"Marina di Camerota is one of my family's heartfelt places, and so is the San Domenico restaurant, now also a landlord and Fichello bello rosolio factory. My grandparents came here when the business was also a pizzeria, my parents came here, and now my wife and I have brought our three-month-old baby for his first holiday. The connection with the place is strong, so much so that when we think of Marina di Camerota, the connection with the San Domenico restaurant-rooms is inseparable. The rooms are well equipped, each is a small semi-independent apartment, complete with kitchenette and air conditioning, very suitable for those of us who were equipped with a baby-carrying stroller. But the strong point of San Domenico certainly remains the cuisine: Led by the indestructible patrons Catello and Santina, in the dining room and kitchen respectively, it finds in the young but experienced chef Riccardo a curious and attentive helmsman. The dishes are imaginative, colorful and always well-matched. Technique and knowledge at the service of seasonality and the raw material, which is local, or rather, zero mile. Here we cook not to amaze and demonstrate that we know how to cook, here we cook to make the diner happy, and Riccardo fully succeeds. Assisted by his younger brothers Stefano and Simone, he offers a young and never risky menu, with a solid eye on tradition in which technique and experience provide added value. In the dining room, the discreet and knowledgeable maitre sommelier Eliano pampered and satisfied us for the entire duration of our (alas always too short stay. Prices in line if not lower than the other places in Marina, but unfortunately perhaps the business suffers, as I had the opportunity to discuss with the chef, from the fact of not being in a location suitable for hit-and-run tourism (read: seafront , which isn't even the basic philosophy of San Domenico, but that's fine, that's fine. A visit to Fichello's laboratory, and we take some bottles and jars of their production as souvenirs for a sip of marina di camerota in the long winter days to come. See you next year Marina, next year San Domenico restaurant and landlord. Ps, a little special mention to their kitten Micia, who my baby and I adored"
Acqua Pazza
