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An intimate restaurant on the seafront with a tiny dining room and small veranda, and a young, contemporary ambience. The Mediterranean-style cuisine ...
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- Menu degustazione ( 7 portate )
- €85
- Wine pairing
- €35
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What diners said about this restaurant:
Aziz S. • 1 review
August 10, 2024
10/10Great vibes great food great music
Hugo L. • 1 review
January 2, 2024
10/10Excellent Food, WINE and service. Don’t miss it.
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Mark E. • 3 reviews
October 8, 2023
10/10Superb food. Superb service. Very reasonably priced for the quality. This would be an excellent restaurant anywhere.
Gill H. • 2 reviews
September 28, 2023
6/10We were really looking forward to our dinner at Balin for my husband's birthday - innovative food, female chef... It has a pleasant ambience and great music. Our waiter was knowledgable about wine and had excellent English. We started with Italian sparkling wine and had matched wines with our courses - the wine serves were rather small for the price. The antipasti were promising - sashimi cut a little thick but with excellent accompanying flavours; and gyoza again with great taste combinations although not typical gyoza texture. Things went downhill from there sadly. We like our food appropriately salted. My main of pasta with vongole and beccafichi had suffered from the pasta being well salted and the salty vongole juices being reduced such that it was pretty much inedible due to excessive saltiness. My husband had a secondi of skirt steak and peppers- also quite salty and a lot of gristle in the steak - he gave up after a decent attempt. The desserts were sadly lacking as well- pavlova with fig was actually dry meringue with fig - being a Kiwi (from NZ) we know pavlova well and it should be soft and fluffy in the middle - please check an Australian or Kiwi recipe; meanwhile the Basque cheesecake was an offence to the Basque people, and really just a baked cheesecake not the bruleed wonder it should have been. Chef Sara might consider a visit to the bar most famous for cheesecake in San Sebastian to taste the difference. Kudos however for comping us the pasta dish and acknowledging the excess salt. We really wanted to like Balin but the food sadly let it down and at its prices it should have been better.
Caitlin S. • 1 review
June 30, 2023
9.5/10The food was excellent. Elevated cuisine, inventive, well-balanced flavors, local ingredients, perfectly executed. It was our favorite meal in the area. Service is lovely and not pretentious. Location isn’t as romantic as some other restaurants nearby, but the food is so wonderful it didn’t matter.
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Robert G. • 1 review
October 6, 2022
10/10Highly recommended. Very creative cuisine and an extraordinary selection of interesting wines, off the beaten track. The Service is very friendly and competent. Atmosphere is very relaxed and a nice ambiance.
Colby B. • 1 review
September 21, 2022
10/10The food was nice, straightforward and well done. The service was the best I have had on my trip so far, very accommodating and hospitable. I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a nice meal with wonderful service as well as great wine.
Adam G. • 1 review
August 11, 2022
10/10Wonderful place. Inventive modern Italian dishes. Fresh and delicious. Friendly and attentive service. Definitely recommend to anyone visiting Sestri Levante
Yvonne Z. • 2 reviews
May 28, 2022
6/10The reservation got cancelled by the restaurant very short notice due to a technical problem (1h befor the lunch).
Sarah G. • 1 review
May 25, 2022
10/10An exquisite experience — the owner himself served us & introduced us to each bite & sip. The chef Sara Capellini juxtaposes flavors & textures into phenomenal pairings that aren’t found on most menus let alone include seafood - the risotto langostine with tangerines & coffee is explosive yet all encompassing of Italy’s finest’s culinary flavors.
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Daniel E. • 2 reviews
January 6, 2022
2/10Booked a table and was turned away because they didn’t care about online bookings. Really disappointed even though it looked nice. What a pity!
Florentina H. • 4 reviews
September 19, 2021
10/10Creative kitchen, impeccable service, very nice design ambiance, modern flair, all was perfect in my experience.
Gavin R. • 7 reviews
September 18, 2021
9.5/10We were not expecting to be outside (on the beach, about 50 metres from the restaurant. It would be good to have been told in advance. Food and service were both outstanding.
Anna O. • 11 reviews
August 1, 2021
10/10Loved this restaurant! Amazing flavors, great presentation, cozy atmosphere, friendly service, good wine selection. Definitely a highlight of this trip to Italy. I would return to Sestri Levante just to eat another dinner at this restaurant! Highly recommended!
Paola T. • 25 reviews
September 12, 2020
6/10Place is way too small, we were inside and it was like eating together with the other 6 clients, three tables sticked to each other...you could hear every single word.. I don't know if we were just unlucky with the dishes, but the pasta was too salty and the dessert was dry though the meat dish was good. We didn't have to pay for the pasta and dessert so that was positive!
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Viale Rimembranza, 33, 16039 Sestri Levante
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