It's a roller coaster ride with this restaurant. And not in a good way. Ugh!
Initially, I didn't want to go here because of the bad reviews. But this week, my husband wanted to take us for dinner and asked me to pick between Vapiano and La Tagliatella, so I thought 'What the heck - let's try it!' and we went to the latter.
Our dining experience started off nice.
The restaurant was almost empty, so we could choose any table we wanted.
The waitress was really friendly and quick - I have no complaints about the service.
After studying the menu, we decided on Focaccia La Tagliatella (focaccia stripes with onions, tomatoes and olives) as an appetizer. For mains, our 5-year old asked for Penne Bolognese (kids size), my husband opted for the Tagliatelle Peperoncino e gamberi (tagliatelle with shrimps, hot peppers and olive oil) and I went for a Pizza Capricciosa (tuna, mushrooms, mozzarella, spinach).
First we received a small bowl of complimentary small green olives.
I have no idea what kind they were, but I found them extremely delicious.
Our focaccia appetizer appeared quickly and was followed just a few minutes later by the main order.
Everything was nicely presented.
The focaccia was quite tasty. The stripes with the olives were my favorite.
My pizza took me a bit by surprise because of its size. It was a lot larger than the plate. The dough was super thin - it definitely reminded me of the pizza we ate in Rome in 2013. It was lacking the stone brick pizza oven taste - but it was still quite enjoyable since they did not skimp on the toppings and I had parmesan cheese at hand to enhance things.
My son's kid-size penne looked quite appealing as well.
For my taste, it could have used a few more spices, especially garlic, but it was nonetheless a tasty sight.
Now my husband's tagliatelle looked initially so great that I was tempted to regret my pizza choice for a moment. The pasta was cooked al dente and the hot peppers gave things a little kick without being overwhelming. Having that said though I have also to admit that I found the taste of the shrimps to be quite fishy. Not yucky... but they tasted off. I mentioned that to my husband, but he was not sure if he tasted the same thing so we let it go.
Shortly later, things went downhill.
Initially, we finished our meal in good spirits and left happy.
A couple of hours later, I noticed that my husband had become very quiet. Thinking we all were just tired, we went to bed. The next morning, he asked me for tea and told me that he had spent half the night awake with an upset stomach suffering from some case of food poisoning. After 2 more days of this and feeling queasy, he was OK again - but this is affecting my rating of La Tagliatella, of course.
I think, if you stick to the vegetarian dishes, you will probably OK health-wise - you just will still have to pay the mall-inflated prices - but we feel somewhat disappointed in our experience at this restaurant and I doubt that we will return. read more