The Best Seafood Near Vascello d'Oro, by the Record
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Rank 1. Locanda Nelli
Mediterranean Seafood
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Rank 2. Ai Torchi
Ligurian Seafood
The dining room is a 17th-century olive oil press, stone mill and wooden press still in place under vaulted ceilings in a medieval village that looks like it was designed by a tourism board. The restaurant leans into its setting with Ligurian seafood given an imaginative push, the catch of the day landing in an Italian-style ceviche, local ingredients doing most of the talking. The simpler bistro around the corner, I Torchietti, is run by the same team if you want a lighter commitment.
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Rank 3. A Spurcacciun-a
Modern Seafood
The garden terrace faces the beach close enough to hear the sea, and that alone explains why tables fill up in summer. This is a modern seafood restaurant inside Hotel Mare, where the kitchen leans heavily on whatever swam recently, prepared with enough contemporary technique to keep things interesting without losing the plot. The wine list runs deeper than you'd expect at a coastal spot. A Michelin Selected Restaurant.
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Rank 5. Il Posticino
Seasonal Seafood
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Rank 6. Pernambucco
Seafood
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Rank 7. Carignano
Seafood
The sand on the floor is imported from Spain, and you'll receive sandals before you sit down. Davide Scabin's one-Michelin-star tasting menu restaurant inside the Grand Hotel Sitea is a full theatrical commitment: a single seafood tasting menu that deliberately runs heavy to light, opening with turbot and red wine fish glaze before easing toward vegetable-forward, acidic finishes. Completely straight-faced about the whole thing, which somehow makes it funnier.
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Rank 8. La Maison Delfino
Seafood
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Rank 9. Sarri
Seafood
A Michelin-starred seafood restaurant in a pastel-painted fishing hamlet right on the Ligurian waterfront, with tables outside whenever the climate obliges, which is often. The room itself is a converted shed fitted out with sharp contemporary taste, so neither option feels like a consolation prize. The cooking leans into the local catch and organic garden produce, keeping everything tied to the season and the sea just visible from your chair.
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Rank 10. Paolo e Barbara
Seafood
The olive oil on the table comes from their own grove in the Val Nervia, which tells you something about how seriously this Michelin-starred restaurant in central San Remo takes its Ligurian roots. Paolo cooks a seafood-forward menu that stays close to the coast and the countryside both, while Barbara steers the room and knows the regional wine list cold. Old-school in feel, quietly meticulous in practice.
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Rank 11. Osteria Didù
Ligurian Seafood
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Rank 12. Teresa dal 1968
Modern Seafood