ORBETELLO
Trattoria Il Cantuccio

Trattoria Il Cantuccio

Via Mentana 7, 58015, ORBETELLO, Italy

Vino • Pasta • Carne • Dessert


"We just accidentally stumbled upon this trattoria in search of a place to eat. Nice location a bit off the main street so it's very quiet there. The tables are located in the back of the building, there are seats inside and there's small square with tables outside. Being covered from all the streets creates a very secluded atmosphere. There are only few people working in the restaurant, maybe only as many as four or five persons of staff. Thus service is a bit slow. Now to food. Starters and pasta were amazing. Rich sauces, flavorsome fillings, silky smooth pasta. Probably one of the best tortelli I've ever had. We were a party of four and all ordered different, everything was finger licking good. This was a promising start of dinner so we expected same quality from the main courses. Unfortunately we were bitterly disappointed. Game that we ordered was plain and overcooked, they didn’t bother to take the small bones out as well so eating it was a complete mess. Spare pork ribs were overcooked if not cremated. It was literally problematic to separate meat from bones and hard to chew and swallow it. Extremely dry pork. The last dish that we ordered was lamb… I had no idea that you could do something like that to lamb. It was obviously beaten to the point of see-through thinness and deep fried in a thick layer of batter afterwards. It’s not only that you had to struggle to try and feel the taste of lamb in that thin layer of meet inside the batter crust but sometimes you had to really look very closely to even make sure that the meat was there at all. Certainly the dish was dry and missing at least a sauce to dip into. Certainly after such a disappointment we didn’t care to try desserts so I cannot tell anything about those. Probably if we only had pasta and starters for dinner it would have been magical and I would have probably rated it excellent but the mains were so bad that I have to rate it average. In conclusion it’s definitely a trattoria worth visiting just for pasta that is very good indeed but main courses I strongly don’t recommend."