Tag: Restaurants in Italy

Restaurants, Restaurants in Italy, Southern Italy

Home-Style Apulian Cuisine at Casa San Giacomo in Ostuni, Italy

Ostuni, La Città Bianca (The White City), is one of the most popular summer holiday places in Italy because of its proximity to the Adriatic Coast. Established around 1000 B.C. by the Messapians, a lapygian tribe in the Classic Antiquity period, it has a characteristic antique architecture of whitewashed stone houses with weaving alleys. Restaurants in Ostuni abound with offerings of local food, seafood, meat, … Continue reading Home-Style Apulian Cuisine at Casa San Giacomo in Ostuni, Italy

Rowena Dumlao
Central Italy, Restaurants, Restaurants in Italy

Myo: Dining Inside Pecci Museum of Contemporary Art in Prato, Italy

Located inside Centro Per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci), Chef Angiolo Barni proposes two versions of Myo: a restaurant and a bistrot. The kitchen is greatly influenced by traditional flavors which he is attached to with innovative prints matched by well-chosen wine proposals. The restaurant, which opened in October 2016, is a fine dining area that serves lunch and dinner … Continue reading Myo: Dining Inside Pecci Museum of Contemporary Art in Prato, Italy

Rowena Dumlao
Northern Italy, Restaurants, Restaurants in Italy

The Cheerful Green at the Land of Prosecco: Ristorante Verdegaio in Treviso, Italy

Cheerful green, a delightful color that nature has bestowed the hills of Susegana, just a few steps from Conegliano in Treviso. This ebullient color portrays the picturesque landscape of Prosecco with the neatly combed rows of vineyards of Glera. In the midst of this stunning scenery is Ristorante Verdegaio which is aptly named for the vibrant color that surrounds it. The restaurant is housed in … Continue reading The Cheerful Green at the Land of Prosecco: Ristorante Verdegaio in Treviso, Italy

Rowena Dumlao
Restaurants, Restaurants in Italy, Southern Italy

The Gourmet Pizza of Giuseppe Maglione at Daniele Gourmet in Avellino, Italy

Neapolitan by origin and having grown in the world of pizzas, Giuseppe Maglione’s recollections of his childhood were breathing flour and dipping his hands in the dough in his grandmother’s pizzeria in Naples. Opened in 1965 in Naples, Anna Daniele (thus the name of the pizzeria), followed her passion of frying pizzas (and we know that they are in their best in Naples where they … Continue reading The Gourmet Pizza of Giuseppe Maglione at Daniele Gourmet in Avellino, Italy

Rowena Dumlao
Michelin-Starred Restaurants, Northern Italy, Restaurants, Restaurants in Italy

Gellius in Oderzo (Treviso), Italy: A Restaurant on the Ruins of the Roman Empire

Oderzo is a beautiful town in Treviso (Veneto) in the northern part of Italy, and about 60 kilometers northeast of Venice. It is in the heart of the Venetian plains, traversed by the Monticano River, halfway between the Dolomite Mountains and the Adriatic Sea. Historically, Opitergium, its ancient Latin name, played an important role in the ancient Roman Empire, leaving the center of the town … Continue reading Gellius in Oderzo (Treviso), Italy: A Restaurant on the Ruins of the Roman Empire

Rowena Dumlao
Restaurants, Restaurants in Italy, Restaurants in Rome

Terra Roma: Eataly’s Wood Burning Grill Restaurant

After a double success with the American public in Boston and Los Angeles, Terra finally lands in  Italy, the country where it was born. The first chosen city is Eataly in Rome, the branch in the country (and in the world) that has the most square-meter space. Terra is a restaurant that highlights the true heart of its philosophy by grilling raw materials of superior … Continue reading Terra Roma: Eataly’s Wood Burning Grill Restaurant

Rowena Dumlao
Central Italy, Restaurants, Restaurants in Italy

Wines in Magnum Bottles at Ardengo Bistrot in Prato (Tuscany), Italy

Ardengo is a bistrot at the center of Prato that centers on a distinctive level of dining experience linking good wine and innovative food created by their chef Cristina Liguori. Opened in July 2017 by Mirko Banacchioni and Lorenzo Filippini who are both sommeliers with baggage of experiences, highlights one whole wall of the bistrot as its particularly interesting wine menu. The concept is greatly … Continue reading Wines in Magnum Bottles at Ardengo Bistrot in Prato (Tuscany), Italy

Rowena Dumlao
Destinations, Events, Italy, Italy, Restaurants, Restaurants in Italy, Wineries, Wineries in Italy

Prato: One of Tuscany’s Hidden Gastronomic Cities

Stretching from the Apennines to the Tyrrhenian Sea with 23,000 square kilometers of land area in Central Italy, Tuscany is dotted with so many historical Medieval walled villages, castles, churches and abbeys amidst its picturesque landscape of soft rolling green hills with neatly combed rows of vineyards and orchards. Aside from what nature has bestowed the region and what the ancient population has constructed, it … Continue reading Prato: One of Tuscany’s Hidden Gastronomic Cities

Rowena Dumlao
Central Italy, Restaurants, Restaurants in Italy

Tuscan Pastry Chef Paolo Sacchetti’s Pasticceria Nuovo Mondo in Prato, Italy

Pastry Chef Paolo Sacchetti, Vice President of the Accademia Maestri Pasticceri Italiani, has been operating his pastry shop, Pasticceria Nuovo Mondo in the center of Prato since 1989. In the course of 30 years, it had always been considered as one of the best on national level and and it has been awarded “3 torte or cakes” by the Guida delle Pasticcerie d’Italia (Guide of … Continue reading Tuscan Pastry Chef Paolo Sacchetti’s Pasticceria Nuovo Mondo in Prato, Italy

Rowena Dumlao
Michelin-Starred Restaurants, Northern Italy, Restaurants, Restaurants in Italy

Ristorante Al Capriolo: From an 1850 Postal Office to a Michelin Star

There’s a long history behind Ristorante Al Capriolo, 168 years in the same family and still counting. It started as a postal office in the Dolomites, a fundamental part of the town in the year 1850 when postal offices were used not only for postal services but also for lodging, eating and changing of horses for the transit of travelers along the Habsburg – Alemannia … Continue reading Ristorante Al Capriolo: From an 1850 Postal Office to a Michelin Star

Rowena Dumlao
Central Italy, Restaurants, Restaurants in Italy

Occident Meets Orient in the Kitchen of Claramì Bistrò in Frascati, Italy

Two divergent countries on opposite poles, one from the east and one from the west, two completely different gastronomy brought about by their distinctive cultures, come together in the kitchen of Chef Andrea Ritarossi at Claramì Bistrò. The amalgamation of sundry aromas remains persistent in the kitchen of Andrea, a stimulating direction that he executes with excellent results. Gaining his professional experiences in the capital … Continue reading Occident Meets Orient in the Kitchen of Claramì Bistrò in Frascati, Italy

Rowena Dumlao
Central Italy, Restaurants, Restaurants in Italy, Restaurants in Rome

1255 Pizzeria in Tivoli (Rome), Italy

You will know when the pizza is done well when you start digesting it like any other light food you eat. If you go through it smoothly without any sudden continued thirst and feeling of prolonged fullness, then my advice is, keep that pizzeria as a referral point for good pizzas. The soul of the pizza is the dough and that’s what always counts when … Continue reading 1255 Pizzeria in Tivoli (Rome), Italy

Rowena Dumlao
Central Italy, Restaurants, Restaurants in Italy

Dining on Water Stilts at Trabocco Cungarele in Vasto, Italy

On a clear sunny day, the wooden rustic structures on stilts on the emerald water against a backdrop of the blue sky, paints a picture of a tropical island. A trabocco is an old fishing construction on wooden stilts along the coastline of the Adriatic Sea with earliest existence in the 18th century. It can be anchored to the rocks and jut out to the … Continue reading Dining on Water Stilts at Trabocco Cungarele in Vasto, Italy

Rowena Dumlao
Restaurants, Restaurants in Italy, Southern Italy

The Flavors of the Sea at Locanda Indelli in Monopoli (Puglia), Italy

A small town along the coast of the Adriatic Sea, Monopoli flourishes with a rich gastronomy tied to the waters. From the freshest catch of the fishing boats to the produce that are cultivated in its land, Monopoli, like its neighboring Apulian towns, has its own specialties on the table. Locanda Indelli is located right in the heart of the ancient walled white city where … Continue reading The Flavors of the Sea at Locanda Indelli in Monopoli (Puglia), Italy

Rowena Dumlao
Restaurants, Restaurants in Italy, Southern Italy

First Rate Seafood at Osteria di Chichibio in Polignano a Mare (Puglia), Italy

Being an extremely popular small seaside town in Puglia, Polignano a Mare is teeming with seafood restaurants so anyone will never run out of places to go to. The big question is always the same. Which one is the best place to go to where the quality of the food is foremost? The most sought after are usually the ones that enthral the diners with … Continue reading First Rate Seafood at Osteria di Chichibio in Polignano a Mare (Puglia), Italy

Rowena Dumlao