Osteria Tumelin — Restaurant in Levanto

When entering we liked the ambiance and staff. Prices were high, but if it's high quality seafood plus touristic area not crazy.

This was however the first time we asked the check and left before main course. We ordered the antipasti tumelin, which was a weird combination of old and dry cold starters and cold hot starters. The prawns desintegrated when trying to peel them and tasted like old freezer/rubber. Filled mussels and breaded anchovies were bland and room temp. Everything seems to be made hours in advance and definitely not fresh. Toilet was also very dirty with lingering sigarette smoke. No appetite left over after that and no trust that main dishes would be worth eating let alone the price.

Service however was very good as there was no problem with us leaving (after asking if it would be possible/not started preparing mains) and we didn't have to pay...

The food and service ok. When asked waiter really did not know what to recommend. we had antipasti Tumelin which were 24.50 per person. So, antipasti I thought were good but so sour that at some point I stopped eating and got a little bit sick. Couldn’t eat my primi piatti (pasta tumelin) cause I felt like I was going to throw up. I don’t think it was the reason that something was not good or went bad, it was just too sour. Everything too salty and sour. I tried spaghetti Tumelin as we shared it with my father and they were good but too much curry in it. Then panna cotta and tiramisu for desert...it was okay, nothing special. Then we asked for the bill and it took them a really long time to get it. If you ask me, you can find a better place definitely in Levanto, just make sure you reserve before since it is all and...

If you are reading this post, there is still a chance for you to save your meal: don't go there ! Our hotel recommended us this place. We read the comments on Google giving them few importance (we wanted to see what is like), but some of them are not telling lies: it's a show-off place. The facts. The service was awful. The tablecloth and the cutlery were really dirty. They didn't serve us the wine, dropped the plates on the table, not giving attention. We took oven cooked fish which was over cooked, oily, expensive and had a bad taste (the oven should be clean up). We saw that there were two kinds of clients : the locals which were welcomed and the others (the tourists). I could tell more thing about the experience, the last is that we had a good laugh... which was bitter and...