18/07/2025: The location is beautiful...but...but...but
So, let's start with the reservation call:
- it's fair to inform the caller that the menu is set at €70 per person, excluding drinks...but it would also be fair to inform the customer at the same time (and this wasn't done) that the table will only start to appear when the restaurant is practically full (like a wedding). Result: we arrived at 8:00 PM (some couples were already seated) and didn't eat until 8:40 PM (except for 1 fishball on the house). In short: the customer needs to know...and be able to choose;
- the steamed corn on the cob, among the appetizers, should have been served with the shell cut on the sides or with small scissors to do so and allow for easy tasting of the flesh: nothing (moreover, the corn on the cob was served au gratin, this time with the shell cut on the back);
- the mussels were bland; they looked like they were simply boiled in water, without even a hint of parsley (none at all) or a pinch of pepper. And I don't think that's the way they're prepared in Abruzzo, because we've had them in other Abruzzo restaurants, cooked differently;
- the side dish was a very sad, flat, colorless salad (without a single cherry tomato, a sprig of arugula, celery, or basil leaves...nothing);
- the rest of the menu? It depends on each customer's expertise. Personally: adequate (with the exception of the fried calamari, which was truly well-executed);
- dessert: delicious;
- wine list: excellent.
In short, as far as we're concerned, the menu as a whole isn't worth €70, and that's a real shame, because such a location (I repeat, beautiful) and the customers of such a restaurant deserve, for the price paid, something more in terms of the food (and I'm not talking about quantity—in fact, I'd significantly reduce the number of courses, especially appetizers, in favor of higher quality) and the organization.
As I always say: if I'm racing in a Ferrari (and this Trabocco is a splendid Ferrari), I have to come in first...
17/07/2025: Everything at the Top...in an Over the Top location!!!
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