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Salerno Restaurants
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. |
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Salerno Restaurants
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 |
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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 |
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