The restaurant began at the end of the nineteen sixties thanks to the wise transformation of a small apartment used to contain the tonnara (from which it gets its name), a particular net that was used until 1965 to fish tunas in the area, the first owner was the entrepreneur Umberto Lauritano, better known as :”O’Bacchiss “, descendent of ancient sailors.During these times the beach of Conca Dei Marini was never that busy; only few umbrellas and some old fisherman’s boats could be seen. Then the fame and the “boom” arrived.

The list of the famous people who have frequented the splendid “Tonnarella” is long and all the customers have been delighted over years with a typical marine gastronomy that reaches its climax with the famous “Spaghetti e zucchine” and the masterly “pezzogna all’aqua pazza”.