Hostaria Besugo
In Calata Cuneo, an attractive area of the city, Alessandra and Marco, the friendly owners, offer a genuine local seasonal cuisine. In addition to the beautiful dehors overlooking the port, the restaurant has modern indoor rooms with stone walls and vaulted ceilings. The full view oven allows you to watch pizza makers baking focaccia, pinsa and farinata, both at lunch and dinner. You can taste real delicacies such as the pinsa with pumpkin flowers, anchovies and burrata and a wide variety of pizzas with unusual names. Among the starters we find many typical Ligurian dishes such as panissa, cod fritters, Brandacujun meatballs, octopus salad, artichokes and fried anchovies, fresh fish tartare (from 7 to 18 €). Among the first courses we find fresh homemade pastas such as pansoti with walnut sauce, octopus sauce gnocchi, pesto trenette served in a parmesan wafer (from 14 to 18 €). To try the Burrida (fish soup) and the cuttlefish zimino with beans. Among the second courses fried and grilled fresh fish, sautéed cuttlefish, sesame-crusted tuna tataki (from 14 to 24 €). You also must try tasty meat dishes such as the rostelle (grilled skewers of sheep meat) or fillet steak Black Angus. Good choice of desserts: the stroscia served with a delicate mascarpone cream and an delicious meringue. Good choice of wines. The service is attentive and friendly. Excellent quality-price ratio.
