Giardino degli Indoratori

Genoa


There are laneway tables for warm nights or a cosy, beamed, monochrome dining room for the rest of the time. The seafood and seasonal vegetable primis (first courses) – from linguine to gnocchi and risotto to filled pastas – are the thing here.


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