La Gioconda - Menu

I always have the Chianti and spaghetti with peppers, oil and garlic. Same owners for over a decade. Carpachio is also excellent.

At first, the sound of a hour Italian restaurant did not fill us with a great sense of hope. However, opening the door from a chilly, grey, rainy...

Decent food and not too expensive. In fact food is very affordable and service is relaxed and yet friendly. Neighbourhood unfortunately not the best.

Nice, large menu and very satisfying dishes. Service is a bit slow, but that's Germany. Better food than I expected for Duisburg and at this price point.

Dined here once on a recent trip to Duisburg. Food was ok overall. Service was pretty slow, even though the restaurant was not very busy. I think I will look for better Italian food when I am next in Duisburg.

The restaurant was pretty full for dinner on the Tuesday that I went which gave it a good vibe. The salad was excellent with a lovely tangy vinaigrette dressing. The veal with white wine sauce was a little tough. A carafe of adequate house red rounded off the meal.

Our experience was super!! All the stuff was nice, it is a family run restaurant, and all of them are so nice! All meals are very good indeed. But, specially i enjoyed snails cooked in tomato sauce with garlic. But what to say about lasagna, or the dessert Dama Bianca?(sorry, all they have it is perfect, I just mention some products) Beautiful ingredients, perfectly cooked, and so it is for all their cooked food.It is indeed one of the best meals I have had in an Italian restaurant, but they are Italians!!

Went there against a bout of intermediate hunger. In short, the dose helped. But not more. The best were the small breads with butter given on the house. Furthermore, we had chosen the Pomodore con Cipolle "with spicy Italian sauce" ("pikante italienische Sosse"). Which turned out to be the usual out-of-the-bottle light-red fat salad gravy. Italian?? The pizza, as a standard test equipment, was not bad from the side of the anchovies, but on a seriously not-Italian, soft, not-thin dough covered with a not-Italian cheese. Finally, broccoli al forno was okay. Pepper grinder on request only, no olive oil on the table.Don't. Go. If you have an alternative.

.... but poor would be a little unfair. "Average-" is my rating.How to explain this restaurant? It's like, maybe, once about 30 years ago, this might have been a good restaurant. However today, everything seems old and tired (including the waiters, the menu and the food).The menu itself was really extensive, listing many combinations of dishes, flavours, directions... it was like, "well we're an Italian restaurant, we'll just make you anything you want". We were 3 people and we ordered an antipasti platter and a salad to share as appetiser. The antipasti were average (the grilled champignons were the best, the rest was just OK). For main dish, we all ordered the homemade pasta. One person ha...