<a target="_blank" href="http://www.bellevue.it/en/dining/gourmet">La Pergola Restaurant Bar</a>

At the Hotel
Bellevue Syrène

Piazza della
Vittoria, 5

80067 Sorrento,
Italy

Tel. +39
0818781024

BY IAN D’AGATA | SEPTEMBER 15, 2016&nbsp;

The food:

Pizza Margherita

Friselle with tomatos and basil (Friselle
pomodoro e basilico)

Paccheri with tomatoes and basil (Paccheri
con pomodorini e basilico)

Club Sandwich

Ice cream and sorbets (Gelati e
sorbetti)

The wines:

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 <tbody><tr>
 <td>
 2015
 San Salvatore Fiano Paestum Trentenare 
 </td>
 <td>
 90
 </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>
 2015
 Vadiaperti Fiano di Avellino Aipierti
 </td>
 <td>
 91+
 </td>
 </tr>
</tbody></table>

<img alt="" src="https://allgrapes.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads%2F1473973678122-ENTRY+copy.jpg">&nbsp;

The entrance of
the Hotel Bellevue Syrène, view of the Sorrento Gulf from the restaurant

If a more beautiful place exists anywhere else in Italy than
Sorrento’s La Pergola Restaurant Bar, I am not aware of it. Housed in the
Bellevue Syrène hotel, a member of the prestigious Relais &amp; Chateaux chain,
perched atop the cliffs overlooking the Bay of Sorrento (a handy elevator takes
you right down to the beach and your lounge chair, should you so desire), the
La Pergola Restaurant Bar is sits alongside the long,
beautiful and canopied entrance to the hotel.<img alt="" src="https://allgrapes.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads%2F1473973691011-PIZZA+copy.jpg"> 

Pizza Margherita

The place is almost impossibly beautiful, and gives the words
“postcard-pretty” true meaning. Everything from the lovely table settings to
the magnificent view of the incredibly intense baby-blue sea and sky before you
is unforgettable. The food and wine are delicious as well, with the lunch menu at La
Pergola appropriately simple and
straightforward. Everything is&nbsp;cooked perfectly and the wine-list is excellent,
with many outstanding and fairly priced choices, especially from Campania. Last
but not least, service is highly professional and friendly.<img alt="" src="https://allgrapes.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads%2F1473973706453-paccheri+copy.jpg"> 

Paccheri with
tomatoes and basil

I make a point of always eating lunch here when I am in town. I
heartily suggest you do the same when you next visit Sorrento. On this day, I&nbsp;had two especially outstanding dishes: a memorable pizza Margherita made with fresh
tomato and mozzarella cheese (admittedly, on one recent occasion this pizza
wasn’t as good as it usually is, slightly undercooked and gummy), and the
memorable paccheri, perfectly al dente
with a tomato sauce so perfumed and penetrating I can still taste it today.

<img alt="" src="https://allgrapes.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads%2F1473973722693-CLUB+SANDWICH+copy.jpg"> Club Sandwich

For such a simple, flavorful meal of specialties typical of the Sorrento
coast, I opted for two lovely local wines. The 2015 San Salvatore Fiano Paestum Trentenare proved once again
enjoyable, effusively fruity and bright, with soft but juicy flavors of peach,
nectarine and fresh citrus fruits, complicated by delicately herbal nuances.
The more serious 2015 Vadiaperti Fiano
di Avellino Aipierti was more powerful and long, intensely mineral and
pure, offering lingering aromas and flavors of white stone fruit, liquid rocks
and hazelnut. The two were a wonderful compliment to a marvelous sunlit day and
lunch I won’t soon forget.<img alt="" src="https://allgrapes.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads%2F1473973741306-VINI+copy.jpg">

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