Ristorante della Torre — Restaurant in Circolo di Carona

Updated Review July 2023.

This is our 3rd visit to this restaurant. Every visit to morcote cannot be without dining here. We visited this restaurant again yesterday and a lot has changed! Surprisingly what was great got even greater! 🤩

The restaurant has now pivoted to fine dining. We had a tasting menu and it was the most delicious Italian meal of our summer vacation. Bear in mind we have been across italy and everything was delicious but this topped it all off. So that is truly saying something.

We started with amuse bouche, then a starter of fresh tuna followed by the most delicious wild rice risotto I've ever had in my life. I am generally not a fan of risotto but I could have eaten it the whole day through. The main is succulent lamb followed by dessert of fruity berries Panna cotta. Full 10 out of 10 marks from me.

Service is also excellent with special attention by servers across all tables. Let's not forget about the romantic view of lake maggiore. This is a fantastic date night restaurant for sure.

The only thing that is annoying is that my husband left the pasta and sauces he bought from a shop in the restroom. Mamma mia. But that's got nothing to do with the restaurant of course lol.

Anyho, we will drop by again when we are in morcote.

This is a truly amazing restaurant in a truly beautiful location. We had such delicious food and not to mention the server was such a professional and very attentive and warm. Can't wait to come back when we visit morcote...

Let me start by saying I have never reviewed a restaurant on Google before, but this place made it absolutely necessary. I had the best meal of my life here, three days in a row! We wandered in on a Friday night and were greeted by the incredibly friendly staff, seated at a cozy table, and ended up ordering the black spaghetti with shrimp and the ossobuco, which were both to DIE for (I also loved the zabaglione for dessert, which I had never had before). As we were leaving, we immediately made a reservation for the following night (glad we did, because their book was already nearly full). The next night we ordered the baccalà, cacao risotto, lamb shank, and tarte-tatin, and again we were blown away by the food - how does this place not have a Michelin star already? On our last day in Morcote we couldn’t resist coming back for one more lunch; pizza with shrimp and asparagus cream, fresh gnocchi with asparagus (both seasonal), tagliatelle with venison ragu and blue cheese, and the wine-infused pear. I cannot stress enough how wonderful this experience was, from the atmosphere to the wine to the service, not to mention the outstanding food. I can’t wait to visit Ticino again and come straight back here - make a reservation now before the...

Overall I am very sad that this restaurant wasn’t as good as I expected it to be. especially because I think that it is so important for a public place to take the criticism and maybe even be happy about the criticism because they can improve themselves and be better in the future. But reading the responses really is depressing and seeing how they even attack the people that payed them. Of course someone’s getting mad if they pay really more than enough money and get the bare minimum in quality. I understand that working and especially owning such a business can be challenging but this really is on another level of disrespect. The food really wasn‘t good and the employees really seemed to be annoyed by us which also is really depressing, sitting in a restaurant and feeling unwelcome. I hope that they get their mistake now and I won’t get an answer about how immature I am and how it‘s my fault when it’s definitely not. Be happy about your clients paying your salary. I really would love to give a positive feedback but it’s really not possible to say anything nice but that the...