Reale Pizza & Cafe — Restaurant in Genoa

Came across this restorante in my walking travels in Genova. Decided to give it go as it has a garden sit down area off the foot path walkway, alomg the street line. Waitress was fantastic and not pushy. Sat us down and introduced herself showing a little flair. Which gives the place a wonderful ambience. As for the food. First night - meat balls, capresse salad and seafood pizza. 10 out 10 for each meal, the salad fresh, with Mozzarella cheese still ousing out fresh milk juices, and the tomatoes ripe, red and sweet, covered in fresh basil,and they give you you're own olive and basil so you can dress to taste. The meat balls in Neapolitan red sauce were so soft, tender & juicy. And the taste incredible.I had to ask when they were made, and was told fresh daily. (Yum factor- 10). My experience in ordering seafood pizza has not been the best, as they are usually soggy and need a fork and knife to eat, but this pizza was superb. Not burt, cooked well, enabling me to pick up each slice and hold it like an Italian would. Just fantastic, and the flavours was out of this world with the muscles and cockles (vongole) still in their shell, a wow factor for me. Enough said, the review speaks for it self, l was so impressed, l came back a second night and had muscles. They didn't disappoint me with a flavour packed serving plus home made baked bread. The best I've had before...

Friday afternoon, 4.30 pm: we are a company of four (three adults and one child). We are about to sit at one of the tables in the dehors, when we see the owner marching towards us. He ask rudely if we are there to eat. We answer we only would like to drink something and have a snack. To our surprise and dismay, and tells us he only serves clients who eat and ushers us out. Please note that in Italy we don’t dine before 7 pm and bar tenders cannot refuse to serve people unless they are improperly dressed or plainly drunk. This place is open only because of the money that tourists may spend while waiting for their train. Go anywhere else!

Un venerdì pomeriggio, alle 16.30: siamo tre adulti e un bambino, vestiti normalmente e di certo non ubriachi. Quando stiamo per sederci a uno dei molti tavoli liberi del dehors di questo bar, arriva a grandi passi il proprietario e, senza neanche salutare, ci chiede se vogliamo mangiare. Gli rispondiamo che vorremmo solo bere qualcosa e fare merenda. Con nostro grande sconcerto, ci dice che il bar serve solamente i clienti che mangiano e ci invita ad andarcene. Credo che anche amministrativamente l'episodio si configuri come illecito sanzionabile - in ogni caso, se state cercando un bar in zona Balbi, questo è...

Place good for pizza, not for other more expensive food. Many items are frozen (pay attention to the menu). Be ready for cover charge (“coperto”) 2€ for each person. And now my opinion: This place have a little overcharge the food (meat and fish) which many items are frozen (Fiorentina steak, Chicken etc.) because they are not popular, that is why better take pizza or some first dishes (pasta). Coperto is way too much, although it’s common in Italy but 2€ don’t cover what you get: table sheet - monouso, bread is cheap (and bad), service is poor ( beacause one person can’t serve everybody descent (about 8 table + cashier), no crostini (bread sticks) which is also included in cover charge. The meat I got was overcooked even I asked for medium, it’s because it’s not common and they don’t care too much. Recommendation: take a pizza and a bottle of a white whine (don’t take house wine - poor quality), and you will enjoy your dinner, if you try to play smart and go beyond that you’ll be...