New owner, unfortunately only the interior has improved. The dishes are generally very small in relation to price, it could work if they were good and well prepared, but they are sadly far from that. My first course was spagetti vongole, fairly normal, the pasta...was all right, and the mussels maybe okay, I had difficulties to find them, there were nine(9!) mussels, I counted them...My husband had todays soup which was a celery soup, topped with some ready-made croutons. A dull pale dish, okay but far to expensive. I had a piece of pike-perch as main course, the piece was 2 cm thick, and 8 x 8 cm big....and it was placed on what seemed to be the same sauce as my husband had just had as "toays soup"? But the absolute worst dish was his main course, Discribed in the menu as a veal chop with fried potatoes. It was a schnitzel, enormously breaded in a very thick layer and then deepfried, served with factory-made fries. served with small packets of ketchup i foli, like a mcDonalds...It looked liked something you would expect on a autobahn restaurant at a cost of maybe 10 euros., Here it was 24 Euros!. Absolutely horrible. '
And all served on paper placemats, preprinted with the menu, so don´t expect this restaurant to change menu according to seasonal ingredients. We sincerely hope for a change, the restaurant is placed on the busiest square in Stresa so it will probablyt survive, but it would be so sad to see it turned in to a true tourist-trap! We who live in Stresa have many other options, but the towns reputation.......
The only reason for the two satrs are the nice lady who served us, and the bread.More