Ciboom - MATERA

This place is a hidden gem. My husband and I were visiting Tradate. We decided to go for pizza for our dinner in the neighbourhood. We don’t realise we were so lucky to bump into this restaurant. The pizza we had was simply out of this world. The round crust was soft and the cheese and ham were perfect match. So was the spaghetti vongole and the shrimp tartar.

Brilliant food, great service and very reasonably priced. This is a super little place for lunch for dinner but because it is small it does get full very quickly. The menu contains the usual pasta and pizza dishes but also does a good steak and salad. We were amused to see 'chip ' pizza on the menu!

Saw tourist menu for 15 euro so gave it à shot. Mains disappointing. Ok but I don't consider à sauvage or hamburger to be a classicisme Italian secondi. The pastas are great though. Wine is cheap at 4 euro 1/2 litre. Note there is a 1.5 euro cover pp even for tourist menu. Just go off menu as you can skip limited secondi. Salad side was just some iceberg or home fries.

Nice dinner with casual flare. Excellent choices of appetizers and main courses. My dish was more than I could handle.

Service personal was not very friendly. We didn’t know what would come for the Antipasti. The pumpkin sauce for the Ravioli was way to fluid and the coffee was cold. After asking for a warm coffee the waiter told us that the milk was cold and hence also the coffee. Not a good explanation.