La Caravella

Fantastic. Wonderful food and service. The lemon soufflé was a perfect finish. Don’t miss the ceramic and wine shop across from the restaurant. Cutest donkeys ever!

Goodness. You wanna simple pasta dish or some fish?? Go elsewhere. If instead you want a true taste of Italy then this is the idea place to visit. They even have a museum of wine that you can visit if you book in advance!! This amazing place opened its doors in 1959 and still continues with its excellence and traditional food and wine so it must be doing something right!! The restaurant is beautiful and the interior we understand was designed by Renzo Piano who is perhaps the most famous architect in Italy who visited for dinner and became a friend of the owner and designed the new layout by hand whilst eating dinner!! Needless to say the wine menu is AMAZING as is the food menu. We were 2 couples and we chose 2 meat menus and 2 fish menus plus some amazing Rose wine. The owner explained the food as it arrived and my goodness it was a REAL experience, even an ignorant fellow like me could understand the excellence of the food and drink. FANTASTIC experience!!!

Watch this before you go please! This restaurant is a prank, a lie! Michelin guide please notice this. It’s about the reputation of Michelin guide. I expected this restaurant pretty much. It’s famous for its history and traditional Campanian cuisine and Michelin gave them one star for “High quality cooking” which is totally not real. I skipped to judge the service part. The only thing you need to know is that they didn’t smile at all until you pay for the meal and that’s the end of all experience. When we sit, they didn’t even introduce their menu for today. It was a 7 courses menu. 150 euro per person. Firstly, the bread was so dry. I only ate a few because it cannot trigger my appetite at all. I tried many bread in Europe, this was the lowest quality bread. The starter they called Sushi style but I didn’t see any sushi at all. It was just raw fish without any cooking technics. It was cultural misappropriation. I felt insulted by this dish. (We are Asian.) Then, few dishes were using the same plain croutons, bad chopped, no-cooked tomato dice. If this was how Michelin called “High quality cooking”. I would rather spend 10 euro buy a bread, tomato, olive oil from any supermarket and chop them roughly. And throw the rest of 140 euro into the sea of Amalfi. Almost all the dishes were plain but the scialatielli in their menu was too salty. They had bad taste on their own seasoning. In conclusion, La Carevella has bad service, bad cooking quality, and their 7 courses menu was plain without any sincerity. But the Campanian wine was distinctive I couldn’t deny it. But it definitely doesn’t deserve a Michelin one star. This is a shame I follow Michelin guide and end up a bad experience like this. Let’s see how many people will spend more than 100 euro to eat “this”.