Our restaurant's story

Sporting Beach restaurant's story
The aromas and flavours of the sea in a historic location in Ostia

Sporting Beach Restaurant is a story within a story and the legacy of the Muzzarelli family, which has been intertwined with Rome and its coastline since shortly after the war thanks to Luigi Muzzarelli.
Luigi Muzzarelli was born in 1928 in the Apennines near Modena into a family of hoteliers. 
Due to the hardships of the war, he moved to Rome at the end of the conflict, where he honed his skills in the most prestigious establishments. After a brief apprenticeship in the capital, at the age of twenty, he moved to Ostia with his brother Manlio, owner and creator of restaurant, La Vecchia Pineta. Working alongside his brother, he acquired the style of hospitality that has always distinguished him.
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Step by step
The perhaps short-lived but unrepeatable years of Rome's Dolce Vita arrived. Luigi took over the management of another prestigious restaurant in the Lido area, Urbinati, which under his guidance revived the fame that had accompanied it. Shortly afterwards, however, a new chapter began. Luigi replaced his brother Manlio in the management of the restaurant, La Vecchia Pineta, where his regular customers included kings, princes and nobles of every caste, big stars, politicians, scholars, financial and cultural figures, discerning customers and haute cuisine connoisseurs.
From an old pine forest to
Sporting Beach
At the beginning of the eighties, a new challenge fascinated him and with his family, but, above all, with the inseparable Rita at his side, he bought Sporting Beach, where, during the renovation of the entire facility, he did not lose sight of the catering tradition, transforming the restaurant, which was purely intended for the summer, into a place that could meet the expectations of its loyal public. And so in the nineties, he moved definitively into this new reality, followed by all the customers who have always appreciated him for his hospitality.
His greatest satisfaction has been to succeed in handing down a business to his sons that is able to embrace a wider public with new traditions, conquered by that same tradition and by a cuisine that, respecting its history, has not failed to evolve and update.
Prestigious names
Our photo album and signature books are full of surprises. One after the other, the testimonies left by personalities, such as King Gustav of Sweden, Sukarno, Amintore Fanfani, Aristotle Onassis, the Kessler twins, Federico Fellini, Roberto Benigni, Anthony Quinn, Liz Taylor, Walter Chiari, Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti, Catherine Spaak, Sergio Leone, Giorgio De Chirico, Prof. Barnard, the tailor Shubert, and all those who are still guests at Sporting Beach restaurant, flow through their pages, and all those who are still his guests at Sporting Beach restaurant, Luigi's last jewel, where he has attracted his old and affectionate clientele, whose names, according to tradition, are only mentioned when they are protected by a piece of history.
Sporting Beach Restaurant, an exclusive terrace overlooking the sea in Ostia
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