Colesterolo La Spezia — Restaurant in La Spezia

Avoid! Lovely seating outside but terrible food. Context: we were dining late and options open for were slim. Waiter was lovely but failed to mention the kitchen was closing before taking our drink orders, and so after bring the drinks he said we couldn’t order pasta from the First Plate menu. As we already had a drink (I had a Campari spritz that was flat and totally void of spritz 😂), even though we were disappointed not to have pasta options we opted to stay and he said he could make only carbonara or cacio e pepe. What came 20 minutes later was the worst cacio e Pepe I’ve ever had. Truly. The sauce was thick like a pint of cream had been poured in. It was like the Heinz pasta yoi used to be able to buy in a tin and microwave. I shouldn’t have ate it but I was tired and hungry, so ate it. We did complain when we went to pay but the waiter said the sauce was also like this, but looking at pictures in other reviews that doesn’t seem right. If the wanted to close and couldn’t be bothered cooking, they should’ve just...

Walked in at 9pm, the waiter said he had availability for two. Sat down and left sitting for 10 mins without a menu. The waiter came and gave us 4 food options (all pasta), said there was no menu. We thought it odd but each picked an option. Then for drinks, again there was no menu we just had to pick red or white wine. We were given a carafe of very warm white wine followed by 2 below average pasta dishes. We saw the chef leaving the kitchen and sitting at a table by himself after our food was served leaving us to believe he was finished his shift and we were only given the 4 very basic options as they were things he could whip up quickly. When we went to pay the waiter was brazen enough to ask for a tip.

Very poor standard. If the kitchen was closing we would have preferred to be turned away or told there were limited options before sitting down. Really felt taken advantage of. Avoid...

We were hungry and wanted to have just a quick lunch, it was quite busy which normally is a good sign. The first 10 minutes we have been ignored by the server, after she came to us to take our order. Ten minutes later she smashed the bottle with water unfriendly on our table. I also ordered a spaghetti with mussles. Ten minutes after the water my tea and my mothers' cappuccino arrived. Thirty minutes later I inpatiently asked for my spaghetti, "in a minute", five minutes later I got my plate spaghetti, bathing in olive oil, with some bad cooked mussles. I really got the impression they simply forgot us. When I wanted to pay the server looked at me like "what the hell you want", she had her break so walked away. After I had to wait next to an empty bar for the owner to let me pay. I was almost forced to walk away, though honest as I am haven't done it. Horrible...