Petrocelli Ristorante am Kurfuerstendamm

This is a place I really enjoy. An open, inviting restaurant that flows onto the wide pavement of the Kurfurstendamm (Ku'Damm to the locals) close to Hotel California and the BleibTreustr bus stop. An Italian inspired menu with great choices and interesting specialities. A full...range to suit any palette including great deserts. Comprehensive wine list as well as good wines by the glass. My favourite is the seafood soup it has heaps of fresh seafood and piquant broth (there is a milder version). What a great way to spend an evening with friends!

We have visited Berlin once or twice a year through the last years. Petrocelli is next to the hotel we stayed in the first times, and it became a tradition to come here. Great pizzas, good wine, ‘Italian’ service, great atmosphere, not too...expensive and lots of people. Not at least our daughters, now and loved the place. During the years Petrocelli went ever so slightly down the slippery slope of lower quality food, higher prices and worse service. But tradition still brought us back. Last year we decided that it had been the final visit, the atmosphere was gone, together with the good food and the service. And then we anyway came back last week, maybe in the hope that a bit of the old mag...

A complete disaster began with the unfriendly wellcome. The waiter did not let us sit at the main restaurant area as those tables were reserved. However one couple cane and sat there without a reservation after almost five minutes. Meanwhile the waiter who should be...serving to us brought drinks to her friends first who came after us. I reminded her that we came before and we were waiting for water. She advised me not to complain about small things and to enjoy the dinner. The salmon carpaccio was tasteless, it tasted if it was left in the water for a while. So my son couldn’t eat it. Meanwhile the meat carpaccio was ok. We complained about it then the waiter took it back and brought the me...