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“Excellent food and fantastic experience”

Azienda Agrituristica La Rondinella
Ranked #3 of 92 Restaurants in Scalea
Certificate of Excellence
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Reviewed 3 August 2016

The place is beautiful. Dined outdoors on several courses of antipasto, 2 pasta courses, 2 meat courses, then fruit and dessert. Wine and water included. Everything fresh and beautifully prepared. The grounds were lovely and we walked between courses to make room for more! The owner and staff were amazing. A truly memorable experience!

Date of visit: July 2016
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Reviewed 21 June 2016

Had lunch with friends who had recommend the restaurant. Great home grown food from their land. It is a fix menu and you can cut out any course you do not want. The courses were so many that we could not finish them. The staff were very friendly and helpful. A great experience and we will go back. I would highly recommend it.

Date of visit: June 2016
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Reviewed 13 May 2016

Nestling in the hills above Scalea, La Rondinella is an agri-tourism restaurant that showcases the best of the local produce - their own smallholding included. It's a little hard to find, but worth the effort. It's immaculately clean. Staff are friendly, and the aimiable Italian chef also speaks English and German.
There is one (unseen) set menu each day, which ranges from €18 pp to €30 pp, depending on what dishes and drinks are consumed. If you are a picky eater, this is probably not going to suit you. For a real "foodie", however, it's great to sit back, menu-less, and just experiment with dish after dish as it arrives. Our starters ran to almost a dozen little plates, which included locally-sourced olives, goat cheese, bread, snails, ham, salami, potatoes, tomatoes, and greens. My favourite was a firey red tapenade on homemade bread. Everything was beautifully cooked, and so fresh that it zinged with taste. Rustic fare, but excellent.
We were extremely full after the starters, and had trouble choosing between the two pasta dishes on offer as "first main course". Chef solved this by serving small portions of both!
After that, we seriously couldn't manage "second main course", and we also declined dessert. The waiter seemed a little crestfallen, so I relented, and said that we might be able to manage dessert, but only if it were very tiny. He was back a few minutes later, smiling happily, and bearing a big plate containg no less than eight desserts - all of them very tiny.
At the end of the night, stuffed to bursting with high-quality local produce, we were surprised to find that the bill only came to €45 for the two of us. Fair enough, we're tee-total, so we stuck to fizzy water all night; but for the elegant surroundings, the quality of food, the efficiency and friendliness of service and (let's face it) the sheer volume of what we ate, this was an absolute bargain. We'll definitely be going back!

Date of visit: April 2016
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Thank charchigne
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Date of visit: March 2024
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Date of visit: February 2024
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