Casa Mia Trattoria Pizzeria — Restaurant in Polignano a Mare

Fantastic Experience! Gourmet Standards, you can easily find on most Gourmet/Fine Dining restaurants👌🏻

Service on a late dinner. We were recieved quite fast, as the restaurant has 2sections, it took a minute to figure out we wanted the restaurant and not pizzeria. We were presented at a table that was pulled a bit aside from a beautiful couple that was sat near us. They were fast to present the menus, both for food and wine. One waiter presented them both, and than asked us for water immediately (a big plus). We ordered sparkling and still, that came relatively fast. We looked at the menus for a bit, and as we closed them, another waiter was already attentive and came to take our order. A plus is that both waiters seem to know english. With the food order, a reccomendation for wine was asked from the waiter, he reccomended a rose, local wine for the Octopus. It was a good match. We also ordered a soda (a coke). And we asked for a white wine for the main dish, we also desired for ir to be local if possible. Coke came late, just as starters were served, no glass was offered (typical for Italy) Glass was never offered, during the whole dinner experience....

We ordered starters:

Plates were served by a waitress, also seemed to understand english..

Rose was served before the starters came, good. And a tasting was served before the glass was filled, good.

Bread was served immediately after (a plus) although, the bread pieces were uneven number... Bread Selection: two with tomato taste (pizza) two with sesame taste one with Canapa Italian "herb"

Octopus Tentacle...double cooked with pecorino waffle, carbonara mousse and bacon crumble. TASTE: octopus was grilled very well, mousse was strong but goes well with the taste, waffle was tasty, but powerfull in the taste, and the top bits were quite crunchy as they did not have as much of the mousse/sauce.

Aubergine - "Box" of aubergines with panko, "homemade" swordfish bacon, with burrata and roasted tomatoes. TASTE: was very nice, fresh with the oubergine being the star, and the tomatoes complementing it. Lack of seasoning or another ingredient to elevate the taste more.

If eaten together both the Octopus and the Aubergine complement each other.

MAIN DISH RISOTTO:

Plates and cutlery were changed (a plus) Just a fork for the main dish, as it is a Risotto. The plate of the main dish was hot/warm, and that is good for the risotto. Seasoning was good, buttery with a hint of salt as it should. Almost perfect, the only thing to notice was that it was quite thick and could have used a bit more flow. The pea foam was very light, and was hard to taste, just a little bit more of it would work even better for the overall plate. (BIG MiNUS, the wine that was ordered for the main dish never came, and i had to ask for it). The Metre'D served the second wine, the wite i had asked for, but it was served directly, with no tasting. He did serve it with the wine etiquette towards me so i could read it.

DESSERT: we asked for a reccomendation, and than we asked the waiter what his favourite was. He was hesitant at first, which make it seem a bit odd, as if he was not sincere, but we went for his "favourite" anyways.

Spacial Tiramisu As i am biased and not a tiramisu fan, my friend will be describing the taste: (In Spanish, as he is from Spain) "tiene mucha cremosidad, pero le falta un poco de sabor a cafe y cierta amargura. quizas en italia sabe mas suave?"

The only minus was the temperature, as we were sitting inside, if there was an AC unit, it was not very present.

All in all, a place to visit, and we will be...

Have to admit the food was good. However, the service (charged 4€/person) was despicable. Waiters not friendly at all, taking out plates before the whole table had finished eating, and it took a very long time to come, even though we specifically came very early before the restaurant was crowded. The worst being that we ordered a fresh fish tartare at 7€ for 100g on the menu, only to discover when we had to pay that they charged us 600g without any prior notice. « This is normal for us » they said, but to me the base of service is to clearly inform your customers. It just sounds like another Italian scam. We had to argue a lot to get a discount and pay « only » 400g, when we actually only ordered 100g. Bonus: the owner insulted us in Italian. All in all, we had a bad experience and don’t...

We wanted to eat a pizza, and we were redirected to the Place next door : Pic Nic Il Bistro de la Casa Mia to be served the pizza, which Is no problem. I took q pizza which was ok but definitely not amazing and not the typical Italian pizza. However, my friend took the vegetarian orecchiette (without the meatballs) and it was utterly disgusting. Really, I tried, and I can safely say it was the worst pasta i have ever tasted. When we looked at the reviews of this location (the Pic Nic bistro de la casa mia not the trattoria, it had...