The best restaurants in Imperia.
Our restaurant is located in the heart of the "pigna" (medieval village) in San Remo (Imperia), you will find a charming and welcoming environment and a beautiful inn, rich in flavor and tradition. In the center of Piazza dei Dolori, you can enjoy our specialties while enjoying the outdoor terrace with a fountain.
The typical Ligurian cuisine, and not only, will surprise you with fresh pasta or homemade cakes.
Here there is the opportunity to organize birthdays and dinners, as well as small ceremonies.
All Fridays, at dinner, an event characterizes us: the "special Risotto evening" which usually includes a tasting of 4 different Risotto types, different every week.
Every day, at lunch, we propose the "tourist menu": a first or second course by choice with water and coffee included.
Genuine breakfasts based on sweet brioches, pizza, focaccia bread and vegetable pies of various types and homemade. Unique in town varieties of Pizza, Green pies, Stuffed Focaccia bread, Focaccia Bread of Recco, Focaccia bread with bacon and Brie with Wurstel.
Even from the early morning drinking is not underrated: Vergnano Coffee, one of the best Italian blends and a well stocked and selected variety of fruit juices such as blueberry, peach and mango, strawberry, ace, peach, apricot, pineapple, grapefruit, etc..
At lunchtime the kitchen always offers ten dishes of the day at very low prices, both of meat and fish, locally caught:
Spaghetti with seafood, anchovies, vegetarian pasta, pasta with pesto, baked pasta, calamari with artichokes, sea bream, octopus salads, stockfish, tagliata and meat fillet.
For a quick lunch, we offer a list of sandwiches and salads that with the addition of pizza and focaccia bread can complete a lunch with a single dish.
Our venue offers the opportunity, all over the years thanks to the nice weather, to dine in the two dehors at a stone’s throw from the sea and the small historical port of Borgo Foce. Being located in a historical district and at the beginning of a very charming promenade, in the afternoon it becomes often the destination of many passing tourists who, admiring the panorama, enjoy a break tasting our products.
A characteristic moment of our venue is the “LONG HAPPY HOUR” with a rich buffet unique in town for variety and quantity of appetizers, pasta, pizzas, focaccia bread, comparable to a dinner.
During the happy hour, a special attention is devoted to wines and drinks:
our wines reflect our territory with local grapes such as Vermentino, Pigato and Rossese, and are completed by fine wines selected over time of other region: Barbera of Piedmont, Negroamaro of Salento, Muller, Traminer, Montepulciano, Chianti Gavi with some novelties presented every week.
From the happy hour, jokingly called “aperiinfinite” (as it goes on until late at night) in the evening, the drinks and the selection of spirits boast one of the most extensive varieties in town thanks to the experience of the two bartenders and of the AIBES courses they attended.
Our drinks include all international cooktails, cocktails of our inventions, frozen and with seltzer water. The most popular are the various types of vodka sour with lychee with cassis mojto roum cooler and pastis.
Another very important aspect is the choice of beers, well–provided in any types. In collaboration with the Peroni group, you can find red and blonde on tap beers, the very famous Pilsner Urquell, Peroni Nastro Azzurro Grand reserve, to continue with the Corona Ceres beer, to end up with four of our craft beers of our area by the Chevalier brewery: a red one, a vais, a porter and a Durante blonde. Every month, moreover, three beers from around the world are offered for varying quality and type and add a touch of novelty.
At the weekends, evenings are accompanied by live music or DJ sets, as we have been organizing events for over ten years and boasting over 200 events in the last 5 years with a major following both in our venue and in other collaborating venues.
During the week, you can book dinners, aperi–dinners, aperi–birthdays, receptions and parties of all kinds, while in the summer season the restaurant is also open in the evening to propose our dishes that can be enjoyed in a unique setting.
Another fundamental aspect of our activity is the tasting of typical dishes or nouvelle cuisine in collaboration with chefs and companies of unusual products and special wines, drinks or spirits that we offer in the evening to complete the service by collaborating with leading brands of the industry such as Martini & Rossi.
Throughout the day the internet connection service is available to everyone.
In the summer time, very important is the support service for bathing, for which we provide everything you need to be able to stay without missing anything at a walking distance from the sea.
La Piazza is a tavern that offers all the specialties of the typical cuisine of Liguria. Our first courses include borage Ravioli, Tagliatelle or Gnocchi topped with tomato, ragout or Genoese pesto. We propose second courses of meat such as delicious Ligurian rabbit, roast beef, roast pork, sirloin on the grill or with green pepper and grilled meat (pork chop, capicollo, sausage, chicken). To follow, fish courses such as fried squids, fried squids and shrimps or grilled swordfish. Side dishes of grilled vegetables or mixed salads and French fries. Specialties are the sweets of the house, red or white wines of the house and bottled wines like Dolcetto, Grignolino, Barbera, Bonarda, Arneis and Vermentino. Canned beverages, MORETTI, CERES, PERONI and BECK’S beers.
In the center of Sanremo, the L’Airone restaurant offers specialties of the sea, traditional Italian dishes, all accompained by a selection of excellent wines from our well–stocked winery.
The perfect place to eat well without spending a fortune.
In order to satisfy your taste, our dishes are prepared at the time of ordering.
This work involves a certain expectation: the staff of "Balzi Rossi" thanks you for your understanding.
In respect of ancient traditions, our products are chosen every day, searching for the best quality.
The quality of the ingredients, their freshness and genuineness are the starting point of my cuisine since 1988 when I took over my father's restaurant and started this adventure with my wife Barbara, and that is now continuing also with my son Stefano.
As the morphology of our region is not suitable for the extensive cattle-farming, I get the meat from my butcher who personally selects and slaughters few heads of cattle of the Piedmont breed that are raised with natural feed.
During the hunting season, we have wood pigeons, redwings, and woodcocks, caught in the passes of the Maritime Alps behind Sanremo.
From January to July, our carte features the sheep ricotta, that we get from the Sardinian shepherds settled in Taggia, between Sanremo and Imperia. Another dairy product that we serve during the cooler seasons is Montèbore, a typical Ligurian cheese that was disappearing and has been "rescued" by Vallenostra cooperative that produces it with excellent results.
For me, bread plays a very important role in the meal: I daily bake several different varieties of it along with the focaccia and the sardenaira (the Sanremo "pizza" with anchovies, olives, and tomato sauce) that I serve with the aperitif. I only use natural yeast and the selected flours of Mulino Marino from Cossano Belbo in Piedmont, that are stone milled and absolutely organic.
Vegetables are the most important product of the local cuisine: "trombette" courgettes -a variety of zucchini typical of the West Liguria-, artichokes, tomatoes, basil, purple asparagus... some of them come from my vegetable garden in Alta Val Nervia, in the Maritime Alps behind Sanremo, where I personally grow them, and some are supplied by small local producers who use only natural farming techniques.
My cuisine originates from these local products and proposes traditional dishes such as the cappon magro, a true masterpiece of the Italian cuisine, the brandacujun stockfish and many others that I like to call of "contemporary Ligurian cuisine" because they are original and unprecedented like the "Poached egg with sea urchins, served with Sanremo prawn and crispy leeks" that has become a classic of my restaurant, and the "Seared tuna with sweet and sour aubergine caponata" that now can be found in any Italian restaurant in different interpretations.
The wine selection is also very rigorous. Besides taking care of the dining-room and the patisserie that she produces, my wife Barbara is also in charge of the wine list, that features high quality labels with a wide selection of "natural wines". A wine suggestion is proposed for each dish, served by the glass to best combine wine and food, and widen the tasting experience.
La Piazza is a tavern that offers all the specialties of the typical cuisine of Liguria. Our first courses include borage Ravioli, Tagliatelle or Gnocchi topped with tomato, ragout or Genoese pesto. We propose second courses of meat such as delicious Ligurian rabbit, roast beef, roast pork, sirloin on the grill or with green pepper and grilled meat (pork chop, capicollo, sausage, chicken). To follow, fish courses such as fried squids, fried squids and shrimps or grilled swordfish. Side dishes of grilled vegetables or mixed salads and French fries. Specialties are the sweets of the house, red or white wines of the house and bottled wines like Dolcetto, Grignolino, Barbera, Bonarda, Arneis and Vermentino. Canned beverages, MORETTI, CERES, PERONI and BECK’S beers.
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P. Dolori 5/6 18038
San Remo (Imperia)
Our restaurant is located in the heart of the "pigna" (medieval village) in San Remo (Imperia), you will find a charming and welcoming environment and a beautiful inn, rich in flavor and...
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V. Varese 16 18100
Imperia (Imperia)
Genuine breakfasts based on sweet brioches, pizza, focaccia bread and vegetable pies of various types and homemade. Unique in town varieties of Pizza, Green pies, Stuffed Focaccia bread, Focaccia...
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P. S. Maria 3 18015
Pompeiana (Imperia)
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P.zza Eroi Sanremesi, 12 18038
San Remo (Imperia)
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1, c. Garibaldi 18013
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2, p. Doria 18020
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1, c. Europa 18012
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5, v. Ciancergo 18020
Dolcedo (Imperia)
4/b, v. Maresca 18100
Imperia (Imperia)
4, v. Hanbury 18039
Ventimiglia (Imperia)
14/a, p. Marconi 18039
Ventimiglia (Imperia)
42, v. Battisti 18013
Diano Marina (Imperia)
Via Balzi Rossi, 2 - Frontiera San Ludovico 18039
Ventimiglia (Imperia)
In order to satisfy your taste, our dishes are prepared at the time of ordering. This work involves a certain expectation: the staff of "Balzi Rossi" thanks you for your understanding. In respect...
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Via Roma 47 18038
San Remo (Imperia)
The quality of the ingredients, their freshness and genuineness are the starting point of my cuisine since 1988 when I took over my father's restaurant and started this adventure with my wife...
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P. S. Maria 3 18015
Pompeiana (Imperia)
La Piazza is a tavern that offers all the specialties of the typical cuisine of Liguria. Our first courses include borage Ravioli, Tagliatelle or Gnocchi topped with tomato, ragout or Genoese...
CONTATTA & PRENOTA