Mare Mosso - PESARO

We went here on our last night in Pesaro. Up to now we’d always had pleasant experiences in the restaurants here. When we first walked in it looked nice. Pleasant decor with a sea view. We were the first people in the restaurant this evening. I admit to having a poor standard of Italian, but the meagre bits I do have seem to have got me through our two week trip so far. We were given Italian language menus. I could get by with these, but my wife was struggling, so I asked for English language ones. No, we don’t do those. However the waitress sent across a waitress who could interpret for us, which was nice. This is where things first started to go wrong. My wife asked for anchovies on a pizza. When the waitress walked away I said to my wife that it was likely she didn’t understand what anchovies were and that she was likely to get artichokes. So we called the waitress back to emphasise the ‘fish’ element of the definition, which she assured us she understood. Upon delivery of the food, the pizza had artichokes on it. My wife ate the pizza by removing the artichokes. To be fair, they did offer to redo it, but by then I was well into my pasta dish, which had been delivered earlier, so she declined. The bit that really irked me was at the end of the meal. Throughout we were largely ignored by the staff, despite their greater attentiveness to all of the Italian speakers around us. At the end of the meal it was noticeable that every other table in the restaurant had been offered liqueurs, except us. Whilst it wasn’t a great loss, it just spoke to the overall feeling that we had that they really didn’t want any non Italian speakers in their restaurant. Their language, their country of course. But don’t expect us to recommend their restaurant as a result. Sorry, I hate writing bad reviews.

The food was excellent the only think that bothered me was that we couldn’t order more then 3 first plates we were in 16 so we had to take the same 3 plates

Pranzo con 12 amici. Abbiamo gustato 6 antipasti (olive all'ascolana), 12 primi piatti di pesce, 12 caffè, 6 bottiglie d'acqua e 3 bottiglie di vino. Il costo è stato di 24,5 euro a testa. La qualità del cibo è indiscutibile e la quantità abbondante. Tuttavia, secondo me, il conto potrebbe essere leggermente più contenuto. La posizione del ristorante è ottima, con una splendida vista mare dalla veranda.

Siamo stati a pranzo questa mattina; una bellissima posizione e cibo gustoso. L'unica nota stonata è stata la presenza di peperoncino piccante (anche se troppo abbondante) in un primo piatto in cui, dal menu, non era previsto né richiesto.

Very nice fish restaurant. The personnel was very nice, food excellent (portions were good too) and decent prices. I would definitely go there again.