Ristorante Il San Lorenzo "La Macelleria" is a charming and local restaurant that offers a delightful dining experience. Known for its quality and reasonable prices, this restaurant creates a warm and inviting atmosphere for its guests. The cuisine served here is an absolute delight, with generous portions that satisfy even the heartiest of appetites. Particularly impressive is the incredible variety of delicious grilled meats, making it a paradise for meat lovers. Alongside its great food, Ristorante Il San Lorenzo "La Macelleria" prides itself on its excellent Ligurian dishes and exceptional hospitality. The friendly service and relaxed atmosphere ensure a memorable dining experience. Located on the heights of Tigullio between Recco and Rapallo, this restaurant also offers breathtaking views. Despite its lack of fish options during certain seasons, the extraordinary grilled meats and delightful first courses make it a must-visit. The knowledgeable staff adds to the overall charm of this restaurant. With its convenient location and delectable dishes, Ristorante Il San Lorenzo "La Macelleria" is a perfect place to savor the flavors of Liguria.
Reviews
Good restaurant but relatively expensive for this small village. The meat was very good. The Ravioli were also good. Dogs allowed, good service. Two people 72 Euros.
TOURIST TRAP!
DO NOT GO HERE! OTHER REVIEWS ARE FAKE/BOUGHT.
We went to this place expecting it to be somewhat decent. It is a family-run place, and the daughter who is the one serving the customers was absolutely and utterly disrespectful. To begin with, she speaks perfect english, so the language barrier isn’t a problem. We ordered Aperol Spritz, and she repeated it — when we get the drinks, we find out that it is not Aperol Spritz, but a cheap rip-off that doesn’t taste anything alike. We ask her to kindly exchange it for something else, which she says “sorry only gin and tonic then”. We were about to leave the place, but then she says “okay, I can do you a favor and get you some white wine”. Ok. That’s fine — although, we find out that she charged us for both the rip-off aperol as well as the white wine. And not any white wine — of course the most expensive one on the menu. I know my wines, and we definetely did NOT get the white wine that we were charged for.
We then order some kind of pasta dish with clams as well as steaks. The steaks wasn’t steaks, but instead it was litterally shish kebab (super bad quality “meat” on wooden sticks). The pasta dish didn’t contain clams, and was litterally ONLY pasta with some white sauce (that did not include clams).
After making another complaint about the “clam pasta”, she says that we are lying and that it doesn’t state anywhere on the menu card that there’s clams in the dish. She REFUSED to get us a menu card, where I then had to find the menu card online to show her that I am, in fact, not lying.
She then exchanges it for a “lasagna”, which did not have any meat in it at all.
Super dissatisfied. Didn’t expect much from the place to begin with, but sadly there is not a single positive thing that can be said about this place.
The “mother” of the place was sitting right next to us chain-smoking cigarettes, giving us very weird looks and blowing the smoke over to us.
After the visit at this place, we went to Santa Margherita to get the best pizzas imaginable — which was way cheaper and way better.
The bill ended up at around 180€ for 4 people. For food and drinks not being as described or as pictures on other reviews — which is either fake or the restaurant has gotten new “leadership🤣” since the pictures had been taken.
To top it all off, the father of the place decided to park his car right behind our car, blocking any chance of leaving. Of course when asked to move his car, he had to smoke his not one, but two cigarettes before.
I can not express this enough… DO NOT GO HERE! Giant tourist trap.
Very local, nice atmosphere. Quality price very nice.
Just awful. You don´t feel welcome as a tourist. Grumpy waitresses and no attention at all.
The dishes we wanted to order were not available. Suddenly I ordered 500 grams of meat (which was cooked way too far by the way). When I wanted to pay, they charged more than 150% of the price for the meat...
Food is simply way too overpriced. Absolutely don't recommend to go to this place as a tourist, absolute shambles!
We stopped by occasionally. Didn't check reviews but it was very lucky stop because it's very very cute place. Cuisine is delicious and big portions also. Grilled mix was amazing for being cooked on electric grill. And my wife liked pasta very much also.
Can't even take away drinks? 🤌🤏👎
Incredible variety of delicious bfrilled meat. A place to go for all neat lovers
A great place to eat Ligurian food. Wonderful hospitality
TOURIST TRAP!
DO NOT GO HERE! OTHER REVIEWS ARE FAKE/BOUGHT.
We went to this place expecting it to be somewhat decent. It is a family-run place, and the daughter who is the one serving the customers was absolutely and utterly disrespectful. To begin with, she speaks perfect english, so the language barrier isn’t a problem. We ordered Aperol Spritz, and she repeated it — when we get the drinks, we find out that it is not Aperol Spritz, but a cheap rip-off that doesn’t taste anything alike. We ask her to kindly exchange it for something else, which she says “sorry only gin and tonic then”. We were about to leave the place, but then she says “okay, I can do you a favor and get you some white wine”. Ok. That’s fine — although, we find out that she charged us for both the rip-off aperol as well as the white wine. And not any white wine — of course the most expensive one on the menu. I know my wines, and we definetely did NOT get the white wine that we were charged for.
We then order some kind of pasta dish with clams as well as steaks. The steaks wasn’t steaks, but instead it was litterally shish kebab (super bad quality “meat” on wooden sticks). The pasta dish didn’t contain clams, and was litterally ONLY pasta with some white sauce (that did not include clams).
After making another complaint about the “clam pasta”, she says that we are lying and that it doesn’t state anywhere on the menu card that there’s clams in the dish. She REFUSED to get us a menu card, where I then had to find the menu card online to show her that I am, in fact, not lying.
She then exchanges it for a “lasagna”, which did not have any meat in it at all.
Super dissatisfied. Didn’t expect much from the place to begin with, but sadly there is not a single positive thing that can be said about this place.
The “mother” of the place was sitting right next to us chain-smoking cigarettes, giving us very weird looks and blowing the smoke over to us.
After the visit at this place, we went to Santa Margherita to get the best pizzas imaginable — which was way cheaper and way better.
The bill ended up at around 180€ for 4 people. For food and drinks not being as described or as pictures on other reviews — which is either fake or the restaurant has gotten new “leadership🤣” since the pictures had been taken.
To top it all off, the father of the place decided to park his car right behind our car, blocking any chance of leaving. Of course when asked to move his car, he had to smoke his not one, but two cigarettes before.
I can not express this enough… DO NOT GO HERE! Giant tourist trap.
Good restaurant but relatively expensive for this small village. The meat was very good. The Ravioli were also good. Dogs allowed, good service. Two people 72 Euros.