Ristorante Da O Vittorio Recco — Restaurant in Recco

For our Italian road trip I decided it would’ve good to stop at Recco as a precursor to our stop over at San Fruttouso the following day.||After reading the trip advisor reviews I settled on Da O Vittorio and I’m so glad I did!||The staff were so friendly and welcoming (and spoke enough English to make up for the deficiencies in our Italian) that we decided to book a meal in the hotel restaurant that evening.||After an afternoon on the beach we got back and changed in our bijou, pleasant room (with all the facilities) and went down for dinner. The manager had booked a table for us on the terrace, little did we know the treat in store! We went up an iron spiral staircase and were on a multi-layered terrace with wrought iron ballistrades draped in vines.||We found our table and it started to dawn on us this was going to be special. We discovered that the restaurant had been started over 100 years previously and was famous for, amongst other things, the special Recco focaccia-(focaccia con formaggio). With being established that long there was also a formidable wine list!||We had a delicious meal, the courgette doughnuts in particular were delightful, our only complaint the portions were too big!!!||The following morning we had a good breakfast (there was a great spread with a really helpful waitress) on a different terrace, before heading off for the ferry for San Fruttouso. The manager was extremely helpful in aiding us with our overnight parking whilst we were in San F. ||We were so impressed by this family run hotel and restaurant. We spoke to the grandson and great-grandson of the man who founded the restaurant (we didn’t work out which came first - hotel or restaurant) and the hallways were decorated with hundreds of photos of stars and celebrities who came to the establishment over the years as well as pictures of Recco over the years. It’s incredible that the Place survived the devastation of the allied bombing of Recco.||We’re glad it did and will happily stay at the hotel again the next time we’re...

For our Italian road trip I decided it would’ve good to stop at Recco as a precursor to our stop over at San Fruttouso the following day.||After reading the trip advisor reviews I settled on Da O Vittorio and I’m so glad I did!||The staff were so friendly and welcoming (and spoke enough English to make up for the deficiencies in our Italian) that we decided to book a meal in the hotel restaurant that evening.||After an afternoon on the beach we got back and changed in our bijou, pleasant room (with all the facilities) and went down for dinner. The manager had booked a table for us on the terrace, little did we know the treat in store! We went up an iron spiral staircase and were on a multi-layered terrace with wrought iron ballistrades draped in vines.||We found our table and it started to dawn on us this was going to be special. We discovered that the restaurant had been started over 100 years previously and was famous for, amongst other things, the special Recco focaccia-(focaccia con formaggio). With being established that long there was also a formidable wine list!||We had a delicious meal, the courgette doughnuts in particular were delightful, our only complaint the portions were too big!!!||The following morning we had a good breakfast (there was a great spread with a really helpful waitress) on a different terrace, before heading off for the ferry for San Fruttouso. The manager was extremely helpful in aiding us with our overnight parking whilst we were in San F. ||We were so impressed by this family run hotel and restaurant. We spoke to the grandson and great-grandson of the man who founded the restaurant (we didn’t work out which came first - hotel or restaurant) and the hallways were decorated with hundreds of photos of stars and celebrities who came to the establishment over the years as well as pictures of Recco over the years. It’s incredible that the Place survived the devastation of the allied bombing of Recco.||We’re glad it did and will happily stay at the hotel again the next time we’re...

This restaurant was recommended to us by our Air B&B hosts, and it is also in some Michelin reviews. So while not having any Michelin stars, it sounded like it would be a great place to have dinner.

We arrived early in the evening, so we got to pick where we anted to sit. We sat upstairs on the outdoor porch, which was nice. Our server was friendly and patient with our poor Italian.

We ordered 8 oysters for the table to share. The first one each of us had was great: fresh, clean, salty sea water with a little bit of meaty umami. My friend and I took a second one and we encountered a completely different story: upon the first bite, my mouth was coated in a putrid rancidness. I might have well have slurped a large spoonful of raw sewage because it tasted exactly how that smells. After spitting that one out, we smelled the remaining oysters, and they all smelled funky. We told our server that they had gone bad, and I went to wash the stink of sewage off my hands. To my surprise, when I returned, a new plate of oysters was on the table.

We were hesitant to try them, but after giving one a smell test, we tried it and... it was a good one. The next one passed the smell test too, but it tasted a little funky. After that, we decided not to gamble with the oysters, and it even called into question the freshness of the seafood entrees we had ordered.

Thankfully our entrees tasted fine, but our stomachs were soured by the oyster experience, and we were worried about food poisoning.

At least now I know what a bad oyster tastes like.

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