Grastronomia ristorante La Mariposa — Restaurant in Unione dei comuni della Versilia

I used Google Gemini to search for a good seafood restaurant where locals go to and found this Gem! The food is amazing and the price is really reasonable or shall I say quite unbelievably reasonable. They do not speak English and are very busy with few staff. They are however friendly and try to be helpful. With sign language and some English, we managed to communicate. The seafood pasta and fritti are just incredibly delicious. The must try is their lobster pasta where the lobster meat is ground and cooked into the sauce giving amazing flavors. There is a take out counter with seafood salads, roast meat, stuff squid with mussels and all kinds of very enticing food. Seafood is really fresh. We are so impressed that we drove another one hour to Pietrasanta from Lucca and one hour back just to eat lunch there again. We might just plan to travel to Pietrasanta again from Seattle just to eat there again! 😋😋😋Highly...

Small and cosy place with very welcoming personelle. Even if we arrived late with 4 children and the kitchen was closing we had a wonderful lunch with roast beef, extraordinary good fruti di mari salad, very good lasagna. A tasty white wine has accompanied our lunch. We finished our lunch with a very soft and balanced taste tiramisu and espressos. Location could seem to be kind of remote - far from the beach, still we...

We are very pleased that we found this place during our stay in Tuscany. We had the opportunity to feel like in a real Italian home for dinner. Everything was delicious, very reasonably priced, and the staff did everything to make us feel comfortable. Despite language differences, the chef was very communicative. After our first visit we ate there again, if we are ever in Tuscany again we will definitely stop...