SALERNO
Il Pozzo Spagnolo

Il Pozzo Spagnolo

Via Fusandola 1, 84121, SALERNO, Italy

Pesce • Tapas • Carne • Frutti Di Mare


"We ate twice at this restaurant near the Teatro Verdi and we have two very different tales to tell. The first time was after a performance at the Teatro Verdi, for which the location was perfect. We chose the Italian menu for a seafood meal, starting with an excellent warm insalata di mare with vongole, mussels, and shrimp. One of our two main courses was the baccala and totanetti fritti con cipolle all’agro. This was very flavourful and slightly crunchy, with the fried onion adding a Spanish touch. The other main course was one of our favourites, spaghetti alle vongole, which was also very good. We chose a bottle of Fiano Beneventano from the Masseria Frattasi which we liked very much. Adding to our pleasure was the warmth of the room (there was a powerful heater near our table). Our second visit was the following evening, a Sunday when many restaurants in Salerno are closed. This time we chose the Spanish menu. We started with tapas misto, which were moderately successful but not very interesting. We also had the polpo galiziano (octopus), which was nicely sautéed and richly flavoured. Then came the paella nera di pesce. Surely a restaurant that calls itself Spanish will do a good job with paella. However, what we got was a tough mass of overcooked rice with squid ink overpowering everything, especially the little bits of half-identifiable seafood. We chose a red wine this time, Setaro’s Don Vincenzo, which was OK. We sat at the same table as the night before, but this time instead of heat there was a cold draft coming down from an opening in the wall behind."

Binario Due

Binario Due

Via Giacinto Vicinanza 34, SALERNO, Italy

Vino • Pasta • Pesce • Carne


"the old traveler is enchanted and lost in the bonario restaurant two of salerno, a stone's throw from the hotel plaza in which he lives. a magical space, elegant, shaded, with long tables and a vaguely esoteric climate. the surprising restaurant, Mario, who speaks to you in the waiting of the dishes, with the colored voivacity of a character ocited by the shoe scene. Graduated in philology (so at least of boasting,) he shows himself perfectly able to hold his head with respectful irony at a table of artists of the paloscenic, scholars and writers. explains also the reasons for the arcane name, track two, for the presence of a member once, then dismissed for other professions (and misconstrued it seems,) replaced by an authoritative wife, who gave him sons to bunches and a strong subjection. every morning when we wake up, in fact, our amphitheatre demands from his companion a kiss and the assurance of an untouched love, in the fear of being hunted. and note that the house, as stated, is of its own property. not only stage jokes, because in the meantime they arrive, with delays due to the elaborate composition, foods with an irresistible taste, of complex composition. Baroque architectures are in fact mixed pasta, creams of potatoes, shrimps and smoked provola and the anchovies then in love, fried and breaded, lying on a bed of chickpeas, with inside ricotta di bufala. the guests coming from the spagna and from various regions of Italy shout enthusiastically, and we all bow to the Departing genius."