Why is it always the restaurants with the biggest reputations that manage to be the most disappointing?
Trattoria Pulcinella is an Italian in Cardiff that has been quietly building a reputation for quality over many years, and finally on Saturday I got the chance to try it. It's housed in an obscenely pink building tucked away down a side street, and it has one of those small menus that screams 'home-made cooking' at you. Sadly, my ravioli could have quite easily come out of a Heinz tin. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but you wouldn't pay a tenner for it would you. One of the other people with me was so disappointed with his food that he took his complaint to the manager. He'd cleaned his plate as he had been very hungry, so the manager took this as a sign that in fact he had 'secretly enjoyed' the food, and just wanted to wriggle out of paying. Well, after that it all kicked off, and I don't think we'll be going back. I'm expecting to wake up with a horse's head in my bed any day now.
