La Piazzetta

Pizza on the plaça Nova

La Piazzetta is an Italian pizzeria at plaça Nova, 11, in the centre of Ripoll, in the same building as the Hostal del Ripollès: the email address given by Ripollès tourism is the hostal's. It is a few minutes' walk from the monastery of Santa Maria and from the tourist office, in the plaça de l'Abat Oliba. It is the easy solution for dinner with children without taking the car.

What to order

Pizzas and Italian cooking. Ripollès Turisme classifies it as an Italian restaurant and pizzeria with market cooking and zero-kilometre produce from the Ripollès. It also does takeaway food and has cooking for coeliacs and other diets: say so when you book so they take it into account. The listing does not publish the menu or prices.

Who it suits

Families and groups: the regional tourist board marks it as suitable for celebrations. They serve in Catalan, Spanish, English and French, which is useful if you are travelling with friends from abroad. If you are staying in the centre, you can order pizzas to take away and eat at your accommodation; La Trobada, for example, only serves dinners to groups.

How to book

It has no website of its own and no opening hours published by an official source. Call 972 70 02 15 to book a table, order takeaway or confirm that it is open that day, or write to [email protected].

What to combine it with

In the afternoon, before dinner, go into the monastery to see the Romanesque portal and the cloister, or the ethnographic museum, next door. If you arrive by train, the R3 station is a few minutes' walk from the centre. For breakfast the next day, the café La Trobada 1981 opens at 8:00 beside the Ter.