La Scala — Restaurant in Vierzon

Hmmmm. Nice ambience but overpriced. Average food at premium prices. My spaghetti ‘Sexy Bio Pollo’ was underwhelming. Bog standard slices of chicken and mushrooms in a vaguely creamy sauce with three slices of bresaola bunged on top with some of the awful sticky brown stuff pretending to be balsamic vinegar - for 16:00 € +??!! Cheese board was good but served with two pieces of bread! Two pieces???? In France I’d normally expect half a baguette. This betrays a penny pinching attitude. Why skimp on bread when it costs pence? I also ordered a house red with the cheese board which arrived chilled. Actually it drank fine chilled but I’m guessing that’s why it was chilled!My conclusion? 50 € for a very average meal!! Fur coat...

After having phoned 20 minutes beforehand, our reservation had not been written down or registered when we arrived.

It was quite busy, so there was a long queue even for those of us that had reserved. It seemed a bit disorganised to me and some diners were clearly being treated different to others. I think there were some frequent customers amongst us.

The service was really slow, we had to go get menus for ourselves. My spaghetti was served lukewarm

The location is great, right by the canal.

Perhaps it was...

In simple terms: effective cooking with a chronic shortage of staff. This is the busiest place in town, but only because they don't turnover table quick enough. It took half an hour for our drinks (they lost out turnover as we would have had another round) the check also took half an hour to arrive after requesting (that had people waiting to sit as well). Overall this could be amazing but their understaffing and over pricing...