Spile · Himarë · Albania

Getting here

The restaurant is on the pedestrian seafront at Spile, on the ground floor of the Himara '28 Hotel building. There is no car access to the door itself — the promenade is a walkway.

The restaurant's rubble-stone frontage with blue joinery and a blue fascia reading Restaurant Himara '28, white chairs at pale timber tables on the gravel terrace in front — The elevation to look for — rubble stone, blue joinery, and the blue board over the doors

Picking it out of the row

This is a dense stretch. A row of other kitchens stands within thirty metres of this door, several of them with terraces that run into one another along the front, so the useful landmarks are the building rather than the tables.

Look for a two-storey rubble-stone elevation — pink and buff stone, not render — with strong blue painted joinery, a blue fascia board over folding doors, and a hand-painted board hung from the awning frame in front. The terrace floor is gravel, and the chairs are white.

Address: Rruga Promenade of Himara
Spile, Himarë 9425
Vlorë County, Albania
Coordinate: 40.10153, 19.74515
Directions: Open in Maps
A table: +355 67 497 1522
The house: himara28.al

A hand-painted board hung from the awning frame, a drawn sun and wave above the lettering Himara '28 Mediterranean Restaurant, the sea and pines behind

The board over the terrace

Hung from the awning frame on the seaward side, hand-painted, with the house's sun and wave above the lettering. If you are walking the front from the harbour end, this is what you see before the fascia.

What is around the door

Spile is Himarë's town beach and the promenade is its main front — groceries, pharmacies, the harbour and most of the town's kitchens are on this stretch, and the beach itself is across the walkway from the terrace.

Dining room with a stone wall, pale blue plaster, timber ceiling beams, live-edge tables and cane chairs, a painted beach scene on the wall — Inside, off the promenade

A set table and white wire chairs on the gravel terrace, bougainvillea trained up the post, the sea beyond — The terrace, under the bougainvillea

Looking out over the terrace tables and the beach beyond them to a moored motor yacht on flat water, a rocky headland behind and pines framing the view — What the terrace looks onto