Ristorante La Stalla - Marechiaro In Ferrara

15/07/2025: Seafood dinner with friends. The scallops were excellent, truly excellent. The mixed grilled fish was good. The fries were plentiful. The grilled meat was also excellent! The wine recommended by Mario himself was spectacular!!! Average prices. I'll be back!

07/07/2025: The evening didn't start in the best way, unfortunately: we are a family celebrating the birthdays of 3 out of four members. One of us is vegetarian. After having made sure at the time of booking that there was a vegetarian menu, we went. When the menus were delivered, however, we realized that there was no real menu with vegetarian choices, only two dishes (cappellacci and passatelli) that could have been. After having spoken to more than one waiter, in the end they informed the owner - who was sitting at another table - who said out loud and nonchalantly that he had forgotten. (Ah. Very good). After a few moments of no waiters, a third one arrives and asks for the order again. Let's report the situation again. He was the only one who took care of resolving the mix-up. A note of merit goes to him: he tried to do everything possible to make the evening pleasant, looking for solutions that could meet everyone's approval. He offered a final spirit and one of the two bottles we had consumed, he made sure that the service was impeccable. We had an appetizer of pinzini and we accompanied it with cheeses and burrata as an alternative to the stracchino that they didn't have: well made and fresh cheeses. Let's ignore the fact that the vegetarian dish arrived with a slice of crispy bacon on top, for the rest the orecchiette with swordfish were very good, the seafood salad too and the mixed fried food was well fried with a nice crispy batter and not greasy. Although from the outside it looks like a village bar, inside the rooms are well-kept and there is air conditioning. There are tablecloths and cloth overtablecloths, the chairs are plastic but comfortable. The food is of excellent quality, it's not the first time I've been there and it confirms this once again. The restaurant has become increasingly well-known and a table for four people will not bring profit to the place, but I would have expected that at least the owner would have shown up at the table with an apology or at least alternatives instead of avoiding us for the whole evening. Mistakes happen and it is not mandatory to provide alternatives to the menu you offer. But if you confirm a service upon request you cannot wash your hands of it when it is not actually provided.