VALENTINORestaurant

Spile · Himarë · Albania

What comes out

The plates

Albanian cooking with the weight on seafood. These are photographs of what the kitchen sent out, not a menu — nothing here is a standing offer, and what is on the grill depends on the day.

A whole fish, crisp-skinned, on a fish-shaped white plate with chips and a wedge of lemon, on a placemat printed with the Valentino Restaurant mark
A whole fish, chips, lemon

A whole fish

Crisped through, laid on a fish-shaped plate with chips and a wedge of lemon.

Linguine tossed with mussels, prawns and squid in a shallow white bowl on the printed placemat
Linguine, mussels, prawns, squid

Linguine and shellfish

Mussels in the shell, two prawns, strips of squid, green herb through the sauce.

Grilled octopus with lemon and two dark croquettes on a copper-glazed plate, a bottle of rosé and upturned glasses behind it on a timber table
Octopus, lemon, a bottle of rosé

Octopus, grilled

Curled on a copper-glazed plate with lemon and two dark croquettes.

The paper placemats greet you in four languages — Albanian, Italian, German, French — and are drawn over with fish, prawns and lobsters.