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Bar Bauli gives aperitivo an everyday feel: its website offers spritz, vermouth, wine by the glass or cocktails alongside a buffet of snacks, and posts a changing select…
Inside Palazzo Forti, a few minutes from Piazza delle Erbe, AMO Bistrot pairs a contemporary dining room with a courtyard framed by old walls. Its menu brings Italian an…
In the maze of lanes between Porto Antico and the Cathedral of San Lorenzo, Antica Sciamadda keeps to the logic of a sciamadda: step in, order something fresh from the o…
Via di Ravecca climbs from the port towards Sarzano and reveals another side of the caruggi: small food shops where dishes are sold by the portion and eaten on the move.…
Vicolo Politi is home to a trattoria whose menu draws on the products that define Parma: fresh handmade pasta and a selection of cured meats that may include Parma ham,…
A short walk from Via Farini, Osteria dei Mascalzoni serves a recognisable taste of Parma: fresh pasta filled by hand, regional cured meats and dishes that pair local tr…
On Via Monteoliveto, a short distance from Piazza del Plebiscito and the historic centre, Koi Sushi offers a Japanese-food alternative to Naples’ familiar pizza-and-past…
On Corso Umberto I, between the historic centre and the university area, Nara Sushi offers an all-you-can-eat format that differs from a traditional buffet: guests order…
Buffet Da Roby offers another take on Trieste’s “buffet” tradition: rather than a fixed price for unlimited food, it has a counter of dishes and preparations that vary b…
In Trieste, “buffet” does not usually mean a self-service counter. It is the name for a tradition of informal local eateries where guests order regional cooking, often p…
On Riviera dei Ponti Romani, a short walk from Padua’s historic centre, Sushi Kai combines sushi with Japanese and Chinese cooking in a table-order format. The restauran…
South of Padua’s old town, in the Guizza neighbourhood, Yume Sushi offers an all-you-can-eat menu of sushi and Japanese dishes ordered at the table; it is not a self-ser…
A short walk from Santa Maria Novella station, Binomio is the restaurant inside Hotel Indigo Florence. It offers two formats for travellers watching their budget: Wednes…
In the Quadrilatero Romano, INSIDE Torino turns aperitivo into an informal dinner: it lists a €19 offer with an unlimited buffet and one drink. The drinks list includes…
Florence’s Mercato Centrale works as a large covered dining hall: its upper floor brings together food counters, shared tables and options for a meal without booking a f…
On Piazza Emanuele Filiberto in Turin’s Quadrilatero Romano, Shore Cocktail Bar builds its apericena around signature cocktails and a buffet the official website describ…
MI-SUSHI MESTRE suits travellers who want a fixed-price meal but would rather have dishes brought to the table than serve themselves from a buffet. It offers sushi along…
In Mestre, on Venice’s mainland, Sushi Wok 008 offers a hybrid format: staff serve buffet dishes on request, while diners use a tablet to order other items such as sushi…
Koi Sushi & Oriental Restaurant offers its all-you-can-eat menu in a residential area south of central Bologna. Its website lists lunch at €15.90 Monday to Friday and €1…
A few streets beyond Bologna’s monumental core, Miyabi occupies Via Andrea Costa to the west of the city and offers a Japanese meal in several rounds rather than a self-…
On Via Marmorata, beside the Testaccio–Piramide area, Riso Sushi&Cocktail offers a fixed-price option near several walks through the southern part of Rome’s historic cen…
At La Rustica, east of Rome, Trattoria I Magnaccioni applies a fixed-price format to local cooking. The restaurant advertises a €25 Roman all-you-can-eat menu per person…
In Porta Venezia, Diana Garden Bar & Restaurant puts its garden at the centre of the visit. It sits inside the H Club Diana hotel on Viale Piave, and its offers help dis…
Near Milano Centrale station, Sushi Fratelli occupies a spot on Via Giovanni Schiaparelli and combines sushi, sharing plates and Chinese cooking. Its all-you-can-eat opt…
On Via Mentana, Osteria dell’Orsa offers Bolognese food without an elaborate ritual: pasta dishes, close-set tables and a dining room that is often busy. In a city where…
Osteria Santo Spirito places the square at the centre of the meal. Its terrace faces the basilica, while red walls and rustic furnishings create an interior different fr…
Trattoria 4 Leoni sits beside Piazza della Passera, in a part of the Oltrarno where narrow streets open onto small gathering places. The restaurant pairs Tuscan recipes…
Trattoria da Me began in 1937, when Nina and Danio moved from the countryside to Bologna and opened a tavern serving wine, tagliatelle and fried eggs. Today the business…
Opposite the Santuario della Consolata, Caffè Al Bicerin welcomes visitors with small tables, dark wood and a ritual served in a glass. The café says it opened in 1763 a…
Caffè Mulassano occupies just 31 square metres beneath the arcades of Piazza Castello, but its small scale is part of the experience. The business moved to this square i…
Orsonero Coffee, at Via Giuseppe Broggi 15, offers a different pause from an expansive bakery: the drink is the centre of the visit. The café works with specialty coffee…
A short distance from Piazza Signorelli, Osteria del Teatro has served seasonally minded Tuscan food since 1994. It occupies an old building on Via Maffei, with dining r…
Pavé Casati is a recognisable stop for visitors hoping to start the day around Porta Venezia with more than a coffee swallowed at the counter. At Via Felice Casati 27, t…
La Bucaccia da Romano occupies part of the old Palazzo Cattani, a thirteenth-century building on Via Ghibellina. Among stone walls and intimate rooms, Romano Magi presen…
The Mario Guarnacci Etruscan Museum opens a way into the Volterra that existed before Rome. Founded in the eighteenth century, it holds an exceptional collection of fune…
Volterra’s Roman Theatre lies below the medieval street plan, as though the town had left a window open onto another period. You can make out the semicircle of seating,…
Felice a Testaccio began in 1936 and retains a recognisable approach to Roman dining at Via Mastro Giorgio 29. Its most memorable gesture happens beside the plate: tonna…
Flavio al Velavevodetto occupies an address that explains part of its character: Via di Monte Testaccio 97, below Monte dei Cocci, the mound formed by broken amphorae fr…
At Via Cesare Sersale 1, the original L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele offers a deliberately short account of Neapolitan pizza, with marinara and margherita at the heart of…
La Taverna del Pecorino stands at Via Condotti 1, on a lane in Pienza’s historic centre where shopping can become a pause to look more closely. It stocks cheeses from ne…
On Corso il Rossellino, Marusco e Maria turns cheese shopping into a way of reading the Val d’Orcia landscape. The shop lists pecorino cheeses, cured meats, pici pasta,…
Starita a Materdei shows that the history of Neapolitan pizza also passes through hot oil. The company dates its beginnings to 1901, when Alfonso Starita opened a wine c…
Isola Bella looks like a small stage below Taormina, but its shape changes with the water: a short isthmus emerges or disappears with the tide. The regional archaeologic…
Taormina’s Ancient Theatre brings archaeology and landscape into a single frame. The auditorium rests on the hill; beyond the stage lie the Ionian Sea and, when the weat…
Santa Croce turns a façade into a long exercise in looking. Above Via Umberto I, its rose window, figures and plant forms carved into pale limestone make you look up mor…
Lecce Cathedral reveals itself through its almost enclosed square. On entering Piazza del Duomo, the cathedral and bell tower cease to be isolated monuments and become a…
Beneath the traffic of Piazza Vittorio Veneto lies one of Matera’s answers to scarce water. Palombaro Lungo is a cistern dug and enlarged in stages from the sixteenth ce…
Casa Grotta on Vico Solitario brings the Sassi down to a domestic scale. Its furnished interior shows how a rock-cut home could hold the objects of work, sleep and famil…
Entering Pompeii Archaeological Park means entering a city, not a room of antiquities. Its streets lead from the forum to houses, workshops, baths and the amphitheatre;…
Ponte delle Torri makes Spoleto’s geography visible. It leaves the area beside Rocca Albornoziana, spans a deep gorge and reaches the Monteluco side. Umbriatourism puts…
Modern Pompei has a living centre as well as Roman ruins. On Piazza Bartolo Longo, the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary tells another story: the nineteenth-century devot…
Rocca Albornoziana rises where Spoleto stops being a sequence of squares and becomes a defensive city. Built under papal authority in the fourteenth century, it later se…
Rocca Maggiore changes your point of view after Assisi’s churches. From Asio hill, streets and roofs appear fitted between the mountain and the plain. The municipal tour…
The Basilica of Saint Francis is both a building to study and a place where people still pray. The more intimate Lower Church leads to the crypt holding the saint’s tomb…
A visit to De’ Ricci descends below Via Ricci into a historic cellar the winery calls the “Cathedral of Wine”. It is more than an impromptu tasting in a shop: the guided…
Beneath Orvieto’s streets lie cavities that residents excavated and reused for centuries. Orvieto Underground does not claim to show the whole network. A guide leads vis…
Steps from the upper funicular station, Pozzo di San Patrizio turns a need for water into an engineering work visitors can walk through. Pope Clement VII, sheltering in…
Cantina Contucci preserves part of Montepulciano’s wine history beneath the family palazzo near Piazza Grande. The company says the cellars, linked to the old town walls…
Palazzo Comunale and Torre Grossa explain from within the skyline you see on arrival in San Gimignano. The palace houses the historic seat of the civic museums: the Sala…
Montestaffoli’s Rocca gives another reading of San Gimignano. From the remains of a fortress on the high ground, the towers separate from the compact skyline and stand a…