Ristorante Golden Hen In La spezia

02/01/2025: Restaurant chosen for New Year's Eve dinner between 7pm and 9pm, with à la carte menu, therefore without the option of a fixed menu. Attracted by the positive reviews we wanted to try the place but were a little disappointed. We took four spaghetti with seafood whose taste was not the best, rated 6/10, a tagliolini with lobster rated 7/10 and some gnocchi which were quite good. We then all had a mixed fry (which unfortunately wasn't very "mixed") which was 7.5/10. Finally the desserts were not the best, 6/10. At the end of the evening (8.21pm) we ask for two coffees and the waitress asks us in a pleasant tone to go and get them at the counter because "she needed the table", the place was still "empty", she was almost certainly referring to the customers arriving at 21 when the fixed menu dinner would have started, I don't see the reason to ask a table to get up 40 minutes before when they will be served again, especially when the place is practically empty. This is the only reason for the rating for the service, together with the fact that the POS was not working, I obviously cannot judge, but coincidentally on New Year's Eve it decides not to work? I say this after the fact that, in 6 of us, having taken 6 first courses, 6 mixed fried foods, 5 desserts (and 6 place settings), the total was €25 each, from the à la carte menu we consulted, we would have had to spend more, and since receipt (made on request) was beaten "Fixed menu ×6", but let's try to trust it.

02/01/2025: Very good restaurant whether it is fish or pasta....... Great service even though we don't speak Italian