La Verde - Tende

We stayed in this restaurant hidden in the green, on the French road leading to the hill of Tenda. We discovered it by chance, when we decided to take off from the long queue to enter the tunnel and try again the climb to Italy after lunch. It was late, but we were welcomed. We were just the two of us and at first we seemed to wait a little too long for the course, but then we realized the reason. We've been prepared all the time and I have to say it was worth it. Warm Neapolitan appetizers delicious, fried but not heavy. Homemade stuffed dumplings, with a sauce of homemade nuts with a real goto of nuts and totally different from the industrial one. A huge mixed salad, which would quietly feed three people even if we asked only one portion. If we hadn't been in a hurry, we would definitely have taken dessert. We spent 28 euros and I think it's a fair price (especially compared to the average price of the blue coast from which we came). The family that runs the restaurant was very kind and caring and made us feel really pampered. Too bad for the location, maybe a little too hidden.

After being mostly ignored by the folks across the street at the Victor Hugo (to be fair we were drenched from biking in the rain) we wandered across the