Modena
Antica Trattoria Cervetta

Antica Trattoria Cervetta

Via Cervetta, 7, Modena, Italy

Caffè • Italiano • Messicano • Da Asporto


"See bottom for summary. The manager of the restaurant has clearly understood what are the elements that distinguish a high-class restaurant: mediocre food covered by unaffordable prices and seasoned with abundant arrogance, obviously! In particular, the €4 cover charge is exceptional, justified by a small plate of crackers and Pleistocene sandwiches that probably not even Polly the parrot would have wanted to munch on. Anyone who wants to pay the cost of a dinner at Cannavacciuolo for two first courses cooked by Uncle Peppe and a bottle of tap water will certainly be satisfied. We consumed a ladleful of tortellini in a small bowl of chicken broth and a modest portion of tagliatelle with meat sauce (among other things, really indigestible) which, I quote the victim verbatim, I made better at home . To this add 1l of tap water. How much did we spend? €36.80... and we had a 20% discount!!! When the bill arrived, out of the corner of my eye I swore I saw the owner slide with sinister laughter into the hidden vault behind the counter... was it the Nosferatu? Jokes (I hope) aside, nothing spoiled the evening like the appalling rudeness distributed liberally towards customers. It went quite well for us but there were episodes of haughty and disgusting tones that were truly chilling. Every customer I saw come in that evening was greeted with disdain and immediately severely instructed on where to put their jackets by a host who didn 't even have the courtesy to raise his eyes to look at you while he groomed you. The top scorn of the evening in my opinion was reserved for the table of nine next to us, perhaps because there was a kid there? I felt bad for them. To conclude, the summary for those who don 't like reading pippotti: *very expensive* place, snooty owner convinced he has a three Michelin star and dishes to forget. Attend at your own risk (especially financial)!"

Pizzeria La Gioconda

Pizzeria La Gioconda

Via Elpidio Bertoli, 144/146, Modena, Italy

Pizza • Italiano • Pizzeria • Da Asporto


"Traumatic experience We arrive at this super crowded pizzeria, they make us wait 20 minutes at the entrance, then they finally make us sit at a table and we order. After several minutes the waiter tells us that we have to move to another table because the table we are at is reserved for others. So he makes us move to a table, in a very uncomfortable position: the waiters almost bumped into us as they passed because there was very little space. As if that wasn't enough, one leg of the table was broken and so it was dancing a bit. For this reason, my friend and I always had to keep one arm on the table otherwise he risked falling. After an agony, a 1 hour wait and I'm not joking, our pizzas finally arrive. So I think it's going well so far, very bad, but the pizzas are finally arriving and they will be good... But no they were terrible there was the mozzarella that almost seemed sewn onto the pizza. My pizza in theory with sausages but in practice without. I alert the waiter to say that there were no sausages on the pizza so he says wait until we put them in for him, after a further 20 minutes he shows up at the table throwing some sausages on the now cold pizza. I had asked him for a new pizza, but he, very unpleasant, gave me a rude answer. I swallow the pizza with difficulty, as did my friend who didn't like his. We were so bad that my friend literally suggested we leave without paying. I replied that it was right to pay for a service, even if the service was terrible, like prison. So we paid as quickly as possible and once outside the restaurant we celebrated the end of the suffering. In the end we laughed at it because in reality it was just crying! We advise against anyone coming to eat here unless you want to be treated like animals."