Cerasuolo Valentini 2016
Casale Nuovo

Casale Nuovo

Strada Pedemontana, 58, Capalbio, Italy, 58011

Caffè • Pizza • Pasta • Carne


"We went to this restaurant for dinner, as a few weeks ago it was listed as being No 1 on Trip Advisor among all the restaurants in Capalbio. Well, I have to say, I don't agree with that. Having tried other restaurants in the area (two, in particular, spring to mind , this one, while being of acceptable quality, was the worst of the three. I would like to say, however, that we only had pasta/risotto dishes, followed by vegetable dishes and dessert, so I can't speak about the meat. The pasta and risotto were good enough, but not exceptional. The choice on the menu was nothing special there was not much that was really original. We were particularly disappointed with the choice of vegetable side dishes (we don't eat meat and we know that in Italy we can usually find lots of interesting vegetable dishes but not here . The roast potatoes we ordered were cold and hard (i.e. not good and I actually left some on the plate (unknown for me! . The grilled aubergines/courgettes were OK, but nothing special. I don't remember exactly what desserts we had, but that in itself means that they were probably nice, but not exceptional. We also had a bottle of wine recommended to us by the manager. The menu boasted about having organic (bio and biodynamic wines, so we asked him for advice about a good organic wine. We accepted his advice. However, I did not like the wine very much (it had an odd taste, very home made tasting . When I looked at the label, it did not state that it was organic (bio , so I can only assume that it wasn't. I wanted to ask the manager about this, but we never saw him again (he never asked us how we liked the wine, for example . Apart from this, we found the service good (polite serving staff and fast service . Lower than our expectations (but the price was higher the most expensive of the restaurants we visited in Capalbio . Would not go back."