Vino & Peperoncino Ristorante Bistrot | Food & Wine — Restaurant in Rome

I'm proud to say that I was able to guide my family through Rome for 2 weeks without ever getting a single bad food experience. As we're leaving tomorrow, I was confident my streak would continue.

Then we waited an hour and a half for gnocchi that tasted like air and a burger that ended up being dry, hard, overcooked, and tasteless. It's a burger. It's not complicated. I don't understand why the reviews are so high.

Also, at the time, the restaurant was running a speed dating event or something and it was extremely noisy. However, I noticed that no one there was eating aside from us, so why would it take so long to serve our food?

Thank you for breaking our good food in Rome streak. I'm not the type to complain to managers even if an experience is bad. We ate our food as we were hungry (except the hoof of a burger), paid, and left without a word. I understand if you have kitchen difficulties but you never expressed any and just let us sit there seething.

This restaurant is a blight, a dark shadow, a blemish, a black bruise on an otherwise perfect vacation.

Edit: as a response to the reply of the restaurant:

We arrived at 8:30. Our reservation with thefork confirms this. We left at 10pm right after you served the burger. We left it there without eating it.

As I said, we finished our food because we were hungry. We didn't like any of it. Having finished a dish is not an indication that we liked it. We had no choice as it was already late at night.

If you had a problem with your fryer, you should have said so before we ordered instead of having us wait for an hour and a half for something that's not edible. And that's not an excuse for being unable to cook a burger properly. Give me a piece of wood and I can make a better burger than that.

Also, your remark that we should eat just Asian dishes is ridiculous. We've been eating Italian food everywhere in Rome and like I said, we never had any bad experiences except for your restaurant.

Instead of being defensive, admit your faults and learn a lesson. It's a burger. It's not...

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