Top Restaurants in Shkoder
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Where to eat Italian food in Shkoder: The Best Restaurants and Bars
Find out what Italian restaurants to try in Shkoder including Bar Restaurant Elita Shkoder, Pasta te Zenga, San Francisco, PASTA E VINO, Pizzeria Italia, Manifatura, Cliche, Piceri Fontana, Bar Restorant Buna Park, Luani-A Restaurant
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10. Luani-A Restaurant
The traditional and Italian cuisines are our specialty. You can enjoy our specialties under the beauty and quiet nature that offers Buna river.
Reviewed By Marko M
Very nice place in surrounding, food was quite good, we even took a room for overnight. Place is really clean and prices are more than good. Service is excellent.This is recommendable.
9. Bar Restorant Buna Park
Reviewed By Ivana Ä
Stoped here on our way to Skopje. Fish we oredered was really ok. Service also. You can have ok lunch for really good price. Especialy we enjoyed at beautiful view. If you are on the road and u need little rest and ok food for ok price- must stop!
8. Piceri Fontana
Overall Ratings
4 based on 38 reviews
Reviewed By Goloh
Three of us wanted pizza and chose randomly from this restaurant in the heart of the city centre tourist area. No review can adequately sort out all the different pizza places and how much better or worse they are from each other, so, being objective abut it, we were satisfied with what we got but it did take a long time to prepare because it looked like the staff were busy preparing jumbo take-out orders. Staff attended to some of our simple extra requests (eating utensils, ice for the drinks, etc.) and we watched the flow of people go in and out. Two of the three of us felt the pizzas could have done with more tomato sauce but this is a small gripe and did not spoil what was a pleasant meal. As foreigners, we would have appreciated an English menu. This problem is hardly unique to Fontana in Albania, though, and we wonder why more restaurants don't see how a simple translation being available might be useful.Anyway, would I go back? I suppose so, maybe just depending on how crowded it was at the time; but I would not expect to get in and fed and out quickly. The pizza was tasty and fairly priced.
7. Cliche
Overall Ratings
4 based on 20 reviews
Reviewed By SouthwoodTruck
Actually stopped over for desserts late in the evening, and it was all worth it. I think you can order anything from the menu and be pleasantly surprised and impressed. The portions are actually large so think well if you are there after a big dinner. Next time I would split a dessert. Visit and enjoy the place. Great service.
6. Manifatura
Overall Ratings
5 based on 25 reviews
Situated on the historic pedonale of Shkoder, Manifatura is one of the cityâs newest additions to the restaurant and bar scene. The space pays homage to the cityâs literary and cultural heritage while also featuring modern design elements. Guests can also
Reviewed By phutty
Great service at this very popular place, where the majority of tables were reserved on the Friday night we visited. Friendly, attractive* staff with good English are a marked improvement on their Montenegrin colleagues (or at least those in Podgorica). Prices are also fantastic by just about anyone's standards: we loved our Salami and Mimoza pizzas, even more when accompanied by a Heineken and a sparkling water for just 1270 lek - less than â¬11 total. Add in the relaxed courtyard setting and voila, what's not to like?*Swype decided that 'attentive', which is what I wanted to say, should in fact be 'attractive'. Our waiter was both though, so let it be :)
5. Pizzeria Italia
Overall Ratings
4 based on 41 reviews
Pizzeria Italia is near the city center and has been for over 7 years. Our pizzeria serves a variety of foods including pizza, calzones, soups, and from scratch made pasta with different sauces, fish or meat products. Pizzeria Italia is affordable and del
Reviewed By valdrin k
The best place to have a pizza and not all ... great service and a great pizza it is like u are in napoli and not in albania . Woow .. thank you all for the amazing service and food .. the place is amazing too and the location too ... i suggest all to go and try this hidden place but amazing
4. PASTA E VINO
Overall Ratings
4 based on 138 reviews
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3. San Francisco
Overall Ratings
4 based on 299 reviews
Reviewed By RLO721
I seldom write scathing reviews of restaurants, but this one was truly awful. Don't believe the good reviews - they are probably fake. I ordered grilled seafood (recommended as daily special), which was just very sad, and very expensive. The pickled vegetables salad was OK. My friend's pasta was something we could have made better by ourselves. The service was good and location was attractive..The food was poor, especially given the price. Don't eat here.
2. Pasta te Zenga
Overall Ratings
5 based on 73 reviews
Reviewed By MikeLondonSE
21/9/19We three middle aged British guys were had arrived back in Shkodër for one night from a couple of days in Ulcinj. After arriving quite late, checking into our Hotel Kurtabeg, settling in and sorting some shopping for the next day's journey via the lakes to Kosovo, it was 22:00 but we thought that restaurants would still be busy late on a Saturday evening.We checked out a couple of recommendations of traditional food restaurants from the hotel owner but one was empty and looked too posh whilst the other had very loud music in it. I decided to give this place a try as it was very highly rated at #2 and I knew where it was from previous explorations.We arrived around 22:25 to find that the small unassuming entrance opened up into a bigger brighter and modern restaurant. A group of four and a couple were dining so it had some life in it. The friendly waiter showed us one of many tables and I suggested we sit at a table within view of the door so as to attract more people in. The waiter told us that it was late and no one else was expected to arrive. We took his recommended table and as there was no printed menu he proceeded to talk us through the priced up pastas available that were written on the chalkboard above the windows into the kitchen where two chefs were working away. The prices were very reasonable considering the variety and the fact they were all home made.He asked us for our drink preferences, we asked him the if he had house wine price and yes he did at 400 a half litre so we ordered a carafe of each of red and white.He returned with the two carafes and some fizzy water (blue 75cl at 200) and poured them into find large glasses. We had chosen our dishes by then so ordered a spinach salad (300), grilled vegetables (300), seafood stuffed ravioli (550), shrimps & taiolini (650) and a tagliatelle with pesto & spinach (400).The music was delivered from a playlist on a computer via YouTube and was very western and distracting. After listening to and watching 'Sacrifice' by Elton John I asked if he could play Albanian music to which he said he would change the playlist. The resulting music was much better and less distracting but eventually segued into 'Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This' etc. which was a bit disappointing.The waiter delivered a basket with a hot round unleavened bread cut up into six and a large plate with three small rounds of different coloured and flavoured butter. All very nicely presented and welcome as very tasty and quite salty.Shortly after that the spinach, mushroom and red onion salad arrived, dressed in a tasty sauce. We dived into that as the grilled vegetables arrived which were beautifully presented as a hot mound of peppers, aubergine, carrots and courgettes. They were cooked just right but had no sauce on, just seasoning.We had nearly finished the antipasta when my ravioli hearts stuffed with seafood in a shrimp reduction/jus with fried onions, basil and tiny cherry tomatoes. Very nicely presented again and tasting delicious! Then the shrimp dishes came. A good size pile of pasta drenched in a delicious sauce including those tiny succulent tomatoes again, surrounded by five big prawns topped with a bay leaf. Our friend's tagliatelle was again a fair sized mound dressed with pesto and surrounded by basil leaves. He found it very tasty. We all swapped some portions with each other to confirm the quality of the food.We took our time eating even though the other groups had left and the chef had left the kitchen to eat on a table, leaving the junior chef to tidy up. The waiter was very knowledgeable and chatty as he was not under pressure to serve anyone else and he took photos of us and vice versa.I felt I needed a desert to round off the meal and the waiter offered home made tiramisu. It proved to be just right as light, fluffy and not alcoholic, lightly dusted with cocoa powder and sprinkled with tasty pomegranate seeds. It was quite late by now but there was no pressure to hurry up and leave. At 23:45 we had to leave though as we were having to wake up at 05:30 to catch the minibus to the lake ferry.The total bill was 3400 (the tiramisu was only 200) to which we added another 200 tip which our waiter was very grateful.On the way out the waiter asked me if everything was good and if we would give a good review (he missed have sussed me out) and I replied that I would. I also took some pictures which I posted before reviewing this.All around the restaurant were big old photographs showing off local street scenes and the heritage of the building itself. There were also pictures of the main chef as a young man and in Germany where he perfected his art. We left happy and sated, deciding to pop down to (the unlisted) Belle Vue for a final late night drink if it were open. It is a modern lounge bar on a main road near the Witness Museum (which reminds people of the results of intolerance). It was one of our birthdays after midnight so seemed apt. All the bars in the street were closed (including the ex cinema bar) but as we approached it was open but two of its customers on a pavement table were being picked on noisily and aggressively by a bunch of local thugs whilst (equally thuggish I expect) men were racing (70mph +) their big Mercedeses up and down that stretch of the road (roundabouts at each end with one speed bar between). Our quiet birthday drinks were dashed as the thugs spotted our arrival and we decided to return to the centre. So sad that they did not notice the museum's message a few doors down. Albania has a lot of catching up with equality to do if it wants to join The EU.
1. Bar Restaurant Elita Shkoder
Overall Ratings
4 based on 329 reviews
Reviewed By O7754VArobertg
Completely understand why this place is at the top of the list. It exceeded all of my expectations. To start, it was very aesthetically pleasing. The layout and design was the perfect mixture of comfort and elegance. The food was unbelievably good. Me and my family order a number of different dishes and not one of them disappointed. The lamb and veal were excellent. The cheese platter was also great. Everything on the menu sounded so appetizing and I canât imagine that any plate wouldnât meet any expectations. I seriously recommend this restaurant for any type of craving!
