31/03/2024: I'm passionate about travel and experimental cuisine, so every time I get the chance I try something alternative. This place was recommended to me by a local girl.
I took the Carbonara pizza, my mother a proposal of the day with pecorino, artichokes, sausage on the way out. The doughs are really special (you have to like small and very tall pizza). Equally good ingredients and expertly combined. It was a good experience! Attentive service. I recommend it.
Side notes:
The price is slightly high for my average.
The location is very contemporary. If I can leave a small suggestion on the matter, it could help a lot to make the entrance more welcoming because it looks like a service room and from the outside you have the doubt that you are really at the right entrance... and it doesn't do justice to the rest which is very minimal and appreciable.
If I were to return to the area, I would like to have another experience here.
20/03/2024: Let's start from an assumption: much of what I will say will probably be the result of my personal experience which may not be a rule:
We were a large group, Civitanova was particularly crowded and it took me 20 minutes to find parking, even very far from the venue.
Since there were so many of us and there was a parking problem, it was inevitable that some arrived earlier and others later. Personally I arrived on time, but some arrived about twenty minutes later.
Being a place that works two shifts, I can understand that they were interested in clearing the table for the second shift, but literally on several occasions they almost slipped the plate from under us.
We finished eating literally at the split time of the start of the second shift. we were at the last bites of the dessert and there were still two minutes to go (checked on the clock), a waiter arrived to tell us that we would kindly have to clear the table for the second shift since the other diners had arrived.
Here comes my first constructive criticism: of course it's the customer's fault for having delayed a little but we consumed, I would say, a lot and we were just about to finish. Considering that the second round was the last, couldn't we have waited 5 minutes since we literally had two bites of dessert left and since we had had a complete dinner of appetizer, pizza, dessert and coffee?
Food side: honestly I was expecting a gastronomic experience given the prices and instead I was quite disappointed:
Entrée with pesto, a slice of pizza and a slice of burrata, pleasant but here's the first criticism: the pesto was very dark green which can mean 2 things: either it was defrosted, or it had been blended by overheating it too much. In both cases it's something I don't expect to see at those prices. It wasn't just limited to the entrée, all the pesto we were then served was that dark green color.
Appetizers:
the meatballs, simply wonderful, the thing I liked most of the evening, I recommend them
Savory maritozzi: 5 euros each. Basically you order an empty dish on which they place a condiment on top. Totally rejected for me. 80% are married and know about it. I tried multiple flavors but they all had very little seasoning and so only a small portion was seasoned and varied in flavor. By definition, I imagine the husband as more enveloping, but instead he appeared dry and anonymous.
Pizza:
I got the one with the patanegra. The dough is excellent, but compared to the photo you see on the menu and online? Nothing to see, two tiny slices of ham and various waves of balsamic vinegar, in short, a pizza that looked like a 4 cheese pizza on which two leaves of ham fat had fallen and with various waves of balsamic vinegar. (I attach photos in which you can play: find the patanegra)
Other pizzas were equally disappointing aesthetically while others lived up to expectations, so perhaps I and a few others at the table were unlucky? Let's give the benefit of the doubt. Although I would prefer not to have to play the lottery to get a well-seasoned pizza when you pay 17 euros for it
The others took dessert and I didn't, I can't judge the flavour, from the looks of it they were the best thing they presented to us and according to the diners they were very good.
Around 43 euros each which is a lot for a pizza but which we expected to pay even before entering. The price was not the problem but rather the price/offer/treatment ratio.
As for the environment, I'm going purely to personal taste: I find it a bit aseptic and anonymous
Let's just say that in Civitanova I found myself much better elsewhere both for courtesy and, in some cases, for satisfaction with the food and in general as an evening experience
PS (anecdote) while I was waiting for my turn to pay, I found myself waiting in front of the bakery and I noticed a pack of sterilgarda mascarpone, it made me smile
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