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L'Archetto di Fontana di Trevi Rome
6 Reviews I'd read so many good reviews about L'archetto and all of them were spot on: we had a great meal here!! As others have mentioned, this little gem's pasta specialty is spaghetti. Just spaghetti. With...
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Cafe Florian Venice
24 Reviews SAN MARCO My last night in Venice - the last night of my Holiday, and I was in Piazza San Marco. The crowds had left - pigeons paddling in the water from that afternoons Aqua Alta outnumbered the...
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Street food, general, recipes.... Milan
20 Reviews La Raclette: in the Navigli area this is a medium expensive restaurant where they serve this typical swiss-french fused-cheese dish; give it a try drinkin' 'Greco di Tufo' white wine. Osteria Le...
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Ristorante Verona
43 Reviews While ago, during one of my first visits to Verona, I had dinner in the restaurant situated on Piazza delle Erbe. It wasn't bad but also it was a bit under my expectations. This time I saw menu...
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La Felina Bologna
6 Reviews The restaurant is located on the hills of Bologna, quite big and with a variety of tipical disches from the menu. It's a good choise for who wants to organize a great meeting! The design and the...
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Taverna Azzurra Sorrento
4 Reviews Taverna Azzurra is situated on the Marina Grande, it is a fishing village you can get there by foot about 15 mins walk from Piazza Tasso. The setting is just beautiful, meters from the sea shore the...
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Barratti & Milano Torino
4 Reviews Whenever I am travelling to Torino, I always pay a visit to my favourite Cafe: Baratti e Milano! It' s a real pleasure to sip my cappuccino or any other kind of coffee, accompanied with all that...
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Maria Genoa
8 Reviews We got an enthusiastic tip for Maria's restaurant from our hotel, but we had a very mixed experience there. The atmosphere is REALLY authentic--gym basement decor, OK if you know it is what you are...
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Specialities Palermo
14 Reviews Sicilian cuisine is so great, I feel embarassed oi try to resume my feelings. That will take a bit of time and some more effort. In the meantime, I'd like to report about a few restaurants I consider...
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Pasticceria Monti Como
3 Reviews This is a typical local cafe that has everything except politeness, especially for the turists. The staff and supervisor were rude when we asked for complimentary chips and olives with our beer...
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La Scogliera Manarola
2 Reviews we had dinner here twice and both times it was wonderful. by the end of the second dinner we had met another guy from italy and the owner and him and myself and my husband were drinking limoncello and...
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La Lanterna in Riomaggiore Vernazza
2 Reviews This was the best food we ate during a four week trip in Italy! This small restaurant is over looking Riomaggiore harbour, a couple of minutes walk from the train station. The friendly owner is...
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Caffé Defilla Chiavari
3 Reviews Caffe' Defilla is a lovely little spot near the center of Chiavari. The wine bar offers a wide array of excellent wines and a fine menu. We had risotto di mare which was tasty. You might like to stop...
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Zeffirino Kulum Camogli
1 Review On our first night in Camogli as we walked along the promenade - we decided to eat here because of the outside, sea side dining - the tall apartment buildings standing side by side, facing the sea....
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La Terrazza Gianicolo
1 Review We were there for the special champagne happy hour and it was great. The restaurant could not be better situated in the Piazza Fontanone - with the monument on one side and the panarama of Rome across...
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Ristorante "Moresco" Liguria
1 Review As the picture indicates, we gained some color on our last day in Italy. We were at Levante Beach for two hours, did some last minute shopping, and spent three hours EATING A SUPERIOR DINNER AT...
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Santo Padre Rome
4 Reviews This restaurant must be the best place I have eaten in Italy. At first moment I enter, I feel as if I have walked into my family home (I am Hispanic, so we are a bit similar to Italians). I sit and...
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Harry's Bar Venice
33 Reviews Opened in 1931 by Giuseppe Cipriani and named after Harry Pickering, a favourite client who funded its opening, Harry's Bar in Venice is the 'birthplace' of my favourite cocktail - the Bellini (peach...
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CIAO (Italian fast-food) Milan
6 Reviews One of the biggest problems you'll have as a tourist in Italy is to find somewhere to eat between the lunch hours and the dinner hours. For some reason the italians seems to believe that the whole...
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Trattoria or/and Osteria Verona
22 Reviews There is a huge covered piazza outside for tables over spill during the season. We ate indoors and started with prosecco then antipasto followed by secondi of pollo arrosto and delicious maiale....
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Pizzeria Aurora Sorrento
6 Reviews This is a real pizzeria with a proper pizza oven. It was recommended to us as the best pizza in Sorrento. They do great starters and desserts as well. It is under the same management as the...
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Brek (Restaurant chain) Torino
5 Reviews I'd been to Breks in Vicenza and Milan before visiting the Turin restaurant. They're all very much the same across the chain which is one of the most widely-known brands in a format that's popular in...
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sa pesta Genoa
6 Reviews Freshly off the train and having just dropped our bags off at the hotel, we went out in search of lunch. We walked high and low (literally- the streets of Genova are full of ups and downs) before...
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Antica Focacceria San Francesco Palermo
5 Reviews Opened in 1834, the Anticca Focacceria San Francesco is one of the city's oldest restaurants. It sells a wide range of authentic Sicilian cuisine, encompassing pastas, pizzas, seafoods - pretty much...
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Lakeside Cafe Como
1 Review In the Como downtown there is this cute and nice boat café, where they serve very delicious ice cream! It´s also a perfect place to hide when there is the rain, as it was in my case. But don´t go...
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You'll find mostly locals at this spot up the hill and away from the Piazza Duomo. The atmosphere is nice, but nothing fancy. The staff is nice and the chef came out to see how things were.Reasonable prices too. I had the home made sciatelli with seafood in a tomato sauce. It was very good, one of the best meals that I've had in Italy. This is one of the pastas that is known in Amalfi.
We ate here on a recomendation, and had a wonderful meal. Zaza has an outdoor patio as well as a gorgeous interior. We had to eat inside as the patio was full (a good sign).The waiter was able to help us make some good choices, including the wine.The prices weren't bad at all, we had eaten a cheaper restaurants, but the quality wasn't nearly as good. This is an excellent place for a good meal without breaking the bank. I had the raviolo with walnut sauce and my husband had the noodles with wild boar sauce, a local specialty. Both were excellent and we both could have eaten another helping easily!
High above Positano, in the village of Montepertuso is a fantastic restaurant that does defy description. When we asked the concierce at the hotel to book the La Tagliata a big smile came over his face - he said that this was a favorite local restaurant, with big portions, family style. This was the universal reaction whenever we mentioned where we were dining that evening.We took a taxi to the restaurant (we understood that in high season they will pick you in Positano in a van) Down a flight of old stone steps, we came to a large wooden door. The door opened into a long stone building which was an ancient barn with long trestle tables. The room was filled with locals, and a great atmosphere. The son of the owner greeted us at the door and took us to a table with views over the sea and down into Positano. He then arrived back with a pitcher of red wine, some water and our antipasto --...
Pizzeria La Torre is located along the southtern side of Piazza del Duomo just opposite the Duomo. It serves all types of superb and delicious Italian Pizzas. Contrary to many tourists believe that the restaurants nearer to the Leaning Tower of Pisa must be rather expensive. The price of Italian pizza in the restaurant is inexpensive and certainly affordable! However the restaurant is always packed with customers as this is the nearest restaurant in the historic cnetre of Pisa. They also have a bar counter which serves delicious ice creams in various flavours located on the eastern end of the restaurant. Italian pizzas such as Margaretha is very popular in the restaurant.
Gelateria Patagonia is a superb ice cream parlour located at Via Mazzini in the historic centre of Verona. Delicious and mouth-watering ice creams of different flavours are in great demand in the city of Verona especially during the warm summer months. We understand that the ice cream parlour is owned by the South Americans as the name Pantagonia suggests! The parlour is so beautifully and colourfully decorated with posters and paintings from South America especially on its walls and ceilings that it looks more like an art gallery. They also deal in various kinds of dessert crepes as advertised on the board at the entrance. Please flip through our photographs above to see this lovely ice cream parlour and its decorations! Chocolate, cherry and vanilla ice cream sounds perfect. Sample the various dessert and original crepes which are also highly recommended.
I Brincello was recommended to us by our host at Hotel Aramis. As it was just a couple doors down from the hotel, we gave it a try for dinner and I am so glad we did! It was the best food we had in Florence and probably the most fun restaurant atmosphere we found in Italy. From the minute we sat down, the waiter (possibly owner??) and one of the chefs came and chatted with us. They gave us some recommendations which were excellent. We all shared bruschetta and wine and I had the gnocci Sorrentino which was delicious. Even better than my gnocci, though, was my friend's spicey spaghetti (it had an Italian name, but I can't remember it). It was so flavorful, but not overwhelmingly spicey. The waiter and chef were both very fun and friendly. When I asked for the bill, I accidentily said "Il cante" and immediately corrected myself. The waiter proceeded to sing the words "il canto" ("the...
Verdemare was recommended to us by one of the front desk people at Hotel Desiree for having great food at reasonable prices. I can't thank him enough for the recommendation. This is the only restaurant we ate at twice in Italy. As it's name would suggest, it seemed to specialize in seafood, but that wasn't the only thing on the menu. I can't even describe to you how good the food was here! Both nights I had the ravioli in broth soup to start. I don't know what made it so special, but it was delicious. On our first night I had scialatielli alla Siciliana, which was a fresh pasta in an eggplant, tomato and mozzarella sauce. Everyone agreed it was the winning dish of the night. I had a baked chicken breast the second night and it was also very good-very juicy with a light crisp outside. Ravioli in broth soup and scialatielli all Siciliana.
Ristorante La Fayette is located at Grand Hotel Boston, just beside Grand Hotel Terme where we were staying. These two hotels are two different entities by themselves and under separate management. We had our dinner nightly at the restaurant during our four night stay in Chianciano Terme. The set menu is not the same every night. Even the Chef's Appetizer is not the same every night! The food is considered good and delicious and the services are impeccable. We had really enjoyed our dinner in the restaurant especially the impressive Chef's Appetizer which really gave you lots of appetite. The following are the set dinner menu for Tuesday night:-1) Chef's Appetizer buffet - eat as much as you want (photo 1)2) Spelt soup (photo 2)3) Cannelloni pasta Tuscany style (photo 3)4) Roast pork loin with French fries (photo 4)5) Dessert (photo 5)
Ristorante Novecento is located at Hotel Rovereto just across the road from Hotel Leon D'oro where we were staying. It is situated approximately 200 metres from the Central Railway Station in the heart of Rovereto. The restaurant is beautifully decorated with impressive lighting. The restaurant is comparatively large and has seating capacity for at least 100 diners. The restaurant's services are impeccable it has to be said. The following were the set dinner menu (3 courses) in Italian which we ordered:-1) Pennette all'amatriciana (photo 2)2) Faraona al forno/Polenta - Polenta (photo 3)3) Semifreddo della casa con salsa al cioccolato (photo 4)
Awesome atmosphere! You can sit indoors where the decor is really nice.. brick walls, helmuts in all the colors of the palio, interesting art. There is also outside seating. Not a tourist trap. Really good authentic food. We went back several times. The cheese platter with fig and pear preserves was fabulous. We had pasta with wild boar ragu with nice glass of chiati- YUMMY!
Albergo Del Senato Rome
5 Reviews and 1085 Opinions The Pantheon is my favorite building in Rome and might be my favorite building in the world. The...
Al Ponte Antico Hotel Venice Venice
6 Reviews and 474 Opinions My sisters and I stayed 2 nights at this hotel and our time there was priceless. Matteo and his...
Hotel David Florence
6 Reviews and 920 Opinions My husband and I stayed at the hotel 4 years ago and loved it, so when I planned our family trip...
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