Cremona - GENAZZANO

Old style structure, hotel restaurant, a huge room with a nice fireplace on, rightly spaced tables and well equipped. Antipasto of the house of quality meats and cheeses. Homemade pasta, well cooked grilled meat and all abundant, at slight loss of quality. Wine map with interesting hints but excessive embroidery. Great service. Ideal for large groups.

Well, I mean, a poor restaurant that came out from the 1980s. I'm going with my 96-year-old grandmother. I take a very little spaghetto with the clams with the fake cream 80's), my grandmother a nightmare salad and a fry that did not taste. During the meal the owner adds a plate of fried artichokes to let us taste because he had just made them nice things that sometimes in certain places do). We ask for a quarter of wine and leave a bottle at the table telling us to drink until we were saved then take it off when we really see that we only want a quatrain.. I don't know if I explained well, in any case you will find this story already told in other reviews present here. Well beyond the average low quality of everything, the surreal moment concerns the phase of payment. On the account in fact we find the famous artichokes that had offered us, after having pointed it out and having denied everything, finally comes the brother of the owner who says he has brought us also artichokes. At that point I said that we had not ordered them but that he had made us taste it as a form of courtesy and I felt to answer: “But comme ti i sii magnati” all while pulling on the counter to my grandmother I repeat 96 years) the 10 euros of artichokes. Well what to say, better not say anything and leave your choice.

Food certainly appreciable, what just doesn't go is the behavior of the waiter who served us. First of all of the menu not even the shadow, and already from that I had to understand that there was something wrong. Then we order, and to the demand on wine I ask a glass of white,as I was the only one who drinks and having to drive drink little. It's okay, and I'm wondering which wine. After making the choice comes the waiter and opens a bottle at the table, so far nothing strange, I think pours the cup and then takes it away,instead leaves the bottle (a Pecorino igt) on the table. I point out that I only asked for a glass, and he answers does not worry, drink as much as he wants, these are not the problems . I'm heading towards A cup (I'm naively thinking that they'll only charge me that I don't want to take advantage of the situation of course), we consume the meal and we ask for the bill. The bill comes in and I'm charged with the bottle. I'm pointing out the mistake, and I'm told we opened the bottle, what do we do? . Indignated I reiterate that I had asked for a cup and a cup I drank, and I feel answering vabbè I made a little discount on the bottle. I ask to remove the bottle from the account and to put the glass, it is answered that it is not possible, that now the account has been made, and that in the end that is the price of a glass, meaning the 12 € of the bottle. I answer that a glass of medium-low quality wine pays 5-6€, and I answer you no you pay 12 €, and next time we offer you the bottle . I understand that they're just taking me for the melts, and not wanting to ruin me and my commensal on Sunday I decide to pay, but I ask to have at least one stopper to take away my bottle. In the end it is not the few euros that have been extorted that make me angry, fortunately still I can survive, it is the fact of being screwed and also taken for the foundls. If you don't have wine glasses, you tell me. You're not acting like that. Very unpleasant. Never again.

Good food, so much sympathy and friendliness. I've been to sleep and dinner. Surely I will return and recommend it. Good price

Large, efficient service, first good dishes and homemade pasta: ravioli with ricotta and spinach are amazing. I count in the norm.