Bistro Elba

Best restaurant in the area. The staff have great knowledge of the menu and ingredients. Local produce used and a quality wine list to compliment your meal. It is a must if you haven't already visited

Hmmmm. Left feeling a little bewildered this evening. It took a while to work out what 'something' wasn't feeling quite right. The bistro was clean and tidy and a little quirky. Wait staff were pleasant enough, but. The place was almost souless. There was no real buzz and even the staff were flat, almost like they were going through the motions. Nice enough and polite, but not like they had any passion.
Food, we felt, was the same. Aubergiene and couscous and fish pie were okay, but bland. Promised much but failed to deliver. Green veggies, though, were perfect. Very long wait between starter bread and our mains. Busy kitchen perhaps (place was not full though), but over 30min is too long in my opinion.
Maybe we turned up on an off night, but for the price we paid, I would expect a much higher level of service (not once were we asked how our meals were) and more flavour in the food. Sorry Bistro Elba, disappointed customers here

Lovely cozy French style bistrot furnished in eco-design. Delicious specials and a really good Australian/French wine list. Super fresh oysters, tasty Tasmanian crayfish and lovely classic dessert. A really nice discovery in Sorrento. Recommended

Myself and my partner ate here and we have to say that it was quite the disappointment, firstly Mocktails - we had sparkling water which had more flavour than the two mocktails we ordered. Hmmmm.

Entrees - $20 for Quail which is a small bird as it is, but the dish was with Walnut's, Grapes and Olives and yet it still was small for a $20 dish. The Quail was overcooked. Sadly this was one of the better points of the night.
The Rosemary Bread with Olive Oil was as expected.

My partner had the Nicoise Salad - $33 for a Nicoise salad which looked like an entree serve, the dressing was subpar with very little flavour, potatoes were undercooked. Trout was just heaped into the middle of the plate and looked like there was no care nor any pride taken when plating the dish or even cooking it. Furthermore, everything was separated on the plate making it appear as if the chef just put all the individual ingredients on the plate, dumped a bunch of fish in the middle and called it a salad.

Seafood Pot Pie - The Pot Pie wasn't as terrible but it was under seasoned, there should also have been a garden salad or something with the Pot Pie given that the price charged was $30 - and the appalling part was that there was more in the pot pie than there was on the $33 Salad.

The only endearing part of the dinner was the dessert which while nice, didn't quite make up for the rest of the meal. The Cream Brulee was pleasant and minimalist, it could have used more than just the fresh fruit.
As for the aptly named Pannacotta, it was standard and not quite as flavoursome as it could be. Though the tuiles were pleasant and crafted well.