Pitty Ristorante Enoteca — Restaurant in Policoro

The experience as a whole was very bad! Though entrees were delicious , the rest of the courses were just FAIR for an exorbitant pricing! But that is not what define our experience .

The restaurant has not a menu ! It is suppose to be a guided experience performed by a pretentious old man who might have heard or read about those kind of offers made by Gourmet restaurants within big metropolitan cities and tried to implement in his bar!

First thing , he didn’t asked for allergies, fortunately we have not!

The old man runs the dining room pretending to be a highly qualified Maitre and Sommelier , comes and goes through tue room throwing plates in some tables but letting others unattended for ages , with people hungry and angry! Some tables got bread others got water , others got wine but non of them got all of these before begging for them! We spend 2 hours in the restaurant because, after noticing the chaos, we decided to skip the first course and go from entrees to the second course,had no dessert or coffee, at the time we pay the exorbitant bill many people whom were there at our arrival was just having their first course !

The bar ( pretending to be a highly gourmet trattoria) mainly serves fish and seafood as is common within the region ! But NOT fish or seafood cutlery are set on tables .

I’m writing this review 10 days after the torturous experience! And I’m doing so because I wanted to chill out in order to make the review as fair as possible !

Today I remember the time spent there like an attendance to a Clown play, where the clown was making a funny interpretation of an all-in-one restaurant’s Maitre-Sommelier-Waiter . People should be aware about the right time for retirement and hand over the business ! Also to be honest and no pretend to be what is not just for stealing money...

In my whole life I never got such an insolent service when eating out!!!! We started with the waiter telling us what we want to eat without any welcoming intro or giving us a menu!!!! When he came back for the order he told us it's better to have the same option to eat so we can eat quicker. We did the order and three of us took pasta, one of us a different option. The waiter told us better agree on the same pasta to have as we will wait for an hour to have our plate!!!! Never did I hear a waiter saying this and I never expected this at all!!! How absurd!!! We did order the same pasta as we were told but then realised that the other clients were having different pasta at the same time as us so the cook still had to cook different pasta!!! We asked for the wine list and the waiter replied choose any wine bottle you see around you, oh dear!!!! One of us told him, we prefer white wine so it'd be better not around us but refrigerated to which he told us to go and choose from the cooler!!! With all this absurdity we were served our pasta plates more than an hour later!!! Then finishing off with the bill. The waiter scribbled it down on a piece of paper and threw it away as soon as we paid, I never got to know if the bill was right. I was so taken aback with all this having an urge to get out of there that it was after that...

Comincio col dire che se ancora non conoscete la filosofia del locale e vi sentite particolarmente nervosi o avete litigato con vostra moglie, Pitty non è il posto che fa per voi. Il locale è retrò, con tanto legno e storia alle pareti e bisogna avere una predisposizione d'animo particolarmente positiva per assorbire l'eccentrica autorità del patron Tony che non dispone di menù e carta dei vini se non stampati nella propria mente. Non provate a richiederli, men che meno questionate su varianti alle portate giornaliere. Insomma, il miglior modo per far sì che l'esperienza risulti positiva è lasciarsi trasportare, e devo dire che funziona. Perché buonissimo è l'antipasto di pesce del quale segnalo gli involtini di bresaola con ricotta e gamberetti, le seppie al pesto e il polpo con patate. A seguire dovete, nel senso letterale del termine, passare al primo del giorno dello chef, ma non vi preoccupate: il pacchero ai crostacei che ha impiattato è stato imperiale. Intorno a voi, se sedete all'interno, noterete tante bottiglie di vino e bollicine, tutte qualitative, ma anche qui la proposta è pilotata dall'umore di Tony. Non vi farà bere male, anzi. Ma se avete voglia di un Friulano sono guai. In conclusione sapete che...