Radici -terra E Gusto - PADOVA

In short, slow, badly paired flavours, repetitive, lack of preparation and not the best quality. Want to know why I shall explain in detail: Having read many reviews both positive and negative, and also talking to friends who have been before it was always in the balance. I was told it is an experience and it was certainly that: however not a positive one. Let’s start at the beginning; the book was made four days in advance alerting the restaurant to allergies of one of the dinners, acknowledgment of this was made with the booking confirmation, so far so good. Then we arrived, shown to our table and given after a few minutes the cocktail menu, as yet no problem. After about 5 minutes of the drinks having arrived we asked about nibbles with the drinks, to which the response was the kitchen is making them, well 20 minutes passed and they finally arrived, microscopic in size and we had almost finished our drinks. After 40 minutes we were finally given a menu for the food but had to ask for the wine list. The waitress asked who has the lactose intolerance and can they eat butter??!! Clearly no understanding of where butter comes from, as for the other allergie a similar question was asked ‘just the juice of the whole part of the food’. Well after an hour and fifteen minutes, the first course of the taster menu arrived we were also told we could not have different tasting menus as it was too difficult for the kitchen, this did start to ring alarm bells if a kitchen can’t cope with different orders). A tongue dish with a pickled cabbage; too sour to eat and did not match with the dry meat. After another 20 minutes the second course arrived, bearing in mind they had had the notification of the allergies in advance, the option for the guest with the problem was a cold raw pumpkin dish and not meat remember we had all chosen the meat tasting menu). So the guest did eat this as it was just not good. Now let's get to the third course, again for the guest with the allergy a vegetarian dish of pumpkin again, this was sent back as where was the meat and pumpkin again, somewhat unimaginative and repetitive. The tasting menu option was a Raviolo, which was dry undercooked and of not great quality. We are all now starting to laugh at the slowness of the service, two and a half hours after sitting down at the table with still have four dishes to go and the hunger is increasing with the passing of time; also by this time we are just starting to laugh at the manner of service and attention to detail. I was looking for a clock in the room: there was not one, one guest suggested that due to the slow service they would be better having a calendar. The next dish does not even deserve comment, then came the pigeon: not cooked there is a difference and we all know the difference between pink and red because it is raw) and when we asked the waitress about this she said ‘the chef does it like this otherwise it becomes dry and hard’, indeed it was rubbery and difficult to cut. Being someone that has often eaten pigeon in various places this is just not the case, it is more to do with the chef not being able to cook it in the right way, sorry it was not the raw ingredient it the the way it is prepared. Remember the allergy, it meant that of the two deserts on the tasting menu there was only one for the guest with the problem so when the second desert arrived for the rest of the table they were just left with nothing to eat, it was only because we said and for him, the response came we have nothing he can. Finally we left, one menu was given by the restaurant for the guest that really didn’t eat anything due to the lack of foresight by the kitchen who had had warning days in advance: an effort to redeem what even they I think understood was a disaster, but unfortunately to little too late. A shame as the place could be great but just not with this attitude or kitchen staff.

Ambiente intimo e chic per un menu che esalta le materie prime e combina sapori semplici per creare sogni per il palato. Il personale eccezionale vi accoglie e vi coccola per tutta la serata. Il prezzo è un po' alto, ma ne vale la pena. Da tornarci di nuovo e di nuovo.

Questo ristorante merita tutta la tua attenzione! Si distingue per la qualità del cibo, la cortesia del personale e l'alta cucina. L'ambiente interno è incantevole e il bellissimo giardino estivo è perfetto per rilassarsi. Il cocktail bar vanta dei professionisti eccezionali che, con la loro esperienza mondiale, possono creare qualsiasi tipo di cocktail tu possa desiderare. Assolutamente consigliato!

We have a hard time finding the words to review. All right, from the professional staff to the great food. Even Zalto brand glasses that not even starred restaurants dream of them) We had a great dinner in a pleasant environment, with attentive but never affected or intrusive staff and a starred menu. It's been a long time that we didn't feel so good at dinner. Well done, good and we wish you all the best. Thanks again to Alessandro and all the staff. When we return to Padua we will not fail to visit you again!

We were on a week long trip of fine dining and enjoying the holiday sights and sounds of Padova. After dining at the other fine dining establishments in town we saved our last meal for Radici and we were not disappointed. The service is impeccable and the food was superb. The wine service was consistent with fine dining restaurants and the recommendations spot on.