Discover the best gourmet food experiences across Italy. From food tours and wine tastings to traditional cooking classes, this section features everything you need to explore Italy’s rich culinary heritage. Whether you’re interested in Parmesan cheese, balsamic vinegar, pasta-making, or fine dining, browse through our articles to plan your next food adventure in Italy.
Chef Massimo Bottura has opened a canteen in Modena with a strong social mission. At Self Service Ghirlandina, you certainly won’t find the sophisticated dishes of Osteria Francescana. However, you can still tell your friends that you ate at Bottura’s “restaurant” in Modena. More importantly, you can enjoy authentic Modenese dishes such as passatelli, tagliatelle, […]
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An afternoon guided tour of a Parmigiano Reggiano dairy, departing from Modena train station. Production finishes by midday, so afternoon visits focus on the aging cellars — the part of the caseificio where the wheels spend 12 to 36 months maturing on wooden shelves. The tour includes a guided tasting of Parmigiano Reggiano at different
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You would think February to be a pretty uneventful month. After all, the Holidays have just come and gone, so what in the world is left for me to see out there? If you’ve booked your trip to Italy and are finding yourself in Bologna during February, fret not – there is plenty to see
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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
Trattoria Anna Maria Bologna: What to Order and Honest Review Read Post »
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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Florence has one of the most concentrated and diverse food cultures of any Italian city: the Bistecca Fiorentina, the tradition of lampredotto (tripe) street food, the ribollita and pappa al pomodoro of cucina povera, and the Chianti wine country half an hour beyond the walls. Cooking classes in the city give access to this tradition
Cooking Classes in Florence: Market Tours, Pasta-Making and What to Expect Read Post »