Officina del Gusto Cucina e Laboratorio — Restaurant in Cagliari

between all my Google's opinions posted in three different continents in the last 20 years on more then hundred of establishments this is gonna be the most controversial:

seafood spectacular!

homemade pasta good but mostured so not very digestible

presentation good, pasta served straight from the pan 🥘

Tuna tartar fresh and tasty but half of the size promised by others guide's pictures (possibly drove by the owner) and served without proper condiments but an commercial already moled black pepper.

wine I've been told not too bad for the price

service...the worst ever including the only waiter who standed barbarianly between me and an other client (from Milan who's been treated as a prince cause the accent, even if i dont have any, at least to them, but my mom and companion's have a bit) while in the middle of a good conversation, just to cut the conversation and say that they were gonna close soon. not mentioning how abruptly he imposed us a table when we choosed already a bigger one with the terrace totally empty. another waitress who was driving to me like we knew each other since the college and giving the feeling she was doin every time a favor. last but not least the third waitress, who i guess was the owner, treated us respectfully and professionally. i have no comment for her husband as well owner, supposed to be the Cook (Chef? ahahah) who asked me, leaving the place, to leave the door open like i was one of his employee.

good home made limoncello tough

PS:"my" only shortcoming was half an hour delay from the time reserved due to my mom 87yrs old and her friend who's 77 so not the speediest companions.

ND: as of my habit when i go to visit my mom to Sardinia, place where i grew up, and i go out, i dress, on porpouse like a young 60s hippie cause i know the closed/unfair but very "judge-the-book-by-its-cover" mentality...once again it turned out to be true. (to be fair i have to say that all around the world nowadays' happening)

Regards

Reply to the untrue answer from the owner:

I've parked properly on the only spot available , a corner just behind your car which occupied two places. As soon as ive been told, while eating and with unproper manner, i moved it even if was totally unnecessary due the the enough space available to leave, going easily backward, the parking from its position. ive been offered by the Milanese client to take advantage of the wine cup to wash out my hands and offering to use as well his napkin to dry then 'em. by the way he's testimony of both actions and hope he's gonna intervine in this cause still on vacation over there. Now..Let ME suggest YOU something..being so arrogant and untruthful as entrepreneur the only thing you gonna receive back is, sooner or later, the boomerang you just threw.. people ain't stupid neither not aware of the Google's review power like you showed to be.

stay hungry, stay foolish dear young entrepreneur

salut!

ps: the waitress lady deserve to...

We came here in a group of 11 people without any reservation which could be quite challenging but the owner of this restaurant set up for all of us in the shades.

The owner spoke only Italian and Spanish and a very broken English but thanks to his happiness the communication was not an issue.

Regarding the food, it was very tasty, most of us ordered the pasta with seafoods : The pasta were al dente but not too hard like the ones you can have in the mainland and the seafood were fresh from the day. The main dishes were so tasty that one of us cleaned the pan so well that it could be reuse straight away. The desert were excellent as well, do not hesitate to order the tiramisu (best of the world as they call it here) or the gelator di Antonio...

I will admit, the food is good and tasty. It’s authentic and you can fell the freshness of the homemade pasta HOWEVER the service was horrible because they seams to hate to serve to none Italian speaker. We went to the restaurant for the second time to have dinner but they brushed us off. They weren’t very friendly accept for one staff and the rest were very annoyed by our present just because we cant speak Italian. The staff ignored us when we tried to call them and (the owner not sure?) rolled his eyes when we ask a simple question. The food deserves a 5 stars but there’re attitude and services was horrible and deserve an absolutely 0 star. I wouldn’t recommend this restaurant if you CAN’T...