Restaurant La Zucca — Restaurant in Aschheim

I travel for a living, and have had the opportunity to eat in many restaurants, pubs, and cafe’s around the world. I’ve become rather good at guessing the quality of the experience before I walk in to a place. I failed this time, but it may not be my fault.

My impression of this restaurant is that they have not decided whether they are a fine dining experience or the neighborhood pub. They have elements of both, and I did not like the way those elements were arranged.

If you like yelling over your beef carpaccio through an empty restaurant for a waiter that’s too busy gossiping to take your drink order: this is the place! Two waiters, only three tables occupied, and I had to go out of my way every time I wanted something, because no one thought that I should need anything...like food. The food itself was also a mix of bar food and culinary exquisiteness. For some reason, I had a pepper grinder and Parmesan shaker placed arbitrarily on my table (They serve pizza here too).

The beef carpaccio was very good. No complaints. The grilled baby calamari were delicious 😋, but I was put off by the side of iceberg lettuce smothered in thousand island dressing. What a weird thing to put next to calamari?! And ew!

There was a small bread basket placed on the table when I ordered my Chianti. I stared at it for a bit, wondering if it would soon be accompanied by butter, or dipping oil....something? Nope. Just three slices of plain french bread. 😯

The panna cotta was also good, and the presentation was nice.

My bill: €49

I’ve paid less than that and had much better service. I went to a nice restaurant to have a nice experience and instead I left feeling upset. This shouldn’t happen. Personally, I feel I could excuse the weird bread and salad if the waiters had made an effort to be professional. But like most things: it’s all...

It is a fairly standard, if not below standard, Italian restaurant.

For a place which should - in view location - be catering towards professionals, the service (whilst polite) is far too slow and the food is too expensive (for example, the scampi costs €27 and an average pizza €8-12). Unfortunately the pizzas were also not the best for my liking - too doughy. My wife's pasta dish was o--k, but the portion was too small to justify €12.

There is no lunch menu (Mittagskarte), which is surprising considering the clientele.

All in all, I would sadly not recommend the place and we will not...

Very average ordinary food ! I had spaghetti with shrimps, but they were the frozen tasteless type in tiny size, with a couple of cherry tomatos without much taste ! Also, the staff were not polite, they didn't smile and just wanted to finish with us as soon as possible ! No tips, of course, I don't...