Al Dente Cucina — Restaurant in Região Geográfica Imediata de João Pessoa

I am Italian, so I will let Google translate it. I have been living in Brazil since 2014 and I have not been lucky with Brazilian restaurants. I found "Al Dente" via Instagram and looking at the good pics in the feed, I decided to give it a try. And I was right. The first thing that you noticed is the way how you are attended: Finally a Restaurant which uses an Italian name, serves Italian food and behaves such as one, serving water FOR FREE (the only restaurant that has the same service is in Pipa and the owner is Italian.) while the rest of the "Five Stars Restaurants" do not. There is no loud music and if a band is playing inside the restaurant, the volume is low and the cover price is far below the standard around here. From a 360 view, the restaurant is beautiful, pretty good design. Let's talk about food: I had several dishes, mostly pasta and I have to say that the Tomato sauce is one of the best I've eaten so far, moreover, the dish comes well presented and the portion is well balanced for each customer. you can taste different flavors in the sauce, differently from other restaurants that I had been before, which it made me remember when I was working for a small restaurant in Rome as a chef assistant. I had two different desserts, the sugar was well balanced, and when I had their personalized Petit Gateau that was the moment when I realized that the chef knows about Italy: he reproduced a typical summer Italian dish called "prosciutto e melone" and turned into a dessert, a Genius. I did not try their Pizza, which I am curious. There are just few little details that I did not like (the carbonara is too creamy or the tomato sauce came once too watered) but overall one of the best options here in Jp. I strongly recommend to stop by it, they...

This was such a disappointment for us. We arrived at 2:30pm unaware they close at 3pm. No one bothered to communicate that to us either, they sat us and took until 2:50 to actually get our order. They were out of many drinks and food items. Server then came back immediately and said the kitchen is closing so if we want dessert we need to order now, hadn’t even received our drinks yet. Received our food at 3:10, all of it terrible. Had to send back the risotto as it was raw, they took my entire plate including the fried pork. When they returned the dish I had new risotto and the same pork, now soggy and cold from sitting. Everything was just bad. The servers then proceeded to sweep and mop directly next to us, while we were eating! So rude. If they would had told us they closed at 3 and that would greatly affect our experience we would have happily taken our business elsewhere. Would never...

Escolhi o restaurante pelos comentários feitos aqui e a primeira impressão que tivemos foi de um ambiente agradável para um jantar a dois. Fomos muito bem recebidos, apesar de não termos feito reserva de mesa. Os garçons, muito prestativos e educados, não ficaram em nosso pé e nos deixaram a vontade para escolher nossos pratos. O cardápio, disposto em Qr code, trazia poucas opções de pratos (mas já sabíamos disso) e optamos como entrada uns bolinhos de costela, que estavam uma delícia. A partir criamos uma boa expectativa do que seriam os pratos principais. Eu, optei por risoto de camarão e minha esposa um risoto de limão siciliano, destacando que o ponto de sua carne deveria ser BEM PASSADO. O preparo dos pratos não demorou muito e logo chegaram com uma bela apresentação e ainda com a opção de mais parmesão, ralado na hora pelo garçom. O risoto de camarão se destacava apenas pelo gosto da pimenta, que apesar de gostar muito de pimenta, tornava o prato enjoativo, os camarões haviam passado um pouco do ponto, ficando emborrachados e pareciam que haviam sido colocados apenas para finalizar o risoto, visto que estavam sem sal e não agregavam gosto algum ao prato. O risoto de limão siciliano também estava sem sal (provei o da minha esposa) e a carne, que havia sido pedida BEM PASSADA, estava ao ponto, mas também sem sal e sem nenhum sabor marcante para desejar novamente a mesma experiência. Então, resumindo minha experiência, deveríamos ter ficado apenas com a entrada e...