Ristorante Albergo Da Erminio In Mombaruzzo

26/12/2024: I tried the restaurant's cuisine on 12/25 with the Christmas menu. At a price of €55, drinks not included, the menu did not live up to the price. So, they started by serving "fried gnocco" with raw ham (of mediocre quality) and cheese (gorgonzola) which in a "rustic" Asti restaurant is a "strange" choice(!!), I would have expected this appetizer in Emilia (where it is normally done better and there is less frying oil) than in Villanova D'Asti. Then they served a veal tartare with egg yolk (which was practically not present) and carrots (rapéed and charred!). Again, it is better not to try to make "foreign" dishes to this Asti area if we don't know them well and don't know how to make them. If you eat the real tartare, just cross the border in Ventimiglia, you will realize that that proposal had nothing to do with it, moreover poorly made and without sauces available to make it acceptable. Finally, the appetizers ended with the pumpkin soufflé, the only decent dish, perhaps a little too "sweet", not very tasty but decent. The first courses were ravioli del plin with roast sauce (not very noticeable) and bitter cocoa (but why?!) and then creamed risotto with stracchino cheese with a splash (!) of savoy cabbage and 3 (I say 3) small pieces of sausage .....so here we hit the lowest notes of the meal, the risotto was truly indecent, not cooked properly and tasteless, a real culinary disaster. Many of the guests noticed this and there was more or less obvious criticism of the dish from all the tables. I expected at least an apology and a "commercial" gesture on the bill but this was not the case. Lunch ended with a chicken with apples as a main course and a spiced panna cotta for dessert. Not even a slice of panettone or pandoro with a flute of sparkling wine to close the Christmas meal.....add to all this an exasperatingly slow service (the meal started at 1.25pm ​​and ended almost at 5pm (!!!) for six courses and about ten tables..... Final comment: learn to cook as you speak, meaning that traditional local and well-made dishes are better than trying at all costs recipes that we are not used to making and with truly mediocre results. Final grade: 2

22/12/2024: We stopped to eat during the trip to Sestriere, excellent dishes presented with taste. Polite and kind staff.