Montesoprano — Restaurant in Milan

What a miserable experience.

After browsing through countless menus, my husband and I decided to spend our anniversary dinner at Montesoprano. Though we had never been there before, the food selection sounded good so we were excited to give it a go. Sadly, the dinner was an absolute let down.

Firstly, it was exceptionally difficult to get any attention from any serves, and even when we did, we had to ask for things such as water and ice several times before they were actually brought to us. As an appetizer, we shared the eggplant parmigiana which was nothing to rave about but still the best dish of the night.

My husband got what was described as a hamburger as a main and I got two different salads, reitterating that I'd like the dressing to be served separately, so I can decide how much I want to add myself.

When the mains arrived, we were in for quite a surprise as my husband did not receive a 'hamburger' but simply a burger a.k.a. just a beed patty with some sad looking leaves as a salad on the side. After talking to the staff for 5+ minutes and explaining that there is no way of knowing from the menu, that their idea of a hamburger is just a patty, they agreed to add two buns and some cheese to the patty to make it an actual hamburger.

Both of my salads arrived drowned in oil and dressing, regardless of my simple request. Thay took one of them back and redid it, but I kept the other one. I could've overlooked this, but after I biy in to an actual rock in my salad, I was pretty much done with the food. At that point I was just happy I didn't break a tooth. We showed the staff the rock (photo attached) to which they gave a simple 'sorry' and asked if they could bring us some digestives as an apology. That was a rather sad apology, considering all tables received a digestive after their meal. I refused their 'kind' offer and decided to end the miserable experinece with a glass of wine. I ordered their house white (4€ per glass). Once we received the check however, my glass of wine had magically turned into a 9€ glass. After asking about it, they said that it wasn't the house wine that they brought me although that is what I ordered. After another few minutes of arguing they oh-so-kindly charged us the 4€ for the wine saying they'll take care of the rest. Call me crazy, but since it was their mistake, I would kind of expect that.

All in all, the decor of the restaurant was nice but that's pretty much where the positives end. Will not be returing and wouldn't recommend snyone else to either. There are soooo many better restaurants with a much better price point and quality in Milan so just...

The most basic food I ever had in Italy.

I do NOT recommend this restaurant. I had a reservation made through The Fork for a certain hour and they made us wait 20 more minutes until we could get a table. During that wait, the waiter even had the audacity to suggest us to go to their other restaurant, which was "a mere 8 minutes away by foot", when it was, in fact, 24 minutes away.

The portions of the food were insultingly small, especially for the price... I ordered the so called "specialità di nonna Marietta", which were supposed to be amazing meatballs, as described by the waitress. The meatballs and the sauce were very basic, and the meat quality was very low. Even IKEA meatballs are 10× better. There was nothing served on the side with the meatballs, which is inadmissible for their price.

Unprofessional, basic and pricey. Don't waste your money here.

Edit: the owner decided to reply to my review, and had the audacity to lie. I did go to the incorrect location (their The Fork websites had the phone numbers swapped between their 2 restaurants, which made me call to reserve in a restaurant different than the one I was seeing in the app. Very professional indeed...), but I ended up making a new reservation. And yes, after making the new reservation I waited for its time and it still took them an extra 20 minutes after the new reservation time to get a table. As for the rest, I hope other clients can enjoy your "high quality" food more than I did, because this place made me feel bad for the money...

Had a nice evening at Monte Soprano. Came here with a friend to enjoy Sicilian dishes, certainly a good place to visit for this. Right of the bat, the service was great, very friendly staff. Before ordering we were offered two wines of the day which were really good (Etna rosso Caruso was sublime). Tried the salami and cheese board which was good (the accompanying bread is very Italian - does not have much flavour on its own but greatly accompanies the strong flavours of meats and cheeses; could have been a bit fresher though). For the main I had pasta “‘ncasciata” and my friend had the burger. The portions were quite big. Good price to food ratio. The flavour of the pasta was good, certainly not typical but the pasta itself seemed a bit overboiled (was breaking apart) which made the dish a bit less enjoyable. The burger had great quality meat - juicy and flavourful. The mortadella overpowered it a bit but still a great dish. For dessert we wanted to have cannolo and the waitress recommended us the "Cannolo scomposto Montesoprano" which is like a deconstructed cannolo. It was finger-licking good (literally). An the portion was BIG - in my opinion, it could be enough for three people to share. Overall a good experience but certainly there is room for...