La Piazza

I haven't been to too many fancy Italian restaurants in the city, but I had happened upon the Italian restaurant, La Piazza, in the Hyatt which I had high hopes for. Definitely a thumbs down, from the ill-trained waiters (who could only name one white wine available by the glass – a boring Australian chardonnay), to the aforementioned poor wine list (people! Learn that Delhi-ites don't drink a lot of wine, so for those of us that do, we need a good wines-by-the-glass menu!).

The bread was passable, the minestrone was a campbells tomato soup (boring canned tomato soup for the lucky uninitiated) with a few vegetables floating around. The sole that I ordered though, was cooked perfectly, but ho-hum only in the sense that it had a been-there, done-that feeling – no spectacular side or sauce or anything – though I must admit, that perhaps that wasn't needed. It was a business lunch (i.e. I didn't pay), so am not sure about the cost, but everything at the Hyatt is ridiculously expensive (valet parking is Rs. 100!!!) so I suspect that eating at La Piazza is spectacularly bad value for the money.