Parenti Et Fils — Restaurant in Sartène

Pretentious place. Instead of gourmet food to what they pretend to serve you get a big portion of dissapointment followed by astronomical bill. Fish soup is the tragedy of the day. I mean maybe the soup was great but what we got was a water in which the fish was washed. Thin dirty liquid with a bit of salt and a faint taste of fish bones. On a side plate totally hard croutons with unindentifiable type of cheese. 19 euro!!!The funniest part is that they come to ask you of you want more of the „soup”. When they hear feedback on the taste and lack of fish, in response they conclude „no is enough”. Lamb - cooked okay but beans taste like those from a can + very strange carrot. Definitely not a quality to pay 40euro for. Spider crab starter looks like amuse bouche with a tiny cloud of tasteless “bufalla” mousse. no we didn’t decide for desserts, it seems a tradition that customers of this place have deser at an excellent gelateria few steps from here. They give you some small migniardise - another catastrophy - magdalenas taste stale and more like those from a supermarket. oh! I almost forgot! They don’t know they are serving something that tasted to me more like a window wash rather than limoncello. This place looks to me very much like a tourist trap. Go only when bored and in need for some unpleasant experience on this...

Having been referred to the restaurant by our hotel, we were looking forward to a really nice evening in what is a cosy and charming establishment. The welcome was warm, and the food was ok but it was less enjoyable than at other places we ate in.

We ordered two glasses of champagne to begin with. One arrived, flat. After chasing up for the other one it did arrive with bubbles but that was not a promising start. The starters were pleasant enough, without breaking down any culinary boundaries.

We went with the langoustine as is their special and at €21 per 100g you know it is going to be an expensive meal but hopefully one that is well worth it. As it was we felt the langoustine was a little overcooked and therefore quite disappointing.

We ordered the cheeseboard and it did not taste particularly great, truth be told, so we ended up leaving a little disappointed and about €390 poorer. It certainly was not worth that and the overwhelming sense of feeling was that it had grown a bit 'tired'.

For half the cost we enjoyed better meals at La Rescator and Terra Cotta and I would recommend those above this to anyone staying...

Exquisite food. Truly artrsian everything. Unique taste that you find if you take your time to allow your tongue to sense the mNy little details and spices without being spicy. I had a lobster and it was served like even most of the best redtsurants dont do. The sicers were perfectly removed. Pargs of the front body ferfectly extracted. WOW is the best expression. Try the local wine. You find some rxzrs tast that you wont find in the grand vines of Boredeaux. Im just excited. "BIO" you dont gind. Because itd...