Fantastic rustic family-run restaurant, serving Dalmatian tapas. The home-made food was excellent and the family were very welcoming. The drunken figs dessert was great! Might be worth reserving as we had to wait a while. Average price.

Head up hill towards fortress from main square, past Zimmer Frei bar and Paradise Garden restaurant (also excellent). Turn left and walk along until you see the barrel with the restaurant name painted on it on one of the tiny roads leading up off to your right.

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Italian restaurant right on main square - great food, reasonable price and beautiful setting.

Main square, Hvar Town

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Beautiful pebble beach to the east of Hvar. You have to walk down a dirt trail to get to it. The snorkelling here was excellent, and the beach was quite large and not too crowded. We had a great meal here in the restaurant on the beach - huge plate of grilled prawns and scampi!

If driving from Hvar, there's a long car parking bay on the side of road with a bus stop.

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Its a restaurant (like tapas, but Dalmation-style) and I recommend it because the staff are lovely, the food is outstanding (try the drunken figs!), and best of all, you sit at upturned half-barrels and drink local wine out of tumblers in the candlelight - there are no electric lights in there. Perfect.

Hvar Town, wander and you'll find it. I think its near sweet and pretty zimmer frei bar (the one with the white laundry hanging outside - love the bloomers).

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We sailed to Hvar island and stopped at a beautiful bay called Jelsa Bay. There is a great garden restaurant and bar there called Villa Verde - the cocktails are amazing!

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Both excellent restaurants for fresh fish. You sit outside in the lovely old streets of Hvar. Listen to the waiter for the days catch and he'll put together a wonderful platter of fish tailor made for how hungry you are!

Walk up from the town square and waterfront and you will find these 2 places close togehter on Niksa Budrovic.

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Ok so its not exactly off the beaten path, however Hvar is beautiful nonetheless. For the best seafood ever and fun, friendly staff go to Palladini restaurant in the backstreets behind the main square. The beaches in Hvar are rocky, but for a £3.50 return fare in a taxi boat you can explore some of the neighbouring islands such as Palmizana and Jerolim for the nudists.

As far as nightlife is concerned, the main bar is Carpe Diem, which is fun but pretty expensive.

Find accomodation through the tourist office www.hvar.hr. The general standard of private accommodation on is very high; we stayed at apartments Konstantin and experienced true Croatian hospitality.

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Go to Sveti Klement (Saint Clement), an island near Hvar. It’s a half hour boat trip away, and then you have to walk for another 20 minutes (there isn't a road but a path sorts) to get to Konoba Dionis, restaurant in the middle of the fields. Bit of a trek, but it's worth every penny once you get there. The food is delicious, fresh sea produce of course, and the views are stunning.

Last summer a group of us stayed the whole afternoon there and had a wonderful time. We ended up paying what the guy 'approximately' charged us because they knew the owner (I think he stopped counting how many brandies he served us after a while) and leaving a lot more in tips.

See pictures here: www.menego.hr/?lang=cro&ctg=2&in=dionis&path=img/dionis/&page=0 (Croatian language website)

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