Hostaria Terza Carbonaia

3 of us came in at 8pm for dinner, glad that we book the table because it was full after 30 mins. Staffs are friendly and funny, even would recommend us the order, which customers always appreciate. (As I came in with locals who can speak Italian and been to this restaurant many times, so we know what to order straight away, the place can be hectic when it’s full and I can feel that staffs are trying their best to attend all customers) The prosciutto with melon was just mouth-watering and the steak was sooooo tasty!!!! Highly recommended if you are the meat lover.

This place is more of a no frill home cooked food style. We had only steak Fiorentina (€50 for 2 people) and some prosciutto. It was perfectly cooked to medium rare. The food is genuine and it's very affordable, close of being very cheap since after all it's Milan. We paid less than €110 for our lunch including a bottle of wine and tiramisu for desserts. This is a place where locals go for a family lunch and dinner. They have English menu as well and the staff speak good English. It has cosy family environment. I recommend this place.

I am going to put one star because I can’t put 0. The service was the most terrible service I have ever had in my entire life. It started with a waiter bringing us two water bottles (one still , one sparkling) without asking us first. Her colleague came after to take orders with headphones in. I speak fluent Italian and he took the orders completely wrong, probably cause he was listening to music instead of listening to me lol. One dish was missing, two dishes of my friend were never coming until I had to ask them about it. Ordered two polenta dishes one as a main 15€ and one starter 10€. They brought us the same starter portion size and tried to charge us 5€ more saying one was a main? After our food I saw that they charged us for two waters even though we only drank one and clearly didn’t ask to bring two. If the waiter would have asked at least and care about our opinion. I asked them to take it away from the bill. They said okay and never came back with the corrected printed bill so we decided to go and explain the situation to the cashier. The cashier told me to show him the unopened water bottle and ORDERED ME to prove it and I was so shocked at the way he was talking to me , I just decided to get the waiter to explain him the situation. After he took the water away I asked him to take away the extra 5€ main polenta dish that literally was the same as the starter. He started screaming at me. I never had such terrible customer service. They are scammers trying to make money with every means. If the service would have been good I would have had no problem in leaving them 8€ tip. But they were not worth not even one cent. Food Wise The olives were way too salty and uneatable The gnocchi gorgonzola were bland and flavorless unless u added 6kg of parmigiano. The polenta was unseasoned, insipid, cold, the mushrooms on top of it looked like it was cooked few days prior. Nothing fresh for sure. Tried to add salt but didn’t help at all. The Insalata con carciofi, the artichokes were undercooked and hard. Way too much olive oil and again insipid and missing salt. The cotoletta Milanese is not worth 30€ at all. It comes with some rucola unseasoned salad. 4 tomatoes. And the cotoletta was wet from the salad. I wouldn’t recommend this place not even to my worst enemy.