Ristorante Il Gambero Rosso — Restaurant in Monte Argentario

So for the time of year , mid to late October there are not a lot of choices and this restaurant i believe is in the guida rosso so should have been better. But it might have been had we been able to eat a la carte instead we were warned beforehand there would only be a fixed menu for 42 euros available which we accepted. The trouble is with a fixed menu you need to get every course right and you need to make sure there is not too much food. On the bright side they have a good range of antipasti and the gnocchi was pretty good — flavor and cooking wise although there was very little actual seafood, just shells. The big disappointment was the secondi, Overcooked prawns tuna and scallop brochette. The deep frying of some of the antipasti also meant by the main course we were not v hungry anyway. Which is terrible if the quality of the food isn’t good. That said the wine list was good and we enjoyed Terlan and Jermann. Also interesting local sparkling wine from Santus. Moral is steer clear of any fixed menu. If they are willing to serve a la carte I would give them one more chance. I don’t know if they try on the fixed menu often though or if we were...

For the food this place would get 2 stars. For the view 4. The service takes it all the way to 1.

Lets start with the service. Before we even walked into the restaurant, the person serving looked at us really despicapply and disapprovingly. He did not greet us properly and treated us more as an inconvenience to his day. He poured water across the table and did not apologize. He really left a bad feel to the whole experience from the beginning.

Food is really highly priced especially compared to quality. I had the grilled tuna, which was overdone and on the dry side. Seasoning ok.

I really dont leave too many bad reviws but this place i felt mistreated, overcharged and i would say dissapointed with the food. Expectations were much higher.

Choose something else in the area.

Edit: They did switch out the person serving us midway through who did a better job, but the first impression was not saved. Also nobody came to ask if the food is ok etc, which is something to expect from a...

Had to leave a great review after our fantastic experience & seeing that so many bad reviews were left here. I own a restaurant in New York and have a travel business where we bring clients on culinary tours in Italy. I’ve been to many places and this restaurant hit all the marks. Service attentive but not overbearing, wine was great, and food incredible. We found the pricing for the product to be fair, you can certainly get a cheap meal if desired but I should suggest to get the gambero rosso pasta as its Devine.

We started with a four year old local white wine and fried shrimp, then clams pasta & their flagship shrimp pasta for primi. Finished with grilled catch of the day that was prepared simply, with respect to the freshness.

The view is also beautiful.

Perhaps we have more patience and understand the value of fresh organic cuisine than others. Great job to all. We will...