Il Focolare - Avilés

The food is very rich and the waiters are very kind read more The food is very rich and the waiters are very kind

Pizzas are spectacular, very good, very good salads too! fully recommended read more Pizzas are spectacular, very good, very good salads too! fully recommended

We taste the ham with glass bread, the mussels in slightly spicy sea sauce and calzone folare. all very rich and very good attention of l@s camarer@s. repito read more We taste the ham with glass bread, the mussels in slightly spicy sea sauce and calzone folare. all very rich and very good attention of l@s camarer@s. repito

Nice place if all you want is pizza or pasta (not the most sophisticated food, mind you). The seafood lasagna was mostly imitation crab meat, the service substa... read more Nice place if all you want is pizza or pasta (not the most sophisticated food, mind you). The seafood lasagna was mostly imitation crab meat, the service substandard, and the manager rude. As I said, if all you want is pizza this may be your kind of place, but if you want good food do yourself a favor and head elsewhere. It 's inexpensive... and it 's cheap.

I expected to eat Spanish food in Spain, but Aviles was heaving with people and I was at the end of a very long day, so we wanted somewhere quiet and away from... read more I expected to eat Spanish food in Spain, but Aviles was heaving with people and I was at the end of a very long day, so we wanted somewhere quiet and away from the crowds. Il Focolare was recommended by the friend who took us there. The owner of the restaurant was a big, bluff, friendly man, who was attentive to all of his customers. Portions were hearty, and the food was simple and tasty. There was nothing pretentious about any of this, and it was very welcome. Everything from the simple gnocchi with tomato sauce to the little handcut chips, to the pizza looked as if they had come straight out of an Italian home kitchen: in each case, two or three ingredients were put together to produce something lovely and undemanding. If you want something fancy, this isn't it. The room was simple, bread was served straight onto the paper tablecloth and the house red wine was robust. It was peasant food, but it didn't pretend to be otherwise. I thoroughly enjoyed the meal I ate at Il Focolare, and the atmosphere generated by the gregarious host only added to the experience.