Il Ghiotto Restaurant Alghero
Located just off Piazza Civica in the old town - the Il Ghiotto doesn’t look very inviting from the outside - but we were glad we looked in. This is a self service cafe/bar/restaurant which seems to be open all day. You can get snacks, wraps, pizza slices, foccacia, salads, hot pasta dishes, fish, chips, roast potatoes. The dishes change each day - the big surprise for us was to see chicken breast in breadcrumbs being served. Chicken doesn’t seem to be a popular dish in the restaurants of Alghero - we only saw it on one other menu. The food is really good and fresh. The self service style means you can eat quickly and you can mix and match as many dishes as you want. Seating inside or outside. Not for a special dinner maybe - but with fussy kids to feed in a hurry - it’s ideal.
My only little problem in Il Ghiotto was the attitude of one of the bar staff when I went to help myself to ice cubes from an ice bucket. She grabbed the bucket off me and indicated that only she could serve the ice - then said something in Italian which I think means “Stupid”. Apart from that one incident I would recoomend Il Ghotto - but don’t help yourself to ice !