I Due Regni - Carte

La Ciau Del Tornavento

➤ Piazza Leopoldo Baracco, 7, Treiso, Italy

Carte • Kebab • Caffè • Pizza • Messicano

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"TLDR; This Michelin Star was clearly awarded years ago and they have just forgotten to come review this restaurant again recently. The staff was inexperienced and uninformed, the food is uninspired and served poorly. AVOID! Longer Review: You enter the restaurant through a small glass anteroom that is where they permit smoking and the ashtrays are filled with cigarette butts. The door is broken and the customized carpet with the name of the restaurant on it is falling apart. That should give you a good indication of the kind of experience you 've signed up for. The background music is played too loud to just be ambient and, even though you 're in the heart of Piedmont, the music is a terrible muzak channel of arranged jazz influenced acoustic renditions from 1980 2000 by Sting, Paul Simon and Journey interspersed with multiple songs from the movie Shrek. The tasting menus look compelling but everyone at the table is required to order the same thing for you to be allowed to take part. For us that wasn 't even a possibility as everyone had different opinions on what they wanted for lunch. Ordering a la carte is a clumsy affair with multiple dishes designed to be eaten family style listed on the same page as individual appetizers. The menu is also long enough to rival a Cheesecake Factory with their house specialties finally showing up on page 10. The wine list is MONSTROUS. It 's meant to be intimidating and, when you get offered a tour of their cellar after your meal you 'll understand that it 's a big show bravado by the owner and I thought it was designed to make every guest feel like they 're 'less than '. 65,000 bottles to choose from? After ordering wine and food you 'll receive an amuse bouche that will be the highlight of your meal. Enjoy it, the slide downhill into malaise will happen shortly after. There were three of us at lunch and we ordered: Frog Legs (meant for 2 which was more than enough because they 're so bland that you 'll only want to eat one each and there are 8 on the plate) Foie Gras (included two slices of terrine paired with a single raspberry and compote, some smoked foie gras with small chunks of walnut and thin strips of granny smith apple, and a third portion of some sliced 'meat ' of unrecognizable origin that was completely devoid of any taste. It also came with 4 toast points of what was billed as 'hazelnut bread ' but it just tasted stale) Snails with smoked foie gras (barely any foie gras with a giant pile of 2 dozen snails over an odd pecorino cheese sauce) Before sharing the details of our entrees it 's important to comment on the service level: A Michelin Star is awarded based on five criteria with the fifth being a consistently excellent experience. That 's hard to quantify but it 's easy for anyone to know when service isn 't excellent. Our waiters were not informed about the items on the menu and apathetic, failed to clear the table in a timely manner and did not clean crumbs until after our dessert (especially important given the number of food items that were meant to be eaten by hand). Direct example: when our appetizers were brought out our waitress didn 't make eye contact while mumbling a poor description of the food while looking away in a distracted manner. I was also asked, in each course, Is this what you ordered? Our entrees were: Goat served two ways* with some soggy vegetables and a potato chip standing vertically in a small pile of uninspired mashed potatoes Fried Veal served with the exact same soggy vegetables (think chicken fried steak but without any gravy) Fried Lamb served with fried veal brain, fried apple and other fried items all the same color and served on a piece of paper *About 8 minutes after serving the goat a waiter walked back out and delivered a small side plate of the same random fried items that were paired with the fried lamb But most frustrating: two of our three entrees were served. It took 6 minutes for them to deliver the third entree so the first two items went cold during the wait. Disappointing."

Vecchia Locanda Roma

➤ Via Ener Bettica 23, 14054, CASTAGNOLE DELLE LANZE, Italy

Carte • Caffè • Sushi • Europeo • Asiatico

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"un tavolo con vista sulle dolci colline dei laghi, piatti tipici succulenti cucinati con cura, l'ottimo vino della zona. per racchiudere tutto questo professionale e allo stesso tempo così familiare ospitalità di una donna speciale, lori, innamorato del suo lavoro e della sua famiglia, un sorriso contagioso che ti fa sentire a casa. Eravamo amici in vacanza qui intorno e alla ricerca di un posto accogliente per cenare. abbiamo trovato la locanda e siamo stati davvero fortunati: una serata indimenticabile. Se volete sapere come mangiare passato qui e non ve ne pentirete. Congratulazioni davvero!"

Osteria L'oca Giuliva

➤ Via Tagliaferro 31-33, 14054, CASTAGNOLE DELLE LANZE, Italy

Carte • Pizza • Caffè • Kebab • Sushi

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"We went as a large family group for easter. It's a cozy restaurant, very welcoming. The food was delicious from the mixed cold meat starter with warm dough balls that you simply can't leave alone, to the vegetable flan with a delicate cheese sauce, an unusual but wonderful risotto with lemon, gnocchi, beef tagliata.. And finally dessert! The usual huge Italian Easter lunch that is a challenge for the hardiest eater! Service was great and we would most definitely return."

Trattoria Risorgimento

➤ Viale Rimembranza, 14, 12050, Treiso, Italy

Carte • Pizza • Caffè • Kebab • Messicano

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"Era il mio ristorante preferito, ma dall'inverno scorso qualcosa è cambiato, la cucina non è più organizzata come prima: abbiamo aspettato mezz'ora per avere il vino, 1 ora circa per gli antipasti e, dopo le mie lamentele, solo mezz'ora per i primi. Il secondo non l'abbiamo ordinato per fortuna. Il semifreddo al torrone, che prendo da anni, stavolta era diverso : pieno di torrone e tanto dolce. Non era la stessa ricetta! Tutto il resto era molto buono: i plin, i tajarin... Rimane un ottimo ristorante."

Osteria Dell'unione

➤ Via Alba 1, 12050, Treiso, Italy

Carte • Kebab • Pizza • Caffè • Messicano

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"We came on a Thursday evening and thank goodness our hotel made reservations for us because it became packed (but only for outdoor seating). We saw several groups turned away because they did not have a reservation and were unwilling to sit indoors. (Not a huge deal to sit indoors since there is no view in the outdoor seating anyway). The center of town in Treiso has plenty of free public parking, which is right next to the restaurant so that was convenient. This restaurant is part of the slow food movement and sometimes the dishes took so long to come out that we thought that 's what the slow food movement meant! We did not order the set menu but the dinner still took 2.5 hours. That being said, the food was really delicious. We were particularly blown away by the tajarin pasta dish so definitely be sure to order this. We would be happy to return to this place for this dish alone. One tidbit of advice: bring bug repellent if you are sitting outside. I not only got eaten alive but so did all of the other restaurant patrons (at one point, I looked around and saw everyone scratching themselves)."