Caffe Internazionale Restaurant — Restaurant in Forio

I never expect great things from a tourist restaurant, and this one was no exception. Apart from the beautiful location, there's not much to save: the appetizer with peppered mussels and cold cuts was decent. The pasta with porcini mushrooms, on the other hand, is forgettable – watery, bland, and flavorless. The ribeye was good (difficult to mess up), although they didn't inquire about my preferred level of doneness (luckily, it arrived rare, as I prefer, but not everyone likes it that way), but it was accompanied by a meager serving of "vegetables" (essentially half a grilled zucchini).

The bill was in line with the prices in the area, but beware: there was an error, albeit a minor one – I was charged for an extra bottle of water, so make sure to carefully check the bill.

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Good food (except the salad as another reviewer has already said) but CAUTION when ordering as we ended up two unnecessary and not very good 8 euro salads because the waiter asked "chips or salad with that?" as if an included choice. They wouldn't remove it, so I won't go there again. Anyway, I felt this was disingenuous as we could have ordered anything from the contorni (side dishes) if we had wanted. This is a cheap tactic from an otherwise decent and relatively expensive place. Also,, don't like the fact that the colourful plates that dress the table are recycled countless times without being washed. And everyone touches them and some look a little grubby on close inspection but sometimes you are expected to eat...

The restaurant was quiet and the initial service was OK although we were given menus but not told about the items on the board. Our starter arrived promptly and was delicious but then we then waited a further 20 minutes for pasta; so long that another waiter showed us the dessert menu thinking we'd finished. When the pasta arrived, the sauce for my carbonara was split; oily scrambled egg and bacon pasta was not what I had in mind when I ordered. When the plates were removed no-one made any attempt to show us the dessert menu. When we paid the waiter said that the card machine was slow and wandered off leaving the machine on the table. We had to call sometime over to complete the transaction so we...