Ristorante Opera Bari

I had an amazing time at Ristorante Opera. The service was amazing and quick. I ordered the tris tartar and the crab spaghetti and it was delicious. I highly recommend these dishes as they were both full of flavours and very fresh. The prices are very reasonable since it's high quality food, I ate for the same price in other restaurants in Bari where the quality of the service and the food were not this high. I went here by myself and was offered appetizers and sweet treats at the end of the diner. The atmosphere is warm and intimate, I think it is an amazing place for dates as well. Best restaurant experience so far in 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!!

Lovely little spot near Bari Vecchia. Not many tables inside, is better to book in advance. The spaghetti Alla chitarra with Nero Di seppia is a wow. A bit expensive but is worth it, the service is great a bit too much on top of you but nice and they gave me the bill even if I did not finished my wine, very bad but anyway I enjoyed the food

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.

I had the fava bean with whole wheat pasta and shrimp, took some effort to finish. Thick and gooey. The blinking lights ... headachy, 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.

We had a great seafood dinner here. Everything we ordered was brought quickly to the table (we were a group of eight). The food convinced taste wise as much as from an aesthetical point of view.

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*.

We had a great dinner at Ristorante Opera and would definitely recommend that place. The food was delicious, we had a mixture of vegan food and fish dishes, each and everything was perfectly cooked and with great ingredients. The Wine selection was also pretty good. The service was not 100% attentive but friendly.