La Vecchia Tana Bali — Restaurant in Bali

First of all, the pizzas are incredible. The Diavola is my favorite. It’s everything you could ask for in a pepperoni pizza. The raviolis are good as well. The fruit juices are delicious and fresh. Where I’m removing stars is every time I’ve tried to deviate from my go-to order, I’ve regretted it. The appetizers with cured meats are just not it for me. They feel haphazardly thrown together. They’re not bad taste wise, but it doesn’t feel cohesive. The ingredients don’t complement each other. Also, I tried ordering the bolognese with gnocchi, expecting a hearty bolognese sauce with spicy ground beef. I got lukewarm canned tomato soup with some beef and veggies where the tomato part of the sauce had separated from the watery part; plus, mushy, unformed, gnocchi that was not warm in the center. I understand that I requested a custom recipe, but I would not eat the bolognese sauce with any other type of pasta. Below you can see what it looks like. Does that look like bolognese to anyone else? If you come here, get the pizzas. You won’t have regrets.

Edit: What a bad way to take feedback. Just because the ingredients are listed doesn’t mean it’s going to be made well. I had two bites of the bolognese before leaving. It was basically untouched and your staff knows it. I wouldn’t feed it to a dog. Notice how the owners said nothing about the gnocchi. Because they know it’s bad. 3 stars is a fair review for a mixture of good and bad experiences. If you can’t make something well...

Wow... There's a reason this restaurant is sitting at 4.9 stars with 35+ reviews.

The pizza was VERY authentic (comparing with pizzas you find in Italy) If you've ever been to Italy, you know 95% of the list of pizzas is useless, because all you'll order is the queen margherita to have that authentic taste.

My girlfriend had pasta. I hate mushroom. It was mushroom sauce home made raviolis. I hate mushrooms. Did I say I hate mushrooms? Well, I wanted to devour her plate regardless. It was that good.

I am amazed at how locals have NAILED Italian food here. I wasn't expecting much because whenever we travel, if we're not eating local-type food, we always get disappointed. Even if the reviews from other travellers seem good. Please. Do yourself a favor, and that moment you're tired of eating asian/Balinese food, pass by here and treat yourself to a good meal. You'll want to go back for sure.

I don't often leave reviews. And people usually tend to review bad experiences more than they write positive ones. But I took the time to come leave this review because that's how much they blew my mind.

I DON'T WANT TO OVERHYPE IT, so please forget everything written here except : go eat at this restaurant. And leave a review once...

Read Luka's review and saw the rating so I thought I'd check it out.

I travel constantly and always try and taste pasta to find who does the best version of bolognaise, gnocchi, ravioli etc.

I ordered the Queen Margarita and it was spot on so the pizza is good here...that's about it unfortunately.

I make it a habit to order a few pasta dishes to try and get a variety and so I went ahead and ordered the cabonara, ravioli sage butter and the penne creamy tomato sauce.

The cabonara was way too salty, struggled to swallow a second spoonful. The penne was runny which is generally a big no-no in my book but it doesn't necessarily mean the taste is bad; unfortunately this was not memorable. The ravioli wasn't bad, a little too aldente for my taste but it too wasn't anything special so I'm a tad bit confused by all the high rating reviews.

On a positive note, the staff were very friendly and that made it a pleasant place to eat at regardless of the quality of the meal. Definitely stick to the pizza.

I give it a 2 stars because I was going there for the pasta. If I was intending to eat pizza I would have given...