Ristorante Cardinale Colle — Restaurant in Colle di Val d'Elsa

Decent food with horrible service in an warm but beautiful underground cellar.

We requested a bottle of wine and put in our order and then sat there empty handed for over an hour and a half. We watched every single table, including those who came in an hour after us receive drinks and food...still nothing. After 3 plus requests to a head waiter who seemingly refused to look our way (Perhaps due to us being American) we finally received our waters and wine thanks to a young, newly employed waiter who was very apologetic.

The place was nearly empty by the time we were offered any service and wasn't that busy to begin with. So there truly was no excuse.

Wild boar tagliatelle was very good as were the desserts. Do you know what was better? The food and service directly across the street at a lively little restaurant...

I would love to give to restaurant more stars but i just can't. Stuff working at the restaurant are the same as working in the hotel and they are very nice, polite and friendly. The location of the restaurant is also very nice. The food in 2 times eating there was 1 time very good and 1 time quite bad. There aren't many choices at the menu, which is understandable, since they want to serve fresh food and since it is for more or less the guest of the hotel. Ragu was very good, but the chicken wings very VERY small and only bones more or less served with 3 pieces of vegetabe and 3 potatoes and it costs 18 euro, additional potatoes that i ordered were 6€ and were served cold. So basically 24€ for chicken with potatoes and then even not good or served correctly i was disappointed. Selection of wines is big and they...

Nous avons séjourné 3 nuits au Relais Della Rovere et nous avons donc dîner un soir dans ce restaurant. Le cadre au sein de l’hôtel est très sympa, surtout en terrasse l’été le soir mais la qualité des plats ne sont pas toujours au rendez-vous et provoque du coup une déception au vu du prix. Le tartare de bœuf était très bon, mais il manquait un peu d’assaisonnement. Les pâtes à la truffe était bonnes mais on sent que ce ne sont pas des pâtes maisons et dans un bain avec un peu trop de beurre. Les gnocchis étaient plutôt bons mais le pesto n’étaient sans doute pas maison et manquaient un peu de saveurs. Le choix de la carte des vins est important mais presque aucune bouteille à moins de 45€. Nous avons terminé par une planche de pecorino à partager par peur d’être déçus des desserts. La planche était assez copieuse en fromages mais on cherche encore les accompagnements mentionnés sur la carte. Bref, pour pour un repas à plus de 60€ par personne nous avons été globalement déçu. Je recommande l’hôtel mais hormis si vous n’avez vraiment pas envie de bouger, passer votre chemin sur le restaurant ! Je finirai sur une note positive avec un service aimable et...