点评:You get a glass of wine and a glass of prosecco each (half a sealed bottle of wine to take away), but these are only given at the end of the session when you are then told “10 minutes left” so you can be turfed out for new paying customers. If you want any drink during the “lesson”, this will be on top of the €85 per person.
What is in included is a basil plant each (about $2 euros) and then, between 2 people 2 cloves of garlic, some salt and some Parmesan, a cheap apron and some pecorino and half a food sharing platter each which you have to eat quickly. Maybe €30 each absolute max. We spent €230 for a couple.
I imagine this experience was previously wonderful when it was under 20 people, but the owners have gotten very greedy. Around 100+ people turn up on the terrace for a pesto “lesson” which consists of a single guy giving instructions over a headset across a terrace that is around 60 feet long. You can barely hear it and only maybe 20% of people have a nice sunset view. There is not personal element whatsoever and the teaching is via shouting at great distance with no visuals or actual instructions . The best example i can think of is Madonna headset shouting in the distance. The entire area is riddled with blue-bottle flies (around 20 for each of the tables of 4 you will be split in to). This is largely because all the pesto pestle & mortars on the tables are filthy and have not been thoroughly cleaned between sessions.
We observed this across lots of other tables, not just ours.
The floor is covered in mud because they are running fans with water mist to cool the terrace so anything you put on the floor will be caked in mud. We would have enjoyed the session/ put up with the public toilet facilities, blue bottles and impersonal service if it had been 1/4 the price.
翻译:每人会得到一杯葡萄酒和一杯普罗塞克酒(还有半瓶密封好的葡萄酒可供带走),但这些饮料只在课程结束时才发放——此时工作人员会宣布“还剩10分钟”,好把顾客赶走以便迎接新的付费客户。如果在“课程”期间想要任何饮料,则需额外支付每人85欧元的费用。
套餐内容还包括每人一株罗勒幼苗(价值约2欧元),以及两人共用两瓣大蒜、少许盐和一些帕尔马干酪。一条便宜的围裙、一些佩科里诺奶酪,还有每人半份食物拼盘——这些都必须迅速吃完。每人花费最多也就30欧元左右吧。我们两个人一共花了230欧元。
我想在参与人数不到20人的时候,这种体验应该还是不错的,但店主现在变得极其贪婪了。现在大约有100多人聚集在露台上参加所谓的青酱制作“课程”,实际上就是一个人戴着耳机在长约60英尺的露台上发号施令罢了。几乎听不到声音,而且大概只有20%的人能欣赏到美丽的日落景观。整个体验完全缺乏个人互动元素;教学方式只是在很远的距离外大喊大叫,既没有视觉辅助,也没有任何实际指导。我能想到的最贴切的例子就是麦当娜戴着耳机在远处大喊。整个区域到处都是绿头苍蝇——每四个人一组的桌旁大概会有20只左右。这主要是因为每张桌子上的捣碎器和研钵都脏得要命,而且在每次使用之间都未经彻底清洗。我们在很多其他桌子上也观察到了同样的情况,不止我们这一桌。地板上全是泥巴——因为他们开着喷水风扇来给露台降温,所以任何放在地上的东西都会沾满泥渍。如果价格能打四折的话,我们其实会享受这次体验的;即便有公共厕所设施糟糕、苍蝇成群以及服务冷漠等问题,我们也能忍受。