Typical traditional ligurian restaurant Al Castello - Pietra Ligure - Fish and seafood - Pizza baked in traditional brick-oven

Our specialities

Traditional homemade tagliolini The pasta. In our Restaurant, the pasta (made with flour, eggs and water) is wholly homemade. We use fresh eggs only and the finest flour. We produce ravioli, tagliolini, maltagliati, taglietelle. The stuffing of the ravioli is prepared following the traditional genovese recipe. You may taste our pasta with seafood, shrimps, calamaries and pore mushrooms (a very recipe of our own), or with excellent ligurian pesto.

Traditional ligurian cuisine

Our ravioli during preparation Aside of ravioli and taglioli we offer our customers the zemino and sbira (a Christmas soup) which are not always available for being bound to certain periods of the year. On reservation we prepare the buridda and fish soup.
More over, we suggest that you should taste our farinata, a ligurian plate, ancient and simple, but of an unmistakable flavour. We produce it only with the finest extra virgin olive oil and chickpea flour of traditional mills.

The fish

Seafood, detail Seafood as oysters, mussles, clams, fasolari, tartufi and more. Our fritto misto and grigliata mista are always available and are realized with fresh products and fish from the catch. In some preparations we might be forced to use frozen products, always of first quality, of guaranteed origin and never of breeding.

The pizza

The pizza at Ristorante al Castello Realised with the finest mill flour, garnished with italian tomatoes, fresh mozzarella of first quality and olives of taggiasca cultivar, cooked in the traditional brick-oven: we can affirm that our pizza is a unique product and one of the best on the market, from classical margherita, napoli, four seasons to our elaborated francescana, trevisana, estiva, delicata, sfiziosa and other delicious recipes of our own, which deserved the Chef Angelo awards at national level.

Even the desserts are homemade: the real ligurian bunettu (pudding prepared with fresh eggs, milk and baked in oven) is always available, the tiramisù prepared at the moment, chantilly cakes and jam or fresh fruit tarts depending on the season...