Help…. Need Sorrento food recommendations

No seafood? I would return to Sorrento just to dine at Bagni Delfino.

We did go to Bagni Delfino. and absolutely loved everything. The problem is that it’s so far from our hotel which is in the center of Sorrento.

Have you checked TripAdvisor.com?

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g187782-Sorrento_Province_of_Naples_Campania.html

Try Il Leone Rosso ristorante-pizzaria, not far from the Circumvesuviana station.
Via Marziale, 25, 80067
We had a good dinner there at a decent price.

We really enjoyed the Inn Bufalito several years ago - https://www.innbufalito.it/en/
Lots of choices for mozzarella cheese appetizers/dishes. They also have buffalo meat dishes, as well as pasta.

We ate at Ristorante Parrucchiano. The setting was beautiful, the service and food were good. We really enjoyed Chantecler's Trattoria. It was a very small place, excellent, friendly service, good food, very reasonable prices. We would have gone back another night but they were closing for the season the next day. (It was November) Both restaurants are very close to the center of Sorrento.

EDITED TO ADD: Also in Sorrento, we had pizza near the train station at Pizzeria da Franco. Lots of locals, cheap beer and wine, pizza was good. We had Gelato a few times at il gelato primavera.

Pizzeria da FRanco was fabulous 10 years ago. The only European restaurant I remember. The margarita pizza was spectacular. We wandered into it on a rainy first night in Sorrento. The chocolates were also super. Had a restaurant dinner then went back to da Franco’s the last night. I hope it is as good today.

In Sorrento: Kebab di Ciampa (fast food, Via Pieta 23) quick, delicious; La Fenice (RistoranteLaFeniceSorrento.com) good ambiance, very good food especially "La scaloppina al limone".

Inn Bufalito is totally different and very, very good. You might like The Meating (not misspelled) and da Gigigino. The Foreigner's Club has a spectacular view but I found the food just shy of unacceptable - hey, it's Italy afterall.

@ Racquet, I was in Sorrento fall of 2019 and we thought the restaurant was still good. Also, it sounds like we had similar experiences with rain on the Amalfi coast!

@OP, have you tried the pastry that the Amalfi coast is known for? Sfogliatelle? delicious! We got ours in the town of Amalfi at the base of the cathedral. I bought one to share with my husband. Should have bought two!

We also enjoyed Chantecler's Trattoria, especially the antipasto platter. We liked the Pizzaria da Gigino, Via degli Archi 15 (Not sure of the address; my handwriting is a scrawl.)

We also loved Taverna dell'800, Via dell'Accademia 29. And O'Puledrone at Marina Grande. Wonderful grilled fish. Finally, we enjoyed Ristorante Sorrento, Via P.R. Giuliani 64/66. The food was very good, but there was a non-optional 10% service charge. But the service was excellent, according to my notes.

Sigh. Now I want to go back to Sorrento.

Ask local people around you. Shop owners, hotel owners, people in the street, etc.
Why would you want to ask a bunch of Americans on an American website?
It would be like if an Ukrainian tourist were in Tokyo looking for a good sushi restaurant and instead of asking the local Japanese around in Tokyo he/she asked people in Kiev on an Internet forum.

Roberto, I trust the people of this forum. They have never steered me wrong. They are kind and helpful. Also, I did ask locals here and I think they thought that as Ana American were looking for something more geared towards us. So I haven’t enjoyed it as much. And look, all these people have been so helpful and have given their honest opinion. I appreciate that greatly. Thanks everyone.

In addition to Delfino's, O'Murzill is a small restaurant we always enjoy. It's on Via Dell'Accademia. Buon appetito!

Roberto, the only lousy restaurant experience we had one on our trips was at a seafood place a local sent us to! And if you asked one of our friends for the best Italian in our city, they'd send you to the equivalent of C. Boyardee, only with a much higher price tag. Truly awful, overcooked, watery, tasteless stuff but they love the place, bless 'em. 😉

So I guess just because someone is local doesn't mean they like/dislike the same things?

I gave a few suggestions earlier but here are my 'standards': at dinner time (Italian dinner time) the place is crowded with locals, a bit noisey, people waiting for a table, no menu in multiple languages, nobody trying to convince you to eat there (in which case the place probably isn't busy, which should tell you something). The most important for me is 'are the customers enjoying themselves and the food.' Price is not always a good guide to quality and taste.

Well. If I’m in America and want to find the best McDonald’s in town I ask a local American, not an Italian in Italy. The fact that a local American would recommend a Chef Boyardee type of restaurant as the best Italian restaurant is evidence to my point. When I look for a good Indian restaurant near me, I ask my many Indian neighbors, not my Italian friends in Italy. Or maybe I use TripAdvisor. I don’t think people here have experience of more than a few restaurants in Sorrento. People from that town would probably know better.

I don’t think people here have experience of more than a few
restaurants in Sorrento.

You do have a point there! Well, worth mention maybe that I heard a fair amount of Italian around us at my recommended restaurant. The staff also fell all over themselves helping a young couple - that looked to be local by the enthusiastic by-name welcomes - with an infant get the buggy parked and all seated comfortably. Now, will be the same quality/service per COVID re-opening? That I couldn't tell you but it's worth a try?

If each person on the forum had just 2-3 restaurants to recommend in any particular city and the OP gets about 10 responses, even with overlap there will be lots of responses. Since she's staying there right now, I'm assuming she's asked the inn keeper or a hotel concierge. For myself, I have had locals recommend wonderful places, and there have been more than a few times that I've asked locals and the response was, "we don't eat out much".