La Meridiana - VENTIMIGLIA

Nice place, recently renovated, on the seafront of twentymiglia. valid pizza and also good fish dishes. prices in standard

We ate a brodetto of mussels and chickpeas really interesting, followed by a good baked roar, sweet and we were offered a lemoncello. friendly staff, recommended

Cordiality,competence,friendliness I think it is enough for a

Friday night. Pouring rain. Restaurants up and down the seacoast in tourist-friendly Ventimiglia are nearly empty. La Meridiana is packed to overflowing. Laughing, signing, no dancing, but plenty of eating! This place is loved by locals. This, in a town which probably has the freshest...fruits, vegetables and meats across the French and Italian Rivieras. We were blown away by this place's popularity. But how was our dinner? It was fine. Like others have said, not a word of English is spoken here. Not. One. Word. The menu is in Italian and some other unrecognizable language (French Nothing in English. But you can get by. We ordered two pizzas a Valtellina, with lots of meat and cheese and aragula (it was great), and a Siciliana, with olives and anchovies (and it was pretty gross, even for my wife the anchovy lover). A mezzo carafa of local red wine was excellent, and so was the panna cotta for dessert. Check was euro. Lay off the anchovies and you will probably do all right here.

We came here after glancing at its rating here, but just after ordering realised pizza is what to go for they looked and smelt great. We'd ordered fish though which was good, although only came with a few vegetables for euro each. The...pasta was served mins before the fish had been plated and served so wasn't good timing. One waitress was a bit cold but the owner and others were very friendly.