Ristorante caffe da Claudia In Roma

23/11/2024: The taste was quite strong. The store staff was also not very responsive.

20/11/2024: Where to start!? Just left here about one hour ago visiting from Liverpool for my girlfriend’s birthday. It’s my third time in Rome and always feel the waiters/waitresses go above and beyond to make you feel welcome and comfortable. We visited this restaurant upon arrival into Rome Monday evening and found the service from the guy outside navy suit slick back curly hair (kinda looks like Bradley Cooper) extremely welcoming, relaxing and casual towards his approach with us could not fault him. We ordered two beers each a pizza one penne arrabbiata came to around €70 which was fair given the location. This evening we visit for my girlfriend’s bday today and approach the same guy who dealt with us two nights ago to have a special meal for her night in which we did…ish!! Ordered the same as the other night with the expecting of a steak instead of the pizza. Can’t fault the food or quality of service however upon receiving the bill I noticed it had gone from €70 to €216!!! Exactly you’re probably thinking the same as me… wtf!! But no steak is worth €146 regardless of how good it is. I checked the menu and the price of the item id ordered was €26. At no point did it say that we had to order a minimum of 400g in which I was being told quoted for with this price. We challenged the bill and explained our confusion to this and the manager who came out was quite intimidating and his was responses were almost premeditated as if they knew they’d tried to have us off. I’d explained we wasn’t prepared to pay this as at no point did they advise the price of the item was x4 or it was a minimum of it 400g it was just taken asif we was ordering any other dish from the menu. To conclude the manager threatened us with the police in which we agreed to wait until they arrived and also offered to contact them ourselves directly to speed up the process in which I found irrated him an called his bluff. Eventually he went down further and further in prices until we agreed to pay €150 which unfortunately ate the good mans tip who wed dealt with twice and settled a bill in what we feel was inflated. Highly recommend this restaurant if your sticking to pastas etc but be aware of the manager and any meats your ordering as could easily find yourself in this situation.