Da Melo Cucina Italiana — Restaurant in Paris

I don't know why, but Italian restaurants in France are simply not. We hoped that this time it would be different, a 4.9 score on Google. The food was average minus. The parmigiana di melanzane - an Italian dish of kings was bland and too salty. The pasta (dish of the day with pesto and pistachios) arrived almost completely cold. Anemic, tasteless. Pesto, the Italian sauce. The green gold. Here it was really bad, it was barely noticeable in the dish. Depending on the taste, it may even be that it was not prepared fresh on the restaurant but bought somewhere.All the dishes come with a thin pastry stick on top of them, a take off for the Italian grissini, nice idea, poor execution. In short, those who really love Italian cuisine with fine ingredients - this is...

Yes, yes it most definitely is the best Italian food in Paris - my Burrata entrée alone was enough to make the angels sing! My gnocchi was heavenly, too, but I'd had a bit too much apéro at a friend's earlier so I couldn't finish. My glass of Lambrusco was a perfect accompaniment - hard to find recently in US Italian eateries, strangely. Two guys were kept hopping in the front of the house - don't know how many were in the tiny kitchen. Definitely make reservations - I saw many folks turned away. Service was fast, friendly, and efficient, and the place was buzzing with activity. I would definitely make this one a regular did I...

I love this place! My wife and I were there last week and it was fantastic. Tiny place, looks like one guy in the kitchen and two guys working the dining area. The food was excellent, my wife speaks Italian so we ended having a great time with the guys working there. Definitely make a reservation as we saw several parties turned away that didn't have one. Oh, and the wine was great, the recommendations were spot on, especially since I explained I didn't usually like Italian wines due to the dryness. They gave me one that was great, just what I told them I wanted. Overall, a...