This place is an over rated tourist hotspot. It features a wide variety of pastas en sauces. The short story; if you want good pasta with bad atmosphere and terrible service this is the place. The long story:

You get to choose your own pasta shape and sauce combo, in theory a great concept but in reality it is a show of a lack of understanding of the art of pasta; some sauces are made and go best with some shapes. This seems to not be a item of interest for the staf, and it might cause some less good choices by an uninformed customer.

The portion sizes are big for the price, so big in fact that sharing one portion between two people is more then enough. However, neither the portion size nor the recommendation to possibly share is stated anywhere or told by no staf. In other restaurants with similar portion sizes that I have visited this is more common practice. The pasta itself and the sauces are very well prepared, I would however, stay away from the fruti di mare options, as these are frozen not fresh (surprising seeing as the restaurant is next to the harbor).

Another point is that the already pre-combined pasta-sauce combos are slightly more expensive then if you would chose them individually. This comes with no apparent reason other then the restaurant trying to market them as more “premium” options, even tho this only applies to some of the pastas in the list.

The service started out great, but soon turned sour. It felt the staff wanted to have us order as quickly as possible, coming to our table every 30 second moments from when we got the menus if we had already decided. This attentiveness was to a certain extend polite but also felt pressuring in the end. The food took a moderate time to arrive, but dishes ordered together did not come together, even tho they were part of the same course, with enough time in between them to let one of the dishes cool down nearly completely.

After finishing our main course we were promptly asked if we wanted a dessert, we said yes and asked for a menu, but the menu never came, even asking for it 3 times again. Furthermore, eventually giving up on the menu (and the desert) after waiting for 30 min, I asked for the check, they again proceeded to never bring the check, leaving us to wait for another 30 minutes, after which I walked to the door between the kitchen and dining area to catch a staff member and ask to pay. The staff seemed very disorganized and the bill was unclear at first for the staff member. Receiving the bill I was unpleasantly surprised. A unexpected service fee was charged (€2-€3 per person). I overheard another customer asking the manager about this, who explained it was for the 2 breadsticks provided on the table, as well as the tap water they gave us. It is quite remarkable then that, in addition to this fee, they charged us extra for a bottle of water.

Overall the rating for this place is way to high, and it should be more around the 3-3,5. The food is tasty but not outstanding; the service is appalling; the prices both fair, but through its presentation misleading and in some forms a scam. If you have to choose a restaurant you would not have the worst time here but most certainly your time could be spend at a more picturesque establishment with a higher standard of service and presentation.