La Rotonda In Montoggio

26/01/2025: Without booking, we show up on a cold evening in December 2024: this place had always intrigued my wife, and we try our luck. There's room. Inside, the place is very nice and picturesque. The upper part of the walls is exposed and there are old bricks. The same bricks used for the arches of the room. The floor is made of old stones (like a sidewalk, and maybe it was) and the staff (two guys serve the tables) are very friendly. We sit down and are immediately asked if we would like some water. We order water and in the meantime we look at the blackboard where the dishes of the day are written. While we decide, one of the two waiters brings us the wine list and the menu of dishes. Excessive prices, in my humble opinion, for wines: the same bottles can be found at much lower prices in the bars of Genoa. We opt for the house wine: half a liter of excellent ciliegiolo. My eye falls on the "Vecchia Genova Triangles" on the slate blackboard, and I question the staff: they tell me they are stuffed pasta with a sauce that is a mix of pesto and walnut sauce. I freak out and I say to the guy "But this is blasphemy!", but I accept the challenge and order them. My wife takes the stuffed vegetables (decent) and the strips of meat with artichokes, very good, with a truly tasty base. The “Triangoli Vecchia Genova” are arriving. You can feel that the pesto used for the sauce is fresh, the pasta filling is very good, but the pesto plus walnut sauce sauce doesn't convince me. Dessert: two panera parfaits, pricey (€6) and banal. We ended up having a Luisa herb liqueur (good). In conclusion, perhaps it could satisfy a tourist clientele, but it didn't convince me much. Paid €72, with receipt (something not to be taken for granted).

17/01/2025: Without infamy and without praise.