Trattoria La Campagnola - RICADI

Food was okay but way too expensive, service was terrible and everyone was still hungry after they ate except for the guy that ordered a pizza.

I am always very honest when I write reviews because I know that a lot of people are like me, i.e. before they go somewhere new, they read reviews first, and they make their decisions very much based or influenced from what they read. Currently we are in Capo Vaticano residing at La Campagnola. Our choice for this hotel was based on the photos, good reviews and price. When we arrived, the hotel exceeded our expectations, but about this, I already wrote another review yesterday. What I am about to write is about the restaurant. To my surprise, when two days ago we got hungry and were about to have dinner here, we decided not to do so. Why? Because as I always do, I went to seek what other people have written about the food, service etc. I read a considerable number of TERRIBLE and POOR reviews, so I immediately decided not to have dinner here. But I kept thinking and wondering, and I don 't know how many times I went to re check the reviews, not only from this site, but from others too. Why I was puzzled???? As the hotel is super clean, new and nice. The restaurant is the same place where we take an amazing breakfast every day. The breakfast items are so genuine, delicious and organic, grown here in the fields of the owners. The service is amazing. These people (this hotel is family run) are super friendly, helpful and professionals in their approach towards their customers. The place is super clean. So I was wondering why not only one, two or three people wrote terrible reviews. If one is lying, I can 't understand why 90 people are! ! ! ! ! In the other two days that we have been here, we noticed that the restaurant was always full up. If their service and food was so terrible, how comes it they were on both days full up????? This is what puzzled me. So at the end I decided that we are going to try to have dinner here, and I had a back up plan, that if we don 't like the food or anything else, we go elsewhere. I was very attentive to every detail. We were greeted with kindness, friendliness and with a professional approach. We were guided to a table and we were presented with the menu immediately. We were asked if we wanted some drinks and we ordered some. They were treating all the customers in the same way they treated us. Another thing that I want to point out is that when one enters their page on TripAdvisor, it shows that this is not a cheap eat restaurant, but shows that the price is to . I can now confirm that the food is delicious, very fresh, abundant and cheap. I took the mixed grilled fish. It consists of a very fresh whole sea bream as big as the pan, a slice of mouthwatering sword fish, some clamari and one king prawns. All this costs 18euros. I am going to upload all the photos. My son took a mixed grilled meat that consists of a piece of veal, pork and skewer a very generous serving. This costs 12euros (unbelievable). My husband took a starter of muscles 11euros and a calzone pizza that is very large and very stuffed for 9euros. All the ingredients were very fresh. I was brought up in a fishing village in Malta and I can assure everyone reading that I really know when fish is fresh and when it is frozen and old. All the fish I ate here was very fresh. With the food we were also presented with fresh bread, bread sticks, extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper. This was not all. After dinner, the owner lady came and offered us the dessert complimentary. This awed us. So I thought of coming immediately to my room and write about this experience so that everyone will know what in reality the service and quality of food is here. My family and I already decided that whenever we have free weekends and we find good Ryanair fares, we will return here to enjoy this lovely clean, new, comfortable hotel and the food of its restaurant. And I highly recommend. I hope that by this review, I can be of good guidance to anyone else who is still doubting whether to come here or not. I can assure you that I am being as honest as possible. I am not being sponsored or anything like that. I wish you a very good lunch dinner. And finally, I cannot not thank all the staff.

We visited here just the once and to be honest I wouldn’t go back the lasagna was ok and my husbands mixed grill was bland , the ladies in the restaurant are very nice but under staffed and overworked resulting in not great service . Shame but I think there are better places . And on the way out my husband notice the mushrooms on the side had loads of Ants running all over them , Not what you want on your pizza as an added extra !!

Bel endroit avec une belle vue. carte très complète et excellents plats. service efficace et très convivial. Nous le recommandons sans réservation.

Scoperto per caso questo ristorante è davvero il migliore nella zona del faro testa del Vaticano. servizio veloce, piatti deliziosi, bella posizione e prezzi. Bene.