Osteria Sgarzarie — Restaurant in Verona

We ate a very late lunch here. Great location with three restaurants in a little square. Unfortunately we did not pick the right one. It is great that you can order any time during the day, but maybe that also causes less interest in the cooking of the food in this particular case. The italian produce they use is, of course, of great quality. But the preperation is lack lustre, bland and overall gives a disinterested feeling. The carpaccio with lightly smoked fish with fennel stripes and orange was just that. One slice of orange and thinly cut fennel on fish on a bed of red salade. Dry and uninteresting. But could have been brilliant if the orange would have been used for a dressing with orange pieces and they would loose the red salad. The main for me was a tortellini with fish filling, butter and sage. Filling was tangy and not balanced, butter was just there but not as I would have wanted. The sage had been somewhat heated up in the butter making it greasy and bitter instead of nice and crispy. And who needs a whole handfull of small sage leaves attached to the stalks I wonder. My husband had the beef filet with balsamico sauce. The beef was great quality and cooked well. The sauce however was way to acidic and felt like it was literally a beef sauce that had balsamico thrown in, no balance in taste. I would recommend to look at reviews when choosing a restaurant in this square which we for once forgot to do…. Save yourself an...

The 2 pasta dishes we ordered were bad. Worst spaghetti vongole I ever had. Clams not fresh. Instead of being cooked with the pasta, clams were COLD just arranged AROUND the pasta. No white wine used in vongole sauce. More aiglio olio style. Very dry. €15. Ripoff. The takeaway pasta st BIGOLI LAMO was SO MUCH better at only €6 and was even served PIPING HOT.

My hubby's melazanne pasta wad just as bad. Eggplant sauce was lukewarm and dumped on top of his pasta with COLD mozzarella cheese.

The chef probably thought that since we were foreign tourists, we wouldn't know any better and just didn't bother to whip up a decent meal.

We were served by 3 wait staff. The first was reasonably polite and helpful. The 2nd and 3rd wait staff, bad, esp the 2nd one who made it quite obvious he didn't like serving us one bit.

For locals, it may be different. For us, a bad experience. Tourist trap. Avoid at all cost.

I usually do not pen reviews of eateries on my travels. Can't expect too much as tourists. Some eateries we previously went to were really good. Most were acceptable. But I feel compelled to warn other tourists about this restaurant in...

The food in the restaurant was very good, the only dessert was not up to the level of tiramisu, but everything was edible and you could feel all the necessary flavors of tiramisu. However, we waited too long for our food and not only us but also the other guests around us started complaining and commenting. It's one thing if one person is not satisfied, but for 3 tables around us to loudly comment on the rudeness and slowness was confirmation of our opinion. The waitress cut me with her long nails while serving me, which I believe have no place in the catering industry. She apologized but I had to go to the toilet to stop the bleeding. The main course I ordered arrived wrong, they apologized and brought what I ordered as soon as possible, but how can you not take all that into account when every next step was getting worse. In the end, when I asked for the bill to pay, I waited for it for 20 minutes. During our lunch, the restaurant employee sent away two women and shouted loudly that they were stupid. Therefore, regardless of the food which is really good, the service is a disaster. Only one younger male waiter was...