I migliori ristoranti in Calabria

29/09/2025: Very poor quality/price ratio, objectively, I'm sorry.

27/08/2025: when you go to corigliano/schiavonea, the stop at gigi is mandatory every year

27/08/2025: I bought a cappuccino to take with a croissant, they only gave me the 🥄 which melted and they forgot to add the milk

10/05/2025: Last Christmas, I bought a handmade chocolate panettone with Nutella biscuits. I never thought it would be so good! We made a great impression on our guests, and the product lasted as long as "Natali a Santu Stefanu" (Christmas in Saint Stefanu).

31/10/2025: Craving an aperitivo, I found myself there—unfortunately, I might add. The gentlemen, then, acted as if we weren't there; they brought us two bruschettas with cherry tomatoes and an open sardine (the garnish was from a can, most likely from the sardine itself) on a single plate. The spritzes, which were also hand-carried and without a tray, came to €8 each (if I'd gone to Milan's central station, I'd have spent less). The two-star atmosphere honestly reminds me of a kebab shop, which, judging by the plastic chairs and tables filthy with leftovers and insects, takes me back to the golden days of when I was a youngster after an incredible evening. PS: They won't give you a receipt even if you pay a fortune.

19/10/2025: Excellent service and fresh and delicious food 😋. Perfect customer service and a very lovely chef 👩‍🍳 👌 Highly recommended 👌 👍🏻 👏 💯

12/07/2025: I recently went to this place and had three raw crepes and some really bad Nutella (Eurospin). I was pregnant and it even made me sick. Kindly say thank you when you use the bad stuff.

12/09/2025: Food poisoning after eating fish and mussels, with nausea, diarrhea, and a very high fever. Never again.

19/08/2025: Nice and very assorted structure.

07/09/2025: Good service, just one waiter, though tattooed like a notepad, fairly quick and capable. The meat was well-cooked, and the side dishes were more than plentiful. In a three-star grill restaurant that serves so much good meat, you can't have a single, unknown beer you've never tasted, only a 33cl bottle. And for wine, only a 3/4 bottle. One star because at the end, I asked for amaro and he brought out a large, unlabeled bottle, claiming it was house amaro. It tasted a lot like leftover cocktails.

04/09/2025: We stayed at this hotel for just one night, passing through the Calabrian mountains. The room had been booked at least twenty days in advance, but I wasn't told that Monday is the restaurant's weekly rest day. The hotel, in fact, functions primarily as a banquet restaurant and, secondarily, as a hotel, mostly for ceremonies with guests traveling and therefore staying for one or more nights. We were therefore greeted by a waiter instructed by the manager to come to the hotel for our arrival. We arrived at the hotel in the early afternoon and were assigned a charming room, all furnished in wood, certainly in a style appropriate for a mid-mountain location like Spadola. However, there was no air conditioning, so it was warm (the sun was shining on it, as you can see in the photo), and it most likely hadn't even been ventilated the night before! Fortunately, the temperature dropped that evening, and the discomfort subsided. The rooms do not have mini-fridges, and the balcony connects to adjacent rooms. This means the shutters must be closed for obvious security reasons, unless someone you trust is staying nearby. The next morning's breakfast was a bit disappointing, as there were no pastries, no other sweets, no yogurt, no fruit, only packaged snacks or biscuits, along with, of course, milk, tea, and coffee. We didn't even have a chance to meet the manager on the day of departure, so we were instructed to pay the waiter who greeted us upon arrival. The hotel is pet-friendly, but I honestly didn't dare take my dog ​​out, as there were three dogs roaming the hotel grounds, and one of them was visibly bothered by my dog. A word of advice to the management...don't offer accommodations on the day the restaurant is closed, because assistance is essential! A warm welcome and customer service can help mitigate any potential shortcomings or even make an already pleasant stay even better. If this is your management policy, given that it was a stay booked well in advance, at least consider offering a more thoughtful breakfast! In all the years we've spent vacationing in Calabria, we've never seen packaged snacks for breakfast, not even in B&Bs, let alone in a hotel that's primarily a restaurant 😕🤔...

14/10/2025: inflated prices at doc high petrol prices

11/10/2025: The restrooms are awful and old... all the bathrooms, both men's and women's, don't work... the smell was awful even from outside... I wonder how a service station can stay open without a restroom... the next service station is 47 km away in the direction of Salerno. ABSURD!!!

14/09/2025: It's a shame, the location is great. It could be the best place in the area, but it lacks service and the quality of some of the products...

25/08/2025: Daily menu of meat and fish at affordable prices, cuisine a bit 80's style

22/11/2025: The cake was completely different from what I had requested and completely ruined.

14/10/2025: On my way from Puglia, I stopped for a brioche with gelato, drawn by the reviews. The hygiene was poor, the service slow and indifferent. They didn't even clear the table. The gelato wasn't great, and the brioche was definitely not freshly made. €4 for a brioche was completely unjustified.

03/09/2025: Maybe it's better to correct the opening hours on Google because the place is nice and closed with chairs on the tables and that's it, so it definitely hasn't been closed for a few minutes!

29/08/2025: A clean restaurant with a unique ambiance. Friendly and helpful staff. Quality products prepared in a delicious and appetizing way. The only flaw in my sandwich was perhaps a little more fish. If you're ever in the area, you absolutely have to come here for a meal.

01/11/2025: The place is objectively beautiful and well-kept. The service, despite the presence of foreigners, is quite knowledgeable, although the blond guy could use some improvement in his behavior because he's often grumpy. The food is the sore point; they go day by day; some days you eat great, others you eat poorly. The fried chicken, regardless, is inedible because it tastes like fish, and like the fries, they use the same frying oil that shouldn't be used. The dishes are decent, nothing special. Once every two months is fine, but no more than that if you don't want to end up in the hospital, like a friend of mine who got food poisoning a month ago while eating there.

22/09/2025: I ordered 3 poke bowls, and they had ingredients other than rice. They forgot the salmon in mine. I tried it in my brother's, and the salmon was very mushy.

29/09/2025: I booked a table for two for lunch; they welcomed us and brought us some truly excellent and delicious appetizers while we waited. Next, we ordered a Tropea tartare appetizer (many compliments both for the quality of the meat and the truly excellent preparation) and omakase nigiri. For our first course, we had a very special but, above all, rich and delicious carbonara. Finally, we opted for a Prussian heifer and a Podolica tagliata, both with a side of baked potatoes and a bottle of Ciro' Rosso. The fillet was truly tender and excellent, nothing more to say... simply excellent 🤩 I highly recommend this experience to everyone, at least once in their life 🥰 P.S. Attached are photos of the appetizers, the Tropea tartare, the omakase nigiri, and the Podolica tagliata.

27/07/2025: I'm a Wagyu beef producer. This customer ordered €1,700 worth of meat. After delivery, he was the one who initially responded to my messages: he told me the meat was excellent and that he wanted to collaborate further, and he was already placing a second order. I said, "Pay me the first order first." From then on, he kept saying over the phone or via WhatsApp, "I'll pay you now, send me the invoice again, so I can sort it out..." but nothing! Just lies! I strongly advise all suppliers to be very careful.

16/08/2025: Think of it as Zero Stars! There were nine of us, two of whom didn't order anything. This was enough to unleash the owner's ire, who asked them to leave in a rather questionable manner, saying, "If you don't order anything, you get up and leave. In my place, you follow my rules..." At which point we were forced to leave, all astonished, but above all disappointed, by the lack of professionalism the owner showed towards a group of young people, gesticulating rudely. Do you realize we're in 2025? Do you think hospitality in Calabria still deserves this embarrassment? You'll never see me again, nor my friends, nor anyone else to whom I will strongly advise against this place, ditto Nicastro. In response to the owner's comment: You should tell me if you've ever seen, in any other place, a group of twenty-five-year-olds order ONLY BOTTLES OF WATER! I wonder if the management license was granted by the Lamezia municipal administration or by the Marinella consortium. I'm shocked by your behavior that evening and your response to my review. Apparently, your customers are lying. Good work!

06/08/2025: Totally disappointed by the owner's unprofessional, questionable, and at times arrogant behavior. The way he treated us was insane, just because someone at the table decided not to order alcohol. But how do you do that in 2025?

29/10/2025: Terrible service! Friendly waiters, but terrible organization (the owners' fault). Payment with the POS never works, invoice requests that they promptly say they'll do, but they never send!

05/07/2025: We booked, but once we got there there were no chairs or a table available. After about 20 minutes of standing, a girl from the staff told us that they had to take the table because they couldn't handle the situation due to lack of staff. A disappointing and unprofessional experience. If you can't guarantee service, you shouldn't accept reservations.

30/09/2025: Great stop over bar , average food. Good location.

14/09/2025: the place is also "nice" but you can see that the people who work there are not, if you order something that is not to their liking you will not be welcome, strange also because the customer is always right and if I ask you for a specific thing that was invented to be served and I expect that😂