Osteria L'Arco — Restaurant in Matera

This is the second time that I'm writing this comment. Unfortunately the first time it was deleted by mistake. Anyway I'm writing in English because it will be easier to understand for everybody. And also this is very short version of previous comment. The food was good. Wine: here I would like to tell A LOT A LOT about the wine. For the people, who don't know. Here, in Basilicana, they make a sparkling wine. Even in Matera is Matera spumante metodo classico. But I was drinking Prosecco😐. As a sommelier I like to taste something new. I like to taste the wine of the zone. But the sommelier/responsabile di sala decided that prosecco is good. I understand that here are a lot of tourists who don't give a damn about what are they drinking or eating or seeing, or hearing(about hearing later). But wine, architecture and food help you represent zone, to hove more client and, obviously earn more money. So please, put some spumante of the zone in your cantina. By the way, red wine is from Basilicana and it was good(after prosecco I asked for something local) HEARING. Meanwhile I was eating, this osteria was visited by the group of Asian people. And I've heard some racist jokes from the waiter and responsabile sala, or whoever he is, which I don't really appreciate. If you don't like another races - speak about it at home, not on a work, or to a client. P.S. I didn't have a possibility to taste Matera spumante, so I can't tell anything about this. But still this is the wine of the zone. At least serve wine of Puglia, if you don't like Matera DOC, but not a sparkling from the opposite...

Very nice place, authentic food. They had local meat options: pork or beef, cooked in different ways. For starter we ordered the antipasto di giorno, it was a salty cake with salami piccante and served with tomato sauce. Very delicious! We ordered the beef cooked with D.O.C. red wine and the dish of the day which was orecchiette with fave sauce (a type of beans) and local mushrooms. And we ordered vino della casa, wine of the house, all delicious. They had a cake with oranges and pepper, with a peculiar taste but not for everyone, it was spicy for me but my bf liked it. I ordered sufle with pistacchio, which was the highlight of the meal for me it was sooo goood! They offered when we finish, the liqueur called “amerino”, served in freezed glasses. Nice touch 👌🏼 The staff was very kind and since we were practicing Italian, they understood and instead of switching to English, they were speaking slowly in italian so we could understand :) That was very...

La vue et le charme de l'endroit ne compensent pas le piètre service et la nourriture franchement pas terrible (sauf les pâtes qui justifie notre étoile google) ne parlons pas du vin proposé... Je ne recommande malheureusement pas du tout

Après avoir vu les avis nous avons été a l'Osteria L'Arco en pensant passer un bon moment.

Malgré la table en plastique et le courant d'air dans la ruelle nous nous sommes dit que ce n'était pas grave car la vue était belle sur le sasso éclairé le soir et l'endroit pitoresque.

A peine les cartes reçues (en lambeaux) le serveur et venu prendre les commandes. Pas de chance un des plats n'était déjà pas disponible (dommages ces pâtes aux truffes avaient l'air bonnes) Nous commandons vite un antipasti du chef (14€) et deux primi piati de pâtes (10€ chacun). A peine le temps d'ouvrir la carte de vin que le serveur pressé et oppressant nous propose qu'il fasse lui même son choix éclairé de vin. Ayant l'air sûr de lui nous lui faisont confiance pour un verre de rouge et de blanc (4euro chacun)

Les plats arrivent assez vite ainsi que les vins et c'est la désillusion. Le vin est simplement mauvais, tanique et astringent (la bouteille a elle seule coûte probablement le prix payé pour le verre) les antipastis assez neutres et pas très goûtus (les planches de charcuteries des tables voisines avaient l'air mieux présentées), l'accompagnement de "fried greens" est un choux amer bouilli et gorgé d'huile (voir photo) le seul point positif est les pâtes qui étaient plutôt bonnes.

Dommage donc, le service avait l'air de meilleure qualité avec les tables d'italiens que celle d'étrangers, peut être a cause de la barrière de la langue, mais pour nous ce fût une expérience désagréable tant pour le service que la cuisine. Je ne...