"Where to eat well and cheap in Dortmund? My internet research revealed that Ciccio’s has been offering a lunch ticket since April 2015 at prices from 8.90 to 11.90 €. This is interesting as other Italian restaurants offer at the same conditions. So to comparison. Location and parking The restaurant is located in absolute proximity to the Westfalenhallen and the Signal Iduna Park almost on the A40/B1. The walk-in restaurant with a wide, representative corner entrance is accessible via several outdoor stages. On the left and right of the entrance you can sit on two terraces outside in nice weather – but not just noise-free, as cars are constantly running past both sides. Parking in the immediate vicinity is difficult. Insiders drive around the building to the underground car park left next to the hotel entrance of the Steigenberger Hotel. Immediately after the entrance, a number of parking spaces for the Ciccio’s are reserved on the left. The chip can be removed later in the restaurant and then has free exit. Ambiente Already the entrance area with bar and high tables with high chairs impresses with its noble design. Many years ago, when the noble ANTICA ROMA was still residing here, it was poked. Large old Italian prosperous interior design that promises a lot in an Italian restaurant. Do you think the food can stop? Behind the Entree lies the actual restaurant area. An impressively designed round arched ceiling with modern fresco painting almost strikes the viewer. The floor is tiled rustically. The right side of the elongated room provides a lot of daylight with the large high windows. Some opposite walls are provided with beige clinker stones, other red painted. At the head end a long medium brown upholstery bench. I like the seating with comfortable bright leather-padded armchairs. But on the formerly noble interior, the tooth of the time naps. The traces of use are not to be denied with exact consideration. Laminations break away at once dark table edges and the bright veneer is visible. My armchair showed clear material cracks on the armrest. The table tops point with notches on some rustic guest who might have confused the table top with the steak. The dining table: A bright dark table top that has seen optically better times. Then a white bread plate, modern designer-like cutlery, consisting of knife, fork and small bread knife. A simple modern waterglass with engravings by San Pelegrino and Aquapanna. A chic ball-shaped silver-colored wind light without tealight. A white fabric napkin, which was not enough for me to convey the impression of a well-kept table culture, but for a cheap lunch table that is fine for me. Lateral bottles with olive oil and dark balsamico, complemented by simple white porcelain shakers with salt and pepper. Service Four to five waiters formed the service brigade. Severely, some took the path from the bar to the kitchen entrance and back. Well-maintained convenience was announced at the early noon. Maybe the evening was long before. One of these “agile” representatives was probably responsible for us and handed the card, dragged the large board with the offers of the day and picked up the beverage order. They made service according to instructions, no more. Decently polite but completely impersonal. This is different, even if the guest eats there for the first time. My complaint about the asparagus taste was noted and that was it. This includes about 60 dishes with the usual representatives: appetizers, soups, pizza, pasta, fish, meat and dessert at ambitious prices. Bruschetta 5,90 € Vitello Tonato 11,50 € Carpaccio di Manzo 10,50 € Pizza from 6,90 € Lasagne 9,90 € Saltimbocca alla Romana 19,50 € Mixed fish plate 28,90 € Tiramisu 5,90 € In addition, a large table with current daily offers (see photo . Recently, a lunch card awakens the interest of hungry guests with two courses in three variants: In this week there was a first gang of antipasti for free choice with broschetta, cucumbers and tomatoes or asparagus soup. Two courses to 8,90 € alternative as second gear Grilled turkey or Zanderfilet with asparagus Two courses to 11,90 € The third variant pizza with ham, pizza with tuna or pizza with mushrooms Two courses to 8,90 € The lunch offer stopped well and my chauffeur chose Bruschetta and pizza with ham, while I chose the asparagus soup and zeal. The food came after a reasonable waiting period for lunch. There was fresh ciabatta from the house with olives and an eggplant paste. Bruschetta Two large slices of roasted ciabatta, lushly covered with fresh tomato cubes, onions and some leaves of rocket, were tasty. I can't understand why my escort climbed the pants in a lush way while eating instead of eating the covering. The soup came in a white lion headerrine. Cooking hot so that the butter separated from the flour-bound asparagus fond. My attempts to prepare a binding emulsion by stirring with the spoon failed. The fond was tasty and the top floating butter (or could it have been a butter substitute? was only fat. It's different. Pizza with ham Oooh... a monster pizza with a diameter of about 35 cm, which protrudes far beyond the edge of the pizza plate. This car wheel was correspondingly difficult to cut, as parts repeatedly sought ground adhesion with the table top. Maybe that's why the notches on the table top. The ground was nicely thin in the middle and well covered with cooking ham, tomato sauce and cheese. She was tastefully fine. Zanderfilet with asparagus The fish dish was presented on a large plate. Two pieces Zander with skin and gray transhipment between skin and fish meat, panned and completely uniformly slightly browned. Slightly greasy crooked. After I carefully lifted skin and tranship and laid aside for the cook as a nasty, the fish meat revealed itself as juicy and in places still glazed as I like it. The white asparagus, cut a rod in slanted pieces by volume, still had light bites. But why did this noble vegetables taste vinegar? I grunted. Sure, the cook had stored the bars in edgy-soaked cloths, which supports the durability, or tipped a shot of vinegar into the cooking water so that the white color remains. These are old tricks of professional chefs. The fact is that too much vinegar destroyed the fine taste of this noble vegetables. Also from the asparagus, I left a few pieces for the cook to nail on the plate. The cube potatoes were also slightly browned by frying, and the dripping fat formed a large pan on the plate. It's good that there was a little fresh spinach waiting for me. He was the best in the whole court. Really fresh large leaves just briefly swung into fat and minimally flavored with garlic. Wonderful. I quickly enjoyed it myself. Beverages We enjoyed a well-cooled bottle of San Pellegrino 0.75 l at 6,00 €. Note to the toilets The elaborately lavish rooms in the cellar below the restaurant are still from the times of the former Antica Roma. On the other hand, without style, standing on the washbasin, a cheap soap dispenser plastic bottle from the discounter or the metro and a simple paper roll without holder, from which one has to tear a sheet with wet hands. The previously installed machines seemed to be defective. Conclusion More mass instead of class. Servings sufficient for great hunger at a small price at noon. I find the lunch offer in itself sufficient and varied. In a qualitative comparison with other Italians with high standards, which prepare the dishes more carefully and more aromatic, Ciccio’s cannot withstand. Rating 2 – At noon table at present hardly again (1 – certainly not again, 2 – hardly again, 3 – if it results again, 4 – happy again, 5 – absolutely again – after “Kuechenreise”"
Dortmund
