Gino Sorbillo - Pizza Gourmand — Restaurant in Milan

I attempted to get a table for one at 12:30pm on a Sunday when the place was jammed. I got the last table upstairs which although is not as nice as the ground floor or patio, I was happy to get a seat.

The menu is online in multiple languages. The waitress was fast to take my order, but as I’ve learned in Europe you must ask for the order to be taken which can confuse some Americans.

I ordered a glass of red wine (and was brought a white wine but I chose to drink it anyway as it was a hot day.) I also ordered in English with no attempt at Italian so I don’t feel I can complain, and it was a happy accident.

For an appetizer I ordered the "Pasta Frittatina,” which is described on the menu as bucatini, bechamelle sauce, ground meat, peas, parmesan cheese served with Vegetable Tempura. It was a fritter made of pasta and other ingredients deep fat fried along with fried zucchini tempera cut to look like shrimp.

For pizza I ordered the Lazio, described on the menu as pork jowl, Vecchio Montanaro pecorino laziale cheese, bio tomato, Fiordilatte cheese with buffalo milk, extra virgin olive oil. It was one of the more expensive gourmand pizzas at €13.20. The pizza was cooked perfectly in the Neapolitan style with good leopard spotting (it could have been better and the spots were too large and too wide placed). The crust tasted good with excellent salt level, and the ingredients were of high quality. I am partial to pork jowl, which in my opinion is better than prosciutto. I was surprised that they cooked the pizza with the pork jowl instead of putting on top after cooking. I prefer the meat to be cooked which in my experience is not as common as laying it on top afterward.

Some Americans may be surprised with this style of pizza as it is not crispy and is uncut. Others may be surprised with the proper doneness as it could look burned to the pizza neophyte.

Along with a small beer (another great thing about Italy is you can order a 200ml beer which is perfect if you don’t want to drink a lot), a 750 ml bottle of San Pellegrino, and an espresso the meal came to €36.20. For a tourist favorite right in the center of Milan I found the price was reasonable. There is a service charge added for 3€ which has surprised some diners, but no tip is required.

When I left at 1:20pm the line was huge and I doubt I would...

Let start. First impression good but as you start to go inside things are slowed. Waited for 8 min 33 seconds before someone came to take order. They looked nodded and then no response. My usual time is 10 min if they don’t come leave the restaurant hence the timing factor so precise.

Second: food order was easy not sure if we had the Bangladesh person because we are Asians? Funny we don’t speak Bangladesh Hindi or Pakistani. We speak Malay Chinese and English.

Third: the order received food looked impressive.

Fourth: taste of risotto was good not bad. Pizza horrible absolutely! If you ever go to Venice go over to chante restaurant man the pizza and pasta are top notch.

Fifth: the service at time of paying bill guess what Asian man arrives and thinks he is macho! Really hate people with arrogance In their behaviour. Was going on and on about service charge but I don’t understand his English. The fella must have thought hmmm let’s look at these low class people and give them an attitude. Raises his voice and claims have to pay service charge without explanation.

This what annoyed me the most. Other places all don’t have such charge or incrported into their charges not sure. I come across an article stating people scam you like this. It was never explained before we walk into restaurant.

Lastly the most annoying thing the person at welcoming point states you can’t share food! Well for god sake when people are hungry why they want to share a meal. What does it look like! Once again most likely say because of race and ethnicity.

So overall the place I don’t like because of arrogance behaviour if foreigners.

Unless ur rich and you look all fancy fancy you won’t get treated properly. If ur just normal and causal ur treated lower. Sad story. The amount t of these people we see in our country and how they behave we should treat them the same low class and have arrongance. Sadly our culture is to welcome and treat...

We came as 4 friends just to have coffee, cold drink and tiramisu. First 10 minutes no waiter came, we had to call him. Then poor explanation of menu and knowledge of English language (cmon you are in expensive restaurant at one of the Italian monuments...). Then just 3 coffees arrived instead of 4 and we couldnt call waiter for another solid 15minutes to solve it. I ordered also San Pellegrino with glass of lemon to make myself lemonade. Received one half of one slice of lemon :D (picture). We came to this restaurant after travelling 3000kms around Morocco on bikes where they had really poor service in most of the local restaurants and yet waiters in this restaurant managed to surprise us with even worse service then we experienced in past 2 weeks in Morocco. Dont come here please, ever.

EDIT as response for cocky owner : We did reviews before ordering the bill (which we tried to order for 15minutes and it ended that I had to come over to interrupt your 2 waitresses chit-chating between each other) so we didnt even know that you charge 3 euro service per person, which is, indeed, outrageous as in this price range you should offer : spoons for tiramisu which cost 7,5eur so we dont need to eat it with fork lol bread and breadsticks with olive oil which we had in literally every restaurant (if you google coperto and it historical meaning its literally written as coverage for dishes and breadsticks, learn your culture please) Instead we had to call everytime for 10-15minutes for waiter and it all ended in rude conversation with your manager who said he understand our point of view but never apologized for 5+ mistakes in our small order. Please, if you charge 60 euro for 4 coffees and 3 tiramisu, at least put your service to expectation and if you service wasnt on par, respond with dignity and not like 5 year old pre...