Restaurante Il Tartufo — Restaurant in Coimbra

I ate there 2 nights. 1st night i had €9 spaghetti..smallish plate of spaghetti..with thin gravy type and tomatoes sliced from a tin, as it seemed. Be honest, it was about edible..tasteless..watery..definitely not Italian..Portugal version i assume. 2nd night i thought i would go upmarket..studied the menus..try different..Taggittelle..errr..that's all it was with some sort of salty thin gravy..i couldn't eat it..a pig would have second thoughts.. attrocious..sent it back..just give me spaghetti..with finely chopped chills thats it..a plate of spaghetti..i looked at it and oh! Another of errr!. Managed to eat 1/3 and left it.. Ive eaten Italian in Italy (Napoli) uk and throughout the world..sorry but this is, what i had, not Italian i know. Not being insulting, but i can honestly say maybe, no definitely, the worse meals ive eaten..the taggittelle atrocious, horrible..the spaghetti just about edible if your starving. I hate to report on this type of thing as i have, but..i am a top Google guide and report on my travels throughout many countries and have eaten worldwide including, Tahiti, Figi, Australia, New Zealand etc etc. I like to give an objective appraisal. Draw your own...

It’s Portugal so we wanted Portuguese food, but being Sunday evening a couple of places we tried were closed so we went to this Italian restaurant instead. Italian owner or manager was kind of pushy which was a bit annoying, but we had a good meal there. Good Insalata Mista (mixed salad €5) , vegetarian pizza (€9) was tasty and had plenty of vegetables, pasta with vegetables- Tagliatella Vegetariana (€9.50) was a bit oily but good. For dessert we had the “Misto Della Casa Dolce” (€6.50) which was a huge plate with four different desserts: a choice of gelato flavors-we picked chocolate; panna cotta; Tiramisu; kiwi slices with whipped cream. They were very good. Don’t get it though unless you are sharing as it’s big. Enough for 2-4 people. They have a big wine list both Portuguese and Italian. We just had a half bottle (.375 liters) of the house wine which was an Italian red (€6) which tasted fine. The service was good and we had...

Me and my wife came in for dinner, and we wanted to sit at a table with sofa (which is supposedly big enough for four person). The restaurant was about half full, so we thought that might be ok. A staff told us we can’t sit there as there were only two of us and that seat was meant for four. Totally understand their consideration and we gladly moved to a small table, a bit cramp but acceptable.

Minutes later they allowed a Caucasian couple sitting at the same place we wanted to sit. We, an Asian couple felt totally discriminated and mistreated.

We love your food, and we have been here three times, but this is no way to treat your customer.

So, if you guys want a good Italian food in Coimbra, this is probably the place to be. But if you expect a restaurant which treat their customers equally and fairly, this is probably not the place to visit. Anyway, there are many good places to go in...