Well, this beach club quickly jumped pretty far up on my list of favorite places on the planet. I…read morefind it hard to express how much I love it in mere words, so you're just going to have to imagine the obscene sounds I am making while you're reading this review.
SCIALATELLI. (Sorry, that will make sense as you read on.)
Only accessible via private funicular from the Hotel Le Agavi, or water taxi from the main beach in Positano, The Remmese has it all.
The service is impeccable (from food, to wine, to assistance with extremely comfortable beach chairs and umbrellas, to anything you could possibly think of), and quickly offered with many smiles (although the biggest one was on the staff member who caught a fish off the dock while we watched).
The views are ridiculous. You not only have a beautiful look at the water itself and unimpeded angles of the rocky coast toward Positano Beach from the pleasant deck studded with chairs and umbrellas, but if you walk up to the right, you've also got a rocky coastline to walk that you virtually have to yourself. Just look at the photos.
But the FOOD. The food is the surprise. In America, beach clubs are places where you are a captive audience held hostage by mediocre kitchens that charge too much money for frozen chicken fingers, poorly made hamburgers, and if you're lucky, fried shrimp or calamari.
Here at the Remmese, the food is definitely a little pricey, but it is FANTASTIC. Everything is of the highest quality, so feel free to get the fritters, the sandwiches, etc. (and definitely get the Caprese salad, it's perfect). But if you can only get one thing, you get the Scialatelli.
People, listen to me when I tell you this. GET THE SCIALATELLI. This is quite literally one of the best things I have EVER eaten, and I have eaten a lot. I always order different dishes because I love variety, but I got this dish three days in a row.
If you've ever had linguini and clams, this is the platonic ideal of that dish, and any other pasta (and everyone knows pasta is the best food you can have).
The scialatelli (a long pasta like fettucini or linguini, but rectangular) is obviously homemade and perfect, the tiny clams are fresh and tender, and the cherry tomatoes, parsley and lemon brighten this dish up to become the finest thing you can possibly eat on the Italian coastline or anywhere. Sop up all the sauce with the excellent bread, or drink it, or bring it back to NYC for me, but DO NOT LEAVE without getting the SCIALATELLI.
This pasta, a surprisingly affordable bottle of white or rosé, and this view add up to as good a day as you can possibly have in life.
