Ristorante Opera Bari

Great restaurant!!! It’s guarantee of high quality Italian food, great service and elegant location. Very particular Italian dishes enriched with international preparations and ingredients. SUPER RECOMMENDED!!

Delicious seafood and oysters. Place outstanding compare to restaurants in Bari - if you expect more, it’s definitely a place to check.
A bit more expensive, but atmosphere, quality of food and service pays off :)

Nearly inedible food (I had the fava bean with whole wheat pasta and shrimp), which was an effort to choke down. Flavorless, thick and frankly unappetizing. The blinking lights were headache inducing, as was the saccharin faux-jazz Christmas carols on a very short repeat loop. My server was perfectly nice, although the owner perched nearby didn’t seem to care, and no one ever asked how it was until after I paid the bill. Definitely worth skipping this one.

Very nice presentation of the plates. Very nice atmosphere. A bit antic style but also elegant. Great service. My branzino fish came with kind of sweet salad and and potatoes cake gratin which all together is very particular mix but not really my taste. My bf took pasta with branzino which was well balanced and he really enjoyed the combination of red grapes with it. They also offered us a small “sporca musso” which was small dessert as thank you from the restaurant.

Overpompous is the perfect word to describe this place. Unfortunately the chefs talent is paired up with a false sense of expensiveness. The service as a whole is more complicated than it should be. We were greeted by an already full table, with a big ceramic head statue which had some breadsticks and a homemade sauce ( but we didn’t know how long they have been staying there ) and then brought one more bottle of water ( which we ordered still and got sparkling ), another plate with lemons and some bread. That’s enough to say that our appetisers had nowhere else to sit and were cramped together in a small corner, making it unaccessible for at least one of us. The plates for the main course were bigger than needed and got delivered with some dry ice that had no other purpose other than showing off. I ordered a lobster and didn’t receive a bowl to put the shells in, but still had the head statue on the table… At one time, the chef exited the kitchen with the gloves still on, went downstairs to the bathroom/closet area and went straight back in the kitchen. He might have changed them afterwards (hopefully), but it was still a gross impression. That being said, the prices of the dishes are on the expensive side for what the restaurant offers. They are very tasty, and deserve a full 5* rating, but the service and environment hardly deserves a 3*.

yummy🤤
the foods are very tasty with the nice plating as a plus.
you can enjoy their excellent service while listening to the elegant background music.

Nice place, friendly personnel.
Food was tasty and the quantity was also enough. Had to wait a bit long for the dishes but wasn't so disturbing.
Price was also acceptable.
They had only 0,33dl beer in bottle, offered only Heineken but later on we saw at other table also Beck's