Pizzeria Ristorante Calò — Restaurant in Trieste

Average food, we ate lasagna and pizza, and it was okay, deserts were good - canollo was fresh and very good, tiramisu good. You have to pay copperto 2 euros per person, we have to pay copperto also for our 3 year old child and we didn't get nothing for copperto (grissini were on other tables). But all that was okay; the worst thing was very very rude waitress (she had a fight with second waitress and this woman left her job in the middle of the day during serving us food), she also argued with us and yelled when we asked what is copperto; we accepted their explanation and payed it, but she continued to argue and to explain, all the guests including us left the restaurant ASAP and the atmosphere was really bad.. She even told us not to come back again. 🙈 I've never experienced something like that from...

The atmosphere is pretty decent, a bit untidy but you can call it the “Italian” style (not meant in a bad way). The wait time for food was short and we were also seated immediately. Be careful with “bottled” water, because im 99% sure its just tap water in the reused glass cup (the plastic cap on top is not new so it means it was opened previously). Pizza was decent, but i expected more, especially for spicy salami which was not even close to spicy. The overall flavor was not intense and it quickly disappeared in the mouth. Overall a good experience, but would probably go somewhere else next time. Prices are low so...

Many restaurants in Trieste have a strange habit (from a non-Italian perspective) of working short hours in the morning, taking a long break during the day, and working evenings. In other words, at approximately 3 PM you don't have many options and you go to whichever restaurant is open. That is the main reason we chose this restaurant. The pizza we ate was okay, but nothing to write home about (the crust was almost tasteless, and the toppings weren't made from the best ingredients, especially the mozzarella cheese). The service was okay but nothing fancy, and the overall experience was: "it was...