La Fontanina - MONTE ARGENTARIO

This is our favorite restaurant on Argentario. The setting is idyllic, up a winding mountain road from the port, with the al fresco tables set among terraces festooned with vines. It’s simple yet chic, straight out of La Dolce Vita. The food is superb. The menu features just enough dishes to offer variety— with surf, turf and vegetarian options at every course. The salt fish, tortelloni and desserts were all excellent. The amuse bouche (zeppoli) was also scrumptious. For wine, go for the local ansonica. Equally impressive was the service. Friendly and attentive, and accommodating of English speakers. This is the only place where we ate twice. Go!

We loved everything about this place.beautiful view and nice table settings. I will return for the ravioli with Mozzarella and black Truffles. So good! We had the house wine and were surprised by the quality. The restaurant is family run and the pride is reflected in the food, service and atmosphere. Recommended for couples like us, one fish lover and one no! Very nice selection of dishes on the menu and we enjoyed everything .

We were here September 2021. It was very good. We look forward to coming back. This time it was horrible! The food quality was terrible and the service was even worse. For example they had a Cod entrée that was disgusting. The Fiorentina steak was a wedding type prime rib. You could hardly get anyone to come by the table for service. Too many examples of inappropriate business practices to name I don’t want to be petty. We were so looking forward to coming back but we’re disappointed. We recommended thus restaurant to our friends who were going to go next week, now they will not.

Seafood portions are minimal and low quality compared to other options in the area. Value for money extremely poor. We watched the owner squabble multiple times with her staff. But the icing on the cake was when she took what she thought were our un-used utensils and put them in the clean ones for new customers. She didn’t even check to see if they were dirty and we had used all of them. As we went to pay, she said “If you hadn’t paid now I would have had to ask you to leave because I have a second turn”we had been there for 1hr and 20 mins”. All of this- tiny appetizer, 2 pasta dishes, 2 glasses of house wine and one dessert can be yours for 82€! Best to avoid.

An amazing location with a professional service, the price is adequate to quality, we spent a beautiful night with a great dinner, I recommend and I will come back soon!