The date
Fred's put a proper modern Italian room into Ambleside, which had plenty of restaurants and not much of this: fresh pasta rolled daily, hand-stretched pizza out of a hearth oven, and a wine and cocktail list built to be ordered from rather than tolerated. The room runs to booths and low light, so it stays quieter than the size suggests. It sits on Bellevue one block up from Ambleside Beach, which means the seawalk is a two-minute walk out the door in either direction.
How to do it
Reserve through the Toast link on their site, and ask for a booth rather than a floor table, because the booths are where this room is at its best. Order one pasta and one hearth pizza between two and add the cacio e pepe if it is on; mains run roughly $24 to $72, so it scales to whatever the occasion is. Budget about an hour and forty minutes. It is one block up from Ambleside Beach, which makes the seawalk the obvious next move in either direction.
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- Duration
- 1½-2 hours
- Best time
- Afternoon to late night
- Per person
- ~$44-52
- setting
- neighbourhood
- cuisine
- best season
