Province of Imperia, Italy Food Guide: 10 Mediterranean food Must-Eat Restaurants & Street Food Stalls in Borgomaro
Find out what Mediterranean restaurants to try in Borgomaro including Ristorante Censin Da Bea Di Marco, Le Logge, Ristorante pinocchio, La Lavinella, Trattoria Pizzeria Il Charlie, Casa della Rocca, Osteria Cian de Bia', Il Poggio di Maro', La Pignatta d'Oro, DA U TITTI - Riccardo & Chiara
10. DA U TITTI - Riccardo & Chiara
Overall Ratings
4 based on 307 reviews
Reviewed By Alexey_from_Moscow
It seems that Da U Titti has no Michelin star simply because Michelin experts donât go too far from main roads. The cuisine is fantastic. The incredible mixture of tastes. Gazpacho with octopuses. Perfect foie gras. Surprising desserts. Great wine list. Breathtaking moonrise view from the terrace. Reasonable prices for such a place. Last, but not least, the great service. #1 in my personal rating for 2016.
9. La Pignatta d'Oro
Overall Ratings
4 based on 372 reviews
Reviewed By PPAVK
Visited here with a group of friends recently. We were very much looking forward to dining here again after a positive experience last year. The experience was in some ways excellent and in others slightly lacking. I can't really gove it the full 4 stars so I can only give it 3 stars. We did have a fantastic time, but just felt that on the night we visited the food could have been just a little better. It won't put us off visiting again though as it really is a wonderful restaurant.
8. Il Poggio di Maro'
Overall Ratings
5 based on 83 reviews
Reviewed By Richard M
During the last 20 years we have noticed a sad decline in many of the traditional agriturismi in the hills behind Imperia which offer set-menu meals. The prices have crept up and the range and quality of food have slipped.Consequently today's lunch at Poggio di Maro' was a really delightful experience. We had met Barbara a few weeks earlier at a local market and bought some of their saffron. Chatting, we learnt about their agriturismo and so decided to try it out. True the drive up the final half-kilometre is rather steep, but nothing unusual for the area. Arriving, the house is beautifully laid out, especially in today's winter sunshine. Daniele welcomed us on the terrace with an aperitivo and we could enjoy the stupendous views. Inside, the small dining-room is just as attractive.As for the food, Barbara's cooking is a delight. The antipasti began with a pumpkin flan and anchovy sauce - and the courses kept on coming. Also we had some dishes which we do not normally meet in agritourismo - the pork and agrodolce onions, the saffron-flavoured panacotta.Daniele served - and both were so friendly it was as if we were family guests.At â¬35 per head, including wine, we were more than satisfied.Thank you to both of you for a lovely lunch!
7. Osteria Cian de Bia'
Overall Ratings
4 based on 274 reviews
Reviewed By IvanaBN
If you have the privilege of eating at Osteria Cian de Biaâ you will never forget it because food here encloses ancient knowledge, family recipes and deep Liguria upcountry roots. Husband receiving and serving, wife in the kitchen working her magic is a winning combination that makes you feel at ease and most welcomed. Osteria Cian de Biaâ is not a-la-carte, you will be served the menu of the day. If you are vegetarian do inform them when you book (a must if you want to find a table) and you will have one of your best meals.
6. Casa della Rocca
Overall Ratings
4 based on 236 reviews
Reviewed By Prestwickuk
I had just proposed to my lovely girlfriend and were looking for a lovely ristorante to celebrate our engagement. We had been recommended Casa della Rocca as an excellent place to eat at and as you can see the reviews back this statement. However when we arrived we were immediately turned away by who I can only assume was the owner who told us in a thick German accent that there was "no bar, no wine and no menu, we are closed." As it was only around half past ten a night I was rather surprised especially considering most of the other places in the village were still open.Looking around it was still busy and the mostly teutonic clientele were all tucking into their meals, some still being served and were mostly giving us dirty looks at our British accents. It was pretty obvious that we weren't welcome. So we took our leave, walked back to the Piazza Doria and promptly got served at a Ristorante there whose staff were very happy to see us and congratulate us on our engagement which thankfully saved what was a very memorable evening for us!I was very disappointed at the rather blunt and rude attitude the owner took towards us especially as the place still looked open and rather busy. On this basis I really can't reccomend this place.Dear Guest,we thank you for noticing our restaurant. Congrats also for your engagement and sorry, if our behavior seemed ârudeâ to you - as far as I remember, I am always very polite with everyone who runs into our restaurant...One explanation for you: We dont have a card to shelter. We have only ONE Menu and we start all together at 8pm, because it is and was my husbands wish, to cook alone for all the people! It was always a dream of him, because he was chef of a swiss hotel with 28 cooks an seven restaurants and he had enough of organising instead cooking....When we start all together at 8 pm and have only one Menu, he can make it. We make public relations for this kind of system. We have it written in front of the restaurant, on our homepage and at least hardly everyone in Delcedo knows it now. What a pitty, that the person, who recommended the della rocca to you, âforgotâ to tell you....At half past ten, when you looked in, our kitchen is empty. The Menu is over and because we work mostly on reservation, nothing to eat is left. So my husband can go to the market next day and buy fresh for the next Menu...a dream to work like this for a real good cook...Following to this system we also cannot start making BAR outside along the river - a thing, the people are unfortunately not able to understand. If we start to serve drinks and snacks beside the Menu, it kills the system!!! We need a card, we need more staff...And at least its good for the others, that we work so diffrent. We dont take the other restaurants something. People can have their drinks, their ligurian typical food an their pizza in town - and if they want to try an extraordinary Menu once, they can be with us...And by the way: WE love to serve the âteutonicsâ. They are well educated, good clients wo understand the kitchen of my husband - and who come more than once a month to eat.! Dolcedo can be glad to have them!! Personal Tipp from me for you: Before you criticize, you should have a look âbehind the wallsâ.All the best,Tina Dosot
5. Trattoria Pizzeria Il Charlie
Overall Ratings
4 based on 52 reviews
Ristorante con cucina casalinga e specialità liguri. Punto vendita di prodotti tipici e da forno. Colazioni con prodotti dolci e salati fatti in casa
Reviewed By Minna J
This is nice place to eat lunch or drink some beer, it's halfway if you walk or cycle from Dolcedo to Valloria.Food is super and staff also. So kind service, I don't eat meat and they made me portion without meat.Higly recommed.Reasonable prices.Grazie molte
4. La Lavinella
Overall Ratings
4 based on 151 reviews
Reviewed By LaurentCL2
I went there again today for the third time and it was really excellent and the best time ever. Very friendly and accommodating staff, great food for a degustation menu at 20â¬/person. Hard to beat! Great quality price! The décor is very Italian minimalistic...but the food is great! Yours to try. Look at my pictures!
3. Ristorante pinocchio
Overall Ratings
4 based on 194 reviews
Reviewed By LaurentCL2
Really great authentic Ligurian cuisine, very friendly service (and multilingual staff) and prices that will make you smile :)We had the degustation menu with numerous antipasti, 2 primi (delicious gnocchi and ravioli al ragu), 3 different secondi (snails, capon and goat), dessert, coffee and digestives all inclusive. A feast!!!
2. Le Logge
Overall Ratings
4 based on 182 reviews
Reviewed By NorthWalesKath
You need to book. We stayed the other side of the carpark and there always seemed to be something going on here, bands or birthdays, so a busy place. Pizzas are for 2 so a bit tricky if there are 3 of you! But fresh and tasty with quick service. Nice to stroll over the bridge to the village afterwards and the ducks, geese and fish will appreciate any pizza crusts or bread you couldn't manage to finish.
1. Ristorante Censin Da Bea Di Marco
Overall Ratings
4 based on 493 reviews
Reviewed By patrickm123
Gargantuan appetites essential!Iâve never known anywhere quite like this place. Itâs rustic, bordering on dilapidated and the service is well-intentioned but fairly rough and ready too. You donât come here for an elegant evening. You come for a BLOW OUT.It only does dinner and only does a set menu. But what a menu! We lost count but there were, I think, about 16 courses. We knew there were going to be multiple antipasti and we assumed that the wooden platter on the table bearing many delicious things - 3 kinds of sausage to slice ourselves, olives, pickled mushrooms and much else besides - represented the antipasti in question. But they turned out to be âextraâ. Ten or a dozen different starter dishes were still to come, served successively table by table around the whole restaurant. They were mostly quite simple but all pretty good and I was starting to feel rather warm about the place. But the trouble was, we were effectively full before there was any question of primi. And then along came not one but two pasta courses (both by the way very sound) each of the dishes sent to our table of 2 containing enough for 4 people under ânormalâ conditions, let alone these where we had already been so copiously fed. It was at this point that we had to start leaving huge quantities of food to be returned to the kitchen, and we noticed even the locals were mostly having to do likewise. Then we had to face 3 secondi, again over-catered. It was beginning to feel more like an endurance test than a pleasure, especially as the delays between courses were getting longer and longer â perhaps to give us time to recover our appetites but we were starting to wonder what time we would ever leave.Dessert time brought the first opportunity for choice, so I chose the lightest thing on the menu â a lemon sorbet. Then⦠mercifully⦠coffee!Throughout the meal there had been unlimited quantities of (perfectly drinkable) house wine and house fizzy water â making the 30 Euro all-inclusive price tag even more unbelievable. And with the coffee came a serve yourself bottle of Limoncello. Even this was promptly replaced with a bottle of grappa when we said we didnât much care for Limoncello⦠So staggeringly generous, the whole thing, to the point that we wondered how they could make any profit. But ultimately embarrassing to be rejecting so much food.Such a shame because I started the evening really liking the place for its lack of pretension and generosity. The next day â at Ca Sottane (see my other review) - we found that these huge menus may be almost the norm in these parts, so maybe itâs just our bird-like Northern appetites that were the problem!PS actually Sept 17 but this somehow got stuck in my drafts!
Where to eat Italian food in Borgomaro: The Best Restaurants and Bars
