Tannyanny,

Wow you had to dig deep to find that post.

The restaurant where the picture was snapped of that particular dish was in Monterosso.

Depending on your perspective Monterosso is the last or the first village in the Cinque Terre. The village that is the further west than it's sister towns. Both Lerci and the Cinque are in the region called Liguria.

As for restaurants in Lerci, if you look at the first picture and see the harbor - If you would keep walking to the right another 20 yards you would see a tunnel that goes through the mountain underneath the castle. If you walk through that tunnel you will find a wonderful restaurant for lunch or a late afternoon glass of wine and antipasti.

The dish I love is Frutti di Mare and every village does it a little different and always with fresh seafood. We were in Porto Venere and I ordered Frutti di Mare. The waiter ran down to a boat that had just returned and what was on the boat was on my plate 20 minutes later. I hope you love seafood and I am sooooooo jealous.

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I did find a company online that did a very nice job of blowing the Lerici picture to a 24x36. You can even see the faces of people and the detail of seagulls flying above.

Here is a blog I did while staying in Liguria couple of years ago.
There are some shots of Lerici

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