Christy P.
Yelp
I'd probably give this place 3 stars overall.
We started with an appetizer, splitting the anchovies with lemon sauce, which was a little easy on the lemon for my preferences. Still good though. I had spaghetti with clams while my husband had spaghetti il porticciolo. There was quite a variety of seafood in his, including what looked like a huge crawfish, which our waitress said was a scampi. He wasn't very impressed overall with his dish, but he liked the razor clams and said the mussels back in the states were surprisingly more enjoyable. My dish was very similar, albeit with only clams, and the addition of tomatoes. It was good, but no where near the best I've had in Italy, even though it had fresh clams. One thing to note, they really cook their pasta al dente...I'd say actually less than al dente. So if you don't like extra chewy pasta, beware.
We split the Nutella tiramisu for dessert, which was mostly moussey Nutella and barely anything "cakey." It was good but not what you might expect.
The service was okay, our waitress was obviously not Italian and she spoke perfect English, as do people at most places in cinque terre.
A lot of people are drawn here because rick steves supposedly recommends it, but I'd find somewhere else to eat next time since it didn't have a whole lot going for it.