Amarea in Paradiso

Super nice environment, we felt very pampered. Not to mention the food was delicious. We will definitely be back 😇

Unfortunately, the grilled crab caused severe stomach cramps shortly after eating it. Otherwise, the service was nice and friendly. Nice view of the lake.

Very nice restaurant with lake view that offers fish-based dishes but also sandwiches and burgers Everything was excellent, I will definitely be back

Fish dishes prepared in a truly excellent way. Prices high but adequate for the level. Informal atmosphere and very friendly service.

Young and friendly atmosphere, excellent cuisine (the frying is something really special) and fresh fish. Always fast and friendly, friendly towards children and dogs who are welcome

I was very disappointed with the dinner! Salmon tartare burger with buffalo mozzarella and tasteless guacamole, quality of salmon not at the top, mussels that didn't taste like mussels and very salty spaghetti with clams. Waiting to order about 20 minutes… For the quality they offer, the prices are exaggerated!

Food was delicious, service was fantastic. Couldn't recommend enough.

Fantastic service. Food was excellent.

Never had such good fish burgers! Everything impeccable, I have nothing else to add.

Excellent fish, delicious sandwiches and burgers. Friendly service and very pleasant environment. The only note is the music is a little loud. But highly recommended.

Fantastic place. Wonderful staff, delicious food, good prices. Octopus is superb.

The waitress was super nice to make us custom mezcal sours 😍😍

Very welcoming, informal place, furnished with particular taste. We tried two excellent fish burgers and a pleasant and fresh draft beer. The service fast and friendly. Prices a little high as in all of Switzerland but not exaggerated, also considering the quantity of the portions.

Very expensive and posh like few others. They serve sandwiches and sandwiches and charge them as if it were a banquet. You also have to be Panoli to go eat seafood or salmon in front of a lake in the Alps. I didn't choose the place, but I had to pay. For that price in Sanxenxo they give you three seafood dishes. If you are rich, go.

Wide choice of fish-based food. Excellent quality. Very attentive, kind and friendly waiters. It's worth going you will be satisfied

Random search and found this restaurant, food was very great ,staffs was very nice. We repeat the order Mussels in Red / also in white sauce. Super fresh and nice With reasonable price Also Recommended trying Amera sparkling water 🫶👍

Excellent food, very friendly and really attentive waiters. One of my favorite restaurants

Never eaten worse fried food. I had dinner with my family, we ordered two fried dishes, both very dry and with a lot of salt. The octopus sandwich was terrible and perhaps the only one that survived was the one with tuna. Leave it alone!

Everything super top congratulations!!!

The staff was very attentive because we had a person with allergies and they advised us on the dishes to take...and above all the dishes were very good, we felt that the ingredients were fresh.

Not a big place but perfect in our opinion, particular, well structured and very welcoming as well as the staff and high quality food! We had a great time, definitely worth a try.

OMG , I thought yes little expensive but I’ll try it and you know what it’s The Best Octopus Burger I ever had it’s worth every cent !!! The food is amazingly good 😊 👌 I wish I can have this every day !

Excellent evening for two. More than excellent service, excellent food and pleasant environment. Value for money more than good.

We ordered spaghetti alle vongole from the menu. They were so spicy that it was impossible to eat. Although there was no mark of this anywhere on the menu. It seemed that spaghetti were raw and still needed to be cooked until al dente(

Very good. The only small flaw is that the sandwich is so enormous that a pre-cut would be fine (superfine ingredients torn to pieces are not ideal).

The restaurant staff was friendly and kind, but until a few months ago the plancha octopus was served whole at a cost of 28 CHF, while now practically only 4 small tentacles are served, maintaining the same price. If the portions are reduced, perhaps it would be appropriate to review the prices too.

This was an unexpected find for us. We decided to walk away from the tourist centre of Lugano and found this gem on the lake. Whilst we saw most of the patrons ordering fish burgers we went all out on a mixture of seafood. In fact we asked the waiter to bring us 3 Tapas and a main to share. The result was .. fish cakes... superb .. octopus... brilliant .. muscles... a tough one as we get the freshest mussels in the world in Cape Town .. a seafood platter of white fish, large prawns and calamari.... also brilliant. I highly recommend this spot for a great fish meal

Really good seafood and amazing atmosphere.

The food was good, the waiters were very friendly, especially Alessio, who is a very attentive and friendly waiter.

I went to eat and I didn't think that a flavor could satisfy my palate so much, beyond this I must say that the tall, brunette waitress is truly a professional and kind girl, beautiful in a peremptory way. I think her name is Chiara, I think I'm in love with her, I would kill for her, in fact I did!

A pleasant evening with friends, very nice place, friendly and helpful staff, good food

I'm vegan and since my friends went there I look at the menu and see some dishes available, I decide to go anyway. Even though we were on site at the beginning of the evening, the only vegan burger on the menu was not available. Rice balls, fried in the oil where the fish is fried. The fries ordered and never arrived. The salad very good.

Food good, service friendly but extremely slow, unfortunately extremely overpriced.

TOP! Absolutely the best. Clean place, customer attentive staff and super good food. 5 stars deserved. Ultra recommended.

Everything excellent! very friendly staff and delicious dishes

We decided to go for a bite to eat for lunch at this restaurant. The menu is limited to a few dishes, at least at midday, among which the fish-based burgers stand out. An amarea and a langostino were our choice and I must say they deserved it. The bread, a michetta, well toasted; the first stuffed with fried octopus and the second prawns. Certainly, it is not recommended for those who want to eat every day during their lunch break... prices lower than average for Lugano but still linked to an offer of fish. Too bad about the view... you can only glimpse the lake...! Courteous and helpful staff, kitchen open until at least 2pm..., we arrived at 1.45pm, this is a plus for the area. Must try again!!!

Spectacular venue and amazing food! I ate a delicious octopus fish burger accompanied by chips which were super, it really felt like I was on holiday at the seaside. Fish burgers you absolutely must try, especially AMAREA 2.0 is the bomb! Super recommended, I will definitely return

Great food, quick and competent service

pleasant place, clean place, friendly and polite staff, good food and not too expensive. keep it up guys!!

Very good food, friendly service. Restaurant is right on the street. However, on a Sunday the traffic noise was low

Friendly, youthful and helpful staff, clean and welcoming room. We eat well with a wide choice and delicious drinks 🤗🥂

Great restaurant in Lugano! The service sometimes seems a bit chaotic, but is always professional. The food is tasty. But you can hardly find anything without fish. :)

The location is nice, rather outside the actual center of Lugano. The food was good and of good quality, although I wasn't crazy about my mixed fried food (photo). For next time I will try the burgers, which seem to be the strong dish of the house.

Wonderful restaurant with young, helpful, kind and smiling staff. We had a divine dinner. I'll be back for sure. I recommend it 💯

Cool place to go to eat a different kind of burger!

Not dead yet. And the waiter with a beard is handsome.

Everything in line with the price. Top quality products.

Awesome and different place. Such interesting and delicious food. Service was very attentive and helpful. Especially with us only speaking English.

You should take one or more days of vacation to be able to try all the dishes on the menu. Truly exceptional.

Terrible service, very slow. We went in at 8.30pm and ordered drinks, by 9pm nothing had arrived. After reordering the drinks at 9.00pm, we still did not receive all the dishes and side dishes (even though the restaurant was half empty). INDECENT service that will make us NEVER return.

Nice restaurant, friendly, fast staff, always in a hurry but with a smile. We ate two fish burgers and an octopus, all very good. I highly recommend it

Nice place, correct prices, more than satisfactory food quality, the only flaw: if at the end I'm asked if they can offer me a limoncello, then I'm not very happy to find it on the receipt...

Huge selection, cool sailor-style atmosphere, dishes are top; It's best to order everything and test it out. Very nice staff who gave us a few local tips. We'll be back 🦐😍

Amazing food with very friendly staff to recommend us drinks

New gastronomic approach in Lugano. Much to try today.

Food is nice and service is awesome and the view can’t beat nothing. So far so good

Congratulations for the service, for the quantities but above all for the quality. Very nice staff with my only 5 year old daughter. A place really worth trying. For sure, I'll be back...

Excellent discovery... delicious fried food... super recommended

Nice fish dinner with friends, I visited the place for a graduation and the service was excellent! We ate plenty and the atmosphere was pleasant. Very courteous staff.

Food is original but quality could be improved. The place is nice but noisy. The service is nice and helpful. Regarding delivery, they don't seem to pay lot of attention to the orders, we asked (and payed) for avocado... it did not show up :(

One of the most original places in Lugano! This restaurant offers a menu that is small at first glance, but with a beautiful variety of dishes in which the absolute protagonist is fish (and seafood): fried, raw or included in cooked preparations. From the many tapas that satisfy all palates (and the various levels of hunger that diners may have) to the imaginative burgers, which combine ingredients that are at first glance a little contrasting but which turn out to be winning combinations! I've come several times and I love the Amarea burger, which combines fried octopus, baked potatoes, rocket and the delicious basil mayo (imagine pesto mayo basically!). I find the bread improved compared to a few months ago (which I agree with some of the reviews which sometimes find it a little dry/crumbly). The twist bbq are nice paprikose and very good spiral chips that are not easily found in other restaurants. The place is sometimes a little noisy depending on the position you are in (even the music), but it is beautiful with sea-themed furnishings. The terrace overlooking the street unfortunately suffers from car noise, especially at lunch times. Young, dynamic and proactive service, with the team always super available to explain the various dishes and give advice. Slightly expensive prices but justifiable given the market niche they have taken.

Great octopus and tartars on the Tapas menu. Refreshing idea of sea food burgers on the mains. Octopus Burger is stupendous! Great grills and a wonderful frito misto. Cocktails are made with a lot of care and taste great. Very friendly Staff. Our favourite casual restaurant in Lugano !

Nice restaurant with delicious fish burgers. Unfortunately the service staff wasn't that attentive.

Top sandwiches and delicious side dishes.

Amazing, food, service, location, everything! But then the basil mayonnaise🤤

Friendly waiters. The food is all frozen and they don't even serve it hot. You ask for 2 separate portions of calamari and they only bring you 1, according to them "abundant" to make you pay for 2, but they were absolutely not 2 portions. The octopus arrived burnt on top. We asked them to prepare a bag for us with the leftover stuff and they only put some in it. And as if that wasn't enough, they made a single bill on the receipt without showing the price of each dish and the cover charge. Prices were right.

Chosen at random for a quick dinner, Amarea turned out to be a very pleasant discovery. The staff is as exquisite as the food. Abundant and tasty portions, varied choice and decidedly high quality. Also highly recommended for vegetarians and for those who don't opt ​​for the famous burgers with various first courses and choices from the grill

Cool, Mediterranean restaurant. Very fine and fresh fish burgers, also gluten-free. The burger with fresh tuna tartare and basil pesto was very tasty. The service was very friendly and accommodating.

Excellent fish food. Relaxing environment and friendly staff

As a vegetarian, I found a tapas dish of vegetarian meatballs and a legume-based burger on the menu and I found them both delicious!

I would give it 400 stars... I ate the pasta and it was good and full of raw materials. The next time, a little hesitant, I tasted two types of sandwich, one tuna, the other shrimp. Never eaten such good sandwiches. Well done!

Excellent lunch. The appetizers were very tasty. Good and crunchy frying. Exceptional octopus. I will definitely return.

Very very delicious food, I highly recommend. The staff there were very friendly and good service

Really liked the place by the lake, and the food is amazing! We had the tuna burger and the shrimp burger and both were very good!

Nice service, exceptional ambience, food passable. But somehow that certain something was missing for 5*

Beautiful location on the lakefront. Hugo, fish burger and dessert, all truly amazing! The waiter was very kind and friendly! I think it's the best restaurant we've eaten at so far!

I recommend making a reservation if you intend to eat in the evening. The food is well presented and the taste is amazing. One thing I didn't expect for the prices is that they are not at all shy with the portions in fact we left very satisfied. The guys working at the service were very friendly. Already thinking about the next time I'll stop by to eat.

Excellent lunch (octopus tapas, fried and mixed and grilled sea bass), large portions, welcoming environment and friendly staff. Fair prices. We'll be back! The only small flaw was that the music was a little too loud for chatting.

Nice restaurant, nice environment and super friendly and helpful staff. The dishes are well prepared, with excellent quality ingredients. I highly recommend it and will definitely be back!

excellent quality, impeccable service, kindness…

Welcoming and well-kept location, extremely friendly and helpful service. Good quality food except the mussels: they were unfortunately of mediocre quality. Other than that, absolutely recommended place ++++

Very good and different from usual!!! To redo

Really a nice place. Simple but with very good fish dishes and at a very good price. Young, friendly and very nice staff. Very good and unique fish sandwiches, the one with octopus is the bomb!! Also Franciacorta at a very good price. ADVISED!!

Great place with very tasty seafood and friendly staff

Everything top! Beautiful venue, excellent food.

Good welcome and tasty dishes 😋

Restaurant that mainly makes fish sandwiches. All very good, shame about the few vegetarian variations.

Beautiful place, young and very friendly staff, excellent cuisine.! All very good and very welcoming

Very tasty fish restaurant in a relaxed atmosphere with great service.

We were waiting for the third guest and while we were waiting, without us ordering anything, they brought us two homemade bruschettoni, PHENOMENAL! For those who like fish in a modernized version, their burgers are amazing (with the charcoal bread, really light).

Excellent food, really good sandwiches, excellent service, very kind and helpful, really nice place by the lake

I had dinner with a friend after they recommended the restaurant to me. VERY GOOD! The quality of the fish is excellent, the dishes are original and tasty, special mention for the crostone. Pleasant environment and equally the service

Beautiful place, delicious food and excellent service!

Ideal for those who love fish. Excellent and plentiful. Too bad the choice of wines is limited.

Fantastic dinner with friends, spectacular sandwiches and tapas!!!! Friendly and young staff!! Very good :)

Good yes. Quality fish. Cool place. Fair prices for Lugano. But guys, the problem is the bread. Crumbled, tasteless and too dry. It's not burger bread... Considering that the menu says "fish burgers" you expect a softer and tastier bread, in short like that of hamburgers. Really, reluctantly I have to say that bread with white flour seems like the 2 cents michetta that they give you with Salamella at the village festival. I hope you improve on that because the rest is top. See you soon

Nice and well looked after place, the food is tasty and not at all heavy.

I finally managed to try it and it fully lived up to expectations. We ate some fried foods as an appetizer, nice, crunchy and tasty. The octopus was very soft! Then I had a fishballs burger which I really liked for the contrasts of flavors and texture. Note of merit for the honest prices of drinks, a sparkling water for fr. 4 in Switzerland is a rarity and the beers are also cheap. The only thing I didn't like too much was perhaps the background noise in the room.

The menu is nice and the "tapas" are excellent but the sandwiches are a little lacking in filling.

I had been waiting to go to this place for a year, I was curious about the menu options and the offer of gluten-free bread, even the photos of the dishes looked inviting and delicious... but maybe they were just photos! We ordered two prawn sandwiches, including a charcoal one. The probably overcooked bread could have been thrown against a wall because of how hard it was.. inedible!! Even the ingredients and compositions did not reach expectations in the slightest compared to the bill, 60 euros for two sandwiches and a water. The only positive note is perhaps the courtesy of the staff. The location and the alignment of Swiss prices are fine, but people expect quality first and foremost. Amarea we are right on the high seas!!