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ITALIAN FOOD, CITY BY CITY — UPDATED FOR 2026

Pick a town.
Know where to eat.
Order like you live there.

Restaurant, pizza, gelato, café and aperitivo guides for Italian towns, plus markets, historic cafés and the regional dishes worth ordering, with sources you can check.

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Where to eat. What to order. Sources you can check.
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37 citiesEach with its own restaurant guide

435 food guidesRestaurants, pizza, gelato, pastry, aperitivo

87 Italy-wide guidesDishes, pasta, cheese, coffee and regional cooking

49 food landmark pagesBreweries to market halls in 11 cities

CHOOSE A CITY

37 Italian towns and cities, one restaurant guide each

Start with where to eat, then the trattorias, pizza, gelato and pastry shops, and the food landmarks where a town has them.

BEFORE YOU ORDER

Italian food, explained

87 Italy-wide guides to the dishes, pasta, cheese, coffee and regional cooking you will meet in every town, and how eating out works.

Regional Italian FoodItaly cooks in at least twenty different dialects, and the menu in front of you will tell you which one you are eating. This guide sets out the landmark dishes of the north, centre, south and islands, the Italian terms you will meet on the page, and how to match a region to the city you are already visiting.Read the guide Italian Food CultureItalian food is regional before it is national, and the way a meal is built, ordered and paid for follows local habits rather than a single rulebook. This guide covers the courses, the coffee counter, the seasonal menu and the dishes to order in the region that made them.Read the guide Best Food Cities in ItalyItaly's best food cities are chosen here by what reaches the table, not by skyline: Rome for its four pastas, Bologna for ragù and mortadella, Modena for balsamic vinegar, Palermo for street food, Naples for pizza and fried cones. Each entry names the dishes to order, the market or quarter where the food concentrates, and how locals eat it.Read the guide

FOOD LANDMARKS

Brewery taverns, coffeehouses and market halls

One page per place: what it is, what to order, and what to check before you go.

All 49 food landmarks in 11 cities
BolognaQuadrilatero BolognaTriesteCaffè degli Specchi, TriesteModenaAcetaia Giusti Modena GuideParmaMuseo del Prosciutto e dei Salumi di ParmaSyracuseMercato di Ortigia, SyracuseVeronaOsteria Sottoriva, Verona

Food landmarks by city

Food market guides

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Each topic page collects the city and Italy-wide guides on one subject.

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