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Il Ristorante - Niko Romito Dubai Reviews from The Last Year
Inches away from greatness
Very picturesque venue with spacious indoor and outdoor seating area. Seemingly a full-Italian or at least full-Italian speaking team. Elegant uniform. High professionalism from beginning to end. All very much on par with 2 Michelin Stars and Bulgari. Since it’s a 2-star, it would be ridiculous not to try the degustation menu. Went for the 8-course option and started with an Americano Chinato. Tamarind soda was a subtle but certainly perceived touch. Delightful Prosecco foam on top to round out the bitterness of the Americano. You wouldn’t expect anything less from a classic Italian cocktail at this place. Starting with a vegetable consommé with a drop of olive oil and a micro sage leaf before the menu to open up the palate. Light, warm, comforting. Three types of breads are served separately to the table. It’s exactly what you would expect from a restaurant of this calibre (if not better). The baked bread is excellent: apparently using two types of imported flour and resembles a sourdough. First course is a warm lobster with celeriac puree and thin slices of celeriac, frisée salad, and pink peppercorn. Delicious, but not particularly outstanding. Followed with a dish consisting of mushrooms, hazelnuts, and Parmigiano Reggiano. Delicious again indeed, but slightly too heavy for my palate. This would be a bit of a recurring theme for the degustation menu. Roasted tuna belly, pumpkin allumettes, orange dressing. Wonderful dish. The tuna belly was a bit fatty, but it’s perfectly incorporated with the citrus dressing and the lightly acidity pumpkin allumettes. I thoroughly enjoyed this fantastic dish. Spaghettoni, scampi, Manteca butter, anchovies and marjoram. Equally fantastic as the tuna dish. Trout, almond, figs and bay leaf. A piece of trout stuffed with some figs and covered in a rather heavy sauce. I didn’t like this dish a lot since the flavour combination was rather bizarre. Everything was cooked properly and at Michelin level, obviously. However, I felt like the ingredients didn’t work together. Possibly because I’ve never been exposed to this very specific flavour profile. I guess it’s more of a personal preference thing. I am more exposed to, say, “generic” Italian cuisine with no particular regional focus. As far as I understand, Niko Romito’s menu is largely more region-specific. The fact that we are in Dubai does not do any good to a region-specific menu either: which ingredients should you import from Italian and which ingredients should you source locally? Sadly, this dilemma haunts so many top restaurants in Dubai. Chose to try a mocktail called Cashmere. Coconut, apple, raspberries, Indian curry. Interesting combination of flavours. On the sweeter side, but perfectly balanced. The curry taste is noticeable for the first half of the drink. With dilution, it goes away rather quickly. A small shame. But such is the nature of dilution. Cauliflower steak with hazelnuts. A dish that features cauliflower in multiple textures. Delicious, but again just a little bit over the edge with the heaviness. Beef tenderloin medallion with green peppercorn sauce. I didn’t enjoy this dish too much. It was a fair dish, but the beef itself was slightly underwhelming. Seemingly slow-cooked (no sear on top and bottom), the beef itself did not have a lot of flavours. The peppercorn sauce was ok and nothing special. A rather lacklustre dish in my opinion. Pre-dessert is beetroot in different textures. Again, fair pre-dessert. Chocolate and gold for dessert. Fantastic. Not much to say. Ending the dinner with an Italian version of a softer choux pastry dusted with granulated sugar, and filled with vanilla pastry cream. Some lemon-infused water as a final palate cleanser. The gentleman was kind enough to bring out a small glass of digestif made with chocolate liqueur and Branca Mentha which was very, very good. Unfortunately I just couldn’t finish the digestif. Overall, I felt like the degustation menu deviated a bit from my usual palate. However I have to admit that I did spent the afternoon drinking a white wine with a very high level of acidity: probably messed up my digestive system a bit and killed off a bit of my appetite. But the point still stands that, at the very least, the bigger format of the degustation menu was tolling on the stomach. The culinary skills of the kitchen team is not to be questioned, obviously. Perhaps I would have enjoyed my dinner a lot more going with a la carte or rather the shorter format of the degustation menu. Very unfortunately, Il Ristorante Niko Romito does not compare well against Trèsind Studio and Stay by Yannick Alléno. Trèsind Studio is a lot more robust and sometimes goes all-out with the flavour combinations and the element of theatre. Stay by Yannick Alléno boasts a more elegant European style yet not necessarily too reserved: symphony of flavours combined with classy aesthetics. Strangely, Il Ristorante Niko Romito has a rather lower level of aesthetics when it comes to plating: perhaps because of a seemly excessive use of sauces on certain dishes. There’s a certain pattern that some dishes followed back-to-back, building up some fatigue with the food: mentally and physically. Still a restaurant with very high standards, but as far as the menu is considered: probably not the best 2-star set menu you’ll find. A very sad 4 out of 5: it was just a little bit underwhelming. Almost there but not quite. I hate to say this but Il Ristorante Niko Romito is nothing special.
This review makes me sad.
Writing this makes me sad. The hostess amazing, head Barman, got my name from the hostess asked me what kind of drink I liked and made me the most wonderful south of France martini. Sat me on the terrace. Sommelier and wine selection unparalleled, i took the list. Walked to the bathroom the head bar guy checked in with me by name to check my night was amazing, but. The food. First course on the 8 course degustaiton menu - the soup, amazing, one of the best soups i have ever had. After that. Lobster in heavy cream sauce, mushrooms in heavy cream sauce, trout in heavy orange sauce, cauliflower in heavy cream sauce, steak in so much cream sauce i had to shovel it off with my knife, and dessert. Partially frozen, partially warm but all wrapped in gold, you are not a serious restaurant if you wrap your dessert in gold.everything is 5/5, service, wine, people, ambience, but the food its 2/5 i wish the chef would trust themselves and not blanket everything in cream, i was there on a Friday night and i could have walked in with a party of 20 and been immediately seated at any time from 7-11. For the people that work there who i met for only a few hours i want this place to be better but as soon as Michelin come back they are f**ked. The locals have already spoken, empty on a Friday.
Disappointing
Really disappointing- I’ve been to several Michelin star restaurants around the world and cannot understand how this restaurant even managed to get 1 star.
Sweet surprise
I loved the degustation menu. The waiter explained each menu and was really polite. The food and drink were amazing and the dessert, OMG a little taste of heaven. When you leave the restaurant you receive a little package with a sweet surprise
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Fabulous Lunch
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Worked perfectly
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Worked flawlessly!
Worked so well! I was a bit nervous, but everything went very smoothly. purchased the reservation, and got into the restaurant seamlessly.
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Quick table in Miami
I didn’t have my hopes high as it was a party of 4. In 24 hours I had a carbone reservation available! I was very happy as my family really wanted to come here
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perfect
Worked well, got me into a restaurant with no availability
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It works!
Ok at this point I've attended a reservation purchased on AT by a friend and sold a reservation personally. Both worked pretty smoothly, nothing sketchy about it. A few areas for improvement including a way to more directly communicate between buyers and sellers, but the app always seems to be in development. AT customer support is really(!) responsive and helpful too if you have questions!
Money transfer
As a seller, I like the fact i have the ability now to transfer money out of my AT account and into a bank account. Makes getting the money much easier then the process before.
Love this app
Got to go to places otherwise unreachable
Easy Access
Very easy to get into one of the hardest restaurants to reserve in New York.
Whose name will my reservation be under when I arrive at the venue?
It can be under your name or a name you choose! Some reservation offers already include the AppointmentTrader Transfer Service which will transfer the reservation in to your name. If its not included you can add it on after buying the reservation for a small fee. One thing on that though: As many reservations become available at last minute, taking a reservation in someone else name is quick and great for privacy. Most reservations on AT are listed with a virtual phone number, so all you need to do is present the phone number at the hostess stand and you are good to go!
Appointment
I was waiting on the transfer for name but it hasn’t happened yet and my reservation is tonight , will it be an issue that is hasn’t changed into my name yet
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Same goes for 4 Charles and I Sodi
Prepaid Reservation Fee
Agreed. Ultimately not addressing this month after month is clearly resulting in a drop in certain venue’s rankings & sales.
Just got scammed!
Thats unfortunate but you can always get your money back if they cancel the reservation.
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Need to cancel a bid, not getting a response… how do I do it?
Click on "Take off the Market Option" in your portfolio
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Your bid has been “matched” with a reservation. From the time a reservation has been located, the seller of the reservation must connect with moderator to give transfer information for reservation. If the seller;however, does NOT respond to reservation transfer, then your bid is reprocessed and returns to the first step, which is connecting your request to a reservation.
Process after bid is accepted.
Hey @EvocativeFold67, welcome to appointmenttrader! Once the reservation is in your portfolio, you definitely own the timeslot, the review team would not have approved the trade if the reservation wasn't confirmed - so you are going :-) Judging from your post you bid today and are going tomorrow - don't worry as long as you initiated the name transfer, you are good - the transfer service has to work with the opening hours of the reservation team of the respective venue. You will likely see the transfer confirmation a couple hours before your reservation time.
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