Da Enzo - Apiro

I used to have lunch here during our summer camping and I always remembered as the best pasta I ever had. Been back after more than 20 years to find that my memories where not only correct but still live was amazing ! This place is a genuine hidden gem, Enzo is still cooking the best fresh hand made pasta with unique sauces. Unique Ravioloni and Pappardelle. You also must try the wooden owen roast duck, is something else. The animals, what they eat, the vegetables, how they grow, all with the best care, till they reach Enzo' life experience on traditional cooking and you will feel it in your mouth! I wish I could be back there more often. You shall try and just leave the real rural experience. And moreover is Definitely the best value for quality ever!!

Big room that was filled for Sunday lunch. I'm not sure why. The pasta of the ravioli boscaiola was very thick. The filling was some undefined cheese, not much taste. The mushroom sauce, also nothing special; a little bit of cream and a few pieces of mushroom. Overall a disappointing dish. I have to say that the grilled meats and sausage were well prepared and nicely seasoned. The salad was EXTREMELY salty (yuck). I think the best dish may have been the boiled spinach, although that too was a bit too salty. €35 for one poor pasta dish and the other stuff mentioned, I found too expensive. No coffee or dolce, we were glad to leave. If this is #1 in Apiro, I don't think we have to try the other restaurants in town.

Enzo 's is celebrated all over the district for its substantial, old fashioned cooking, the speciality being delicious, home bred duck (sometimes goose too), served as a main course and/or made into a 'ragu ' for pasta. Extremely reasonable prices. Good local wine. People come from miles away to eat there, so it 's advisable to book, especially at weekends and when there 's a holiday. Not difficult to find it 's about two kilometres outside Apiro, on the road going towards Frontale.

I know this place because for years I consider it the classic trattoria Marchena: kitchen of the house, real flavors and rustic environment. perfect location for a Sunday lunch between friends. the menu is always the same: Italian appetizer (optimum and abundant,) tagliatelle and ravioli the ravioli of enzo are the best I have ever eaten,) grilled chicken and roast guinea (cotto well, nothing to recriminare,) mimetizzato/crostato. everything paying € 27,00: price more than honest since he gets up from the table without hunger and satisfied. Let's see the unconscious. Please be one of those who hate the presence of dogs within a place that caters, but now I am accustomed to this situation of fanatic cynophilia. Everyone has a limit. in the middle of lunch, the dog accompanying a couple near our table. he thought well to defecate in the middle of the room with a consequent nauseating olezzo that pervaded the whole area. the masters who did not literally move a finger, but even more embarrassing was the waiter. politely invited by the undersigned to remedy as soon as possible the unpleasant event, returns from the kitchen with a roll of scottex and water and makes the move to give it to me: as if it touched the clean guest. I think my look is enough to bring back the young waiter from his intention to clean the excrement to a commensal. an episode like this unfortunately must never happen: Stop the dogs in the premises!

We went there with a group of friends (it was 10 of us in total) 2 weeks ago on a rainy, gloomy, stay-in-bed kind of day and I have to say that despite some aesthetic considerations, the place really livened up our weekend. The food is tasty, abundant and the service is sufficiently quick. The place looks weird (really raggedy on the outside, strangely ascetic and somewhat cafeteria looking on the inside). Their specialty is lamb and other such meat stuff that I had a taste of and they were really good. They also serve the scroccafusi (or something like that) which is typical, boiled then fried dow with honey on top. Definitely a try but prepare for the aftermath. We spent 20€ each. All in all. Not bad.