Casamare — Restaurant in Salerno

The experience was overall good. The service was 10/10, the waiter was very attentive and treated us well.

We got three items off the menu:

1- the octopus in tomato sauce...I think it was called "Luciano style" or something. This dish was a home run - it was a decent sized portion of tender octopus in a flavorful tomato sauce with croutons. Definitely our favorite dish.

2- Fresh egg noodle pasta with redfish...in terms of flavor the pasta was perfect. It was cooked al dente and in a well balanced lemon butter sauce. Where this dish fell short for us was two part: the portion size was smaller than expected and I feel the fish could have been treated better rather than torn into small pieces scattered across the pasta.

3- The Casamare mixed grilled fish under the traditional Salerno dishes. This one is a mixed bag unfortunately. The star of the plate was the sea bass in the center of the plate as it was seasoned well and the skin seared to be thin and crisp. The rest of the proteins on the dish need to be re-imaged. The tuna was of solid quality but plain - it didn't taste like any seasoning (not even salt) was on the fish. The entire shrimp and prawn tasted like it was basted in the shrimp tomally/roe from the head. Though some might find this flavor a delight, we did not enjoy it as much unfortunately. Finally both pieces of squid tasted of nothing other than burnt/charcoal. They definitely could of left it out entirely as it fell flat.

Overall it was a good experience with service top notch and great Greco wine from the Campagna region. I would recommend coming but also recommend the restaurant rethinks...

Made a reservation the evening before. Asked if the patio would be open. They said yes. Showed up for our reservation. No one was around. No hostess nothing. Waited in the entry for a few minutes. A bald male showed up and seemed surprised someone was there. We told him we had a reservation and asked about the patio. He said no the patio would not be used (beautiful night out, no rain or wind and about 75). We expressed we had called. He didn’t care and shrugged his shoulders. We left. He didn’t even look for our reservations. Had a lovely dinner elsewhere. Would not recommend based on the staff(and...

The food at this restaurant was severely overpriced for the quality and portion sizes offered. The appetizers were laughably small, and the pasta dish we ordered was disappointingly bland

To make matters worse, we were shocked to receive an exorbitant bill at the end of our meal. Upon checking, we realized that both the main course and the appetizer had been charged as double orders—despite us clearly not ordering identical duplicates of the same dish. While this might have been a miscommunication, it’s baffling why the staff would assume customers would want two identical dishes without...