Must-see restaurants in Italy
San Gimignano
This weekly market includes produce stalls and fast-food stands.
Genoa
The city has a huge number of rosticerria, delis serving prepared dishes that can be taken home or to a picnic, or heated up for you there and eaten at a…
Bologna
Sporting a cute logo of its namesake gelatauro (a bull with ice-cream-cone horns), this Calabrese-American venture keeps students from the nearby…
Parma
Young camerieri (waiters) operate meat slicers, slide dexterously between tables and plonk down plates of ravioli and veal done all ways (all of them good…
Monti, Esquilino & San Lorenzo
In a cobbled cul-de-sac a step away from Via Nazionale, Rome’s oldest pizzeria began life as a wine bar in 1905. Sadly, the quality of the pizzas has…
Turin
A bright, friendly spot for a simple pasta lunch or dinner, or an extended aperitivo. While not a vegetarian place, it's a favourite with many Torinese…
Northwestern Sardinia
Bar Il Veliero is pretty much all that's going on in Argentiera, at least outside summer. A simple bar set-up near the beach, it serves panini, snacks and…
Monti, Esquilino & San Lorenzo
Monti branch of a takeaway pizza chain serving only-just-acceptable pizzette (small round pizzas). Liquid sustenance is available in the form of bottled…
Alghero
Self-caterers can stock up at this supermarket, usefully located by the Giardini Pubblici and open seven days a week.
Southwestern Sardinia
This tiny supermarket is on the central square in Torre dei Corsari.
