Panson
| Piazza dell'Erbe, 5r, Genova |
5 avis
7.60/10.00 |
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+39 010 246 8903 |
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Critiques
João Muchon Rodrigues (18.04.2017 17:22)
Terrible service. Price to high for the place.
Terrible service. Price to high for the place.
Wee-Cheng Tan (30.03.2017 16:07)
Very good Ligurian cuisine at reasonable prices. Excellent presto pasta and seafood at this historical restaurant.
Very good Ligurian cuisine at reasonable prices. Excellent presto pasta and seafood at this historical restaurant.
Bill Collins (02.09.2016 00:01)
The food was good and the price reasonable for a center town location. The reason I gave it 3 stars was the service. There was only one waiter and it seemed that he paid much more attention to the locals. There were also issues with ordering.
The food was good and the price reasonable for a center town location. The reason I gave it 3 stars was the service. There was only one waiter and it seemed that he paid much more attention to the locals. There were also issues with ordering.
Jonny Craig (20.06.2016 22:59)
Great service, lovely wine and a nice setting. Not fancy but hearty tasty local cuisine.
Great service, lovely wine and a nice setting. Not fancy but hearty tasty local cuisine.
Tony Spataro (11.09.2014 00:40)
Pansön is an authentic restaurant serving Ligurian cuisine, heavy on seafood and pasta dishes -- both done fresh and with high quality. The menus are in Italian and you will feel most comfortable if you can read Italian, but there is generally a manager on hand who is eager (perhaps overly so!) to translate the menu into English and make suggestions, highlighting specialties of the house.
For starters we had smoked tuna and bacala (salt cod) which each came served on a bed of arugula, accompanied by fresh black pepper and a large bottle of olive oil for drizzling. We opted for primi -- pasta dishes -- and were delighted with our pesto alla Genovese and seafood risotto, both expertly done. The dessert was sublime: zuppa inglese, which is a cross between a blancmange and a tiramisu; and sacripanti, which is a panettone-like cake layered with chocolatey rum-based cream. We asked for a wine recommendation after ordering and were delighted with our bottle of Bianchetta, a medium-dry white wine from Liguria that went well with all three courses.
Beyond the food, the staff make Pansön very special. The waiter is a jovial and hard-working fellow who connects with his diners; he loves to joke and to make small talk, but renders top-notch service while he does so. He truly made us feel at home, speaking well-enunciated Italian and keeping his vocabulary simple, switching to basic English when he felt we were lacking comprehension. The manager was hovering in the wings with his fluent English in case things got out of hand, but hospitality is truly an international language and we never felt the need to call for backup.
One downside of the restaurant is that it's located in a large and very busy square adjacent to several bars; the noise can be quite intense at times, ruining what would otherwise be a beautifully romantic environment. On the other hand, this makes the restaurant easy to find and there are plenty of other tourists about, rendering the walk there and away relatively free of the claustrophobic I'm-going-to-be-mugged feeling that Genova's small alleyways can so often inspire.
If I return to Genova, I will make Pansön my first stop for dinner!
Pansön is an authentic restaurant serving Ligurian cuisine, heavy on seafood and pasta dishes -- both done fresh and with high quality. The menus are in Italian and you will feel most comfortable if you can read Italian, but there is generally a manager on hand who is eager (perhaps overly so!) to translate the menu into English and make suggestions, highlighting specialties of the house.
For starters we had smoked tuna and bacala (salt cod) which each came served on a bed of arugula, accompanied by fresh black pepper and a large bottle of olive oil for drizzling. We opted for primi -- pasta dishes -- and were delighted with our pesto alla Genovese and seafood risotto, both expertly done. The dessert was sublime: zuppa inglese, which is a cross between a blancmange and a tiramisu; and sacripanti, which is a panettone-like cake layered with chocolatey rum-based cream. We asked for a wine recommendation after ordering and were delighted with our bottle of Bianchetta, a medium-dry white wine from Liguria that went well with all three courses.
Beyond the food, the staff make Pansön very special. The waiter is a jovial and hard-working fellow who connects with his diners; he loves to joke and to make small talk, but renders top-notch service while he does so. He truly made us feel at home, speaking well-enunciated Italian and keeping his vocabulary simple, switching to basic English when he felt we were lacking comprehension. The manager was hovering in the wings with his fluent English in case things got out of hand, but hospitality is truly an international language and we never felt the need to call for backup.
One downside of the restaurant is that it's located in a large and very busy square adjacent to several bars; the noise can be quite intense at times, ruining what would otherwise be a beautifully romantic environment. On the other hand, this makes the restaurant easy to find and there are plenty of other tourists about, rendering the walk there and away relatively free of the claustrophobic I'm-going-to-be-mugged feeling that Genova's small alleyways can so often inspire.
If I return to Genova, I will make Pansön my first stop for dinner!
