La Maroja
La Maroja specializes in pasta built around whatever the boats bring in — zucchini and gamberetti, tuna paccheri — and a family that returns to Velipojë for three weeks every year calls it the one restaurant in town they trust to stay fresh. Service moves briskly even on full nights, and waiters like Erold and Arber come up often enough by name to suggest the same faces return season after season. It sits along the pedestrian strip near the beach, at a moderate price reviewers call fair. At 4.3 from 346 reviews, it holds its own as Velipojë's most reliable sit-down option.
- Address
- Pedonale, Velipojë
- Phone
- +355 69 253 3635
- Price
- €€
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