Bistrò Margherita Market — Local services in Vernazza

There are two locations with the name Bistrò Margherita - one is the shop on the road, Via Stazione, the other is a pizza takeaway on pedestrian Via Fieschi (just on the first bend) - I've requested Google add it. The shop gets the bad reviews but in my experience they were great. The pizza and focaccia shop was hard to understand at first (due to a slightly dismissive server, lack of notices and my inability to speak Italian) but eventually I figured out they sell slices during the day then cook fresh pizzas from around 7pm, when a pizzaiolo comes in, and they flip the menu board that's on the wall (all 3 meters of it!). The pizza was good too with good ingredients. The crust was crispy on ours - I'm not sure this is always the way as it depends on moisture levels in the dough/oven and cooking time etc. We had ours on our balcony but you could go to the sea view terrace at the end of the street (with a cold beer from A Butiega supermarket on the way as they have the best price in...

This review is about the market part of Bistro Margherita, not the part that sells pizza etc up the street!

I advise you do not go here. Better off going to the Lisa Market across the street. The lady serving us seemed friendly, but in hindsight that's only because she was happy about ripping us off. We asked for a certain amount of slices of several meats. The sneaky thing about that was the fact she cut everything so thick, it was very distasteful and almost inedible. She also gave us way more than we asked for. It was hard to tell because she was very quick about it, it was hard to see, and we were in the process of picking a bottle of wine. I suspect she did this to bump up the price (as you pay per kilo). We only noticed afterwards, but we should have known considering the preposterous price she charged us. Don't fall for this. If you decide going here after all, pay good attention to what...

Cheap, delicious sandwiches! The lady was friendly and let us make our own sandwiches with whatever bread and ingredients she had in the window. There was a huge selection of cheese, meats, anchovies and other antipasti and fresh tomato and lettuce. I got a huge panino with eggplant, zucchini, formaggio misto, acchiuge, pomodoro and it only cost €7 !!! I was expecting to pay way more giving the beautiful location overlooking the sea. If you're after a supermarket per se it really is just a small little shop. But for a quick lunch it's truly perfect....