Brice P.
Yelp
Impicetta was the worst dining experience during my 14 days in Italy. The food was forgettable, borderline tolerable. There were better places I ate at in Rome and Trastevere.
Starting with the experience, we were sat in the back room in the corner. Several minutes after this, we were told to move to a different table. Once relocated, we waited for a little over 10-15 further minutes until we flagged a waiter to place our order. At this point, we had been in the restaurant for 25 minutes and no one had come to take our order, let alone give us bread or water or wine. When we flagged down the waiter who moved us, he took out his notepad and told us he was ready. When we said we wanted to do the tasting menu, he ran away, saying he needed another waiter to help us. Five minutes later, we got a quirky waiter who explained the tasting menu in a confusing manner. Our choices were also limited - no beef - which was not noted anywhere on the menu. Regardless, we placed our order.
We got an appetizer of roman classics- fried zuchini flowers and a plate of meat and cheese. It was all just ok - we had just come from Parma where we toured and tasted fresh prosciutto and parmesan reggiano. After we finished, we sat there with these plates for about 20 minutes.
Next came two massive portions of pasta each which were just not good. The carbonara was basic, with the pork belly barely cooked, as if thrown in last minute as an after thought. The pasta itself was cooked fine, but the "sauce" was clumpy and stodgy and just not appetizing. But the fun was just starting. Once we finished the pasta, we sat for another 30 minutes waiting for our secondi. No one would take our plates, no one would even look at us.
To make a very long story short, three hours into our meal, we hadn't gotten our secondi (or main) meal. We were hot, thirsty (no one asked if we wanted more wine or water), and miserable. My wife flagged the waiter, who in typical form for the night, acknowledged the flag, and then walked away, only to come back five minutes later. Three hours in, the secondi was decent but nothing worth waiting three hours for.
There are a few reviews which echo this experience... being ignored and treated like a second class diner. If there is any doubt, go elsewhere. It's not worth ruining your trip with this kind of non-sense. My other meals in Rome were much better both in food quality and service.
