Al Carroponte — Restaurant in Bergamo

Relaxed anf fun, wine focused restaurant. Odd location in between lots of apartments but once you are inside you notice the stacks of wine bottles lining every wall and corner. We sat inside on a hot summer day (A/C was not strong enough). My family started off with the finger food apps (chicken wings, fried pizza, shrimp sandwich were all excellent. I would pass on the mini burgers. The seafood Emotions platter was very fresh fish and shrimps. For pasta we had spaghetti with shrimp (a bit bland), pork ragu (better) and bergamo casoncelli (amazing). For mains we had octopus (dish was just warm when it arrived and it wasn’t busy tonight, celeriac was too tough to chew), pigeon and pork dishes were both a bit dry, tuna with peppers was very disappointing and bland completely lacking flavour or sauce. For dessert we had cheesecake and torta (both good but not cold enough) and creama catalana (too plain). They even offered us additional desserts (whipped white chocolate, carrot cake and chocolate cake bites). For wines we tried 2 different glasses of italian whites and 1 glass of red based on our server’s recommendation. While the wines were good, the amount of wine per glass poured was very llittle compared to a lot of fine restaurants we have been to this past week. Service was excellent. Overall a decent meal but not sure if it’s worthy of a Michelin...

Huge disappointment as for the restaurant you can find in the Michelin Guide.

The dishes were served cold and, what’s more important, prepared without any imagination (you would expect that from the restaurant on the Michelin Guise list). Simple lamb (meat not cleaned properly) served with grilled pieces of vegetables, and tuna (as a fish of a day).

The only interesting one was “Xiao Long Bao”, with some kind of character. But that’s it.

Moreover, wine list is on 88 (!) pages, as this is a wine shop. But… the waiter couldn’t recommend anything, simply asking us if we want red, white or sparkling. I would call it: funny and unprofessional. We ordered red, for the price of not more than 40€. We got it. Relief.

On top of that: the restaurant is in the residential area, far away from Cita Bassa. We have specially selected this place, as we have never been disappointed by the Michelin recommendation. Ane we wanted to celebrate our visit to Bergamo.

Anyway: stay away from this place. Don’t go there: it’s a waste of...

I really really want to write a great review of this place as their service was great. Making reservations, arrival, wine suggestions, paying the bill everything was fine. The menu is very curated, and the wine was matched perfectly with the food. However there are a few things that would prevent me from coming back. Firstly there is something about the table lay outs and lighting in the room, bit rigid. The menus were hard-ish to understand, however, it was nice that additional languages were available. A lot of raw meat. The oysters, possibly my own mis-understanding, however I was hoping for more selection in preparation. They were very accommodating at the time and we did come up with 2 preparations. It was a nice evening, although I left slightly...