Artigiano at Vila

Artigiano at Vila is the second, roomier home of a restaurant that opened in the Blloku in 2013 and built its name on doing the Italian and wider southern Europ…Artigiano at Vila is the second, roomier home of a restaurant that opened in the Blloku in 2013 and built its name on doing the Italian and wider southern European table properly rather than approximately. The bread comes out of a wood-fired oven on site, and the menu runs from burrata with heirloom tomatoes and a pistachio pesto through a seafood soup of shrimp, calamari and mussels to ravioli, pizza and grilled fish.

The villa setting suits a longer dinner than the original's street-side tables allow, and the operator runs delivery and catering alongside both rooms. Menus are published in English and Italian as well as Albanian, which tells you who the regulars are.