Pelikano Restaurant & Beach Club — Restaurant in Vieste

We saw the €€ symbol and assumed that it is an average-priced restaurant. We were a little bit surprised by the prices while already sitting at the table. Well, the photos posted online looked great, "let's have a fine-dining evening" we then decided.

But in my opinion the food and service didn't live up to their price tag, although the restaurant atmosphere was really nice. Only the starter with Iberian piglet in fluffy pastry was really good, whilst our second course dishes were so-so: the tuna steak was decent while the umbrina fish was almost cold and disappointingly tasteless (for 18€).

We ordered grilled vegetables and french fries as side dishes. The vegetables were bland and not seasoned at all. Maybe we got spoiled in another - way cheaper - restaurant, where we had fantastic grilled vegetables the day before. The french fries tasted good.

The waitress struggled with English communication but was friendly, one of the waiters just pulled away the starter plates while my cutlery fell down on the table, instead of asking me to put aside the cutlery, which I found quite rude in a restaurant with those price tags.

Bottom line: nice, but overpriced restaurant food taste can vary strongly...

Had lunch today at the beach bar food that came out was not what was ordered on the second try, they got one right and the other wrong finally we get the food. On asking for olive oil and vinegar and salt and pepper small sachets of each turn up, we are in the olive oil capital of the country and this turns up, also all restaurants are now serving water in plastic cups. Not much hope for the environment when this happens, also there is a charge in Italy called coperto which is a cover charge of 2.5€ per person this entails the bringing of bread but the tables that had panini being bread rolls don't receive bread therefore don't pay the coperto its sad to say that when you see this it's probably because the country is sadly in decline. And by the way the food was nothing flash for 34€ two salads one bottle of still water and...

Disappointed! Wonderful restaurant with a manager that understands little english and two waitresses that seem understand any foreign language at all. Unbelievable! And you might expect some professional interest in how you enjoy the meal, but none of that! Not once a question whether all is okay, tastes well, is enough, would you like a desert or coffee? There was a lack of it all! We ate our meal that was really presented well on the table. Compliments to the kitchen, but not to the service. To the chef I would I say: with a good kitchen and a classy equiped restaurant... you deserve a...