Phone: +393478674712
Address: 38 Via Colombo, 71010, PESCHICI, Italy
City: PESCHICI
Dishes: 2
Reviews: 1491
Website: https://portadibasso.com/
"Hard to find a taste-free tasting menu, but here it is. On the plus side, amazing views over the bay, highly stylish designer-modern venue in a Medieval castle, genuinely iconic interior design and décor, with plates, dishes and bowls that are genuine works of art. These are things Italians do brilliantly. It’s a feast for the eyes and for anyone interested in lighting, décor. style and ambiance. On minus side, staff who can’t remember who has ordered the pure fish tasting menu and who has ordered the mixed fish and meat tasting menu, the only two choices. Confusion precedes and colours every course. Staff, when asked, don’t seem to know what the dishes are either. Hard to know how to react when you don’t know what you’re eating. The tastes don’t add much so it’s all a puzzle. One of the ideas of the ‘tasting menu’, late of the 1990’s everywhere else, is to showcase ideas and skills in combining, sometimes contrasting, ingredients, tastes, style and so on. Each tiny mouthful, and we are talking tiny mouthfuls, should be a subtle explosion of multi-layered tastes and textures. First the primary taste, then a follow-on taste to amplify or contrast, then a hit of an exceptional taste, perhaps a special pepper or other flavour, to interests in a yet a different way. We have eight: salt, sweet, sour, bitter, umami, cold, hot, and hot peppery. Each course should be a colourful palette of flavours in each tiny dab of paint. It’s monochromatic here. A tiny fried mullet is overcooked to dryness, a piece of turbot is fibrous. No other flavours. A pat of something fishy tastes, well, fishy. Some pork and potato taste of pork and potato. Plates are swapped about as we realise the staff have no idea who’s eating which menu courses either. You’re on your own. It seems random. Some people get some things, others get something different. One or two are told what they’re eating, others are not. It’s stylish in a Monty Python way, but in terms of design it’s mostly form (the packaging) and least function (the food). One dish, sea urchin tubetti, stood out, but as the prickly little things are such a wonderful and distinct taste anyway, it’s hard to get wrong. It’s fun and an experience, and at €80 each really not that expensive considering the kitchen skill and work that’s gone into it. But it’s over-effortful and makes for an overly long dinner, perhaps why the tasting menu notion died out twenty years ago almost everywhere else. Each dish not only needs more work in terms of why it’s here, but also how and why it fits into the whole scheme of the menu order. The penultimate course is a strawberry sorbet, which precedes a pudding. The sorbet idea was invented in the great days of classic multi-course meals to cleanse the palate for more savoury dishes, rather than as a precursor to another sweet taste. Chef could move the sorbet up a notch so two sweet things don’t run together and invent something amazing. An olive oil sorbet flavoured with rosemany perhaps, sweetened with prickly pear – all local ingredients? An amuse bouche starter to showcase the kitchen’s skill with the tweezers and squirty bottles is so astonishingly tiny it could almost be ironic. Four minuscule pieces of no-food-food on a, by comparison, vast ceramic plate. A micro piece of anchovy has a crumb of preserved celery on it. The other bits are too tiny to taste of anything."
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User
esperienza fantastica! piatti e gouits eccezionali con vista mozzafiato. servizio impeccabile.
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Cassiopea
bellissima location e personale gentilissimo piatti un pò diversi dal solito con sapori stupendi ottima la cantiona
Elga
posto incantevole nel cuore del centro storico di pesche, ottimi piatti e molto ben curato. massima gentilezza e ospitalità.
Armando
Noto per il suo panorama oltre che per la qualità del pescato e per la cura dello chef. un salotto elegante con vista sul mare. Raccomandato
MMujahed
Great food, friendly staff, amazing food pairings. Vibrant flavors. The service was perfect, the atmosphere was very calm and nice. The food was amazing.
User
terrazza sul mare..si pranzo tra il volo dei gabbiani e l'odore di brezza marina... lo chef e il personale completano il paesaggio con un menu che affonda le radici tra la montagna e il mare. Peschici.
User
Cucina raffinata in un ambiente unico con una vista a strapiombo sul mare mozzafiato. Grande assortimento di vini, prodotti della locale gastronomia, grande professionalità del maître di sala. Da provare
chiaradallagli0
The restaurant is in a great location and the dishes are well curated. However my partner and I spent over 150€ for two apetizers, two main dishes, two desserts and one glass of wine and one water. This seems really excessive especially given it’s the same price you would pay in a one star Michelin restaurant. If every dish costed 10€ less I would recommend it, but at 26 28€ the dish (clearly small portions as the restaurant calls for? it’s not worth it. For example my appetizer consisted of two red shrimps and a fork of Swiss chard for 28€ clearly something is very wrong there. The restaurant needs to readjust it’s prices and make them in line with what they serve.
User
ho letto recensioni non completamente positive in quando presente solo menù degustazione, avendo noi prenotato telefonicamente giorni prima, questo particolare ci era stato comunicato, per cui nessuna sorpresa, così come per il prezzo che rispetto a quanto riportato nel sito però era un pò più alto.Le porzioni sono veramente piccole ma ottime. Non essendo avvezza a questo tipo di location, quando sono arrivata al tavolo a strapiombo sulla roccia, con il tramonto in un cielo celeste che sembrava dipinto, la luce bianca dell'abat jour sul tavolo e la brezza del mare sono rimasta folgorata. Soldi spesi bene per una serata che noi e i nostri amici ricorderemo ricorderemo per molto tempo ..
Philosophical
Hard to find a taste-free tasting menu, but here it is. On the plus side, amazing views over the bay, highly stylish designer-modern venue in a Medieval castle, genuinely iconic interior design and décor, with plates, dishes and bowls that are genuine works of art. These are things Italians do brilliantly. It’s a feast for the eyes and for anyone interested in lighting, décor. style and ambiance. On minus side, staff who can’t remember who has ordered the pure fish tasting menu and who has ordered the mixed fish and meat tasting menu, the only two choices. Confusion precedes and colours every course. Staff, when asked, don’t seem to know what the dishes are either. Hard to know how to react...
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Pasta Delight in our selection of classic and contemporary pasta dishes, each crafted with fresh, quality ingredients and flavorful sauces that capture the essence of Italian cuisine in every bite.
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Europeo
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Pescare Delight in our exquisite fish dishes, crafted from the freshest catch of the day. From grilled favorites to savory stews, our menu celebrates the ocean's bounty with flavors to satisfy every palate.
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Terrazza Dine al fresco on our beautiful terrace, where you can enjoy a delightful meal amidst stunning views and a refreshing breeze. Perfect for a relaxing lunch or a romantic dinner under the stars.
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