Worst experience in a foreign country ever. They even called the police on me unnecessarily! Tourists beware”! I had a miserable evening and experience here which ruined an otherwise nice time in Capri. Safe to say I will never go back. This place even called the police on me! (A foreigner in Italia-luckily I am EU through my wife or else it would have gotten even more terrible) because they called the police saying I was refusing to pay which was a lie. I never said I wouldn’t pay I said I would not pay owhat they were overcharging me. I have traveled the world and such ridiculous behaviour from an establishment has never happened before. They were trying to overcharge me a drink where I had dropped a little and asked if they could just refill it. It was not much more than half a glass was spilled and the pours are already quite small. Long story short it wasn’t the small amount that they had to refill but that they took whatever was left in the glass (over half a glass of wine) and charged me for that without me even being able to finish it. When I asked where it was they admitted to taking it away before it was finished. I spoke to two waiters about it and they said I wouldn’t be charged for it and then ordered one last one with my friend which we shared. When I got to the till to pay the bill the glass was on the bill. I explained repeatedly to the guy the situation and he was belligerent and rude and I said “fine if you are going to charge more for this drink I at least want the original drink or half a drink (whatever) that they charged me for.” Very fair and reasonable to get what you pay for. He said no we don’t do have half drinks and anyway they already threw it out. I said how do you expect me to pay for something even the half or full price which I was willing to if you just admitted to me that you threw it out and you are overcharging me for something I did not have? Then he became difficult and called the police telling them I was refusing to pay which was a lie I was just not going to pay what he was overcharging me. In the end I paid the full amount because the police didn’t understand me and I wasn’t going to go to the police station over some bad business practice person overcharging me at a bar. My friend got mad at me for allowing this guy to ruin our evening which is the only time I usually write a review when the experience is so bad people should be warned but the whole point was that the principle of the situation was so bad. A business calling the police on someone over a valid dispute over a silly glass of wine. 100% unacceptable. My credit card dispute will cost them more than their glass of wine and my bank will side with me obviously in the end so the only thing this place got was two less customers for sure and whoever else decides they want to risk going to a place that treats customers like this and calls the...
Read moreThis was our first stop in Capri, and unfortunately, it was a terrible start to our trip.
I honestly didn’t know it was possible to have bad Italian food in Italy, but this wasn’t just bad — it was awful. We paid (if I remember correctly) €16 for a lasagna and €16 for a carbonara. The prices seemed fine at first, but the portions were shockingly small. The lasagna was maybe the size of an iPhone Max, and the carbonara was gone after about five bites.
Not only were the portions tiny, but the food itself was extremely poor. The carbonara had no pancetta at all, and the sauce tasted chemical and strangely lemony. Maybe that’s some Capri twist (lemons everywhere, I get it), but if that’s the case, it should really be mentioned on the menu that this is not a traditional carbonara. My friend compared it to airplane food, and honestly, I agreed.
As for my lasagna — well, let’s just say the lasagna I had on a flight once was better.
A Coke was €9 and a bottle of water €7 — which, okay, maybe that’s Capri, but still…
The service was mediocre, nothing particularly friendly or attentive.
Overall, a huge disappointment and definitely not the kind of place that represents the amazing Italian cuisine we...
Read moreCongratulations to this establishment for achieving what I previously thought impossible: making Italians look bad at pizza. This culinary catastrophe has somehow managed to bastardize Italy's most sacred dish into something that would make a frozen supermarket pizza weep with shame. Their Margherita—and I use that term loosely—is a masterclass in how to transform simple, quality ingredients into an expensive abomination. For the privilege of choking down what can only be described as cardboard topped with suspicious red paste and rubber masquerading as mozzarella, you'll pay tourist-trap prices that would make even Capri's notoriously overpriced vendors blush while the atmosphere of Piazzetta di Capri's buzz provides the perfect soundtrack to your culinary suffering. Fear not, though: you can attempt to wash down this travesty with their criminally overpriced sparkling water, which at least has the decency to be identifiable as the substance it claims to be. After this gastronomic assault on your wallet and taste buds, you'll find yourself sprinting toward the exit, swearing a blood oath never to darken their doorway again, happy to...
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