A rather charming restaurent with attentive service. The Spicy spaghetti with seaweed was exotic and flavourful, with good aldente pasta, the fried anchovies stuffed with cheese was good. Regretfully the boiled polpo was tasteless and plain and quite a disappointment. Perhaps on our next visit,...More

We ate here on three occasions during our stay in Sestri, twice outside and on our final night, indoors. It's difficult to find anything negative to say about the experience; in fact the only negative I can recall was the very limited choice of gin!...More

We arrived quite early and the waiter went to great lengths to explain us the specials. The seafood starter was exquisite. My girlfriend had pasta with fresh porcini and squid, I had spaghetti with scallops and sea urchin; mine was cooked perfectly to the point....More

We went to the restaurant last night with high expectations as it had been recommended to us. Firstly they do not offer wine by the glass, only a local one, which after tasting we did not enjoy. We then decided to order a bottle of...More

Great food. Friendly staff. My carbonara was awesome at first but halfway through it began to taste really salty , hard to get through. But Esther’s fish was sublime. Would definitely recommend this restaurant

Great food and ambience in the Castelli. Make sure you wander the gardens and sit at a table on the little terrace that overlooks the bay of Fairytales and sip an operative before heading for the dining room. Great service and the warmest welcome. Thank...More

My wife and I ate at this restaurant last night (6th August 2018) and we had a fabulous experience. There are many restaurants in Sestri Levante, serving the large numbers of tourists, but Polpo Mario is a classic old-school (and I mean that as a...More