Pizzeria Rossini — Restaurant in Leiria

Was planning to walk 700m to a Chinese restaurant when I saw this Italian pizza and pasta place just across my hotel that looked like it had good ambience. Went in and then realised they don’t speak English. But it was no problem to order because they had an English menu.

Haven’t had Aglio Olio for a while so I ordered that. My my. Look at the presentation. Besides several smaller shrimps, they also gave three larger head and tail on shrimps that had been panfried before. The spaghetti was al dente and had a lot of thinly sliced garlic and shallots so that it was full of flavours.

I loved it so much that I polished off every strand of spaghetti and every crustacean. Yummy!

Total damage came to Euro16.90 which...

Had a reservation and when I arrived there were no tables available. After having an available table (20min later) we had to wait a long time for the food. With all this delays, by the time of having dessert, most of desserts weren't already available. And when asking for the bill, we seem like we were invisible, there were no clients there, they just kept tidying things and no one was coming to us. Another long wait. The food is good, but the rest... Ridiculous.

UPDATE: Went again and employees kept...

It was a really good experience with amazing pizza. Only have 2 negative notes: 1- The Sangria was overpriced for its quality, wasn't very good yet it cost 20+€ 2- The arrangment of the tables is too cramped. Specially if you get to sit where we did. We sat on the first table in the restaurant which gets a huge draft every time someone opens the door (it is incredible often with all the takeaway orders), making the experience very...