Téléphone: +393986268655
Adresse: Tempera, L'aquila, Italy, L'AQUILA
Ville: L'AQUILA
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Avis: 350
"I am American and have lived in Italy for 6 months. My Partner is Italian and loves to show me new places and I love adventure. The atmosphere was fun, large ponds /streams with icy mountain water running by. The grounds were not maintained well...and the seating was designed for large groups. Everything is do it yourself, get the paper table cover, silverware, plates water, etc. and the man must get the stuff. they say it is some tradition but I think it is a way to save money on labor. which would be great if the saving were passed along). You tell them what you like and the broadcast your name over an annoying PA system when each dish is ready. We ordered an appetizer, a pasta dish and a fish and 2 beers, price 50 euros $75 us) The food?? I am not a chef but I have eaten all over the world....In some of the best/unique restaurants you can find. I have eaten also very bad food. In some ways I am hard to please, but other ways im easy. To start with it was a warm day and id just run up gran Sasso in a brutal race and all I could think of was a cold beer. so even before we sat this nice guy brings me a bottle of basic beer. WARM!! they put one in the cooler for me as I choked down the other. The appetizer was toast with with white beans and pieces of trout soaked in vinegar. more on the Trout later) I like the white beans and the bread had the rustic multigrain texture, but the vinegar trout part gave me a wide eyed pucker up hence a thumbs down. next...A large bowl of Penne style pasta with a red sauce and a shell type crawdad creatures. There were plenty of these guys in there, about the size of a small mouse, hard as carbon fiber on the outside and meatless mash of green and brown guts on the inside, better over cooked than undercooked. No meat but I chalked it up to that's what they were supposed to be like and I ate most of mine avoiding the stuff I avoid on lobster heads. Even if I had liked them they were not drained properly as water gushed and squirted out when biting into them. The red sauce was ordinary as was the pasta, nothing noticeably bad or good. The fish trout) arrived, at the same time I retrieved my COLD beer. The had a case of coke with, watermelon and wine cooling in the stream!! hello!! throw a case of beer in! Back to the Fish. i am from the Rocky mountains and my family are fishing nuts....so I grew up eating a lot of trout. I love it! except farmed trout There is a big difference. just because the pellet fed fish was plucked from his cage on the pond that morning fresh fish is the claim) does not mean it is good. The meat appeared to be cooked on an grill, had a generous coating of olive oil. The meat was pale white from lack of oxygenation, pond fish) was flavorless except for the vinegar) and had no texture. It was pathetic! but hey some people are ok with that, im not. I understand the problem of serving wild caught trout commercially, Whether it is a case of economics or ethics the product is low quality. This place reminds me of a tourist trap with a cranky hostess. If you want to save your money there tons of places with better food at half the price. If price is no object...you are wasting your time hear. If you are obligated by a relatives party...in that case get some prosciutto on toast with a carafe of wine. what I kept thinking while at Assunta named after the brash owner), besides the array of potential problems that could occur the day after.... was what a missed potential here, but perhaps it is a cash cow the way it is and there is no need to change anything. Sadly we will never know."