This restaurant was recommended by our host. We were very excited to go because we love fresh seafood and it doesn't get much fresher than this. Our first attempt was a fail. Although online it clearly stated the hours the restaurant was open, it was...not. We went back the next night and made a booking to be certain. It was not especially busy. This place is very, very rustic right on the beach, mosquito candles burning on the rocks. Nothing fancy at all, which gives you the expectation that it will be authentic. We have very little Italian and even our menu Italian failed us for seafood. There is a QR code though that steers you to a menu in English - except the staff had no English, so we had to choose in English and then order in Italian and the menu is 100% not set up to facilitate that. We had beer and wine while we tried to work it out, then sat back to wait feeling not too confident in what we had ordered.
We got raw squid, raw cuttlefish, octopus, fried baby squid, pasta and prawns, pasta and scampi, fresh fish of the day and a few other things. We ordered house wine. We did not order urchin because none of us enjoy it. The food was good - simple and very fresh. The service was okay, but we felt quite ignored because of our lack of Italian.
We got a shock when we asked for the bill. A rough piece of paper with nothing itemized. And it was 170 euros! We have lived in Europe a long time, we have been to plenty of restaurants in Italy and France and Switzerland, but none of this prepared us for the shock of this amount. For the nature of the restaurant the price was ridiculous. We asked for an itemization but they couldn't (wouldn't) understand us. (Not even sure if this is legal.) And then they wanted to be paid in cash. Well, no, we had to insist on a credit card and, suddenly the machine worked again.
We liked the casual seaside ambience, we loved the fresh seafood but we did not like how we were treated and we did not like that we felt completely ripped off.More