La Campagnola — Restaurant in Scotland

We decided to stay local and try the Italian in the village for our wedding anniversary meal. Unfortunately it was not a good experience and we won't be in any rush to return. On the night the front of house was very short staffed (staff had called in unwell we were told) so only the one lady front of house dealing with everything. I think there were 3 tables in at the time so not busy (still a lot for one person though) due to this we can overlook the long wait for drinks and having to ask for cutlery to eat our starters with after the food arrived. The real disappointment for us was the quality of the food. We ordered breaded mushrooms and breaded mozzarella and foccacia bread to start. The mushrooms and mozzarella had clearly been made several days before and reheated, no crispness or texture to the mushy/soggy breadcrumb. What was worse is that there was absolutely no flavour from either dish, only adding lots of seasoning and blobs of garlic mayo gave it any flavour at all. Best described as a not very nice and flavourless pile of stodge. If possible the mains were worse. Spaghetti bolognaise should be a staple and good indicator of an Italian restaurants quality. The bolognaise tasted like someone chucked a cheap jar of sauce over some mince, definitely not a traditionally prepared bolognaise, that is bad enough but to serve it with spaghetti so overcooked (it was the practically the thickness of drinking straws) and tasted so bland I can only assume it was pre cooked in unsalted water. The other spaghetti alforno main was just as overcooked and bland. The foccacia (which arrived the mains not with starters as requested) sounded lovely, sea salt flakes, rosemary and garlic, however did not taste of any of those ingredients and was as bland as the rest of the meal. I can understand poor service due to understaffed front of house, but for a local Italian to serve such bland pre-prepared food and overcooked pasta is shocking. Management/ owners should have a good look into the kitchen practices here as I'm sure if they had a meal as bad as ours served to them they would be appalled. It is real shame as we like to support the local businesses in the village, sadly this place really let itself down on pretty much...

I’m not one for getting ripped into businesses on review sites as I work in the service industry and I understand that people leave horrendous reviews because they basically like to moan about stuff but please take this review as constructive feedback and if you could sort it I think you and your team would have a cracking wee Restaurant in an area that is ready for a really good place for families to go to . The amount of time we had to wait for our order to be taken (20 mins) and then the food coming (50 mins) and finally to get the bill (20 mins) was way too long and if you have kids with you turns what should be relaxing into a stressful night. Kids hate waiting! The food was average nothing to make it stand out and was Luke warm when it came. A couple of unique or unusual meals and coming out hot would make up if it takes a bit longer too be served. The tables round about me had issues with the amount of time food drink etc was taking so it wasn’t just me being impatient. On the plus side the staff were courteous and welcoming and were always round the tables moving dishes away and available. As I said I’m not writing this angry just disappointed as I think this could be a cracking place for the local community to go to. Lots of young families about. Hopefully the management have a look and can make...

Booked a family meal for 6 at 4pm, and sat by the window.

Drinks ordered and first pet hate, ordered a middle of the road red wine which was promptly plonked on the table (already opened) then staff walked away.

3 starters ordered, one calamari, which wasn't fresh, tasteless and couldn't finish, some salad leaves seemed rotten on the plate.

Mains, again a bit of a miss, ordered a fillet steak only to be told they didn't have any, 2 issue's here, 4pm on a Saturday afternoon and no steak and secondly, what was in the other two main courses that claimed to be strips of fillet steak?

Lastly but probably the most annoying part of the meal, the restaurant does take aways, people coming in the front door creating a constant draft of cold air but more annoying being asked to sit at tables beside guests who are paying for a sit down meal.

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