Page 75 - Lonely Planet Europe’s Best Trips (Travel Guide)

Eating & Sleeping

Sorrento 2 Amalfi 8
5 L’Antica Trattoria Italian €€ 5 Marina Grande Seafood €€€
(%081 807 10 82; www.lanticatrattoria.com; Via (%089 87 11 29; www.ristorantemarinagrande.
Padre Reginaldo Giuliani 33; lunch menu €19.50, com; Viale Delle Regioni 4; tasting menu lunch/
fixed-price menus €45-80; hnoon-11pm) Head dinner €28/60, meals €50; hnoon-3pm &
to the upstairs terrace with its traditional tiles 6.30-11pm Wed-Mon Mar-Oct) Run by the third
and trailing grape vines and you seem miles away generation of the same family, this beachfront
from the alleyways outside. With a deserved restaurant prides itself on its use of locally
reputation as the finest restaurant in town, it has sourced organic produce, which, in Amalfi, ITALY 4 AMALFI COAST
a mainly traditional menu, with homemade pasta, means high-quality seafood.
a daily fish special and vegetarian options.
4 Hotel Luna Convento Hotel €€€
4 Hotel Cristina Hotel €€ (%089 87 10 02; www.lunahotel.it; Via Pantaleone
(%081 878 35 62; www.hotelcristinasorrento. Comite 33; s €270-370, d €290-390, ste €490-
it; Via Privata Rubinacci 6, Sant’Agnello; s €130, 590; hEaster-Oct; paiWs) This former
d €150-200, tr €220, q €240; hMar-Oct; convent was founded by St Francis in 1222 and
paWs) Located high above Sant’Agnello, has been a hotel for some 170 years. Rooms in
this hotel has superb views, particularly from the original building are in the former monks’
the swimming pool. The spacious rooms have cells, but there’s nothing poky about the bright
sea-view balconies and combine inlaid wooden tiles and seamless sea views. The newer wing is
furniture with contemporary flourishes like equally beguiling, with religious frescoes. The
Philippe Starck chairs. There’s an in-house cloistered courtyard is magnificent.
restaurant and a free shuttle bus to/from
Sorrento’s Circumvesuviana train station.
Ravello 9
Marina del Cantone 4 5 Ristorante Pizzeria Vittoria Pizza €€
(%089 85 79 47; www.ristorantepizzeriavittoria.
5 Lo Scoglio Seafood €€€ it; Via dei Rufolo 3; meals €30, pizza from €5;
(%081 808 10 26; www.hotelloscoglio.com; h12.15-3pm & 7.15-11pm) Come here for
Piazza delle Sirene 15, Massa Lubrense; meals exceptional pizza, including the Ravellese,
€60; h12.30-5pm & 7.30-11pm) Lo Scoglio is a with cherry tomatoes, mozzarella, basil and
favourite of visiting celebs and the food is top courgettes. Other dishes include lasagne with
notch (and priced accordingly). Although you can red pumpkin, smoked mozzarella and porcini
eat fettucine al bolognese and steak here, you’d mushrooms, and an innovative chickpea-and-cod
be sorry to miss the superb seafood. Options antipasto. The atmosphere is one of subdued
include a €30 antipasto of raw seafood and elegance, with a small outside terrace and grainy
spaghetti al riccio (spaghetti with sea urchins). historical pics of Ravello on the walls.
4 Agriturismo Monte
Positano 5 Brusara Agriturismo €
4 Pensione Maria Luisa Pension € (%089 85 74 67; www.montebrusara.com; Via
(%089 87 50 23; www.pensionemarialuisa.com; Monte Brusara 32; s/d €45/90; hyear-round)
Via Fornillo 42; r €55-120; hMar-Oct; iW) The A working farm, this mountainside agriturismo
Maria Luisa is a friendly old-school pensione. is located a tough half-hour walk of about 1.5km
Rooms feature shiny blue tiles and simple, no- from Ravello’s centre (call ahead to arrange to
frills decor; those with private balconies are well be picked up). It is especially suited to families –
worth the extra €15 for the bay views. If you can’t children can feed the pony while you sit back and
bag a room with a view, there’s a small communal admire the views – or to those who simply want
terrace offering the same sensational vistas. to escape the crowds.
73