Drera - VALMADRERA

I looked on everyone else’s plate and they got twice as much. Had to order two dishes to get stuffed. I think they do not like foreigners. Avoid if you are not Italian :

3 restaurants in Valmadrera, one stupidly expensive so I tried Drera and the one next to it, sadly the better restaurant. I see from other reviews that they seem to have a problem with foreigners and although the waitress was charming her boss was actually rude and I had to (nicely) let her know her attitude wasn 't acceptable. I started with fish cannelloni, very nice but 6 very small tubes, with no discernible flavour. Then onto their take of veal milanese. There were 5 or six small medallions of veal sat on I think black pudding with a crispy medallion on top. Nice presentation but it didn 't taste of anything. There were two teaspoon full servings of a lovely tomato puree but it wasn 't nearly enough to save the dish and coupled with the small starter I left hungry. I titled this confused as I think they may have mistaken what they are doing as fine dining, it isn 't. Perhaps the pizza 's are nice but that 's not what I travel 800 miles for.

This is the kind of place you don’t want to go to! Service is friendly but the kitchen is not slow, it’s eternal (we have been to it twice, giving them a second chance, never again!! . They can take more than one hour to an hour and a half to serve you a plate or gnocchi (hard as a rock and tasteless! and another hour to get a seafood dish, barely decent. We will never go back to it again!

Credo che, come molti in questo periodo, questo locale di nuova gestione stia patendo il momento difficile nel reperire personale all'altezza. Noi ci siamo stati ieri a pranzo e devo dire che ha funzionato tutto. In sala (tavolo all'aperto a dir la verità nessun problema, staff simpatico e accogliente non mi è parso che fossero in affanno. A pranzo è disponibile anche qualche piatto di cucina espresso che abbiamo provato e ci ha lasciati molto soddisfatti (i ravioli in particolare, ma anche la tartare di Ricciola , mentre mi hanno detto che alla sera il menu si basa su pizza, taglieri (consigliati dai nostri vicini di tavolo e hamburger, credo proprio torneremo a provare anche il resto ed a goderci la posizione davvero invidiabile e la vista su lago e montagne.

Taglieri con affettato e formaggi buonissimi, Sushi di carne da provare assolutamente! Tanta scelta di pizze. Personale gentile e location ben curata, comodo parcheggio nelle vicinanze. Consiglio!