Grottino Da Salvatore - Dresden

Their Pizza and fish dishes are pretty good. Service tries to be funny Italian but turns out just rude.

Service without any smile on his face. full of sarcasm, make me feel like he is a racist. no greeting when i left, maybe he didn't like me due to no tips for him. he came to me like a boss, I started with german...but maybe he felt interresting to play with my accent. he used english/german mixed language to talk to me. the seafood soup taste so so, and the bologne taste bad. they dont even slice the garlic. 服务很差劲，千万别去吃 服务很差劲，千万别去吃 服务很差劲，千万别去吃 服务很差劲，千万别去吃 服务很差劲，千万别去吃

I visited this restaurant many times with my family. We all are very satisfied. The stuff is very friendly and so you always feel welcomed. The food is very good and authentic. If you want to have a fine meal in friendly and relaxed atmosphere,...it is a good place to go.

It was our last night at my parent's and I had mentioned that I wanted pizza. I had actually a frozen spinach pizza from the supermarket in mind, considering that the frozen pizza and the frozen spinach is a disgrace where I live. But my...father surprised my partner and me by taking us to this place. He had discovered it one day while looking for an apartment and my parents had been there a few times. In fact, my mother had told us about an exquisite dish a night before and when she ordered and we tried it, we realized what she had been so enthusiastic about. Fresh mussels in a white wine sauce. I don't know where they got the mussels from, since Dresden is far from the ocean, but I have never eaten such fresh mussels in my life! My parents ordered fish and it was so delicate and good that even my partner tasted it and called it good, though he hates! fish. He had some noodles with a sauce with which he was more than happy and I ordered a pizza of which we had to say who is going to win, the pizza or her I can say that the pizza won. It was so huge that I required my partner's help to be able to finish it. It was handmade, then baked in the pizza oven. It was not really round and that is how you could see that each pizza was indeed individually prepared. I have never seen a pizza like that in my life. And while you can tell at sight that you will never be able to finish it, you keep trying because it would be a crime to leave any of it behind. This was all accompanied by our waiter who was friendly and fairly forward and managed to make us laugh and feel at home, despite being on the brink. He offered for instance to take a picture, but asked for someone's phone as he was not going to use his, he told us. I gave him my camera. A good digital camera, if with a few years on it. He took it and commented that I should have my (supposedly) rich man buy me a new camera as mine was a disgrace, he said. He made us laugh, he made us feel at home. The place is nicely decorated, like a sort of fisherman's cave. Parking can be difficult to find in that area and since it was a Friday or Saturday night, the place was packed. The waiter was from Sicily and called everyone Amore even the men. My father admired his self-assurance by doing so, or his nonchalance to not bothering with remembering the names of other employees. We had a great time and we had a great meal and the service was indeed very good and personalized. Including the screams to the kitchen as to why the signorina had not received her pizza yet. There were Germans, there were Italians, there was even one tourist I think. It was certainly not cheap, but it was worth every penny.

Il Grottino is a cozy and homey place. We went under the week, yet the restaurant was buzzing with hungry guests. We loved the feeling of real Italy, even though the owner is more Eastern European, Bulgarian to be precise. The food was homemade, fresh...and pretty yummy, but the wine-list lacked some quality choices. We had a great night and the only dislike was the somewhat overly-friendly owner, while being nice came across a bit dodgy. Of course, this could also be part of the charm to be genuine Italian... (maybe Napoli)