A first warning sign was when our waiter "tried" to find us a table, at noon, with the restaurant COMPLETELY empty (and with no sign of reserved tables). The next warning sign was that he spoke English and German fluently (meaning they deal with a lot of tourists), but at this point we were seated and ready to risk it.
On ordering, the waiter suggested we should order a starter because it would take a long time to prepare our main courses. Fair enough, we shared a carpaccio. And it was at least decent.
I ordered the house wine, but the waiter insisted on a more expensive wine. I knew that wine from home so I said: "yes, why not", but explicitly I ordered it by the glass: "by the glass, two glasses please".
Food was good, so was the wine. The bill not so much: on there was a charge for half a bottle of wine(!).
I brought the waiter back and told him: "I ordered two glasses from you, not half a bottle. Please correct this". He played good guy ("yes, yes") but brought out the guy that had poured the wine to play the bad guy.
This person was argumentative and had a bit of a hostile body language: "I opened a new bottle and you did not protest" he said, and "you have to pay half a bottle" (why not a full bottle then since that's what he opened!?). I turned to my waiter ignoring mr bad guy: "look, I ordered from you, two glasses. Anything else is a communication error between you and your colleague". They want back and forth trying to intimidate me a bit (I train Thai boxing and I'm not easily intimated so I just sat back".
Eventually they yielded, corrected the bill, and I was off to the hotel to immediate write this poor review. You do bad you get bad! What goes around comes around. read more