Da Tapulin — Restaurant in Levanto

Let me start by saying this would be 4.8 if I could. They forgot Joe's coffee in the end. Okay .. you're gonna see a lot of pictures, I will tell you at the end what it cost. First we start with a bottle of sparkling water- which in Italy is "water with gas" - lemon tea and a liter of wine. Now we order up some fried eggplant. Pretty nice. Meanwhile- the owner is magnificent as is her waitresses and staff. The cook? He's gotta be going crazy. The place is hoping. Time to order. Joe and I are extremely troubled. There's several things we want to order- but - we can't eat that, so, we decided to split some things. We order the stuffed muscles, grilled sea food plates and the ravioli. Our lovely wives are miffed. Too much. "WE'RE SPLITTING IT!" THE GIRLS ORDER UP A HUGE BOWL OF SOME SORT OF SOUP and a plate of spaghetti vongole. When it comes - we get down to business. In Italy we commonly find that calamari is CUTTLEFISH. This is. They also didn't clean the "poop" vein out of the lobster or the very large shrimp. I did and it was delicious! Okay. All great. No room for some fantastic looking desserts. How much? We were out of there for around 80 bucks. From the USA - we still tip. When in this town - stay at hotel primovera and eat at least once here. It's right around the...

I don't know where to begin. This was the worst restaurant visit ever. We ordered two dishes for both of us with my wife. For the starter we had to wait over 45 minutes while people around got their food in time. When we finally got our dishes, my wife had a hair in her food. No apology but she got new dish.

After the starters we had to wait another 45 minutes for the main dishes. Which were both completely wrong dishes! We didn't order them! After all this there was no apologies, no discount, nothing.

I don't know what we did to deserve this. Honestly my only explanation is that we don't really speak Italian and waitress didn't like that. This is a warning to all foreigners who don't speak Italian: avoid this place at all cost! There are places where you will get better service.

And as there was no apologies I have a feeling that this was done in purpose. Why do you treat tourists like this? What did...

Nice location with decent indoor and outdoor seating. The servers were accommodating of our one year old which we appreciated. They had at least two height chairs available too. We sat outside and the street light above kept going on and off which was not the restaurants fault but did get annoying. The starter bread was not fresh. We split the salmon gnocchi which I thought was good not great. It didn’t have much salmon in it. It also had a Smokey flavor and we weren’t sure if that was intentional or not. We also got the seafood risotto for two which was a decent portion size but we weren’t too impressed with it. Maybe our expectations were off with this dish. Personally not a fan of when shrimp has head and feet on but also think that’s the style. A lot of seafood but not much...