LE ARCATE

Outstanding efforts to be welcoming, friendly, and multilingual. Great food: we had classic woodfired pizza and true homemade pasta, but there's a tempting selection of fishes, meats, and desserts on the menu that looked amazing on other tables. Great value for the money on the island, absolutely recommendable.

We had seafood pasta and a vegetarian plate who h was good. Service was quick nice environment.

3 euro cover charge.. no problem. But 10% tip added on top without asking us. Very sneaky and not aligned with any other Italian restaurant.

Our tour guide recommended it which upon reflection is likely a “I’ll scratch your back, you scratch mine” type arrangement. But! The food itself was good, nothing to write home about and definitely has “tourist” prices attached to it.

The service was the absolute bare minimum.

The atmosphere was definitely impacted by road work happening by out the front. Nothing the business can do about it but that’s the experience when we were there.

Now to back up to the service.. we get the bill and the gentleman comes over the eftpos machine and says that lunch is €42 and how much is the tip to add on. I asked what he meant and he repeated himself and I said “no tip, just the total thank you” and he says “no tip. At all?” And seemed offended. The food was good but not great, the service was next to nonexistent (the owner took our order with nothing more than grunts and walked off, our food was dropped off by someone else and then this guy came to get us to pay… what service??) I had my card ready to pay and he said he would be back in a moment, walked away and then returned about a minute later and said “okay, so €47” and tried to add €5 tip himself?!? Let’s also consider that only 15 minutes later on the bus the tour guide is telling us that the locals make insane money off tourists tipping just because the local puts their hand out for it.

Anyway… overall. I won’t be returning to this restaurant.

A cena con amici,abbiamo ordinato delle pizze,tutte buonissime,fatte ad hoc.