08/08/2025: Excellent restaurant, with a varied menu, offering both traditional dishes and pizzas. The service is good, and the atmosphere is warm and comfortable. Highly recommended!
02/08/2025: Eating well in Livigno, counterintuitively, is NOT easy at all. I've been frequenting this place for years and I've noticed a not-so-slow but inexorable decline in the quality of service, food, and relationships: perhaps it's overtourism...
The S. Giovanni restaurant is a happy exception, discovered purely by chance and never abandoned: we've dined there four nights in a row since we "found" it, always experiencing friendliness, professionalism, a warm welcome, and authentic, tasty, and nutritious food—the kind your mother would cook for you (a mother who knows how to cook!!!). Fair prices, a casual and very warm atmosphere, and service that isn't always impeccable, but only because they're really crowded at peak times. There's room for improvement, and I'm sure they will.
No, it's not (anymore) easy to eat well in Livigno, but people—many, many people—are learning to seek out and find the good mountain cuisine of the past in places like this, not settling for decoys that only lead to terrible experiences. I'll be back, we'll be back. Meanwhile, we send warm regards to the entire team and the very kind owner, wishing them continued success.
E.D.