DaV Mare In Portofino

03/04/2025: Very good fish, good service, exceptional fried anchovies!!!

06/03/2025: After many years of frequenting Cogoleto for day trips, we stopped for the first time in this small restaurant. I'm sorry but some reviews have no way of being for adjectives and reports completely out of reality. Fried anchovies and recco focaccia for a very good appetizer: crispy and dry fried, soft and light focaccia. Trofie with pesto and ravioli with ragù, very generous and well seasoned. My great barbecue was really good, plentiful and with excellent raw materials. The girls' mixed fry is dry, crunchy, served at the right time. The service is a little improvised but still kind and concrete. The wine list is discreet, the courtesy offered is passable. I think the price is average, except for the focaccia (€14 seems a little bit for a 20x20cm slice), or even low if I consider the quality of the raw materials and the volume of the portions, as this is a place next to the sea, with an outdoor area in the small square (view of the seafront). The complaints about the narrow interior - even if it is actually a small place - or the nearby street or the bathroom near the tables, are resolved: it is full of places around :-( just go somewhere else :-). The schnapps offered by the owner is very graphite. Unfortunately, the parking flaw is everywhere in this location, so there is no point in making disparaging comments about the local administration. Clean toilets. I recommend it.