Little Italy comes to the Rock

Pietro and Fabrizio Caróla at Da Barba Dimas.

This summer the island acquired a couple of splendid new attractions. Not only Jazzmin’s jazz club but also a real asset for the palate in the form of authentic Italian cuisine. Da Barba Dimas is owned and run by a team who hail from Naples, father and son, Fabrizio and Pietro Caróla.

A great alternative dining experience and reasonably priced for us village folk when we do escape to the megalopolis of Hydra Town, ‘Little Italy’ in a very short time has earned a reputation for scrumptious food and splendid hospitality. They also stock wines from their hometown region.

We wish them a long and prosperous stay on the Rock.

David Fagan

David Fagan is CEO, president, managing director, author, publisher, and chief bottlewasher of DavidFagan.org. On his first visit to Hydra back in 1983, David decided that owning a bar in this exotic location was an ideal way not to spend the rest of his life in the fast-lane of corporate advertising and journalism. It was an idea spawned by the Honorable Bill Cunliffe of Bill’s Bar, renowned wateringhole for anyone who knew this part of the world at the time. He and a couple of old-timers, Anthony Kingsmill and Leonard Bernstein, planted the seed: Come!