I migliori ristoranti di cucina mediterranea in Liguria

17/12/2025: Very popular Very good experience

30/11/2025: We ate at this restaurant three evenings in a row. All the dishes were very good, prepared with fresh ingredients, delicious, and the portions were generous. The service was very attentive, professional, quick, and very friendly. Excellent value for money. We can wholeheartedly recommend this restaurant.

20/01/2026: If you want to relax with a good beer and a few dishes, this is the place for you. The atmosphere is fantastic and warm, and the staff is friendly and attentive. This is our second time here, and we were just as satisfied as the first. We'll definitely be back, and I recommend it to anyone who's never been before or who enjoys beer.

08/01/2026: Beer Lunch We went here for lunch. The extensive menu offered several interesting options, many of which included beer. We had the charcuterie board and fried gnocchi with parmesan, which was delicious and plentiful. Pappardelle with beer ragù (excellent!), and pork shank with beer sauce and baked potatoes (the portion was so generous, we had a doggy bag made to go!) The beer-filled Pandolce with orange cream was also special. We loved it! The atmosphere was lovely, all beer-themed, of course. We spent €84 for two.

21/01/2026: Welcoming atmosphere, attentive staff, excellent, beautifully presented dishes. You can see the passion and attention that chef Mario and his kitchen staff put into their work. We'll definitely be back, highly recommended. We had lunch and dinner.

11/01/2026: Very friendly young waiters, carefully prepared and delicious food, I highly recommend it!!! Steph and Anne-Cecile

06/01/2026: Dinner for two in the center of Santa Margherita Ligure, excellent welcome and service, very interesting meat-based menu, we had a great time.

28/12/2025: Fine dining that leaves nothing to be desired. I ate the best T-bone steak of my life there.

30/10/2025: I recently stayed here with Don Bruno. We both love Mediterranean cuisine, and we found it here. Andrea and Paolo's cooking is top-notch. Everything we ordered exceeded our expectations. The value for money is also excellent. The house wine was also good. We highly recommend Andrea Favalli's restaurant, *Monile*. We would definitely return, but unfortunately, we live on the other side of the world.

10/10/2025: Very good restaurant with very friendly service, very good food (just the fried dish is a specialty, it may not suit everyone because everything is really fried, right down to the vegetables!)

05/01/2026: Gorgeous location on the seafront; elegant, welcoming, and meticulously maintained. Super efficient and very professional staff. The lobster linguine is excellent, and the mixed seafood appetizer is delicious. Average prices. Very entertaining entertainment with a delightful magician.

31/12/2025: Fantastic restaurant, by the sea, very fresh fish....I ate super good tagliolini with crab.

21/01/2026: My wife and I went for dinner after reading many positive reviews and having fairly high expectations. The restaurant is well-maintained, and the service is attentive, perhaps even overly so: very attentive but at times intrusive. Unfortunately, the dining experience didn't live up to the restaurant's reputation. The appetizer I ordered (calamari with pumpkin) was unbalanced: the pumpkin was overly sweet, with too much butter/oil, and it completely lacked a balanced acidity. I left a good portion, and no one asked us why. The first courses were disappointing. The mixed seafood pasta was adequate but unremarkable: the flavors weren't punchy, "you couldn't taste the sea." My wife ordered spaghetti with garlic, oil, chili pepper, shrimp, and burrata: the dish tasted nothing like garlic, oil, or chili pepper; the burrata covered everything, making the dish flat and lacking in character. In short: plenty of form, but little substance. The dishes are "ordinary," lacking personality or depth of flavor, and don't justify the price tag. With more careful attention to balance, technique, and the dishes' identity, the experience could be significantly improved. For now, however, we definitely expected more.

06/01/2026: The food was excellent, but not unexpected! The appetizer was delicious: raw purple shrimp and a delicious focaccia crumble; the first course was a fantastic pasta dish with potatoes and seafood! And finally, a dessert that would be an understatement to call just dessert! Well done, Silvia!

06/01/2026: Very small place, no windows in a somewhat suffocating basement, but it still gets crowded with locals, good service and the food is okay

06/01/2026: Good food but not spectacular, very nice service, a bit spicier on the prices than somewhere else. From what we ordered: excellent foccacia, good pesto and ragu pasta, good octopus, noce seabass with potato (a bit too much oil but the fish was nicely done). The only grain of salt was tge Amarone which did not worth 12 euro a glass. Otherwise everything decent, size portions ok (including tge wine) and food cooked ok (as opposed to some contrary reviews that i have read before). Bill for everyrhing (and some water at the table - five dishes - three fish two pasta - and one glass of wine 107 euros.

11/11/2025: I was greeted with a lot of theatrics; I should have followed my instincts and left after reading the menu... The menu and prices aren't displayed outside. I ordered a ravioli dish, seven on a plate for 16 euros, which was served very quickly but was strangely cold and bland. My daughter had the same experience, and to top it off, the pasta dish was too salty. Also, they ask if you want still or sparkling water, but in the end, they serve you tap water (judging by the smell) in a mineral water bottle! In short, money down the drain.

09/11/2025: I found it by chance and it was just perfect for dinner. I got a table without reservation (Friday) and the service was really nice. Food was excellent. Good portions, I would have loved to try more. Went there again the next day (with a reservation since it was Saturday and really busy). I really enjoyed it. They have traditional food but also some more out of the ordinary dishes.

14/10/2025: Hello, Two seafood dishes, grilled vegetables, fries, bread, wine, sparkling water...€85. Very good, Nice setting, Five stars for the atmosphere...we were alone 😉

24/09/2025: Pleasant in the evening despite the lack of view due to the fact that it was dark, the dishes are good. However, there was a long wait between courses, we left before dessert because of the wait in the cold even though we were the last table. The knives were not suitable for shellfish, you had to attack with your fingers but there were no finger bowls.

01/01/2026: Excellent restaurant, attentive service, and delicious dishes, with both classic and innovative combinations!

31/12/2025: Excellent meal, Friendly and quick service, Quite surprised by the cannelloni made with sweet doughnut-like pastry and a cod filling, The octopus was delicious.

11/11/2025: The restaurant was recommended to us by a local, and we weren't disappointed. The service was very friendly, and we received a warm welcome. It was a bit chilly inside, but they immediately offered us a table by the heater. The food was excellent, from the appetizer to the dessert. We were there on a Wednesday evening in early November. The restaurant filled up nicely as the evening progressed and was frequented mainly by locals, which, for us, is always a sign of local popularity and consistently good quality. We would definitely come back.

10/11/2025: The welcome was very pleasant. I ate the best seafood pasta in Italy.

03/11/2025: Great evening, very friendly atmosphere. The owner was fantastic.

26/10/2025: They are all warm and super kind... their wines are super good... come quickly and taste the spaghetti neri and their divine sauce... and don't leave without tasting Guido's fabulous ice cream!!!

14/01/2026: Excellent food and excellent service, kind and helpful waiters

12/01/2026: Not just a simple lunch in any restaurant, but a true culinary and cultural experience. High-quality staff conveys passion through their warmth and hospitality.

29/11/2025: This was a great dining experience in Vernazza. Although this popular spot is located away from the main town drag, it was absolutely worth walking uphill to reach it. We came specifically to try classic Ligurian pesto. We ordered the local classic, trofie al pesto, and pesto lasagna. Both dishes were excellent. The pesto was made fresh and it was delicious. We enjoyed the dishes so much we wished we could have ordered a second plate. Admittedly, the setting isn't the most scenic (the restaurant faces a parking lot), but the friendly, attentive service and the quality of the food more than make up for it. Highly recommended!

29/11/2025: One very tasty place to dine in Vernazza. They serve different versions of pesto dishes that one can try. They are very good and highly recommended. Their service personnel is very fun, accommodating, and quirky too. One very minor comment is the view of the parking and the zooming vehicles beside the diners, but their food is reasonably priced, compared to the dining places by tourist center.