Trattoria Il Focolare

"Climbing above Casamicciola in 🏝 Ischia you will find restaurant Il Focolare of the late Riccardo D'Ambra and his incredible large family, with the wife and older son in the kitchen, and older daughter Silvia with a few more of her 8 👫 siblings in the dining room. Fish cuisine is not in the tradition of Ischia as the island's food habits rely on the products of the land and small farming. Faithful to the heritage, the D'Ambra family provides an irresistible cuisine, firmly anchored to the products and tastes of the island with a great deal of warmth, hospitality and absolute culinary acumen. Pork meatballs stuffed with smoked provola, sautéed friggitelli, 🍝 bucatini with rabbit sauce and the rabbit cooked whole in the Ischia style, in an earthenware pot, with cherry tomatoes and fresh herbs. Il Focolare is everything a Slow Food 🐌 Osteria should be."

"If you watched Stanley Tucci's show Searching for Italy, this is the rabbit restaurant that he visited. Have a loose idea of what you want because they do a great job of recommending what you should order and all of it was amazing. We ordered the mixed antipasto and the rabbit for 3. They did a great job of handling my daughter's egg allergy and told us what she could and couldn't eat."

"This family run restaurant is on Stanley Tucci's show. It's worth the hype. We tried the rabbit. Our waitress was the chef's sister (she's on the show) and we told her we heard about the restaurant on Tucci's show and she was THRILLED and brought us back to meet the chef. She also gave us t-shirts!"