La Paranza da Marina — Restaurant in Santa Margherita Ligure

We have been waiting for 1 hour for our food. After 1 hour of waiting they brought us bread, and we asked when the food is going to be ready. They said 30 more mins. The staff did not inform us about such long waiting time in advance. We told we would like the food to be done faster. After waiting 10 more minutes they replied in will take another (!) 30 mins. We decided to leave this place and not waste our time anymore.

Never had such terrible experience before. They probably have only one chef for 20 tables. Avoid this place...

Now I actually loved this place. We ordered the raw fish plate, fish ravioli and spaghetti octopus carbonara. Food was divine. The atmosphere was to die for. The decoration and also the view we were seated at overlooked the harbour. DE-Vine. We were rushed slightly because we were walkins at 8pm. Additionally, the busboy is a bit decrepit because we had multiple plates - that he failed to take away. This made our table so congested and hard to eat. Definitely a hit with the tourists but beware of the €10 service charge just...

Good things first: the fish we had was delicious. But it was not the fish we had ordered and on the bill it was also somehow more expensive than on the Menu. The waiter was just rude e.g. raised eye brows and had a very negative undertone in his voice when we didn’t want to order wine. Overall, go there if you want to enjoy some overpriced fish in a restaurant that doesn’t have a nice atmosphere.

Update: The responses to other bad reviews in the past by the restaurant tells everything - we should have...