il calderone — Restaurant in Comunità Montana Valli del Verbano

How arrogant are you?? We arrived at 9pm to have a nice and relaxed dinner. We were really looking forward to as the restaurant was our favourite one in the past years. However, such a kind of unfriendlyness and arrogance we experienced this time I have never faced in any restaurant in the world before. We entered the terrace as usual waiting to be seated. There were several free tables. Very quickly a taller blond waitress arrived. We friendly said "Hello" and asked for a table for two. She was just looking at us or better saying it was a kind of inspecting us and without saying a word and re-checking for availibility of a free table she refused us with a simple "No" and disappeared without any further explanation. Really, we were speachless. We were dressed for dinner, asked friendly for a table and were treated that disrespectful und unfriendly....

TOURISTS TRAP, AVOID AVOID AVOID. Booked a table for 7. Arrived at 8pm and ordered at half past (which is fine) and then waited 50 minutes for our starters to arrive 🤡. They didn't even came all at once and were more than disappointing. Mine was just 5 cherry tomatoes sliced in 2 and a huge ball of Mozzarella, no oil, no sauce no presentation no nothing. That is pretty upsetting for 11€. By 10pm only one ouf our main courses had arrived, it was already cold so even their microwaving techniques are unsatisfying 🙃. We left at quater past ten because we figured out that the preparation of our main dishes had barely even started and the restaurant was not even crowded.The staff didn't seem to care anyway despite our several sollicitations. A...

The experience here was so bad. It left a terrible taste in my mouth.. i stewed on writing a review because I don’t normally but felt it important to say. The service was awful. The waitress was foul tempered and rude - and slow slow slow. The food was bland, tasteless and overpriced.. things were wrong on the order and nothing was done about it. This place gives restaurants on lago Maggiore a bad name- a tourist trap?? Perhaps the owners need to assess how they pay and train the staff and from the other reviews it’s clear this is not a one off.. shame because the location is good - caldé is beautiful.. this place is ugly in its...