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”The restaurants above the port are the only part of Ponza that feel generic: they could be on any island...” MORE>> |
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”Local dishes in a cozy setting....” MORE>> |
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”At Al Bacaro the next day, I ordered a salume board of prosciutto, speck, lardo, mortadella, porchetta, pancetta, and soppressa...” MORE>> |
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”Now that we've read 'Tastes of Italy' by Anya von Bremzen [July], my husband and I have to weigh in...” MORE>> |
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”I drove to the nearby hamlet of Goito to dine at Al Bersagliere, which has the sponged-yellow walls and bright...” MORE>> |
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”This old Cortina favorite is justly famous for local specialties like penne with wild mushrooms, and game, especially alpine hare...” MORE>> |
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”Pork cutlets and potatoes served in a pan are the specialty at Al Cenacolo, a stylishly renovated restaurant with a...” MORE>> |
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”'Stirring continuously? This will give you mashed potatoes instead of risotto!' exclaimed the city's other risotto maestro, Cesare Benelli of...” MORE>> |
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”Judging by its surroundings, you'd think that Al Filò —in a barrel-vaulted, stone-walled hay cellar—would serve only the most traditional...” MORE>> |
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”Fans of Bruno Paolato (from his 15-year tenure at Venice's acclaimed Ai Mercanti) now head to his rustic new restaurant...” MORE>> |
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”So many people hammered away at me about this being one of Puglia's best restaurants, I finally gave in—despite my...” MORE>> |
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”The menu includes innovations (grilled Tomino cheese with nuts) and classics (delicate fish stew); the witty, wine-centric quotes on the...” MORE>> |
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”The menu is in a dialect most Italians find impenetrable, which tells you everything you need to know about this...” MORE>> |
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”A classic Florentine restaurant, now in a romantic new space in a Renaissance palace with frescoed ceilings. Chef Umberto Montano...” MORE>> |
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”After a hill of buttery sautéed razor clams and the most impeccably cooked swordfish I've had since the time I...” MORE>> |
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”In Italy last spring, my husband and I visited trattorias and pizzerias, and Al Moro, in Rome, left us completely...” MORE>> |
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”Like the wine it's named for, this three-year-old enoteca with a small wood bar is fun and increasingly popular. Brothers...” MORE>> |
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”'Altavilla makes the Valtellina's best sciatt. The restaurant is tiny, but it has four hundred wines and a vast selection...” MORE>> |
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”Historically parochial Venetians have been slow to discover the proudly Sicilian Angolo di Tanit. When we stop by, Bob Marley...” MORE>> |
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”Antica Bottega del Vino, also in Verona, is the place for baccalà vicentina, a preparation that—however unlikely it seems on...” MORE>> |
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”Home cooking—Piedmontese-style—at the Michelin-starred level, including perhaps the finest rendition of tripe anywhere in the world. Wine options are extensive...” MORE>> |
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”This three-level restaurant (casual food on the bottom, fine dining at the top) is one of the oldest in Palermo....” MORE>> |
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”In the vaulted arcade of Alba's Piazza Duomo, this 18th-century confection of pink marble and gilt is the preferred first...” MORE>> |
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”With bridles and yokes supplying the decoration, this village restaurant is an unprepossessing monument to down-home pugliese cooking....” MORE>> |
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”Try chef Gaetano Trovato’s pan-seared scampi with goose liver and prickly pears....” MORE>> |
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”A spare room; working-class local clientele; a bottle of decent Sangiovese on the table; a fat proprietor who micromanages the...” MORE>> |
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”Chef Antonella Pugliese and her husband Mimmo Piccolomo spent two years renovating the four-century-old restaurant and its fig-treed garden, modernizing...” MORE>> |
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”Baby, as it happens, is an extremely grown-up and formal affair—silver cloches covering piatti di pasta; that prehistoric practice of...” MORE>> |
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”There's not a Murano chandelier in sight at Bacaro Lounge, where simple Italian dishes such as pasta con pomodoro are...” MORE>> |
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”Make time for a platter of salt-dried beef and a glass of Braulio, a medicinal-tasting herbal liqueur, at the pine-and-stone...” MORE>> |
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”There I ate a terrine made of almost raw veal and chopped vegetables with an egg sauce, followed by sautéed...” MORE>> |
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”Go to Beccofino for nouvelle Tuscan food and Conran-style furnishings....” MORE>> |
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”Tables spill out onto a leafy patio from the two casually elegant rooms, with Beatles music playing in the background....” MORE>> |
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”This recently opened subterranean wonder zeroes in on fresh pastas and seafood. We are served the lightest potato gnochetti, followed...” MORE>> |
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”Ca' d'Oro does two kinds of meatballs, both of them delicious; an equally well prepared squid with potatoes; and whole...” MORE>> |
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”This classic Lecce café and bakery is a must for cream-filled pasticciotto pastries...” MORE>> |
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”You, too, might spy Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini downing an espresso at this ornate turn-of-the-19th-century café and bakery....” MORE>> |
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”Gilli, a Victorian café in the Piazza della Repubblica, has sandwiches with their crusts trimmed just so, wonderful fruit-shaped marzipan...” MORE>> |
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”Why do urban food lovers flock to this Michelin one-star place in the obscure village of Trecate 40 minutes by...” MORE>> |
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”We bought a loaf almost the size of a car tire and took it to the weathered marble counter at...” MORE>> |
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”I could have stayed out here on the deck forever...” MORE>> |
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”Island specialties and homemade wine....” MORE>> |
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”Three years ago, Anacleto Bleve and his wife, Tina, opened this spin-off of their beloved little wine bar, La Bottega...” MORE>> |
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”The hotel's restaurant overlooks the garden; young chef Mauro Poggio creates nouvelle versions of local vegetarian and seafood platters, such...” MORE>> |
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”Young couple Francesca Tegon and Marco Ginapri filled the viticultural void behind Piazza San Marco when they opened Cavatappi (corkscrew)...” MORE>> |
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”Those seeking a more refined wine list with their Testaccio meal should head to the old stalwart Checchino dal 1887...” MORE>> |
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”A restaurant in a town near the estate, run by two women who bake their own bread and make their...” MORE>> |
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”Located on the relatively calm Piazza San Lorenzo in Lucina—between the Pantheon and the Spanish Steps—this small café is a...” MORE>> |
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”The 45,000-bottle wine cellar, peerless cheese selection, and adventurous modern Italian food are the draws at this restaurant, where ho-hum...” MORE>> |
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”Pace and I were having dinner at his Naples restaurant, Ciro a Santa Brigida, a bastion of Neapolitan cooking lost...” MORE>> |
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”an avant-garde restaurant within a museum of contemporary art, where our meal is easily as surreal as any of the...” MORE>> |
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”Dine outside under the bamboo awning....” MORE>> |
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”Last spring, my son and I discovered Country House Podere Pescia , a restored 19th-century farmhouse in northern Umbria, overlooking...” MORE>> |
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”You'll find two restaurants in one at Crotasc, under the savvy management of Michela Prevostini, whose grandmother founded the place...” MORE>> |
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”The dining room at this hip new restaurant is always packed—and the food justifies the crowds. The menu focuses on...” MORE>> |
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”Don’t let the tight seating deter you......” MORE>> |
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”The specialty is grilled mozzarella on lemon leaves....” MORE>> |
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”Charcoal-grilled game in a brick house on the outskirts of Loreto....” MORE>> |
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”It takes remarkable food to match the view from Da Aurelio, high in a pass in the Dolomites, but chef...” MORE>> |
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”An old-school, wood-paneled place on a raucous street corner that pretty much detonated when the A.S. Roma soccer club took...” MORE>> |
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”Dining that night at the local favorite, Da Cesari, on Via de'Carbonesi, we recuperated from our 'mentors of Michelangelo' tour...” MORE>> |
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”he modest setting of Da Fefè restaurant, near a decaying stone wharf, belies its stellar reputation as one of the...” MORE>> |
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”The talk of the hood is Da Felice, which once looked like a cafeteria with fluorescent lighting but is now...” MORE>> |
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”Steven and I decide to go for broke, and are amazed by one of the best meals of our stay:...” MORE>> |
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”Just across the street from the Duomo Sant'Andrea, Mario and Franco Grimaldi make their mother Gemma proud at her namesake...” MORE>> |
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”The menu is full of classic crowd-pleasers: lasagne verde and tagliatelle alla bolognese. And the people-watching at the piazza is...” MORE>> |
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”A local favorite....” MORE>> |
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”To prove his point, Colonnesi took me to three militantly traditional pizzerias. Our first stop, Da Michele, was a neorealist...” MORE>> |
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”At the just-revamped Da Ugo, ordinary mortals often rub shoulders with supermodels (Elle Macpherson) and creative types (maverick photographer Oliviero...” MORE>> |
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”I meet a friend for a lunch of truffle salad and porcini pasta just down the street at Da Ventura...” MORE>> |
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”Mirrors, frescoes, gilding, and elaborate food. ...” MORE>> |
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”On Christmas Day, many family-run places close, so stick with the hotels. De Pisis at the Hotel Bauet riffs on...” MORE>> |
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”At the luxe Bauer hotel, on a terrace overlooking the Grand Canal, chef Giovanni Ciresa, (who made his name at...” MORE>> |
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”A battered shrine to the pizza pie in the picturesque Spaccanapoli quarter....” MORE>> |
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”Italians have their big feast on the 24th. At Do Forni, indulge in spider crab tortelloni with lobster sauce or...” MORE>> |
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”Where chef Alfonso Iaccarino—who also has a restaurant at the hotel—'combines Neapolitan cooking with nouvelle cuisine lightness.'...” MORE>> |
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”'At Donna Rosa, Mom's in the kitchen and the daughter waits on the tables. I loved their hospitality, that abbondanza—that...” MORE>> |
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”The most famous restaurant in the region, the only one to get two stars from Michelin....” MORE>> |
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”Panzano has more than 70 wine producers. Try Enoteca Baldi for a great selection....” MORE>> |
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”A local hangout, this cozy two-room enoteca is lined with shelves and cupboards of bottles; it's the perfect stop for...” MORE>> |
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”Amid a vineyard in Fumane, Enoteca della Valpolicella serves the truest, most chaste risotto—flavored with red wine or herbs, but...” MORE>> |
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”At a neighborhood wine and beer joint like Enoteca do Colonne, two or three tramezzini—sandwiches in soft dark bread, here...” MORE>> |
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”Siena's Enoteca Italiana, inside a Medici fortress, has always been one of the country's most exciting wine emporiums, with a...” MORE>> |
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”We share platters of salumi with cheese and a scattering of tiny pickles at a small cramped table while Lorenzon...” MORE>> |
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”If Venice had a downtown, this urbane new haunt and its four young owners would be at the heart of...” MORE>> |
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”The bread, the zuppa di pesce, even the pasta is made fresh daily at Eolo, which hovers above the Bay...” MORE>> |
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”Peppe Barone's sweet-and-sour rabbit was the best version I tasted....” MORE>> |
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”Sometimes the staff is rude (especially upstairs) and sometimes they kiss our toes. But the food—Venetian, not Tuscan, as you...” MORE>> |
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”Atop a steep stone pathway is Fracia, which showcases wines from the historic vineyard Nino Negri. In the evenings, maître...” MORE>> |
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”Behind the hole-in-the-wall façade, small linked dining rooms hum with fun and glamour. Service is deft and friendly, displaying justified...” MORE>> |
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”Niçoise–North African fusion....” MORE>> |
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”One of the oldest restaurants....” MORE>> |
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”We stop in the busy bay of Cala Feola, where children play in shallow natural pools, and have lunch at...” MORE>> |
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”I pop into Giacosa Roberto Cavalli, a wild café where photos of Il Signore Cavalli framed in fake zebra fur...” MORE>> |
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”The scialatielli with clams is a standout....” MORE>> |
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”This new-school gelateria meticulously sources all ingredients—from cream and eggs to add-ins like cornmeal cookies and coffee....” MORE>> |
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”An old-world warmth suffuses the service in this dramatic, modern room; the kitchen turns out contemporary riffs on traditional Piedmontese...” MORE>> |
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”The elegant new dining room has a massive fireplace, large enough to roast an ox. But the main attraction is...” MORE>> |
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”Not the warm, traditional trattoria of your Italian fantasy, but a modern culinary temple with deferential service and imaginative food...” MORE>> |
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”Rome owes much of the momentum in its restaurant scene to ’Gusto, which set a trend by bringing several destinations...” MORE>> |
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”At Hosteria Ca’ Derton’s annex, I built a late supper of herby rabbit terrine with marinated vegetables...” MORE>> |
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”This is Nano Morandi's boutique food emporium, filled with bottles of century-old balsamic vinegars and Emilia-Romagna's choicest Parmesans and prosciuttos...” MORE>> |
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”At Hotel Combolo, Severina and Beatrice Valli have been hand-rolling buckwheat noodles for decades. Their restaurant has gilt-framed mirrors, molded...” MORE>> |
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”Visit the splendid dining room for chef Gianfranco Faustini's superb veal Milanese....” MORE>> |
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”Owned and operated by an esteemed Bologna wine-making family, this trattoria cooks impeccably fresh, flavorful renditions of esoteric regional classics....” MORE>> |
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”This tiny hole-in-the-wall (literally) near the Duomo turns out crisp panini with toppings like pecorino and arugula, or goat cheese...” MORE>> |
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”This wine bar near Piazza Navona has developed a snacking menu that includes orange and black-olive salad, thin shavings of...” MORE>> |
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”Baked branzino in the elegant dining hall of a 1900's villa....” MORE>> |
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”You can't beat the pizza bianca at Il Forno Campo de' Fiori....” MORE>> |
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”If you like excess, you'll love this storybook masseria, whose 10-course dinner makes it a must-stop for collectors of Eating...” MORE>> |
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”Il Gastronomo and Ristorante Oasis-Sapori Antichi in Avellino serve the authentic Campanian dishes almost as good as my mother's.'...” MORE>> |
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”The place to sample the best gelato in town—some say in all of Italy—with flavors like aged balsamic vinegar and...” MORE>> |
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”Ciccio set up a reservation for us at his favorite trattoria, Il Mulino....” MORE>> |
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”Customers sidle their boats alongside the patio on the square to take away pizzas for picnics on the lagoon...” MORE>> |
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”Il Ritrovo is a noted follower of the Slow Food movement. Try the cavatelli with zucchini and scamorza, a stringy...” MORE>> |
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”On the beach at Numana, mixed fried fish and vegetables and tagliatelle with squid ink....” MORE>> |
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”Sublime gelato and granita in Polignano a Mare, south of Bari...” MORE>> |
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”Around the corner there's yet another enticement at the stylish gelateria Il Vicoletto where I get two scoops of creamy...” MORE>> |
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”Roberto Cavalli chose Milan's Sempione Park as the site of his ultramodern, glass-walled Italian fusion restaurant, Just Cavalli Café. ...” MORE>> |
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”Even Venetians who don't need to pinch euros are enamored of La Bitta, a new mom-and-pop act in a small...” MORE>> |
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”A great place to stock up for a picnic, this shop cooks up dishes to go and offers local cheeses...” MORE>> |
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”My search for hand-pounded pesto took me next to La Brinca, a gem of a hilltop trattoria above Lavagna. Its...” MORE>> |
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”La Cambusa, enviably set in the town center on a terrace with water views...” MORE>> |
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”Wine merchant Mauro Lorenzon set up this wine bar outpost in a cozy back room at Ristorante Canaletto last year...” MORE>> |
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”Our budget-minded Venetian pals often stake out a table in the back room at La Cantina, where Francesco slices cured...” MORE>> |
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”Chef Antonio Dipino earns La Caravella a loyal following with local specialties, including cod au gratin over fennel, dried tomatoes...” MORE>> |
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”Perhaps the best restaurant in the area, it can’t be more than a half-mile from Boffa’s summerhouse....” MORE>> |
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”At La Conchiglia, a cliffside place that plays cheesy Italian wedding music, capers lend their winy, grapy quality like a...” MORE>> |
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”Try the branzino fillet with saffron and potatoes. ...” MORE>> |
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”We had eight light-handed courses in all, including raw shrimp marinated in orange sections, fried whitebait (bianchettiMORE>> |
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”A family-run terrace restaurant with freshly caught seafood....” MORE>> |
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”Dining at 'Da Cesare,' as the locals call it, is like being in chef Cesare Giaccone's kitchen. His signature capretto...” MORE>> |
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”The only thing that lured us out of the water was a tall pitcher of Negronis at home and the...” MORE>> |
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”Brothers Andrea and Antonio Tonola opened Lanterna Verde, close to their father's renowned fish farm, in 1982. Their trout menu—featuring...” MORE>> |
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”The first choice of locals for swordfish involtini and spaghetti with sea urchin....” MORE>> |
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”In a city where the cuisine tends to be somewhat rustic, Heinz Beck—Rome’s only Michelin three-star chef—stands out. He brings...” MORE>> |
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”...beach restaurant...” MORE>> |
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”The refreshing lack of pretension that marks Ponza always triumphs. The owner of the restaurant L'Aragosta, next door to Acqua...” MORE>> |
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”On a residential Prati street and still off the radar of most Roman foodies, the place resembles a dozen other...” MORE>> |
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”Venice can be unkind to pizza. After a couple of leathery pies, we are ready to give up. But friends...” MORE>> |
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