The best restaurants La Spezia

A table not to be missed! The well-appointed dining room and beautiful terrace overlooking the market square are just as suited to business lunches from neighboring offices as they are to gourmet dinners. The chef's cuisine is of the highest quality, with an original touch of refinement, never neglecting fresh local produce. Examples include gambas on foie gras escalope, puff pastry with purple potatoes and Santa Margherita prawns, and chocolate fondue with fruit and cookies.

This is the ideal formula for this delightful brewery in the city centre. The menu changes every day and follows market arrivals; while you serve (to will, for those who have not followed) to the buffet of antipasti, Marisa the mistress of the house prepares you the first and if you are still hungry, secondo with everything that is freshest. Some examples: stew ravioli, creamy carrots and oranges, salted pies for vegetables and anchovies, stuffed peppers, rabbit in grilled sauce and fish, not forgetting home desserts with chocolate cake and tiramisu.

Here's a little osteria that's over a hundred years old (opened in 1905), but there's nothing infernal about it - quite the contrary! A regular clientele regularly descends the few steps that lead to the two vaulted rooms down the street, where you're always sure to find the flavors of a plentiful traditional cuisine at fair prices: stuffed anchovies, minestrone, tripe and several local specialties such as stuffed mussels. While the atmosphere in this old-fashioned cellar is warm and welcoming, the place is nonetheless noisy. The staff speak French.