Please sign in to post.

Recommended Pizza / Pasta restaurants in Abruzzo region?

Has anyone visited the Abruzzo region and in particular Roccamoricce lately? Are there any good pizza / pasta restaurants you would recommend? TIA

Posted by
17610 posts

I see only 2 restaurants in town:
Il Belvedere
Hard Rocc Cafè

The latter is not the Hard Rock Cafe chain, but someone who jokingly played with the town's name Roccamorice to name his restaurant similarly to the famed chain.

Both serve pasta (I've yet to know an Italian restaurant in Italy, or anywhere in the world, that doesn't have pasta in the menu).
the latter (The Hard Rocc) also seems to have pizza.

Both are highly rated and prices are really cheap compared to what you pay in the US or Canada for any restaurant.

Posted by
2101 posts

In Atri, we enjoyed Hostaria Zedi.

In L'Aquila, Arrosticini Divini.

In Roccamorice, Agriturismo Tholos (Nelly's pick).

In Ascoli Piceno (in Marche region just north of Abruzzo), Osteria Nonna Nina, C’era Una Volta, and Il Vinatiere.

Pretty sure none have pizza? But really good local food.

Posted by
2101 posts

Also:

In Calascio, Pane Amaro. This sandwich restaurant doubles as a vintage tool museum, and the owner/cook was fun. Another Nelly recommendation.

In L’Aquila, Taverna dei SaZi and La Corte Ristorante Braceria

Posted by
1180 posts

Roccamorice's Hard Rocc is a very good pizzeria. We have 3 pizzerias in Caramanico, all of them good though Hotel Viola is my favorite. My Roccamorice friends and I frequently debate which is best but we always go back to campanilismo - everything within sound of your own town's church bells is naturally the best in the world.

Edit: in Roccamorice, the best restaurant (non-pizza) is I Quattro Sentieri. They make everything themselves, down to the bread and the handmade arrosticini. Il Belvedere is fine but very old school, the pasta sauces are heavy and the portions enormous. Though I did have a Christmas meal of 8 courses of salted cod (baccalà) there that was out of this world. Not a normal menu meal.