Gelaterie in Rome

GELATERIE Ice cream (gelato) is one of summer’s main delights and at Rome’s ice cream parlours, you are certainly in for a lavish treat. Look for the word artigianale, if you want to savour the best. The choice is endless – water-ices made with a phenomenal variety of fruit; lemon and coffee granite (crushed ice); [...]

La Dolce vita in Rome

Rome can delight the most demanding gourmet and satisfy the keenest appetite, whatever the hour. An enticing array of gelaterie, pasticcerie, pizzerie, enote- che, rosticcerie and gastronomie means that good food and drink are, literally, around the corner. Hotel breakfasts often aren’t up to scratch and you would be better off starting the day with [...]

What to Drink in Rome

Italy is one of Europe’s most significant wine-producing countries, keeping up a tradition started in the hills around Rome over 2,000 years ago. Today, wine is usually drunk with meals as a matter of course, and knowing the difference between rosso (red) and bianco (white) may be all the vocabulary you need to get by. [...]

The Flavours of Rome – La Dolce Vita

There are few more enduring pleasures than lingering ove leisurely al fresco meal in a piazza in the Eternal City. Rom food is tasty, nutritious, simple and extremely varied. Menu tend to be seasonal and there are even specialities eaten o specific days of the week. Traditionally, Thursday is gnocc day, Friday is for salted [...]

Where to find good restaurants in Rome

In Rome, eating out can be both a joy and an entertainment. On warm summer evenings tables flow out into every conceivable open space and diners dedicate long hours to the popular social activityofpeoplewatching(and of being noticed and admired themselves) in a confusion of passers-by, buskers, rose sellers and traffic. Although Romans have always loved [...]

Typical Dishes in Barcelona

CATALAN CUISINE AT ITS BEST, using fresh food, is known as cuina de mercat (market cuisine) and there is nowhere better to see produce laid out than at Barcelona’s Boqueria market. Peppers glisten, fish sparkle and no meat is wasted – even cock’s combs are sold for the pot. Olives come in all sorts of varieties. Spring [...]

Restaurant, cafés and bars in Barcelona

EATING OUT remains both a common practice and one of the convivial joys of life in Barcelona. Catalans are proud of their regional cuisine and expect to eat well in restaurants, not only at celebratory dinners, but also at work-day meal breaks or at family Sunday lunches out. Country restaurants in particular are packed on [...]