La Noria Ristorante — Restaurant in Detroit

I don't often write bad reviews but this restaurant needs further improvement. I was very disappointed following my first visit on Feb 24 2024. I had heard a lot of hype over this restaurant unfortunately The food didnt meet expectations. The service was good but what I ordered simply didn't taste good. It was PAPPARDELLE TRE BOCONI, homemade pasta with bacon, peas, meatballs. I added eggplant to the dish as that had it in another similar dish with dried pasta. Too many ingredients combined to achieve too many different flavors. The homemade ribbon noodles were ginormous and were over cooked and over powered the meal. They were difficult to eat in one bite and the pasta tasted lemony with all the ingredients together. The meatballs were the biggest disappointment. They tasted like veal but the finishing taste and spices really didn't work together. My wife took one bite of the meatballs and didn't care for them as well. I was not aware at first but this is an Italian Restaurant combined with a Mexican restaurant (El Borzon). It's very classy but the food just didn't fit. Before they served the food we had chips and salsa. It didn't make sense for the Italian meal. Didn't care for the taste of the chips or salsa either. Serve them hot. Then they finally brought out bread (it is basic sliced Italian bread) and an herb butter. Nothing impressive, should have been hot. For what you pay for pasta (almost $35.00), this was not worth it. It was only Pasta, nothing else included. Throw a soup or salad with the meaI. Don't make it ala carte. I didn't like that my only soup choice was Cactus soup at an Italian restaurant that I needed to pay extra for. Another thing, fix the parking situation. I saw many ladies in heels walking across a damaged concrete alley to enter. Pave the alley. I hope my next...

Our experience was absolutely horrible. First & last time coming here. We assumed bc of the pictures we’d be in this cute room with a bunch of lights to match the aesthetic of the night but no. We were right by the front door it was so cold the room we were in was so dark & dull. The food was ok but you can get it at ANY Italian restaurant. The service was absolutely HORRIBLE. Even the tables around us were talking about it. It took about 15-20 minutes for a server to come up to us when we sat down. We got our apps before our drinks. We ended up getting our drinks maybe 5 minutes before our entree came out. My espresso martini was disgusting. The glass was also completely cracked. The server said he’d be right back with bread for our meal & never came. We didn’t even get bread when I told the manager. The server had an attitude when we asked for 3 separate checks (there was only 3 of us) then proceeded to say “I can do it but it’s going to take me a really long time” we asked for boxes, sat there for 15 minutes & I had to ask the manager for them. The manager did offer to do “something” for us but at that point we were so ready to get out of there. We will never be back nor will we ever recommend this place to anyone. We are all in the service industry downtown & never had an...

There were maybe 4 occupied tables and we were there for two hours, received our meals at the tail end of the two hours and one of us never received our meal. When they first served us water there was something floating around in several of the cups.

Most notably, when the entrees came out everyone at our table finished their meals and they still hadn’t brought out my boyfriend’s food. We were there for two hours and had to leave due to a drinks reservation and who I believe is the manager said “oh I’ll take his meal off bill” when we said we had to leave as if was doing us a favor when it seemed pretty clear the meal wasn’t coming out. By the time we left it had been an hour since we ordered entrees.

The waiter was very young and inattentive to us but seemed well focused on another table as if he knew them. We asked for several things he simply never brought which us no big deal but even as he was brining our entrees I asked for boxes and the check because we were already on a time crunch and he never brought boxes or the check.

Last but not least, my cheese tortellini was served literally drowning in sauce on a plate. It literally looked like soup on a plate. Super disappointing experience for my friend’s birthday but at least the...