Pasticceria Pansa Andrea

Definitely get the lemon delight. Be aware that the price for dining in is significantly higher than getting it to go. It’s worth the price to dine in and people watch, but I would recommend eating on the beach across the street!

If you’re staying in Amalfi, you’ll probably see Pansa’s store front when exploring the piazza. We probably ogled their chocolate covered candied oranges, lemons, and limes, the amazing baskets of beautifully crafted marzipan, and drooled over their cannoli all displayed in their windows for a few days before finally going inside. Not sure what took us so long.
We ordered a pot of tea and some cakes, and 2 espressos. I’ve forgotten the names of the specific cakes and teas though, so, I’ll mostly be writing about the experience and what Pansa offers its guests.
The dine in experience was so nice and was a much needed time to relax and breathe in the moment especially as an escape from the cold air outside. Their menu, full of different types of teas and coffee, small cakes, and types mousse with a tiny bit of history alongside brief descriptors. Our order wasn’t meant to be terribly complicated, but since we weren’t able to speak any Italian our waiter often got what we wanted confused, no biggie. We still enjoyed out tiny tea party.
The walls are a mixture of shelves covered in packaged in house treats, marmalade, and teas, and at the counter a large display full of various cakes and desserts. We left with a bag of chocolate covered citrus peels, some cannoli, and a few cookies. Overall, best cannolo I’ve had ever, hands down, and a lovely little café to just relax and take in the atmosphere.

We were told by our tour guide to try delizia in almafi since this is the local treat. He told us this will be the best cake we ever tried but we were super skeptical of course. We entered Andrea Pansa greeted by nice welcoming smiles. Ordered the delizia… Initially just one because who knows if its really good. One bite was all it took for my wife to ask for one of her own. Indeed super delicious will definitely come back for more and more. Yummmm

You can find way better restaurants in Amalfi.
The waitresses mixed up the orders, one of them put my bag angrily away ended up at the exact same place… It wasn’t in her way. I ordered a pizza with a relative salty fish, but they put it on the same medium salty base, so it ended up really salty. You know, the small details.
My boyfriend waited 7 more minutes for his food, it was a little bit annoying.
The waitresses didn’t know the menu really well, they yelled from one corner to other to ask each other what’s this what’s that.
The big beer was only 0,4 l.
There are two kinds of restaurant, tip included and where tipping is optional. It’s the first time I tried to give a relative small tip, because of obvious reasons, but the girl gave me 1 € less as I said. It really pissed me off, because she explained me this whole tipping is optional thing. But I didn’t say anything of course because I’m a chicken.
And I find it relative expensive to other restaurants.

Good spot for a cappuccino and a snack in Amalfi. Gino our driver says the best coffee in town. It was pretty good.

I had the lobster tail too — but mine was cold, straight from the patisserie display? Anyways, it was a bit too crunchy for a pastry, and the taste was OK. Not WOW.
What did make me say WOW was the bill. Two cappuccinos and two pastries came up to € 19! But this is the going rate for sitting outside in the Amalfi square.
So you could not have a café in the square, but I’d g u do, this is a good option out of the lot.

Do:
— Get a table outside
— Order a coffee /​pastry
— People watch on the piazza
This place truly is La Dolce Vita… I found any reason to go and enjoy a coffee and any one of their amazing lemon pastries: breakfast, mid-​afternoon snack, dessert, and just because…

OMG– the BEST Sfogliatelle, or «lobster tail,» I have ever had in my entire life! I have dreams about how unbelievable this pastry was– it was hot (apparently the way it was traditionally meant to be eaten, however I’ve never had the pleasure of enjoying a warm one in the past) perfectly crispy on the outside and so soft and chewy on the inside.
They had a few different versions with different fillings. I went with the lemon, which was the best lemon pastry filling I’ve ever had (had to go with the lemon considering it’s an amalfi specialty)– it had a real lemon fresh flavoring (not artificial) and was not overly sweet, but the perfect balance. Ugh, i’m pretty confident that this pastry is equivalent to biting a little piece of heaven.