Lunch in Fermo

There is the wine bar. Sorry can't remember what it's called but the food is very nice. As you walk/drive under the arch into the piazza, it is under the loggia on the left up some steps.] Nice food, nice wine & not too extortionate prices.

Head homeward as far as Falerone and have the 13e set lunch at Le Leggette, sorry realise it doesnt really answer your question!

Thought this link would help, but seems no-one has listed anything in Fermo. http://www.lavitalemarche.com/restaurantguuide.html

I haven't been to either of these places but the Blue Guide I have recommended the following.  Here are the descriptions: L'Enoteca Bar e Vino - This friendly wine bar and restaurant was an old church. Excellent salami and cheeses including sheep's milk cheese from Cartoceto cured in walnut leaves.  Rabbit or chicken, prepared in various ways, or fish, local wines.  Closed Mondays.  2 Via Mazzini T: 0734 228667  (This is probably the place Penny recommended) Da Orsolina - Fantastic little restaurant specializing in pasta dishes, including the famour vincigrassi; in summer you eat on the veranda.  Closed Sundays. 5 Piazza Dante T: 0734 225563 And for dessert - Caffe Alimento - busy popular cafe.  Try the homemade ice cream or their unique cake torta tartaruga.  56 Piazza del Popolo   Enjoy!  I'm so jealous you'll be there soon.  Fermo is one of my favorite cities.                        

I recommend the wine bar Penny mentions.  You can have a full-on meal or just bits and pieces together with wine-tasting (it's an enoteca) And you have a wonderful view of the piazza

Forget Rimessa on the link I gave earlier. Tried it for the second time again after 5 years previously. On a market day. At 1.00 pm only about 4 other customers, spaghetti passable, mixed grill ... one boney lamb chop, leather piece of pork and a grilled sausage with a oily tasteless green salad on the plate. The forno patate looked like they had been boiled and  then attempted to be cooked  in a low heat oven ......... anaemic and swimming in oil. Cost for 2 people with half litre of house wine and coffee E43. Real rip-off place

Hi Badger, sorry you had such a bad experience at Rimessa. We go there often as it is 20 seconds from our house. The pizzas are great but I have to say the rest of the food is not good so we avoid it and just eat pizza there. It's very popular with Italians for pizza in the evenings. It only started re-opening at lunch this year so no idea who does the cooking. I can only assume it's not the same person who does the pizzas!

 Hi Penny The pizza may be good, but I can only comment on the meal I had. Would rather go to somewhere that I can have a good meal, either a pizza or any other. That place I will now always give a miss to, as just a tourist joint. If they ever learn to cook then I may return. The best pizza I have had in the Amandola area was at Vecchio Moro by the lake. Rimessa has really gone downhill since it was sold on from its last owner. Perhaps they should just stick to being a pizza joint, then nobody would pay for overpriced rubbish. Did not look at their pizza prices, as not interested for lunch. Anyway, some young guy in jeans who is more interested in watching the tv, than serving customers is not my idea of a restaurant, even if in Italy. I have had far better food in Cambodia and Vietnam than here. At least it is served without waiting 20 minutes between courses.

Hi, spent most summers in and around fermo since i was a boy.  Lots of good places and I like Il Frantoio which was originally an oil press.  I can't imagine why its there in the centre of town but the food is good.  Leave the main piazza at the lower end, near the statue of the pope and its in a turning on the left after 100m.  I know you have been to Fermo already but maybe next time.   Also, my mother like Emidio, 600 m down the same road on the junction with the road that goes to the strada nuova.  Workmans place and great simple, cheap food   Buon appetito