we'll have a child along, and we all love good Italian food.
Thanks.
LAL
we're heading to Locarno this weekend and I'm wondering if anyone has any restaurant recommendations for a good dinner?
Depends what kind of food you're after, and available budget.
Would you want it to be "ticinese-italian-food"?
Or should it be the *proper* stuff (i.e. your pasta cooked "al dente")...?
Is pizza fine as well?
For run-of-the-mill lunches / dinenrs I've been pretty happy w/ the small restaurant at the Magadino airport (pasta & pizza both good).
There is another restaurant/pizzera (should be called "Nuova Pergola") at the roundabout to Vira Gambarogno (you will have it on your left as you travel to Locarno.
V. good food ("italian style") in Gudo at the Fattoria L'Amorosa ( www.amorosa.ch ).
In Locarno proper you could opt for the "ristorante Vallemaggia" behind the hospital - it is run by a foundation and has an excellent chef who works there (can't forget his name at the moment), and "Da Valentino", right above the Piazza Grande in Vicolo Torretta.
I have heard very good things about the Enoteca in Losone - but haven't tried them out (yet).
Enjoy!
Paul
So how was it?
Where did you eat / dine?
P.
Hi Uncle GroOve: you obviously seem to know quite a bit about restaurants in Ticino, so... here goes.
We'll be going to Berzona, in the Onsernone Valley beginning of May. A friend of ours has a little house there which we can use over the weekend. As far as I've heard, it's in the middle of absolutely nowhere I probably won't feel like schlepping everything for cooking down from Zurich, so if you have one or two recommendations in the area, I'd very much appreciate it (closest civilisation seems to be either Loco or Intragna)
thank you for your recommendations - sadly we did not end up using them. we had only saturday night for dinner in Locarno since we moved apartments within Bern last weekend. we ended up celebrating at Casa del Popolo. a very nice, quite casual place in the Old Town area. my husband had some wonderful fish and I had the house lasagna, which my husband insisted contained their house special - cheval.
I also loved the tiramisu, but outside of the US, I'm not sure I've ever had bad tiramisu.
I hope to go back again for a longer stay. I really liked Locarno and need a bit more time to look around.
I'm heading there in July for the Moon and Stars concerts
For starters you can go to the following page
http://www.valle-onsernone.info/
(apologies if you've already visited it).
There is one restaurant which is famous because it prepares some dishes using the "farina bòna" (a flour similar to the Gofio that you eat in the Canary Islands) - I need to ask my wife what's the name of the place. I haven't been up that part of Ticino in a loooong time.
Time for a refresher course, I suppose
'Later,
Paul
I know this is late, but for others I recommend SENSI (lungolago, near the train station, nice ambiance), LUNGOLAGO (also along the lake, towards the Lido, young crowd, offer everything from fish to pizza, can be loud & crowded), and PIZZERIA SANT'ANTONIO (past Città Vecchia, across the FART parking lot, the best pizza in town, and more). Good luck!
I LOVE eating there it makes me really feel at home