roma , Italy </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-6"><div class="form-item"> <label>Review:</label><br /> (1) Very cool place with great food. We ate in the pizzeria as we turned up without a reservation and would have had to wait some time for the restaurant. It appears to be a newish operation in a building that is very Italian 1930s. The place was really busy with local beautiful people rather than tourists. It is everything that Conran dreams of. Each of the starters were very fresh but basic and the pizzas were yummy (and big). We also had a bottle of wine and a bottle of water. The bill was about £26 in total. Dave and dolly bird. </div> </div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --> Approved Europe Italy Review £££/$$$ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:55:38 +0000 http://www.restaurantspy.com/node/152 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textfield-3"><div class="form-item"> <label>Address:</label><br /> Piazza Bra 18, Verona, Italy </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-6"><div class="form-item"> <label>Review:</label><br /> Right plump fat in the middle of Piazza Bra we could not get a table for love nor money on a Saturday night in Verona. "Forty minutes" barked the doorman. On a Sunday - on a gorgeous, brisk Spring afternoon - we managed to experience Olivo al fresco. Sandwiched in between an English family on hols and what appeared to be a hilarious "Merrie Melodies" match of a fat would-be opera singer in a brilliant yellow coat and a bald small man on the other side, Q and I struggled with the hilariously arranged menu. </div> </div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --> Europe Italy OK Review £££/$$$ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:55:38 +0000 http://www.restaurantspy.com/node/144 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textfield-3"><div class="form-item"> <label>Address:</label><br /> near the Catelvecchio, Verona </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-6"><div class="form-item"> <label>Review:</label><br /> Monument tired and walk weary found us down a tiny street near the museum in Verona. Our mission - get away from the tourist highways and the rough guide recommendations and find ourselves an honest to goodness Italian "trat". We found it here and cursed ourselves that we weren't able to go back. A welcome as cheery as you might expect, we were shoe-horned into a corner and immediately given two slices of "house special" bruschetta. </div> </div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --> Approved Europe Italy Review ££/$$ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:55:38 +0000 http://www.restaurantspy.com/node/137 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textfield-3"><div class="form-item"> <label>Address:</label><br /> Via della Madonna dei Monti, 95 00184 Roma, Italy </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-6"><div class="form-item"> <label>Review:</label><br /> We ate here twice, because we were so hungry the first time we ordered very quickly, and did not look at the whole menu. While enjoying our starter of sottolio, (olives, mushrooms, artichokes and sundried tomatoes in olive oil) we saw all this lovely looking fried fish and deep fried courgette flowers stuffed with cream cheese on their way to other tables. Bugger. But our pizzas were first class - and of course Madam has to have the Tiramisu, doesn't she? "well this is the home of Tiramisu, isn't it?" Yes, and it was fine, but honestly no better than the average London version. </div> </div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --> Approved Europe Italy Review £££/$$$ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:55:38 +0000 http://www.restaurantspy.com/node/154 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textfield-3"><div class="form-item"> <label>Address:</label><br /> Largo dei Chiavari 85-86 Roma, Italy </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-6"><div class="form-item"> <label>Review:</label><br /> It was hot, we sat outside, pleasant, very quick service, very reasonable prices. We each had a salad, I had Caprese - tomato, basil, mozarella, L had Lido: fresh tuna, lettuce, onion, mozarella. Good bread and oil, beer and espresso. After slogging round the Pantheon, The Forum and the outside of St Peters and the Colliseum, this was exactly what we needed to restore us. It wasn't till we got up that we realised we were right next to a place recommended to us by a friend - Insalata Ricca - which we tried a few days later. </div> </div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --> Approved Europe Italy Review ££/$$ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:55:38 +0000 http://www.restaurantspy.com/node/147 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textfield-3"><div class="form-item"> <label>Address:</label><br /> Via San Giacomo 10. Marina, Riomaggiore, Italy </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-6"><div class="form-item"> <label>Review:</label><br /> Without doubt the best place for eating in Rio, acknowledged as such by the locals, and if you make a reservation you can book one of the few tables outside overlooking the harbour. This is particularly spectacular in the evening as the sun goes down. After your meal you can take a long lingering stroll around the harbour and sit dipping your feet in the dark cool waters of the Med by the light of the moon. </div> </div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --> Approved Europe Italy Review ££/$$ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:55:38 +0000 http://www.restaurantspy.com/node/139 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textfield-3"><div class="form-item"> <label>Address:</label><br /> Via Serbelloni, Bellagio (Como), Italy </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-6"><div class="form-item"> <label>Review:</label><br /> Austere and up the hill in the centre of Bellagio, Bilachus is clearly the upmarket restaurant in this pretty town on Lake Como. A thundering drizzly downpour - you know the ones with really wet rain - shoved us inside and pining for a seat. My beef in tomato and vodka (honest) sauce was scrummy and delicious, Q's grilled "trout of the river" (his explanation not ours) was succulent and fresh and the green salad crisp and beautifully dressed. </div> </div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --> Approved Europe Italy Review £££/$$$ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:55:38 +0000 http://www.restaurantspy.com/node/149 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textfield-3"><div class="form-item"> <label>Address:</label><br /> Via Dietro Listone 19, Verona, Italy </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-6"><div class="form-item"> <label>Review:</label><br /> It felt like we were intruding on something. We had pounded around the centre of Verona for ages on a Sunday night looking for that hideaway culinary gem and then just got darned fed up. We listed into the Liston - just behind the main Piazza Bra - and pretty quickly regretted it. We waited for ages to be seated by a bad-tempered staff, obviously overwhelmed by the shock of the business on a Spring Sunday evening. </div> </div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --> Europe Italy Rejected Review £££/$$$ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:55:38 +0000 http://www.restaurantspy.com/node/141 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textfield-3"><div class="form-item"> <label>Address:</label><br /> Ponte alla Piera, 34 52038 Anghiari (Arezzo) Tuscany - Italy </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-6"><div class="form-item"> <label>Review:</label><br /> I would like to let all those who visit this fantastic website know this little, cosy restaurant in the Tuscan countyside, where I and my friends have had a great typical Tuscan dinner (among the others, appetizers of various kinds, home made pasta and a wondefully tender tagliata (veal)with mushrooms!) in a really familiar, friendly atmosphere! Paul 2003 </div> </div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --> Approved Europe Italy Review ££/$$ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:55:38 +0000 http://www.restaurantspy.com/node/151 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textfield-3"><div class="form-item"> <label>Address:</label><br /> Via D&#039;Aragona, Naples, Italy </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-6"><div class="form-item"> <label>Review:</label><br /> - I strongly recommend you come here for the pasta and fish dishes, and described by an Italian I was with as "molto chic ma non e caro'. - Start with the fresh mozzarella and riccota with baked aubergines. Great salads with a very decent and repectable olive oil in generous bottles at every table. - I had the most delicious saltimbocca I have ever had in Italy here. - You will need at least 3 hours over your meal especially if you are with a group. </div> </div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --> Approved Europe Italy Review ££/$$ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:55:38 +0000 http://www.restaurantspy.com/node/143 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textfield-3"><div class="form-item"> <label>Address:</label><br /> 2 Viale Manzoni 73-75-77 Roma, Italy </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-6"><div class="form-item"> <label>Review:</label><br /> We arrived back in Rome very late, having been out in the country all day, and were about to despair of finding anywhere still open when L spotted this place, and we agreed to go there whatever it was like. In fact it wasn't bad, but they were so incredibly busy it was quite comical. We shared a seafood salad: the waiter slowed down slightly as he whizzed past the buffet, slung some of the salad on a plate and skidded by our table skillfully landing it between us without ever actually stopping. </div> </div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --> Approved Europe Italy Review ££/$$ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:55:38 +0000 http://www.restaurantspy.com/node/136 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textfield-3"><div class="form-item"> <label>Address:</label><br /> Via E. Filiberto 23-25-27, 00185 Roma, Italy </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-6"><div class="form-item"> <label>Review:</label><br /> This was recommended at the B&B where we stayed. Strange yellow satin napery, but comfortable and clean enough. L started with risotto marinara, I had ravioli stuffed with ricotta and spinach - both good. We shared a second course of turbot, which was very fresh and taken off the bone for us at our table, accompanied by spinach. The food quality was excellent, but the service was showy (many flourishes while de-boning the fish on a side table) but indifferent, and we were kept waiting quite a lot, although the restarant was not crowded. </div> </div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --> Europe Italy OK Review £££/$$$ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:55:38 +0000 http://www.restaurantspy.com/node/153 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textfield-3"><div class="form-item"> <label>Address:</label><br /> Corsa Porta Nuova 9, Verona, Italy </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-6"><div class="form-item"> <label>Review:</label><br /> Probably the most cynical place we went to in Verona, this Pizzeria clearly exists to exploit tourists. Bruschetta watery and unimaginative, steak slightly old and cheaper than other establishments, penne arrabiatta with little trace of anything other than a light coating of chilli oil and, yet again, no Italian Beer. Why are the Italians in this part of the country so ashamed of the beauties of Moretti and Peroni? Our waiter explained that the Italian Beer in these parts was the wine……. </div> </div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --> Europe Italy Rejected Review ££/$$ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:55:38 +0000 http://www.restaurantspy.com/node/145 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textfield-3"><div class="form-item"> <label>Address:</label><br /> near the Catelvecchio, Verona </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-6"><div class="form-item"> <label>Review:</label><br /> Monument tired and walk weary found us down a tiny street near the museum in Verona. Our mission - get away from the tourist highways and the rough guide recommendations and find ourselves an honest to goodness Italian "trat". We found it here and cursed ourselves that we weren't able to go back. A welcome as cheery as you might expect, we were shoe-horned into a corner and immediately given two slices of "house special" bruschetta. </div> </div></div><!-- google_ad_section_end --> Approved Europe Italy Review ££/$$ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:55:38 +0000