Piedigrotta In Pavia

26/03/2024: Let's start with the setting: beautiful. From the outside you wouldn't say the same thing. My wife and I enter, on the right there is a gentleman at the cash register, in front I presume the partner who makes the pizzas. The gentleman at the cash register greets us, we wave back. We told him we had booked. he kindly tells us to continue into the other room. In the other room a waitress arrives who doesn't even look at us (inside I think that the beginning isn't the best also because the room is half empty so I don't think she didn't see us because she was very busy). She approaches shortly after and in the meantime the gentleman at the cash register tells her "they have booked and he will tell you the name". She looks on a sheet of paper then takes us to the table. I have no problem also mentioning the table on Thursday 21 March (TABLE 22, receipt for 74 euros). We sit down. I repeat, the room is very nice! I'll start by cutting things short otherwise I'll bore you: let's take a bottle of Falanghina (I love Falanghina and Greco as I'm half from Campania). First courses: 2 Neapolitan-style sciatatielli EXCELLENT!! Second courses (here come the sore points): for me mussels with lemon, for my wife mixed fried food. So: in my opinion the largest mussel (I mean the internal fruit) could have had an indicative measurement of 1.5 cm and could have been 5% of the total. The others were small, shriveled, cooked and cooked. It's a shame because they were good but some mussels go well with pasta, in pizza but not as a second course. My wife's mixed fry...was fried and overfried. It practically felt like eating chips. Too bad... really too bad. But the best part is yet to come: at the end of dinner we head to the checkout. The waitress at the bar counter getting some drinks (perhaps she was filling something on tap), the pizza chef continues to make pizzas, the gentleman who was at the cash register when we entered was not there and arrives shortly after to bring something to the pizza chef but not I noticed what. We stand in front of the register and look at each other. Shortly afterwards the waitress arrives (the same one who didn't even look at us when we arrived...), takes the bill, says the total. I pay, she gives me the change and without saying goodbye she gets up (you could see she was annoyed about her own business) and goes back to the bar counter. My wife thanks her and says goodbye and only then does the girl say goodbye too. I'm sorry but if at the beginning we wanted to try the place again... for me it goes in the black book. We are from GARLASCO, we wanted to try this place specifically and believe me in Garlasco there are quite a few places... be careful gentlemen, it takes a lifetime to make customers. To lose them for a moment. SIN. In summary: very nice place, 10 cum laude scialatielli. Mussels and mixed fried food failed. Waitress education equal to 0 degrees kelvin, I liked the waiter with his kind and never intrusive ways. Good prices but there must be the product (such small mussels, never seen). PS: on TRIPADVISOR you replied that we could report the mussels and fried foods as not to our liking. THERE WAS NO NEED: YOU COULD SEE THEM YOURSELF BEFORE LETTING THEM LEAVE THE KITCHEN....

10/03/2024: The food is really good and the pizza too. Nice service and environment.. I highly recommend it..😉