Alla Torre

Nice place to stop and take a breather. We all had a drink here while walking around Verona. The staff were friendly and they gave us olives and nuts to eat with our drinks– this is the norm here in Verona. It’s in a decent location if you wish to people watch and they have a great selection of drinks.

Maybe part of my disappointment is that a local recommended the place to me, and called ahead to the owner, so I thought I was in for something special. What we found was a tourist trap. The owner was charismatic and full of jokes (which he quickly moved on to re-​tell to the next group), but the food was just meh.
It wasn’t awful, and sitting watching the square was a nice bonus, so there’s that.
Maybe the restaurant has good Italian food for Italians in the off-​season, but I doubt I’ll bother to find out.

This place was awful, what a shame. Should have guessed really seeing as it was in a prime location in a very touristy area, but I had actually read a good review in a local paper (only to discover later that the review had been paid for by the restaurant) claiming that this was fantastic traditional Italian food and that they would give us a 10% discount for mentioning the ad (which they didn’t even though they said they would when we sat down they demurred when I brought it up after being handed the bill).
We got the patter from the owner stating his wife was the cook and we were honoured guests, but as soon as we had ordered we were ignored apart from when our overcooked food was thrown on to the table. Just gave us a plate each and didn’t bother to find out who had ordered what so we had to swap our plates amongst ourselves. The food had been precooked and then rewarmed, the fish was burnt and dry, the vegetables cold and soggy, the pasta overcooked and lacking the stated ingredients, the wine vinegary and bitter — very disappointing.