La Sirena — Restaurant in Ventimiglia

A bit confused by the 1-star reviews. Anywhere on the coast along the riviera is considered a ‘tourist trap.‘ The sea and its view are the allure to restaurants on the coast. Having said that, our whole table enjoyed our pasta dishes at lunch and our male server was lovely. The ingredients we had all tasted fresh. Our server pointed out the service fee on the bill for us, to explain the total, without us I quoting first. I liked that courtesy. I hadn’t read any reviews in advance so I wasn’t aware of a service fee but it didn’t bother us. What was bothersome were the peddlers, which others mentioned. It would be nice to eat in peace, especially coming from a super touristy city myself. They each came around multiple times and were a bit pushy. The restaurant should be able to tell them to keep away but I don’t know the laws in Italy, coming from France. Just wanted to give my thoughts after returning and seeing the...

Where to start with how bad this place is?? First there's the 17% service charge that came as a big surprise with the bill, second there's the awful quality of the overpriced food. The tomatoes in my caprese salad were some of the blandest I've ever had, and my husband's fritto misto was not fresh and it was bland. I think they fried rubber bands instead of calamari. Third, and really worst of all, we were harassed by multiple extremely invasive and pushy men on the beach trying to sell us things while we ate on the terrace, and the staff stood by and did nothing. And that particular stretch of the beach is totally littered with garbage.

Save yourself and go to literally any other beach front restaurant in Ventimiglia, of which there are plenty to choose from, with better food, better prices, better service and better...

Tourist trap don’t come here!!!!!

17% service charge plus any additional tip which you are forced into. They don’t include the tax so that’s an additional €3 a person. Forced into having some stale bread. During our meal we were constantly approached by people selling us tat such as fake designer bags etc. restaurants staff don’t seams to manage this, I suspect this is because they get a rake off if these manage to sell anything to there customers. Food was sub standard for the extortionate price we were made to pay. Worst of all if you sit outside the sea gulls swoop down and consistently try to steal food. What it appears is that if you are a tourist they add on additional “charges”

Absolutely disgusting...