Drera - VALMADRERA

3 restaurants in Valmadrera, one stupidly expensive so I tried Drera and the one next to it, sadly the better restaurant. I see from other reviews that they seem to have a problem with foreigners and although the waitress was charming her boss was actually rude and I had to (nicely) let her know her attitude wasn 't acceptable. I started with fish cannelloni, very nice but 6 very small tubes, with no discernible flavour. Then onto their take of veal milanese. There were 5 or six small medallions of veal sat on I think black pudding with a crispy medallion on top. Nice presentation but it didn 't taste of anything. There were two teaspoon full servings of a lovely tomato puree but it wasn 't nearly enough to save the dish and coupled with the small starter I left hungry. I titled this confused as I think they may have mistaken what they are doing as fine dining, it isn 't. Perhaps the pizza 's are nice but that 's not what I travel 800 miles for.

This is the kind of place you don’t want to go to! Service is friendly but the kitchen is not slow, it’s eternal (we have been to it twice, giving them a second chance, never again!! . They can take more than one hour to an hour and a half to serve you a plate or gnocchi (hard as a rock and tasteless! and another hour to get a seafood dish, barely decent. We will never go back to it again!

I looked on everyone else’s plate and they got twice as much. Had to order two dishes to get stuffed. I think they do not like foreigners. Avoid if you are not Italian :

Cute environment, food at height, a little too expensive

Intimate place, clean and organized, friendly and helpful staff, great pizza and unmissable desserts! there is also the possibility to buy some products or stop even just for a coffee