La Volpina In Ovada

30/03/2025: Everything was delicious and the tagliolini 😍

22/03/2025: March 2025 dinner. My wife and I are not vegan, but we appreciate vegetable-based dishes. We attended a dinner with friends, attracted by the company. The place is particular and charming, set in a historical context. The dishes were well presented, even if the menu was difficult to interpret for those who are not experts in vegan cuisine. I tasted some of the other diners' dishes and found them acceptable, considering that they were attempts to imitate traditional dishes. Personally, I opted for a dish that I thought was based only on vegetables and carbohydrates, but the only one that fully satisfied me was the breaded porcini mushroom. The caponata wasn't a real caponata: too sweet, you could only taste the raisins. The Venus rice with vegetables had a sauce that, in the long run, was cloying. The chocolate dessert was very strong and dense, given the absence of butter and milk, as expected in vegan cuisine. I found the service not very empathetic and, the icing on the cake, when the place was now empty, we asked to separate the bill for the drinks that a guest wanted to offer for his birthday, but we were told that "separate bills are not available on Fridays and Saturdays". I would have liked to find some more traditional vegetable-based dishes, given that Italian cuisine offers a wide choice."