Il Piscarello In Palestrina

I had high expectations, which were partially confirmed. Nice place with a spacious dining room and a huge fireplace. The food is good, but not wow-worthy. It's a good place for seafood, but there's nothing exceptional, and the spaghetti with sea urchins was a spoonful at most; the rest was just garlic and oil... I don't know if I'll be back.

Everything was delicious and excellent, the service was excellent, and the price was almost in line with what we ate. What really bothered us was that we ordered two portions of tagliolini with lobster, which they kindly split into four half portions, but on the bill it came out as four full-price portions. The excuse was that the lobster was the full portion of each dish, and so that drove up the price. So, I don't think we'll happily return after what happened.

We had lunch at the restaurant twice. The place was elegant and welcoming. The staff was very kind and efficient. The food was excellent. If I may make a small comment, when I asked for some oil to add to the delicious fish, I was brought a small bottle of oil extracted from EU olives. For some reason, given the quality of the restaurant, I expected an EVOO extracted in Italy from Italian olives.