$$-$$$$, Marina del Cantone
Fodor's Review:
"A hop, skip, and a jump" is how the name of this hotel and Italian-nouvelle restaurant translates colloquially -- appropriately so, because it's in Nerano, a five-minute drive from Marina del Cantone, in the groves of the peninsula hillsides. Here, the focus is on relaxation and fine food but the comfortable environs also make it a pleasure to fall into bed. Some of the young chefs are Japanese, and their delicate touches are evident in the dollop of ham-and-cheese napoleon, or a petit shrimp potpie. Dine indoors in modern white decor, on the big terrace in a lemon grove, or have a homemade limoncello in the brick-arched cantina stocked from fine vineyards north of Salerno. Guest rooms ($$-$$$) are simple, and casually elegant, with tile floors, quilts, antiques, and some two-person whirlpool tubs. This is one of the few places with absolutely no sea view, but to make up for it, you can help harvest olives in October.
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