The staff were pleasant, efficient and attentive. The food was delicious and of the highest…read morequality! Lovely restaurant. Highly recommend.

Clemente is a real Sulmona institution, and I called to make reservations even before we got into…read moretown. Its a Michelin-noted, white tablecloth place with impeccable but cordial service, and a great menu. It's also very popular with locals, many of whom were in evidence, ordering their "usual" dishes. The portions are decently generous, and one of ours came with unexpected bonuses. The quality of the food was always high, and the execution ranged from "good" to "very good". Unfortunately their signature farfalle dish was the one that impressed the least; other dishes we had were more characterful. Great wine list with lots of Local, Italian and some international choices. This is a real Sulmona experience, and worth considering if you'll be in town.

I came here with relatives that live locally. We went for the pasta alla chitarra and the…read morearrosticini. Both were excellent! If your not from the area, I will explain and post pictures of what they are. Arrosticini is lamb meet on a skewer. It is a specialty of Abruzzo and severed all over. You can buy them premade or make your own. If you buy them they are usually made by machine so they are all uniform in size. They are small, so you typically eat several of them, not just a few. Figure on 5-8 a person. There is a special metal brazier or charcoal cooker for them and they are made of the exact size to fit on that without burning at the ends and falling in. The cooker a long rectangular box is called a canala as it looks like a gutter. So if you make them yourself you better be measuring. The meat is seasoned and they are quite tasty! You usually pay for them by the singular and can order as many as you want. Suggestion: Order a small order and eat them warm. Then order again for more. If you order a lot at once they can get cold as they are rather thin. So by making several orders they stay fresh and you can see how people like them. They are often an appetizer due to their size. As for pasta alla chitarra, that is a pasta which is cut on a wood box with strings like guitar strings. It sounds like a guitar if you run your fingers over it. Most have two sides and one is thinner and one is thicker depending on your preference. You roll out the dough, then place it on the box, and then roll over it with the roller and push the dough through. It is string cut and falls below, then hang it to dry. They use a bit of hot red pepper in the sauce here so that adds a nice kick to it and makes it much more tasty! You can buy chitarra pasta just like any pasta from a factory but honestly it doesnt taste as good. To me it looks more like any other pasta after you boil it. However there may be better brands out there. This restaurant has very good chitarra pasta and arrosticini, so you can sample both of them here.

This little restaurant near Bolognano has a good Italian "anti-pasti" buffet lunch for €9 per…read moreperson. It included a huge assortment of veggies, fresh sliced ham, and bread. The pasta here is fresh and tasty as well. Super nice wait staff!

You don't go there for the service (rough and direct to say the least - smiling isn't even an…read moreoption). You don't go there for the quiet atmosphere (quiet Italians? I don't think so!). You go there for the food, which is absolutely amazing. The owners are fishermen and as true fishermen, they only serve what they fish daily. And for bonus, they have a cook who knows how to properly prepare all that sea food. It's fresh, it melts in your mouth, it's to die for - and even if you don't like fish, you will love this fish! Tip: Don't be a tourist and ask for the menu. Just say you'll take the appetizers. You will see the waiter come regularly to your table with small plates of everything. Best way to have a taste of about 15 different seasonal sea dishes, warm and cold. And if you're still hungry after that, try some pasta - absolutely delicious. And if you're still hungry after, have some grilled shrimps or calamari. And if you're still hungry after that, I'm sure you can have some dessert, though we didn't make it that far... Bonus point: The house wine is bottled Zaccagnini.

Get off the highway and STOP here!! OMG! We were heading from Rome to Naples and got hungry. Not…read moreonly is this a charming town but the meal we had was one of the best!! We sat outside in a very charming alleyway and even the inside had atmosphere We had some of the best pasta and pizza!!! Do yourselves a favour and do not miss this!

Very disappointed. Obviously an established well-reviewed restaurant judging from all the…read morestickers in the window, the tourists, and the well-heeled locals. I would like to give the restaurant the benefit of the doubt because we went in on a rainy day at 1 pm with no reservation. But after waiting an hour for the first course to arrive, let alone any bread or wine, we surmised something was up. The food was below par for what the restaurant proposes to be. My first course of whipped baccala' was bland, rich, and poorly presented as a pile of white on a white plate with 2 small narrow bruschetti vertically jabbed in the paste. Missing was any contrast of flavor or color, and by halfway thru my stomach was starting to turn from the bland richness. The texture was curiously like plastic or putty, a bit off-putting, and I love baccala'. It took another long expanse of time before our primi piatti arrived, or rather my secondo piatto and my dining companions' primi piatti. Talk about off-timing. Two of us had the chitarrini with saffron sauce, a bland cream sauce with not much to offer. Pasta was over-sauced, it was swimming in the plate. One diner had the grilled pork chop, dry, tough, tasteless, he couldn't finish it and had trouble swallowing it. I tried to help eat it and gave up myself. The salads arrived with the second plates even though we had asked for them afterwards. They were the best part of the meal, simple with an excellent dressing of balsamic and lemon, and salted perfectly. By the time we left it was 3 pm, which caused us to miss our next grotto visit in another city. We should have figured out something was up, as the table of Scandinavian tourists behind us left before their food arrived....I heard them say they had to leave or they'd miss another appointment. Several groups of local business people arrived, obviously for their regular lunches. They came after us and left before we finished our meal, so they were served first. We are on a 2 month stay in Italy, speak decent Italian, and have eaten all over....this was one of the few times we were made to feel like American tourists who were ignored. Not acceptable.