Lo Scoglio is a restaurant on the water at Marina del Cantone, the beach of Nerano. Over the last twenty years it has become a name in New York: chefs on pilgrimage, yachts offshore, tables booked months ahead.
The fish comes from the bay, the vegetables from the family garden. Come looking for the undiscovered trattoria and you’ll be disappointed. Come knowing what you’ll find, and you won’t.
The cooking is essential in the most literal sense: few steps, and ingredients that don’t need correcting.
The spaghetti alla Nerano is here, of course. But the dish was born two hundred metres from here, at Maria Grazia — and anyone after the original should go there.
The parking rates in circulation don’t agree — roughly €10 to €25 — and should be checked on the spot; they shift with the season.
Forty minutes from Sorrento along a narrow, winding road. Parking at Marina del Cantone is paid. In August it fills by nine in the morning.
SITA Sud from Sorrento or from Sant’Agata sui Due Golfi to Nerano, then the walk down to Marina del Cantone.
In summer boats come from Sorrento, Positano and Capri. It’s how half the clientele arrives, and it shows.
If you want top-quality ingredients and lunch on the water with no pretense of innovation, yes.
If you want the better bill, the bay has less-celebrated, cheaper alternatives.
If you want the place where spaghetti alla Nerano was born, that’s Maria Grazia.
At Marina del Cantone, the beach of Nerano, in the comune of Massa Lubrense, on the Sorrento Peninsula.
Yes, and well ahead in high season.
There is no fixed price and no set menu: it’s à la carte, and fish is sold by weight, so the bill swings with the season, the dishes and the wine. As a realistic budget, plan on roughly €80–150 or more a head — this is a fine-dining, celebrity-name table.
Yes, and it’s the most common way in summer. There are connections from Sorrento, Positano and Capri.
No. It was created at the restaurant Maria Grazia, in the 1950s.
Typically April to October. Check first.
Hours and seasonality change. There is no official, fixed price: the menu is à la carte and fish is sold by weight, so the €80–150+ a head here is an indicative budget that shifts with the season, the dishes and the wine. Before you set out, contact the restaurant directly. Parking rates at Marina del Cantone diverge between sources (roughly €10–25): the page says so rather than pick one.