Ristorante La Lampara In Pizzo

Beautiful experience, excellent food, fresh fish, friendly and kind staff, very welcoming place, we will definitely return

My wife, son, and I visited La Lampara this evening on the recommendation of the owner of our holiday apartment, and the overall experience was fantastic! This turned out to be our very first restaurant visit in Calabria, and I have to say that they’ve set the bar very high indeed. The service was very friendly and welcoming. We did our best with our limited Italian, but the staff was very accommodating. My son, in true 10-year-old fashion, ordered patate fritte (fries) and fried calamari…he finished both and then ordered and ate a simple pasta dish with tomato sauce. I had the tuna steak breaded with pistachios, and my wife has the spaghetti with mixed seafood…both incredibly well-prepared and flavorful. We are moving on from Pizzo tomorrow, but if I had another night here, I would have gone back on a heartbeat. Bravissimo!!

A pearl in Pizzo Calabro. Atmospheric environment, very friendly and efficient dining room staff, very high level kitchen staff. A high quality fish menu, even with the catch of the day. Parking 50 meters away, something more unique than rare in Pizzo. What can we say other than that we will return at the first opportunity. Thanks to the staff. Sergio and Inna

It was just perfect, when you enter the restaurant you feel like it must be Italy. The food was perfect from the salad to the fish plate to the dessert

Very attentive waiter and the chef also completely convinced us. I would go back at any time

Disappointing, Went here for dinner in October based on the reviews and hoping for something a bit special and away from the commercial centre. The venue was very nice, probably the first meal indoors on our holiday. However all the other clientele were also tourists, no Italians, always a bad sign. Maybe because of this there was no atmosphere. The staff also lacked the typical Italian hospitality, possibly because the boss/chef was American.(oops). But the main gripe was that the food wasn't anything special. We ordered a whole fish to share. Presentation could have been better but they hadn't even descaled it which in my book is pretty basic. Also we could hear the frequent ping of the microwave. Still better than most UK restaurants but expect better in Italy.