It was an interesting dinner evening at Osteria Novecento…read more
Initial impression: Friendly reception, showed us to the back section of the restaurant plus offering us to choose a table from two available. Good space between the tables, nice decoration all around and a large real candle on each table. Restaurant was busy with most of the tables occupied.
Food: I had the Panzerotti Ricotta Spinacci for my entree, which was great. Pasta was al dente and well seasoned, however portion size wise it could have been a bit more. It was sufficient for me, but other people probably would want more for dinner. My fellow companions were not as happy with their entrees. Portion wise they were more blessed than me, but they were not too happy with the taste and seasoning.
Desserts were very good, we had the Mousse Al Limoncello and Tiramisu Al Fragole.
Now you might be wondering about the 2 star review, so let's get to the service:
It was abysmal. Let's start with the menu. As with any Osteria, there is a big focus on their wines, followed by the food menu. The wine menu consist of a large selection of wines, each with a detailed description and a price by bottle and by glass. However our server did not explain that these wines are not really available per glass until we actually tried to order. He pointed then to a shorter list of wines, however which didn't include a description. We were able to find good options of wines to drink, but it made a bit harder. For the actual service of wine and food, it took our server a good 15 min to serve the drinks. After waiting another 45 min for our food we had to first complain to our server and then another 15 min later to management. We were given different stories (one of them a full-on lie) on why we had not yet received our food, in the end it took more than 1 1/2 hours after arriving at the restaurant to get our food served. It really overly soured our experience at the Osteria Novecento. To be fair, restaurant management did not charge us for the desserts which was an offer that we accepted.
