Osteria all'Inferno dal 1905 — Restaurant in La Spezia

UPDATE owner replied saying that it’s the wrong restaurant. To prove him wrong, I uploaded a photo of the food i had with the paper underneath the dish with their phone number on it

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DISHONEST OWNER - will not go again! THEY DONT WELCOME FOREIGNERS

Had dinner here today and our bill was 38 euro and I paid 50 dollar bill. it took the owner a while to give us back the changes as he gave me a lot of coins. The change should be 12 euro and he only gave me a 5 dollar note and only a few cents.

Felt really strange because normally if the cashier doesn’t have enough paper bill, they’d apologize for giving you all the coins. Apparently they didn’t, so I felt the urge to count the coins to check and realized its missing 5 euro!!!!

Went back inside the restaurant to tell the owner, HE DIDNT LOOK APOLEGETIC WHATSOEVER. He quickly grabbed a 5 dollar note ON THE TABLE - as if he purposely put it there to “pretend he forgets to give it to me”

CHECK YOUR BILL AND ALSO CHANGES WHEN YOU LEAVE

Also, “service” is non existent. It seems to me that they do not welcome foreigners. We ordered a bottle of wine and the wine came without wine glasses. Sat there and waited for 10 mins, still no signs of giving us wine glasses so we had to ask for it. AWFUL...

This restaurant was recommended to us and since it had such a good Review we gave it a shot. We knew we had do make a reservation so we did that. So we arrived, and the waiting began; 5 Minutes to get a table, 20 minutes for a unfriendly waiter to show up and ask for drinks, another 10 minutes to get the water and another 20 to get the wine (with glasses I would never give to any guest, they were dirty and both were broken on the top, but obviously nobody cared), then we ordered food and waited another 30 minutes. We had Black Pasta with Mussels which were really good! And a sea bass which I had more time to pick all fish bones than to eat.

After we sat there in front of our empty plates, we waited 45! Minutes and since no waiter showed up I went inside to pay and leave.

Well, we thought they were really busy inside but as I looked there were only 5 tables occupied, and with 3 waiters that should be more than enough!

Finally, we can't recommend this place even though the price is ok for what you get, but the service ruins the...

If you manage to reserve a table you'll be in for a homecooked treat, foods absolutely amazing, portions are generous and excellent value for money.

We stumbled upon All'Inferno by recommendation of a bar lady during a few aperitif's before hand & luckily we went to the restaurant for opening time at 19:30 on the dot, otherwise the place was fully booked out for the next few hours.

Menu is somewhat limited in choice but what they do offer they do well, with daily specials being on offer depending on what products are in season, but meat/fish options available. Vermentino house white wine was fruits and refreshing, as was the price for 3 people which came to €65 EUR based on 1 litre of house wine, mineral water, beef carpacchio, pesto pasta, 2 x meat ravioli, fish in onion sauce and 2 x coffees.

Will definitely visit again and the meal was one of the best that we tried along the Ligurian coast. Run by locals, for the locals & ...