Vilco,

Thank you very much for your two suggestions. I checked the Michelin
Guide and Al Cenacolo in Salerno is closed 24 Dec - 2 Jan Our wedding
anniversary is 29 Dec., so we probably will try La Caravella in
Amalfi.

Grazie,
Bruce

"Vilco \(out\)" > wrote in message >...
> AlterDad wrote:
> > Any suggestions for really nice restaurants in Salerno, Italy?
> My
> > wife and I will be going out to dinner with friends and family
> for our
> > 29th weding anniversary.
>
> Hi, I will translate for you some posts from
> it.discussioni.ristoranti, the italian newsgroup about
> restaurants. if you or soem friends can read italian, check it
> out.
>
> they are both from Fabio Fiorillo, a native of the area now
> living (IIRC) in Rome, and very active in testing famous italian
> restaurants and writing his detailed opinions to the NG.
>
> Restaurant Cenacolo - Visited: 10 january 2003
> Undoubtedly, and since many years, the best address in town.
> Surely, the only one to constantly offer a medium-high level
> kitchen and a good selection of raw materials. It is located in
> front of the 11th century Cathedral, in the centre of the city.
> The only hall is length-stratched and gives room to no more than
> 35 persons.
> The cutlery, table laying and glasses are good-level ones.
> We are 2, they serve us the menus, listing 5 or 6 appetizers,
> same quantity of first-courses and 4 fish-based main courses and
> 5 meat-based courses.
> There's no desserte menu (later voice presented).
> We choose from the menus, but there are also "full guided-menus".
> 1) My appetizer is a classic "parmigiana di alici": fried and
> browned anchovies filled with mozzarella cheese, with tomato
> sauce and grated parmigiano-reggiano on the dish. Good sish,
> undoubtedly.
> 1a) My table companion instead chooses fried pumpkin flowers,
> filled with ricotta cheese, saying they're very good.
> 2) As a first-course I choose crespelle (like french crepees)
> with apple and pork filling, in chocolate & chestnut sauce. A
> risky combination even if, all things considered, a well result
> 2a) my companion instead chooses "linguine" (like flat-section
> spaghetti) with crabs and sea-food un a beans-velute'. Good
> raw-materials, slightly made heavy by the beans.
> 3) as a main-course (due to the sea-storms there was only 1 dish
> course available) I take a beef fillet with anchovies sauce. The
> meat is from the breeder Cecchini (and you can feel it) but the
> sauce didn't seem me so much a good outcome.
> 3a) the other table companion orders a sea-bream fillet in orange
> sauce. Good, but here, too, the sauce did someway cover the
> excellent raw material.
> 4) Our dessert has been a good "pastry-custard" pie with
> caramelized sauce.
> We drank a Cometa Planeta white wine (25 euro) and a Passito from
> "Cantina del taburno", offered by the restaurant. Overall
> expense: 25 euros for each of us.
> A good experience in a very scarce local area where, I must
> repeat, good kitchen is not well considerde and there are mainly
> pizzeria's and low-cost restaurants.
> The place has been rated 15/20 on the Restaurant Guide of the
> Newspaper Espresso and 79/100 by the Gambero Rosso guide.
>
> Another one is "La Caravella" in Amalfi. Some creativity and a
> solid kitchen technic. It is a bit more expensive (80 euro per
> person) and is slightly better awarded by the guides: 16/20 for
> Espresso, 84/100 for Gambero Rosso, the "best restaurant in the
> south of Italy" for Edoardo Raspelli (a famous restaurant-hotel
> guide writer).
>
>
> Other than these two restaurants, by looking at the newsgroup I
> think there's not so much else to look for in the area.
>
> Regards, and good travel,
> Vilco