Il Padiglione Delle Cicogne - Roma

There is a window into the kitchen so you can see your food being prepared, that is already a good sign. It takes time to prepare really good food, so don't expect to be in and out really quickly. The quality of the products is high. The presentation of the dishes is very good. The service is not the best, maybe the owner is very shy and so avoids exchanging social niceties? However, the food is excellent. It delights the palate with little bursts of flavor that go on and on. The desserts were beautiful to look at and a delight to eat. This place is worth a visit.

After 10 days of Italian food every meal, we needed to change things up a bit. So we tried this place. The decor is nice modern take on a restaurant interior. The two of us visited on a monday night about 8:30pm and didn't complete our meal until roughly 10:30pm. I think there was only the one chef and one lady performing double duty as hostess waitress. Given the seating capacity of the restaurant I think they were short staffed, some tables were not cleared during our entire 2 hour dining experience. Our dishes arrived one every 15 20 minutes or so. We were pleasantly surprised by the Pork dumplings 小籠包 a bit on the pricey side for only 4 buns, still they were modestly juicy, skin modestly thin and the taste was good. Of course not up to par with what you'll find in Shanghai, Taipei or even some places in Silicon Valley, but pretty good for Rome. I found it odd that you'll need to ask for vinegar, chopsticks and a spoon which is required equipment to eat 小籠包. The rest of our order consisted of an individual order of hot and sour soup, cashew nut chicken and Chinese bok choy (the green stem) with shitake mushrooms; all were well prepared. I later found out that neither of the other two Chinese restaurants we tried near the Pantheon Coliseum part of the city offered any other Asian vegetable options besides sauteed bean sprouts. At the end of the evening, when asked about where to catch a cab, the hostess immediately volunteered to call us a cab for the ride back. Within 3 minutes we were on our way back to our room.

Eccezionale ristorante cinese. Piatti deliziosi e ben preparati. Servizio impeccabile, ambiente gradevole e conto eccellente. Abbiamo prenotato con The Fork (sconto del 20%, consigliato!)

I like asian food in general, but for this type of food, you have to forget authentic chinese and asian and cantonese food. the food here is relatively good and the restaurant is also nice, but they only need to improve their interiors a little bit and make it more classy and high profile. but food is like comfortable chinese food

The steak with gorgonzola perfect. Good atmosphere and helpful waiters. Nice quirky side street reasonably priced restaurant.