My husband and I had dinner at Al Bagatto when we were in Trieste for a day on a road trip from…read moreZagreb to Ljubljana earlier this summer. It was one of the best meals of our trip! Al Bagatto has been around for almost 50 years, and it was easy to see why. The food was outstanding. The service was wonderful. The ambiance was great - comfortable, traditional without being old-fashioned...just a restaurant where you're happy to sit and enjoy good food. We shared: breaded white asparagus with grilled green asparagus, green asparagus sauce beurre blanc, and grated egg yolk; stuffed squid with potatoes, green beans, calamari ragout, pistachio pesto, spring caponata, calamari sauce, and pistachio crumble; paccheri with shrimp ragout, seared shrimp, fava beans, and pea sauce; lasagna with rabbit ragout, pepper sauce, jalapeno sauce, yellow bell peppers, and Parmesan bechamel; and apricot tiramisu. We enjoyed a great bottle of wine and a couple of espressos with dessert as well. Every dish was great, but that stuffed squid is one I'm going to be thinking about for a long time. A truly outstanding meal! If I'm ever in Trieste again, I'd be happy to repeat the experience!

We read an article in Travel and Leisure from August 2011 that we saved. Admittedly, we visited 2…read moreyears after publication. The article describes the restaurant in glowing terms as "the best meal I have in Trieste." The author raved about the fritto misto. We ate here recently and were disappointed. First of all, our meal cost $190 for two of us. We had 2 courses. First was amberjack tuna that my wife enjoyed. I had octopus that was just ok, pretty chewy, although the one really interesting part was the tomato ice cream accompaniment. We both had fritto misto and both felt it was mediocre. Wines were far more enjoyable than the food and apparently drove up the price. If cost is no object, you will find the restaurant charming and the service attentive. Silence in this place is akin to a church service. There are only 6 tables. It is a 5 minute walk from the piazza.

Eatally ALL'Aperto offers two levels of widely spaced outdoor restaurant seating, with table…read moreservice. They serve drinks until 7; dinner service begins at 7. Food options are on a multi-page menu in Italian, with English translation available using a QR Code. Quite a pleasant place, good food in a relaxed and uncrowded setting. A note: We waited a long time for the check, before realizing that you need to go to the cash register to pay; you provide your table number and the cashier recites the items you bought and tells you the total. Tips go into a tip can at the cash register.

Located right off the harbor with amazing views!! We didn't stop to eat, we just stopped in to…read morecheck it out. Lots of local veggies and fruits. A large selection of Italy's finest foods. They have a wine bar, a coffee bar and a dine in area. But the views are a must...!

We enjoyed our lunch immensely. We had four mezzah to start (grape leaves, hummus with avocados,…read moremoussaka; and mini kuftas). We received pita bread with our order. For our entrees with ordered rice with grilled vegetables and Grand Vizier of Meat which was a mixed grill to share. Everything we ordered was fresh and hot and delicious. Can't wait to eat here again.

Homey, cozy atmosphere. No printed menu, just verbal. Quite accommodating if food sensitivities. A…read moregreat meal, and pleasant atmosphere.

We found this restaurant on a map from the TI that listed restaurants. We stopped by when they…read morewere open at lunch and made a dinner reservation. They opened at 7:30 for dinner. If you didn't have a reservation, you didn't get in. They had eight tables. No written menu, four choices of starters, firsts and seconds. Everything we ordered was delicious. Everyone else was local which seemed strange for a restaurant listed on a tourist map. Seemed like you were eating in someone's home, great atmosphere. Gave it 4 rather than 5 due to service that was somewhat lacking in friendliness.

we had a very strong start at this trattoria with a bottle of vitovska wine, made by fermenting the…read morewhite grapes with the same process used for the reds. the workers were delaitful, the room simple with an attic full of bottles. the crudo was just ok, i had better crudi many times before but the "paste" were perfect with the bigoli wining the prize. a solid four and a half stars

Best pizza spot in Grado The ingredients are so fresh, for a simple dish like pizza it makes a big…read moredifference. They only hire cooks and waiters from Naples and it's extremely authentic. The crust is soft, thin, and has a light chewy texture. My favorite is La Domenica Torrese, it comes with roasted eggplants, little meatballs and ricotta. Beware that during summer lunches there's always a massive line. Come early!

Josip was our waiter and his table side manner was Excellent! The sea food was fresh and very well…read moreprepared. This was one of the best experiences we had on our three week visit!

A restaurant that charges this amount of money for its plates does not deserve more than 1 star…read more Let me try to explain our experience. We sit down and notice that some wine glasses and some water glasses are missing. We ask about 3 times to bring some. In our table of 8 people we had 1 vegetarian. I know this is a fish restaurant so our vegetarian friend said sorry to the waiter and asked if they could make a vegetarian dish for her. The waiter said that they can make anything: "vegan, vegetarian, gluten free no problem!" So we look at the menu and all they have is Pasta with tomato and a caprese salad. I can eat those at home. We notice that there are some side dishes within the fish plates that are vegetarian: a parmigiana cake and guacamole. We ask him to make something with those and he said no problem we'll make a beautiful dish for you. We receive a complimentary entreé but it had fish. It was served also to the vegetarian friend. Great! They've already forgotten she's vegetarian. My friend hands it to one of us and isn't given anything vegetarian. The vegetarian dish arrives and it certainly looks beautiful but unfortunately it had no sign of any avocado or guacamole and it ended up being just grilled veggies with no dressing whatsoever. Very boring. They later ask if she's still hungry and she says yes. She would like a dish of cheese if possible. The dish was literally just a few cheeses, some feta, some mozzarella, and some parmesan. The only condiment was some honey on the parmesan. Another friend of ours ordered an entreé of polyp carpaccio. I ask him if i can taste some and he tells me it's a bit weird... It feels like there's sand in it. I take a bite and i definetly feel that "crunch". It's not a normal crunch. It feels like sand or seashell. We tell the waiter and he says that MANY customers tell him that there's sand but it's just salt... because "polyps don't live in the sand!". Right... This was not salt... it was sand or seashell... i think i can tell the difference. We ask for it to be changed. My friend orders scallops in exchange and they are nice. Our main dishes arrive and on some of the roasted potatoes we find again.. some sand but less than before. Again... it's not salt. Anyway... Most of the food was good. Nothing spectacular. We're certainly not happy about the sand... To make things worse we're always served by a different waiter so none of them remembers who ordered what. Every plate we have to tell the waiter who ordered it so that he can place it in the right spot. This to me is quite ridiculous. The bill arrives and they charged us for the sandy polyp... great. We decide to just pay, leave as soon as possible and never come back. Concluding: the service was terrible, the cooks obviously can't cook a simple vegetarian dish and there was sand in a few of our plates. Don't go here... ever.