Ristorante Zelmira In Modena

23/01/2025: Excellent quality raw materials and excellent service, it is not easy to find a restaurant manager who today works with so much passion to express and communicate his products to customers. Very fresh and top quality fish, the plating of the dishes is very good dishes, I recommend!

18/01/2025: Very good, but below expectations For some time I wanted to try Selmi 22, which is widely spoken about very well when you want to eat good fish in Modena; finally two of us went by booking with The Fork (precisely as of now, without any particular discounts). Well: extremely satisfied in terms of welcome, everyone was very nice and kind; the environment is well looked after. Excellent bread, breadsticks and pane carasau immediately arrive at the table. We started with two fish starters: a Selmi 22 (raw and cooked) and a mixed Carpaccio with the addition of tuna tartare. Really excellent! Absolutely fresh fish, carpaccio cut with a knife, nothing to say. So we had two first courses: an Anchovy Pasta and a Paccheri with seafood. Here, frankly, is the surprise: the pasta with anchovies and toasted breadcrumbs was excessively seasoned with tomato sauce, which decidedly alters the traditional Palermo dish (we are Sicilian) that is intended to be proposed, disappointing the expectations of those who probably expect to eat that; the Paccheri allo scoglio, unfortunately, were ruined by the use of clams which were practically all closed, something which honestly has never happened to me and on which I do not intend to make further evaluations. I personally would have been very careful, avoiding bringing closed shellfish to the table. Overall they were not bad, especially in terms of cooking, but certainly of an average level if we consider what has been pointed out above. At that point we opted for two desserts: a pistachio semifreddo with salted caramel and a Catalan flambé. Both turned out to be extremely good, as I have rarely tried them elsewhere! We accompanied everything with a vintage prosecco, definitely worthy. Clearly I am not expressing a negative opinion at all, but I must say that I was not satisfied according to expectations, although only due to the first ones.