Osteria Trani — Restaurant in Circolo di Lugano ovest

They ensure you either leave hungry and disappointed or poor and disappointed...or in our case, both. I believe a chef designed the menu. I believe a chef designed the plating of the food. But I also believe an accountant controls the amount of ingredients in your meal. You get none of the flavors described in detail from the menu. I had the connoli veal dish. It was some sort of soggy dough around an unidentifiable, tasteless dry brown mush. It had a tasteless brown sauce on top and a dotting of different color sauces on the plate. For 28 chf, you get 3 of these logs. My wife got the shrimp risotto with courgette flowers. We believe there was 1 small shrimp sliced up on her plate and no identifiable flowers. The risotto had no flavor. It was just plain. We were thankful for the pepper and salt on the table. Honestly, this place is embarrassing. The waiter knows it and doesn't really ask you if you enjoyed anything. He just wants to sell you water, wine and dessert. When we asked a couple questions about wine, he brought over a 100 page book of their wines. It's an impossible book. You have no need for this and no room on your table. Anyway, service was bad. Price was high. Food lacked flavor. Portion was small and overly designed....

So there are certain cases when you must NOT visit this restaurant. It is not all you can eat and if you get bothered by people passing by then sorry. BUT if you want something different (and you are familiar with the term fine dining, unlike the previous reviewer to whom I recommend the Burger King, for 17 CHF there is super size whopper menu with 0.7 vanilla shake) this is really a pearl. The service speed could be improved but the red tuna fish we had was just amazing. Their special "struddle" (warning! it is COLD) was also something you can't eat anywhere and can't find every day... And this is not even just a pearl in the pasta/pizza forest, I think it deserves respect...

They have a good choice of wines but...we went in and asked for a table for three, they only gave us the option of outside, but they had an indoor table for four people empty the entire time we were there. We ordered a cold cuts board which was well composed, the lazanha came a little burnt which made it bitter, we ordered veal which was well cooked but poorly seasoned and gennoci with garlic and basil which the flavor was very weak. BE CAREFUL when paying, in our case, there were more things than we ordered, a beer and the cold cuts were twice as expensive as...