2 Best Restaurants in The Italian Riviera, Italy

Il Timone

$$ Fodor's choice
Find some of the best food in Portovenere at this airy, affordable, and casual portside restaurant. The menu is typical "Ligure," ranging from meat to pasta with seafood, and also offers farinata, focaccia, and pizza. The turquoise and white decor and benches with pillows for lounging create a playful, relaxing atmosphere.
Dinner Family Fodor's Choice Ligurian Lunch Quick Bite $$
Via Olivo 29, Portovenere, Liguria, 19025, Italy
0187-914595
Known For
  • comfortable patio in summer
  • all-inclusive tasting menus
  • Ligurian farinata and pizza
Restaurants Details
Rate Includes: Closed Tues. and mid-Jan.–Feb. No lunch Mon. and Wed.–Fri.

Da Gibbi ai Rolli

$

It bills itself as a pizzeria, focacceria (endemic in these parts), and an insalateria. The pizzas are magnificent, as are their first cousins the focaccia. But if you tire of this, their salads are worth a trip in themselves. Portions are copious here. Enter hungry, exit rejoicing while perhaps believing that you ate in what once was a medieval bank (it probably was).

Dinner Family Italian Lunch $
Salita Santa Caterina 4/r, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
010-2363947
Known For
  • superb rectangular pizzas
  • fine wine list (even by the glass)
  • gracious staff
Restaurants Details
Rate Includes: Closed Mon.