Albera Rita - VARZI

Once again, numerous outstanding meals! Service is very attentive, cocktails are perfect and the food delicious! Any and all the pizzas are mouthwatering. Their meats are cooked to perfection. Numerous types of salads. Don 't miss the seafood 'Bomba ' pasta. The ravioli with any sauce or the Carbonara pasta . . . DELICIOUS! As for desserts, any and all gelati or try the nutella crepes! Always enjoyable!

The newly renovated restaurant is not only beautiful but has a variety of different seating atmospheres. Besides the pizza being the best I 've ever tasted (I compare all pizzas to theirs), all their other dishes are made daily from the freshest ingredients, wonderfully prepared and served by the friendliest staff. The owner, Rita, works the kitchen as well as the wood burning pizza ovens, along with her staff, to make sure everyone is accommodated to the best of her ability. She also makes her rounds to all tables, as time permits, to welcome her customers and ask if all is satisfactory. Her ravioli with a braised meat sauce is outstanding, the charbroiled nodini di vitello (veal chops) are to die for, and she makes her own tiramisu and gelato which are a must to end an outstanding dinner. No one goes home hungry from this restaurant!

The restaurant we intended to use was unfortunately closed on the day we stayed, this seemed to be the only option in the town. Food here was ok, but we opted for fish as they give you “free” pizza with a drink and that wasn’t all that great. The fish was ok, over cooked but edible. The bill was quite expensive and we weren’t given an itemised breakdown. More worryingly (and I wouldn’t print this if it hadn’t been the only place I’d used my Euro card for 6months), the waitress took my card from the table and disappeared, then came back and said I had to go inside. We paid the bill at the till and left. The following day I found my card had been cloned and cash withdrawal attempted. There is no evidence, but circumstantially this is of concern. Of course it could have been a rogue waitress, but to be safe don’t let your card out of sight!

I have to say that every time I go with family or with colleagues I always find myself very well, the super clean quality of the local dishes excellent prices recommend meat according to my advice of first quality always eat the fillet or the tender cut dishes are always abundant the excellent service fried very spartano but very nice.