Steven Richardson
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Mama Mia!!!!! This place was amazing. Completely shocked at how great this place was. Tivoli is filled with lots of very similar restaurants, which are mostly the same standard, pasta and pizza and other traditional dishes. If you want something different I would highly recommend here. It is a fine dining restaurant, so the price is too be expected for the quality of the food.
We went early on a Saturday, 1930, just as they opened, to avoid the crowds, and we were the first to be seated. The chef personally greeted us and we had several wonderful conversations as he brought the food out to us personally. It wasn't busy yet, which made the meal very intimidate and special. As the meal went on around 830 the place got very busy. Go early for an intimate experience.
The chef asked what we would like to eat and we responded, please surprise us. Wow, did he! With each dish came a story of the dish, along with the ingredients and more importantly where each ingredient came from. Right down to to the olive oil location and person that supplies it. He strives hard to use local ingredients. One of the dishes he brought out, the seafood soup, he explains today is the only time I can make this dish. Because tomorrow the market won't have the same fish for me.
I wish we had another day to go back, the steak dish looks amazing which I'm dying to try.
The play on classic raviolis was amazing. They really were the best dumplings I've ever had. Literally game me goose bumps. Plus they contained a very generous portion of shaved black truffles on the dish, very luxurious.
Usually in fine dining I'm let down by the desserts after a good meal. Not here, the creamy delicate dessert was light and a perfect finish.
The waitress was lovely and the inside restaurant is cool, air conditioned and beautiful inside.
I hope to visit again some day. Thank you!!