Rutteria Lorenzo - Werden

The restaurant is just located 2 min walk from the Sheraton hotel. The moment you enter, you can feel the Italian ambiance, from the cheerful welcome to spectacular goodbye. The food was really very good. We liked the Bruschetta and both the spaghetti pomodoro and the Alfredo fettuccine. The service was very professional and accommodating. All questions were answered with curtsey and even some ingredients were brought to the table due to the language barrier as they weren’t fluent in English, but still did their best to make sure they provide good service . Famous people have eaten here, including the German Chancellor Angel Merkel. Very much recommended

On business trip. Besides nice and high sualit food : Friendly service, kitchen well organised on planning (my salad was there 5 minutes after order and the pizza 5 minutes after salad was removed). Definitely a place to recommend.

After numerous visits, I am still thrilled. La Osteria offers me everything that makes my visit an experience. Here a concept of extra class has emerged that I can only recommend to everyone at the most. Secret tip: let yourself be surprised by putting the chef's menu together. Top service (very attentive) Top kitchen (very high quality). This restaurant is my personal best recommendation.

We took the advice and booked a reservation some hours before dining. It was the last momen to do it. So I want to pay it forward and for free for you friends. Make the reservation. This seems to be very popular restaurant at weekends.We felt very welcome when we entered there. After I introduced us the waiter knew immediately who we are and sounded like he was there only for us. The place was well crowded so the only free table there was for us at the moment. Waiter was little bit apologetic about the fact that the next reservation to our table was booked so that we had one and half hours time to enjoy our meals. Reason was obviously the late reservation time. Anyway the staff handled the situation politely and we didn't have anything to complain about the short time.Service was super fast with good manners. Meals,As starters we took the beef tartar. I've had better only when I make it by my self. :) It was good tasting and the sides gave great contrast. Texture was bit too greasy, maybe little overworked.Main Pasta carbonara. Ok, maybe bit too spicy to my standards, since the bacon part has naturally lot of taste by it self.DessertsTiramisu had a great taste bit wet structure thou.Creme Bruleé was great. I Specially liked this very small detail on it. One juicy canned cherry.

If you want to taste the Italian hospitality in Essen, this is the place. They not only have the Italian food but the entire experience. Technically speaking they could be better here and there but who cares ? It's Italy ! - the taste is not only in the dishes. Wonderful food in a very informal environment.