Jassen Ignatov

Review of Hotel Principe di Savoia

This is not about the Principe - We return there a...

This is not about the Principe - We return there always with excitement and pleasure. It's about a recommendation by the Hotel's Concierge we need to know about:
"Although all places around in Navigli were packed this place had only two tables busy. We didn't hesitate, since we were specially sent there by our concierge Michele in Principe di Savoia. That should be a credible reference itself, or at least that's what we naively believed.
There were two tired, sloppy and apathetic waiters loitering around. We managed to order from the generic menu and after a short wait got starters - one of them the trout- looked more like rotten salmon. That was not a surprise. When we got our main dishes though- cotoletta Milanese ( who on earth will spoil this in Milan?!) and a pricey grilled scampi, it was total disaster "live"- dark blue cotoletta with a smell of a full week old garbage bag and just toxic bitter scampi - provably frozen few years ago.
Since we didn't touch our plates the waiter pretended to be surprised, however he took them away and after a short 20 min wait I got the bill. I was not happy with anything, so I asked him to adjust the bill at his discretion. He replied simply, that if I don't pay he will call the police ( and he doesn't give a f#%k- from what I got through my humble Italian). That - naturally- provoked me to ask to speak to the manager- guess- no one around. Tried to make them talk over the phone to her and finally the male waiter translated to her my discontent. She asked if I am "someone " and he said - no, just "nessuno", regular bloody tourist foreigner. So than she advised him to charge me full price ot call police. That took care of my experience- unforgettable- specially when recommended by the "expert " Concierge team of the Hotel Principe di Savoia - Milano...