Kè Eat • Ristorante Pizzeria Gaeta — Restaurant in Gaeta

I wouldn't recommend this restaurant myself, because a lot went wrong during our reservation. We had ordered a platter with meat and cheese as a starter. At the same time, they brought our main courses. When we said we wanted to eat that first, they didn't really understand and gave us the plates anyway. We were now sitting at the table with a starter and a main course. My boyfriend was looking at his main course, a kind of lasagna gnocchi in front of him. He had ordered pasta with lobster and shrimp. When we pointed this out to the staff, they said that a colleague had brought the wrong dish. We thought it was a shame that they didn't come and tell us themselves, but anyway, we said: okay, no problem, we'll eat this. When we had finished our main courses, we wanted to pay, but the waiter came with new cutlery and my boyfriend's original main course that he had ordered first. We didn't understand what was going on. We told him that we had already said we didn't want it anymore and that we were both full from the food we had already eaten. We had only asked to take the dish home with us, because it would be a shame to throw it away. The waiter apologized profusely and asked if we would like two limoncellos. We accepted, but when paying, I expected that we wouldn't have to pay for both main courses, because so much had gone wrong. Indeed, we didn't have to pay for both of my boyfriend's main courses. We were very happy about this, because we were quite disappointed. After we paid, we walked home, but the waiter came after us and said we still had to pay for my boyfriend's main course that he had ordered. Excuse me? So much went wrong, and we still had to pay the full price. I found this extremely strange and really unacceptable. I would have liked to see more in the way of...

Dinner.

Grilled octopus is very good. The fresh grilled local fish was also very good, though they left in a few bones and it came with no side dishes for euro40. The salad however was a bunch of romaine lettuce, nothing else, and no dressing. The deconstructed canolo was fun and tasty.

Unfortunately, the service was dreadful -- even though it was nowhere near full. Long ways for everything. I dropped my fourth, and he insisted on taking it, but then brought no replacement. The bread arrived after 20 minutes and it was hard, and although there's oil on the table there was no dish to put the bread on or put the oil on. The waiter did not seem pleased that I asked for one, but he did bring it (and the fork, upon second request) .

All in all not...

“Ristorante” (tra molte virgolette)

Prenotiamo per le 21, ci accomodano in una saletta al piano superiore: intima, sì… nel senso che stavamo praticamente in braccio l’uno all’altro. Inizia l’avventura gastronomica con due fritture miste e un soutè di cozze da dividere tra quattro. Le fritture? Sei anelli di calamari e tre gamberi contati (probabilmente pescati con il contagocce). Il soutè era abbondante, peccato che sotto ci fosse nascosto un limone intero: più un esperimento chimico che un antipasto.

Facciamo presente la cosa, ma decidiamo di dare fiducia al primo piatto. Sbagliato. Le linguine al pesto di basilico con tartare di gamberi erano un tuffo nel crudo (ma non nel senso elegante del termine): pasta semicruda, sommersa da pesto oleoso e con tartare di gamberi che doveva essere presente… almeno secondo la leggenda. Gli altri hanno preso una “pasta alla Nerano” con mentuccia: peccato che al palato sapesse solo di menta, come se avessero svuotato una confezione di chewing gum in padella.

Arriviamo al momento clou: il conto. 405 euro per 11 persone (antipasto, primo e una Coca Cola a testa). Alla cassa facciamo presente con garbo la nostra delusione. La risposta? Ci dicono che, dopo la nostra segnalazione sull’antipasto, hanno “bilanciato le quantità” del primo piatto. Se quelle erano le quantità “aumentate”, non oso immaginare le originali. Poi uno dei collaboratori ci accusa di non aver letto bene il menù. Infine arriva la chef, visibilmente infastidita, che ci spiega come “in certi ristoranti di livello è normale avere porzioni così”… Peccato che qui mancassero sia il livello, sia le porzioni.

Nel mezzo del confronto, come gesto di “attenzione”, ci viene tolta una frittura dal conto. Gesto apprezzabile, per carità — ma onestamente, io per tutto quello che abbiamo mangiato (e soprattutto come lo abbiamo mangiato) non avrei speso nemmeno un euro.

In conclusione: se cercate un’esperienza surreale e un conto da ristorante stellato senza stelle (né gusto), questo è il posto per voi. Altrimenti, astenersi: anche perché trovare un posto di mare dove non sanno fare nemmeno una frittura… è quasi un talento...