Positano Restaurants

This is a normal restaurant, but it's highilight is that it's the only place where you can get food and water if you trek along the "Sentiero degli Dei". It's at the beginning or the end of the trail, dependinh on where you start on, Positano or Agerola.

It has a terrace where you can eat and enjoy a wonderful view on Positano, the coast and the islands of Li Galli and Capri

Favorite Dish: Basic food, cuisine based mostly on meat.
Local wine

Da Adolfo's was the WORST dining experience of my life! Although Frommer's and other guides recommend this restaurant, I encourage everyone to stay away from it. Here's why...

My wife and I were on our 10 year anniversary in Positano last week. One day, we took the free water shuttle to Da Adolfo's to have some lunch and planned to return to Positano for shopping in the afternoon. Upon arrival, we were approached by a man (I believe Sergio, the owner, or his son). He pressured us into renting chairs and an ubrella from him on his beach for 18 Euros (ouch!). We told him that we were not there to sunbath and were interested in ordering some lunch from his restaurant. After waiting for 15 minutes in his restaurant, we finally asked this same man if we could order some food. He said the restaurant was not currently open and to wait a bit. So, we ordered some wine and waited, and waited, and waited for someone to offer us something (anything) to eat. At 12:45PM, after waiting for an entire hour and never being offered to order any food, we decided to return to Postiano on the next boat. We paid for our wine and walked down to the pier. When the next boat arrived, we waved to the boat driver and indicated that we would like to return to Positiano. After the last passenger got off the boat, it immediately pulled away from the pier to leave... without us. We found this Sergio character and told him we would like to get on the boat. Then he had the nerve to tell us "the boat is only for the restaurant"! We were sitting in his "restaurant" for over an hour without ever being offered food or served! He then waved off the boat to leave and we were stranded as it was the last boat returning to Positano until 4PM. We ended up paying 10 Euro for a water to taxi to leave.

In short, if you don't mind being intimidated into renting chairs on a "free" beach and enjoy waiting hours for cheap Italian food while being treated like second-class citizens... then this is the perfect restaurant for you.

You have been warned!

This indoor restaurant on the main street of town offers little exceptional in menu choices over the standard Amalfi Coast cuisine, but the warm and welcoming staff make one feel at home and the care with which the food is prepared and served makes this a step above the average. Much quieter than the beach front places, and certainly more appreciative of your business. Prices are similar to everywhere else.

This is a fairly new restaurant (2 years or so) in Positano. It is expensive, yet it is worth every dime! It's also half art gallery. Rachel Ray ate here twice when she visited Positano. It wasnt for her show, it was on her on personal time. It's more upper scale than the typical family run/operated restaurants that are all over Positano. Very good and worth going to. YOu must have reservations or you will be frown upon for sure.

Favorite Dish: I had fettucine with mushrooms, white wine,..it was some kind of special of the night and I still think about this dish. I"m going back in September and asking for it again!!

This restaurant is at the tip top of Positano - higher than you can imagine until you get there, believe me! Montepertuso is the village. Have the hotel call and make reservations for you. They send a bus to come and get you. This may seem like a pain, but it is so worth it to see the view on your way up to the tip top. Bring your camera!!!
The restaurant is truly what you imagine if you have not been to Italy before. Family run and operated. Locals go here too. The night I had dinner there, I had been to a small beach/restaurant outiside of Positano and the owners of that establishment were there that night with a huge group of locals having dinner there as well! So, you know if the locals go, it must be good! Or, that is what Rachel Ray always says and she is right!!

Favorite Dish: I had three or four kinds of pasta. I even took a photo of the plate when it was served. Didnt care how silly I looked either. I knew I wanted to remember it!!! ;-) Fresh, homemade pasta - not barilla! Simple, fresh sauce. The pasta was very light. That is how it is supposed to be. Try this place - you couldnt possibly be let down in any regards!

I have been to Positano 8 times and going again this September. This is always the first place I go to for dinner. It's on the beach. Staff has been there forever. Last September one of the waiters recognized me and brought me over a heart-shaped focaccia (spell)? It was yummy and so wonderful that he did this for me. Those Italian men....look out they are always flirting! ha ha!! The spaghetti w/mussels are great. Also had steak there one night and that was good too. It's just a great spot in Positano that must be tried! Sometimes more than once if youre there for awhile too!

Favorite Dish: Spaghetti - tomato and basil, or with mussells. Yummy!!

Beautiful atmosphere and attentive service make for a wonderful, relaxing dining experience. This is one of the hotels where they filmed the movie "Only You" with Marissa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr.

On the shores of the Tiranean Sea, below the steeply rising dwellings of Positano, is the Hotel Covo dei Saraceni, a former fisherman's house whose name "Covo of the Saracens" is a reminder of the marauding pirates who once tormented Italy's Amalfi Coast.

Favorite Dish: Everything was wonderful. Lots of fresh ingredients - cheese, pasta, seafood. They have a spectacular wine list.

In the Piazza Duomo in Amalfi there are several restaurants serving different varieties of pizza. We ate at the one just to the left of the steps. Cannot remember the name. I am sure that they are all good.