Quatar Pass — Restaurant in Como

Have been confused by how good the reviews have been, it was ok, and disappointing in parts. All the good parts: excellent, polite service. Wine was great. Ordered the beef tartare with vinaigrette, but either they forgot to put in the vinaigrette or it was imperceptible, so the beef was bland and tasteless. My wife ordered the lamb chops, and it was cooked perfectly. But they were tiny, and there were 4 pieces, with little on the side. My wife is not a big eater, but she was still unsatisfied by the portions. I ordered the fried fish with mixed vegetables. There was no fish. I mean zero fish. There was fried squid, and fried prawns on my plate. However they were cooked very well and tasted great. As for the mixed vegetables? There was fried zucchini, but no other vegetables. (It also was cooked very well, the batter was great). Maybe there was something lost in translation between the English menu and the Italian one? All in all, I feel like we got tricked somehow, maybe they don't care for tourists and treat locals differently? Or maybe it changed hands more recently? Not sure. But I don't understand how we got such a different experience with others here, which maybe it means different customers are treated differently. I hope...

It's so nearly 5 starts all round, but the service is overly stuffy, the restaurant is so white I wanted to put sunglasses on, entrance is via a doorbell all very pretentious. I was told at 7.30 I must eat immediately and not book for 30 mins later, why? The place was almost empty for my whole visit? The meal was good but maybe not as good as it could have been, ravioli with an egg yolk I expected to be runny, but no. The small lobsters in Catalan sauce tasted too much of celery.

I was very aware that the only other diners where very favoured, they where visited by the chef, they where offered free drinks after the meal, I was not, they where Italian and I am not?? But I spend months a year in Italy and I understand enough......

€80 bill for one, I'd have been happier at €65 but I paid and left, as I type this I'm walking into town for a very pleasant final evening in Italy drink.

Lastly please please sort the music out, it continually cuts out and returns, by the end of my visit I wanted to throw the speaker out of the window, my suggestion is wire it to the network, don't...

Do not eat at this extraordinary restaurant. Walk on past its barely perceptible door. Shun the temptress Sara, with her amazing grigliata di pesce and her frizzante, Friuli Sauvignon and lemon vodka sorbet. Everyman, this place is not for you. Its 22 covers are taken by laughing Faustian devils who probably went to school with Sara, and know things about her that only the most fiendish gastronomical attentions will assuage. Nothing else can explain how food as good as this can be had at such a reasonable price. When the man at the next table asks for a malt whisky to end his meal, how can Sara slosh a quarter bottle of Lagavulin into his tumbler? Quite a bit of it was left when he had gone, but that might have been a wink she gave me, as she cleared his...