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Restaurant by the sea in Monterosso Al Mare

The L'Ancora della Tortuga restaurant in Monterosso al Mare, in the province of La Spezia, offers you many rich meat and fish dishes, to taste the true Liguria. Contact us now to book your table!

Ligurian cuisine with sea views

The L'Ancora della Tortuga restaurant in Monterosso Al Mare, set on a beautiful cliff sheltered from the whitewashed rocks, is a perfect place to savour the scent of the Ligurian tradition, blended with the flavours of international dishes made unique by the reworking by the Viviani family. The restaurant offers the sophistication of traditional seafood and cuisine from the land, with a breath-taking landscape that is unique for your evening. You can sit inside the restaurant, furnished in seaside style or in the exterior garden that looks directly onto the cliff, the perfect place to spend a romantic evening, dinner with friends, or a celebration such as a wedding, anniversary, or birthday.
staff e camerieri del ristorante L'Ancora della Tortuga

The restaurant in the pearl of the Cinque Terre

The restaurant, completely renovated nine years ago by the Viviani family, is a small jewel of Monterosso Al Mare, the largest village in the Cinque Terre, and the first to be documented in 1056. Visit the many monuments and take a break to enjoy the great typical food offered by the restaurant, always cooked with fresh ingredients and of high quality. You can enjoy delicious seafood specialties such as cod, or fish soup alla ligure with cabbage and bruschetta; selected meat dishes such as pork with apple; or sample homemade desserts such as tiramisù with strawberries or sorbet with Monterosso lemons. Due to our experience accumulated over the years, our restaurant is now renown for its food both locally and abroad. Do not pass the chance to enjoy good Ligurian food whilst admiring the wonderful landscape offered by the largest village in the Cinque Terre: contact us to book your table.

Our story: this is how the Tortuga restaurant was born

We are right below the Colle di San Cristoforo,
Where the rocks dive into the sea of ​​one of the most beautiful villages of the 5 Terre: "Monterosso Al Mare".
The smell that surrounds our land is the seaweed and the salt we find on the skin.
Our grandmother's desire to open a bar in Monterosso Al Mare was born in the 1950s. Getting out of the nearby mountains to embark on a new life in the country was for the time an anecdote difficult to believe, but so it was!
In addition to her beautiful and colorful tales, Grandma sent us her strength, her courage and her great entrepreneurship.
From the mullets selling the milk, to the exchange of salt of Monterosso with the rice of Vercelli; This and more has been addressed by a young woman who had already taught us so much.
Its was the first bar in Monterosso with jukebox, TV and billiard room. While in the '60s he helped the family, he even managed to build his hotel.
Then we arrived, who, armed with a great passion for the restaurant, decided to continue with this invaluable family legacy.
After years of collaboration with our father, a tough and precise man who taught us the basics of cooking, our mother, a woman capable of managing a hotel and controlling everyone without ever stopping, and our grandparents Camilla and Eugene who supplied the Local cuisine with the best products of their small garden; Our dream of a restaurant full of hospitality and authentic flavors of the territory was being realized. That was how we decided to open our restaurant, the Anchor of Tortuga.
Eight years have passed since that day, and thanks to all those people who, besides being our family, taught us how to improve and manage a restaurant, we are here to thank them one by one!
Mom, Dad, Grandma Camilla and grandfather Eugenio, Mario and Mary of the Lombardy restaurant in Pretoria, our wonderful staff and all our kind guests ...
... to all of you THANK YOU.

To book a table with sea view call now +39 0187 800065

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