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MONEGLIA: La Ruota €€€ PORTOFINO: Da Puny €€
Mediterranean Local Map D4
Innovative Map E4 Piazza Martiri dell’Olivetta 5, 16034
Via per Lemeglio 6, 16030 Tel 0185 26 90 37 Closed Thu
Tel 0185 495 65 Closed Wed Set in the harbour square. Specials
La Ruota offers a set menu such as the pasta in pesto corto
that includes seafood, pasta, (basil, cheese, pine nuts and
vegeta bles and starters, such as tomato) and the house antipasti
squid with mush rooms. Try are excellent.
the special piatto mediterraneo
(baby squid, toma toes, potatoes, PORTOFINO: Chuflay,
parsley and olive oil) and crêpe Splendido Mare €€€
suzette. Local Map D4
Via Roma 2, 16034
MONTEROSSO AL MARE: Tel 0185 26 78 02
Miky €€ This restaurant offers local dishes
Seafood Map E4 of suberb quality, such as fresh
Via Fegina 104, 16030 clam soup with pine nuts, black
Tel 0187 81 76 08 Closed Tue olives and marjoram. Excel lent
A characteristic seafront bistro. selec tion of wines.
Try the linguine with lobster or
the grilled calamari. Ask to be PORTOVENERE: Il Timone €
seated in the garden among Pizzeria Map F5
the jasmine and wisteria. Via Olivo 29, 19025
Tel 347 260 10 08 Closed Tue Pretty terrace with a lovely view of the
PORTOFINO: Da u Batti €€ This cosy, waterfront bistro offers Piazza at Chuflay, Portofino
Seafood Map D4 excellent farinata, focaccia and
Vico Nuovo 18, 16034 pizza. The à la carte menu also seafood dishes, accompanied
Tel 0185 26 93 79 Closed Mon features authentic Ligurian meat by a good selec tion of wines.
& Nov–mid-Jan and fish dishes, delicious salads
A chic and intimate restaurant, and local and Italian wines. RAPALLO: U Giancu €
Da u Batti is located in one of Local Map E4
Liguria’s most elegant towns. PORTOVENERE: Le Bocche €€ Via San Massimo 78, 16035 Localita’
The menu offers exceptional Local Map F5 San Massimo
fish dishes, such as the popular Calata Doria 102, 19025 Tel 0185 26 05 05 Closed Thu,
Scampi alla Batti. Tel 0187 79 06 22 Closed Tue lunch & last two weeks of Dec
from Sep–Apr & Jan Decorated with framed cartoon
PORTOFINO: El Portico €€ Located on the seafront. Savour drawings and comic strips on
Pizzeria Map D4 delicately prepared Ligurian fish the walls, this simple restaurant
Via Roma 21, 16034 dishes served on shaded out door serves up typical Ligurian spe­
Tel 0185 26 92 39 Closed Tue tables, over looking the town of cialities, and com ple ments
An informal, pleasant and Portovenere. these with fresh vegeta bles
affordable pizzeria that offers from the garden.
excellent views across Portofino PORTOVENERE: La Chiglia €€
harbour. Pizzas are baked in the Local Map F5 RAPALLO: Elite €€
traditional manner in old tins. Via Olivo 317, 19025 Traditional Map E4
Pesto accom panies most dishes. Tel 0187 79 21 79 Closed Wed Via Milite Ignoto 19, 16035
A popular restaurant, located Tel 0185 505 51 Closed Wed
under vast umbrella pines with Family­run restaurant with a small
stunning views of the island of hotel above. Simple dishes such
Palmaria. The menu consists as pansoti, black ravioli filled with
of reinvented Ligurian dishes, fish, rocket and large prawns are
pri marily seafood. There is also on the menu.
a good wine list.
RAPALLO: Luca €€
PORTOVENERE: Da Iseo €€ Seafood Map E4
Trattoria Map F5 Via Langano 32, Porto Turistico
Calata Doria 9, 19025 Carlo Riva, 16035
Tel 0187 79 06 10 Closed Wed Tel 0185 603 23 Closed Tue
& 20 days in Nov This is an ideal place to sample
On the waterfront with panora mic seafood specialities such as pep­
views, this trattoria serves typical pered mussels, lemon anchovies,
fish dishes. black dumplings with shrimp and
scampi with lemon.
RAPALLO: Hostaria Vecchia
Rapallo € RAPALLO: La Nave €€
Seafood Map E4 Seafood Map E4
Via Cairoli 10, 16035 Via Pomaro 15, 16035
Tel 0185 500 53 Closed Mon; San Michele di Pagana
beginning of Dec to first week of Feb Tel 0185 66 95 02 Closed Wed
This old tavern has been On the beach near Rapallo. Try
Framed cartoon drawings adorn the walls transformed into an elegant the tasty frittura di pesce (fried
of U Giancu, Rapallo restau rant that offers creative fish) and home­made pesto sauce.
For more information on types of restaurants see p185
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