La Cambusa In Cinisello balsamo

Food was excellent and great service. Will come again.

A restaurant with a long tradition, a good reputation, and reasonable prices. Convenient, with plenty of parking in front. Simple, essential yet elegant interiors. Given my good memory, I would give it 5 stars if I had reviewed it on previous occasions. In today's circumstance, however, some qualitative observations need to be made. I apologize for the amount of detail, as it's necessary for the sake of truth and the hope of reflection on their part. I ordered three oysters listed on the menu at €7 each, and they presented three very small, size 5 oysters (just a little larger than a full-grown one). I assure you, with a serene smile, that my comment about the size/price imbalance was a joke, and I assure you, it wasn't appropriate to reply that they were "sardines" (so what? Aren't there larger sizes?) and, worse, in front of one of my guests, who would have quoted me €6 instead of €7 and, if I wanted, would have brought me an extra (which, of course, was refused, I insist, still smiling). In a fine restaurant, that would already be a disqualification...at least for the waiter. I'm overlooking a first course that, although I'm not a chef, I cook better, tastier, and more presentable, to note yet another not insignificant problem (by the way, a €45 dish): grilled salt-baked scampi. Given how they were served, I thought they were the kitchen's revenge on my sincere and legitimate observation about the oysters: a plate with six tiny scampi (micro!) still covered in coarse salt that had clearly not been shaken. Okay, I think, and slowly open the shells and extract the flesh without swallowing whole grains of salt. None of them had a cut in the shell that would have facilitated opening. These tiny, very sharp creatures therefore made me skin my fingers just to be able to enjoy them. There... here we are at the ABC of how they should be served... I won't add anything else. Well, it goes without saying, the good sea bass... Now: I had a much better interest there than making another observation and perhaps hearing something "out of place" (I say this because of "their place"!) as a response. I hope, I sincerely hope they'll reflect on what I'm reporting here. I repeat, their reputation deserves 5 stars and even a hurrah. But that wasn't the case today.

High quality and atmosphere, quiet, really pleasant. I should come more often!