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There's a first and last time for everything...

Review of Ciro's Pomodoro
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This restaurant is one of the worst experiences I have had eating out. The place looks nice, (except for the creepy celebrity photos) but it is also the first time I have been cheated by another foreigner in China. The menu was very overpriced, and the staff was extremely pushy, trying to get us to order food we didn't want. When we did order, they brought us something which we didn't order (and was much more expensive than what we wanted). Once we realized the item was not what we had ordered we attempted to tell them. The Italian guy who I believe owns the place told us that since it was genuine Italian food, we should be happy to pay for it. He treated us like teenagers he had caught shoplifting not like a customer who had found dirt in their glass. This was an additional problem I attempted to bring to his attention but he was not interested. He simply continued to treat us as if we were mud on his shoes and as if his restaurant was the best in Beijing (which it is not, I can make better Italian food). We ended up paying for both the food we had ordered and the food which we had not ordered (which we didn't eat) and left. X( I and all my co-workers in Beijing will be avoiding this place like the plague. I asked someone who has lived in China for longer than I have their response was- you were swindled into giving the guy more money than even the overpriced menu would allow. Definitely a place to avoid. I know there is a really good pizza place just around the corner, and Bitapita next door is also really good. Sadly these were closed at the time were there, and we ended up in Ciro's Pomodoro.

Re: There's a first and last time for everything...

Don't call it Italian.. this restaurant is UK Chain.

I have heard of Italians going there only by mistake Smile

Re: There's a first and last time for everything...

Ageed! Food is NOT italian nor worthy of the title. You can find good italian food and italian kindness elsewhere!!

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