Italian restaurants

Ca' Do Mei'

Open for almost ten years, the "Cà do Meì" (House of the Apple Tree) is a green oasis situated 800 meters above sea level, on the edge of the Antola Park in a beautiful position on the terrace in front of the Ligurian Apennines, where in the most clear days you can admire evocative sunsets in the western Alps.

The restaurant is elegant but at the same time familiar, was created by renovating an old farmhouse and has a large, bright room where you can taste, maybe next to a warm fireplace in cold winter days, a strictly homemade, genuine and respectful of traditions cuisine, that enhances the culinary heritage of Genoa and Liguria.

In the warm season it offers children and adults the opportunity to have nice snacks outdoors in the countryside. In autumn and winter there is a cozy tavern with company games.

At Cà do Meì you can organize parties of all kinds, Baptisms, birthdays, graduation parties, business lunches, promotional events, First Communions and weddings.

Since January 2008 they offer also gluten–free cuisine with specially prepared dishes, such as Ravioli in Genoa–style, potato gnocchi, egg Pappardelle, gluten–free desserts and much more.

Trattoria Da Marcello

The menu offered is always various to to satisfy all taste preferences and delight customers with novelties and seasonal flavors.

The restaurant is specialized in the preparation of the best and most delicious recipes from Liguria cooked with skill and passion by the chefs in the traditional style of the area.

Trattoria Paradiso Di Nervi

The restaurant/tavern Paradiso Di Nervi, located in the town of the same name, was inaugurated in 1950.


For the past sixty years, it has been characterized by a familiar environment, a typically Ligurian cuisine, dishes based exclusively on fresh fish, rich in shellfish and good wine ... We offer our customers the best you can find in a restaurant!


The Paradiso di Nervi restaurant overlooks the rock of the same name and is located few minutes from the city center.

Trattoria Taverna Dei Peccatori

With "La Taverna dei Peccatori" we started our activities in July 2008, in a historic venue in Casarza Ligure.

Cozy, warm, hospitable as the living room of your house: this is the goal we wanted to achieve.

The fully equipped modern kitchen is followed by our chef who interprets and combines «the traditional Italian home cooking» with the needs of healthy and modern nutrition, without abusing of fat and seasonings in general.

The menu includes dishes from land and sea with equal care, in a dynamic way, we follow the natural rhythm of the seasons, as well as our winery, which offers a wine list of selected companies.

Everything is marked by a strict control of the value for money and for the benefit of our customers.

Visit the page dedicated to our menu and take a dip in the scents and flavors of Liguria.

Ristorante La Cambusa

Pesca Alla Trota

A few kilometers from Bolzaneto, surrounded by the green and with fish pond, you will find the Pesca della Trota restaurant. More than fun for fishing, you will be delighted with the delicious dishes of the cuisine of Genoa.

Ristorante Bertin

The Bertin Restaurant is located 600 meters above sea level, in the Municipality of Ceranesi, better known as Lencisa, just below Madonna della Guardia.

The tavern, family–run, is still closely tied to tradition, offering food with genuine taste and recipes inherited from grandparents.

In the vast halls, in elegant shelves, an extensive collection of original bottles of the best wines from all over Europe is displayed.

The extensive garden around the restaurant, renovated with art and imagination, gives the feeling of being in a locality in Switzerland, especially at sunset when the various street lights that frame the garden itself are lit.

The restaurant is located in a small village in the municipality of Ceranesi, better known as Lencisa, just below Madonna della Guardia, six hundred meters of altitude.

Here, the Parodi family dedicated itself to the cultivation of the fields and 100 years ago gave birth to a small tavern, putting on the table the products of its land.

The tavern has purchased over time more and more prestige thanks to the kindness of its food and especially for its special Lasagne with genuine pesto, Ravioli and homemade pasta, without forgetting desserts prepared in their own kitchen.

Cantine Squarciafico

The Squarciafico Wineries owe their name to the sixteenth–century palace recently restored from which they occupy also the tanks.

They consist of two large and elegant rooms with vaulted ceilings, slate and marble floors, marked by two sets of ancient columns adorned with late Gothic capitals.

Their openness has contributed to the process of re–evaluation of Genoa’s historical center.

The premises are available every day for lunches, parties and meetings, with at least 25 people.

The Wine cellar has over sixty labels from all over Italy, in particular, from Liguria, Piedmont, Tuscany and Friuli, as well as a selection of French wines.

Le Cantine Di Mattelin

On the heights of the Coronata hill, in an oasis of tranquility just a few miles from the historic center of Genoa, we rediscover ancient flavors and old traditions.

The old "Mattelin", the second dining license in Genoa, awaits you with its specialties: picturesque seafood and ground dishes renewed with respect for the traditions, homemade pasta dishes with pesto cultivated in our gardens and the usual but noble old stock.

This is the ideal location for banquets, weddings, First Communions, birthdays and Baptisms, Le Cantine di Mattelin will be the perfect setting for events to be enjoyed in the shade of the arbor of the garden, admiring the suggestive panorama of the city.

The restaurant serves delicate preparations of fish, traditional Ligurian dishes, delicious homemade desserts, and a fine wine list to choose how to accompany your dishes.

The restaurant is also distinguished for its friendly and attentive service.

Come visit us, we will welcome you with warmth and simplicity, making you feel at home.

Ristorante Acqua Salata

In the wonderful setting of the Zoagli village, we welcome all year round tourists and local people. Famous and very suggestive is the cliff overlooking the sea, built in the thirties.


If you love cooking seafood, our restaurant–tavern will not disappoint you: the intimate and cozy environment and the very delicious dishes will impress you so much that you will surely return.
Excellent mixed grills and exceptionally good Paranza fries will make you revive in your dishes all the flavors of the sea. Worth to mention, the tasty Zuppetta Acqua Saltata, a specialty not to be missed.


And if this is not enough, try our cheese Focaccia: prepared in the oven according to the traditional recipes, it will leave you speechless.

Piro Antica Trattoria

Piro Antica Trattoria is located in Genoa and proposes to taste typical dishes in accordance with traditional Ligurian and especially Genoese cuisine.


Among our specialties, there are: stuffed lettuce, stockfish, stuffed meats, tripe, Buridda, lean capon.


The natural combination of the two souls of these two kitchens, the Ligurian and the Genoese, kitchens of the sea and the land, poor in appearance, with no grazing nor game, provides the raw materials for a kitchen entrusted to the use of herbs, brines and spices imported by daring sailors.


The ingredients of the recipes are chosen by nature and by the changing of seasons, as usual.
The fresh fish and pasta are rigorously made by hand.


Piro Antica Trattoria is specialized in weddings, First Communions, receptions, birthdays.
It also has a playground for children.


The environment is warm and comfortable and has also a pleasant outdoor area to eat and spend a good time when the hottest temperatures allow it.

Lupo Antica Trattoria

"The first very important aspect of Genoa ... the city seems to be separated from the rest of the world and made absolutely for freedom ... the sea is a friend of freedom.
All peoples that are really free have always lived at the sea".


Anne–Louise–Germaine Necker Stael–Holstein


In the heart of the old town "Lupo Antica Trattoria by Vico Monachette" looks like an old Genoese house divided into three small cozy and informal rooms, one of which is a true living room for single table dedicated to the painter Aurelio Caminati: you can admire one of his masterpieces.
The restaurant dates back to the thirties of the twentieth century, was founded as a wine bar frequented by sailors.
In 1997 Mary and Guido began their management becoming immediately recognized beyond the borders of the town for the peculiar combination of Ligurian tradition and creative cuisine, in which dishes and Genoese flavors are reinterpreted and reinvented through the recovery of specific cultural aspects of local history. A creative dialogue between tradition and modernity reigns, with which to explore hidden aspects of the local culture in a friendly and renovated way, now present in the international culinary guides.