Osteria Portici — Restaurant in Circolo di Carona

I ordered the lasagne dello chef, expecting something homemade or at least made in-house. Unfortunately, it was immediately obvious that it was a pre-packaged product, identical in taste and texture to the frozen lasagne from any discounter supermarket.

The presentation did nothing to hide it, and the taste confirmed it: bland, overly processed, and microwaved to the core. It’s hard to justify calling it a "chef’s" dish when there was clearly no real cooking involved.

The owner might be friendly, but it's obvious there's no real gastronomic background here which you can feel in every aspect, but im not even going to bother about that. If you’re expecting authentic or thoughtfully prepared food, I’d recommend looking elsewhere.

A real letdown, I wouldn’t have bothered writing this if the food hadn’t...

As local, I was really disappointed by this restaurant and fully understand the low notes/ points received. The position of tye restaurant in Morcote is beautiful with a wonderful view of the lake, the waiter with the service was kind and friendly, but the food , at best sufficient...the Wienerschnitzel was dry and hard. Furthermore, the house specialty , the risotto, was too much coooked and had very little taste, despite tye addition of some pieces of grana padano aiming at improving the presentation rather then the taste ( bad grano padano). At least the polenta with rabbit meat was good and to try. The quality price ratio is however too low to recommend this place , which should really improve. In the meantime, choose the other close...

The food was ok, but somehow the service personnel had a bad day. He tried to be friendly, but too many things went wrong today: Forgot Aceto, brought Risotto instead of Polenta. As well, instead of asking for coffee/dessert, he put the bill on our desk because his collegue mixed up the table numbers. On top of this, the bill was wrong by 13.-

Maybe it wasn't his fault, but he could have been a bit more charming.

We won't come here...