Bar Restaurant Piazza — Restaurant in Berat Municipality

A True Taste of Albanian Tradition at Bar Restaurant Piazza – Berat’s Hidden Gem!

If you’re looking to experience the heart and soul of Albanian cuisine, look no further than Bar Restaurant Piazza in the charming city of Berat. This place is an absolute treasure for anyone who appreciates authentic, homemade traditional food served with warmth and hospitality.

From the moment you arrive, you’re greeted with a cozy atmosphere that blends old-world charm with the vibrant spirit of Berat. The view of the city’s historic architecture from the outdoor terrace only adds to the magic.

The food? Simply unforgettable. Every dish is prepared with love, using fresh local ingredients and age-old family recipes.

But what truly sets this restaurant apart is the people. The staff are incredibly friendly, treating you more like family than a customer. They’re always happy to recommend dishes or share stories behind the food.

Whether you’re a traveler passing through or a local looking for a taste of home, Bar Restaurant Piazza delivers an authentic Albanian dining experience that’s both heartwarming and delicious.

Highly recommended – 5 stars...

The service is terrible, the food okay at best. We've ordered an antipasto and 2 main dishes, one with potatoes as a side dish. The potatoes and the other main arrived first, the appetizer shortly after. When we asked when to expect the fish that was supposed to arrive with the potatoes, he told us "5 minutes" and we asked to be served the potatoes together with the fish. He didn't seem to understand the point but took them away. Long after I'd finished my main dish (at least 20 minutes later), my husband's fish and potatoes arrived, the potatoes fairly cold and stale like plastic. When we pointed that out, we were calmly informed that these were "furre", i.e. oven potatoes and were supposed to be like that. We tried to explain but the waiter insisted only that if we wanted different potatoes, we should've ordered fries. I guess they let the original potatoes either sit in the oven until the fish was finally done or put them in the microwave to reheat them for them to get chewy and rubbery like that. Fish was nicely presented and tasted good, the aubergine was rather bland and the potatoes completely...

I attended this restaurant with my girlfriend on a Tuesday night, was rather busy. Sat for over 20 minutes before eventually calling a waiter over, we had tried 5 times to get the attention of the waiters but were dismissed rudely every time.

We ordered 2 cocktails a shrimp pasta and a pizza, the cocktails never came, we had to find salt and pepper and napkins for our own table and we never got cutlery. Upon receiving the pizza I picked the salt up to use a little and upon turning it over it opened all over the pizza, no fault of mine as it was faulty. When I got the waiters attention about this I told him I would not eat it, he went to the kitchen and came back with half the pizza and put it down without saying a word and walked off, I’ve never seen anything like it.

The worst experience I’ve ever had in a restaurant, to any non Albanians reading this do not go, they do not treat non natives with any...