L'Osteria Erlangen — Restaurant in Erlangen

BEWARE OF STUFF TRICKS (SCAM) Now that i drew the attention of the reader, i would like to warn everyone going to this restaurant as after my own experience + independent experience of my friends i am quite confident in the title of this review. I live in Erlangen for 5 years and this restaurant used to be one of my favorite as i really enjoyed the food here. However, last Wednesday 27.03.24 me and my friend were tricked really badly by one very friendly waitress, who brought us a bottle of wine for €45 instead of the ordered one for ca €20. I am far from being a wine expert and, honestly, didnt expect that i need to carefully check the labels on the wine to make sure that the waiter didnt “accidentally” bring you the wine that costs MORE THAN TWICE AS MUCH AS WHAT YOU ACTUALLY ORDER AND CAN AFFORD. The realization came only in the moment of payment as we didnt expect for the bill to be that huge.

Now my thing is. I am not blaming the waitress. I am only having questions towards the manager. When the problem appeared, the manager didnt bother to come to our table. They told the waitress that “if we drank the wine we should pay” and disappeared. My opinion, THIS TYPE OF SCHEME IS DONE TO THE CUSTOMERS OF THIS RESTAURANT ON PURPOSE. this is confirmed by: complete ignoring of our situation by the manager and escaping before the conflict was ever solved (it wasnt) ignoring of the email with the complaint that my friend immediately sent them similar experience that happened to our friends in the same restaurant! (they ordered two halves of the pizza and got two pizzas instead and were told “you can take them home!”)

The waitress tried to solve the conflict by giving her €10, but that is not enough to change my opinion about this restaurant. I am not ever returning here again as well...

I must start with the quality of pizza we ordered first: we ordered Salmon Pizza, it was well prepared and tasted good. Drawback, not even near to enough salmon on the pizza! Even the small amount they used could have been cut to smaller pieces and spread out evenly over the pizza. After all, I wanted Salmon pizza, and not a cheese pizza with occasional bumping into salmon chunks. Another drawback here was service. Although in the super little time we had from the waitress she was super nice, we were mostly left hanging looking for her to order something spicy (like a sauce) or get the check to pay or the colossal time it took to ask for the water that was ordered in the first place anyways. As much as the decor is very nice and somewhat classy looking, the overly loud music made holding a conversation very hard. I had to speak by raising my voice so much that i got dry throat just talking to a friend sitting across the table less than 1 meter in diameter. Overall, I would like to stop by and give them a try one more time. Perhaps based on the next two or three visits, I will reduce the stars to 3...

This place has an okay staff and the atmosphere is nice in general and the food is also decent but I don’t know who’s Nonna approved. The pizza is okay but be careful not to order any pizza with veggies on it, the base gets really soggy. When we mentioned this to our waiter, he literally blamed us for choosing that and told us we should’ve expected it. The Nduja pizza was a good choice though, a spicy option if you’re looking for one. The pasta is also just okay. I’ve had the Aglio e Olio and it was pretty bland. I’ve had it before in other places and it’s really flavourful with garlic, parsley, chilli flakes and olive oil but this just felt like oil and spaghetti. The seafood gnocchi is a big no, the shrimp taste is too overpowering which makes me think it’s not fresh. The Lasagna and drinks were good so...