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Charming, conveniently located restaurant with a tree-lined roof garden. Tasty fresh pasta and home-made bread. Not for the budget diner, though the set lunch menus (RMB 60, 80, 99) are a Sanlitun standby. Voted "Outstanding Italian" in the Beijinger's 2011 Reader Restaurant Awards.
Location
- Sanlitun 三里屯
- 1 Sanlitun Beixiaojie, Chaoyang District
- 朝阳区三里屯北小街1号
- Daily noon-2.30pm, 6.30-11pm
- 8454 4508
- Parking available
- Delivery available
- Chinese and foreign cards accepted
- ¥¥¥¥¥¥ 200+ per person
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Don't go
I am Italian. I know what I am talking about. Don't go.
The service is passable because of the 15% surcharge. The food? Let's talk about something else.
The bread was cold and oily. We sent back the tagliolini because the sauce tasted rancid. No one bothered to ask what was wrong. The conchiglie were oily and full of salt. We were hoping at least the espresso to be like at home, it was not.
Poor quality, even poorer value. We won't go back.
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Don't go by yourself, they will hate you
So I went there this afternoon by myself for lunch. I guess that was my first mistake as clearly single people are not welcome there. They didn't really want to seat me, and made it obvious. In fact they were pretty rude from the start about not wanting to seat me, but finally they did.
Next I finally manged to get someone to take my order after a long wait. I ordered the set lunch which came with a salad and a main course. I get sick eating onions, so although none of the items listed any onions in them, just to be safe I told the girl anyway to make sure no onions (which I always do.) When the salad came it was some melted cheese, and some pieces of spinach, all covered with chopped onions. I ate one bite, decided nevermind, and just put it aside. Eventually the waitress asked me if I was through, and I said yes, I don't want to eat it because it has onions. She just said Oh, right, and took it away. Next my main course came and it also was full of onions. This time I called the girl back and said I can't eat this, it has onions. So then the girl said, oh well then do you want chicken. I didn't really want chicken, but I had already waited one hour at this point, so I said fine. The girl comes back with chicken and it looks like the exact same dish with beans and onions. I told the girl again, look I can not eat onions (doing my best to remain very calm at this point.). She take sit to the guy who I guess is the Italian onion who has ignored me from the beginning, and he shouts something to her abut telling me to take it or leave it, and brings it back to me. When she came back I decided to go have a word with the owner. before I say anything, the only words he says to me is "If you don't like it, get out, and don't ever come back."
Well, the time for me to be polite had now passed, and I lit into this fat idiot. I really don't care if a restaurant makes a mistake, or even if they would have just come out and said to me look, sorry, we can't make anything without onions-then I could just be on my merry way. But when this sorry ass owner starts trying to blame for their own shortcomings, I don't take that kind of rude treatment lightly.
So is the food any good, I have no idea. But if they can't figure how to treat customers with respect, I don't really care to find out. There are plenty of other places to eat (Hello Annies.)
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"Good Ambiance"
The Italian Pasta and breads rich n tasty and great location to have good breakfast and dinner .The Assagi have lovely greenaries and topless chairs makes very peaceful minded. thanks to assagi
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So So
While Assagi has had a good name as Original Italian chef and also the owners Italian,the food churned out could be better.
While the wine glasses and the decor is good does a good beginning and a good setting, the food is a disappointment .
Our Spagetti was not cooked well and after been asked to recook a bit more better it took a whole half an hour by the time we lost interest in eating !
The wine selection was good and we had some nice wine.
There was some Italian gentleman who was around but never came to us !(I am not sure if he knew we had a problem with food).Since we had ordered some soups,wine, I guess the Manager owner pay some attention to such guests.
The orange juice not good too.
There were waiters running around but our food server was different than the one who got us the food and we had request someone else to help us get the right things, and refill our breads.
The place is clean and chic and nice location though.
There were few groups who perhaps were regulars .But our dinner was not upto the mark .
When we got off, I was releived that I could breath fresh air.
We picked up some cakes and stuff from the adjacent Bakery for the night !! (if we need)!
Overall 2 for this place.
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