Ristorante Pizzeria La Corte — Restaurant in Forio

I can''t recommend this place. When I arrived, the place was 99% empty, but -- or because -- I was just one person, the waitress looked extremely put out and asked another person what she should do about me, then asked me to wait ten minutes. Yet most of the restaurant empty, including a table for just two people, so it's not like I would have taken up a table for 4 or 6. I do understand that single people are not considered good business for restaurants, but maybe try to not to make it so obvious that single diners aren't welcome and offer me somewhere to sit meanwhile -- in the end another diner who saw what happened took pity on me and offered for me to sit at her table while I waited.

This particular welcome could all have been forgiven with a good meal, but the salad I ordered was tiny, with all of two shrimps on it though shrimp was meant to be a main ingredient, total avocado portion no bigger than my thumb (again meant to be a main ingredient), a few tomatoes, and four arugula leaves. The rest was iceberg lettuce. Close to no nutrition and for sure no taste, yet cost 12€. I've had larger, much tastier salads for the same price and warmer welcomes at restaurants in touristy Sorrento, so not sure about La Corte over here.

The garden setting is lovely, but the experience wasn't. Would absolutely not return and even for not-single diners, cannot recommend this place as...

Upon entering the establishment—whose ambient aspirations toward hospitality were betrayed by a curious undercurrent of existential inertia—I was met not so much with service as with a fleeting, almost spectral encounter with a waitress, whose manner evoked less the warmth of welcome than the cryptic brevity of an oracle long disenchanted with mortal affairs. Her words, if they were words at all and not merely the suggestion of sound shaped by ennui, hung in the air like the last breath of a dream one forgets upon waking. The entire exchange, though lasting but a heartbeat, carried the weight of a parable whose moral remained defiantly elusive. I departed shortly thereafter, overcome by a quiet yet unshakable conviction that to return would be to tempt the repetition of some ineffable, recursive malaise—a looping hospitality purgatory from which the soul might never quite...

If you’re not Italian, skip this place. We reserved a table and were welcomed by someone that is potentially the owner but was unhappy to see us we don’t know why. We waited 15 minutes before someone gave us the menu and 30 before ordering without any smiles from people who work there. Antipasti was decent, pastas were not good honestly. Then the owner who welcomed us at first came to us with the bill without even asking if we want to take desserts. More than 100€ spend in a place that is not...