Trattoria Anna Maria sits on Via delle Belle Arti 17/A, a few minutes’ walk from the university quarter. It opened in 1985 and has not changed much since — the walls are covered in framed photographs of Italian celebrities who have eaten here (Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lucio Dalla), and the tables are packed close […]
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The Trattoria Aldina is a restaurant that offers traditional Emilian dishes, and it’s located in Modena inside a building that houses other businesses, so it’s actually quite easy to miss the entrance. But the restaurant, its address being Via Luigi Albinelli 40, is off the beaten path going towards the city center and as such
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Berlucchi is the producer most directly responsible for establishing Franciacorta as a serious sparkling wine zone. When Franco Ziliani began working at Guido Berlucchi’s estate in Borgonato in the mid-1950s, Franciacorta produced only unremarkable red wines. The sparkling wine the two men made together — released in 1961 as the first commercially produced traditional-method wine
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Italy doesn’t just export espresso — it has a formal body of knowledge around how to make it properly. The barista profession, in its original Italian sense, is a skilled trade with its own curriculum: machine calibration, extraction variables, milk texturing, and a cultural understanding of when and how each drink is served. Terzi Coffee
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The Carpigiani Gelato Museum is the only museum in the world dedicated entirely to the history and culture of Italian gelato. Located in Anzola dell’Emilia, about 10 km west of Bologna, it sits inside the headquarters of Carpigiani — the company that has been manufacturing gelato machines since 1946 and is largely responsible for the
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Parma is famous for its cured meats and aged cheese — culatello, prosciutto, Parmigiano Reggiano — but the city also has a strong tradition of everyday street food. Pepèn, in Borgo Sant’Ambrogio 2, is the best-known expression of that tradition: a tiny panini shop that has been feeding locals for over 50 years and regularly
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