Al Fornello In Parma

16/04/2026: A restaurant with excellent dishes, especially seafood, and also delicious pizza (both traditional and deep-dish). Quality ingredients, attentive and friendly staff. Reasonable prices. Recommended!

06/04/2026: EASTER, elderly people accustomed to traveling the world, for pleasure and work, with experience in restaurants both local and international. We're going for some seafood. I've read several reviews, and they rave about it. My niece also raves about it, having been there a few times with her husband. Fine, let's take a look. Parking is okay, really easy to find. The welcome at the entrance is average, the place has a few rooms with a few tables, many empty. We enter a covered courtyard, also with several empty tables. There are five of us, we sit down, they present us with the menu, we opt for fish, and order hot and cold seafood appetizers. The menu doesn't indicate whether it's fresh or frozen. It arrives frozen, definitely, with two mussels that are stringy and microscopic and ready to be thrown away, a small, thin clam, two pieces of octopus, and a series of various-sized pieces of calamari. My niece orders the first course, which looks good, but it's cold. The ravioli taste like ice. She sends them back, reheats them in the microwave, and brings them back. We order the second course, a mixed fry with fizzy onions. Another disappointment with the fried food; the only redeeming feature is the onion, even though it's frozen. I wonder if we were unlucky enough to come on the wrong day, or if this is the norm. We paid €50 each, which was fair for what we ate, but not for what we would have liked to have eaten. I won't comment on either the wine bar or the pizzeria, which are undoubtedly top-notch. But let's forget about the fish. BEST WISHES