The Top 100 Restaurants Near Piacentino

Maccheroni alla bobbiese, the pasta shape that put this small Emilian hill town on the culinary map, is what the kitchen here has built its reputation on. It's a traditional trattoria-style restaurant near Bobbio's historic centre, cooking squarely from the local pantry and the season, not the trend. The room feels like a place where the menu changes when the produce does, not when the PR department does.

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Three snug rooms in a former convent, walls hung with lively paintings and vintage odds and ends, serving the kind of traditional Emilian cooking that makes you wonder why you'd eat anywhere else in the valley. The menu is short by design, four choices per course, rooted in local tradition with the occasional playful detour. The wine list runs to a thousand labels, with vertical selections that will delight anyone who takes that sort of thing seriously. Michelin Bib Gourmand.

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From the road it reads as a farmhouse; inside, an elegant dining room opens into a garden-facing veranda with the Piacenza hills soft on the horizon. This is country cooking grown into something more considered, with a Michelin star and the focaccia with ciccioli that locals will tell you not to skip. The chef's tasting menus lean creative without performing tricks, and a dedicated pasta menu is available on request for those with the right priorities.

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Set inside an agricultural research estate in the Oltrepò Pavese hills, this Michelin-starred restaurant draws the region into focus through modern Italian cooking that still lets Sicilian olive oil and Sardinian lamb dumplings wander in. The wine list leans heavily into local Oltrepò Pavese bottles without neglecting the rest of the country. Soft lighting and unhurried service make the glass-walled dining room feel like a genuinely civilized evening out.

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A trattoria in a converted carpenter's workshop in the Val Nure hills, with a terrace that earns its keep on a warm afternoon. The kitchen cooks Piacenza's own repertoire, the kind of food someone's grandmother would recognize, including handmade anolini in broth that make a strong case for winter visits. The Michelin Guide has given it a Bib Gourmand, which tells you the cooking punches well above the bill.

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A country restaurant in the Piacenza hills where the grill does most of the talking, filling the outdoor dining terrace with smoke and the smell of something good. The menu moves between land, sea, and garden, with a tasting menu built around live fire or à la carte if you'd rather wander. A couple of suites and a wellness center mean you can stay, which, given the Zen garden and the view, seems like the obvious move.

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Handmade fresh pasta and an almond cake with zabaione are the reasons regulars make the drive into the hills outside Piacenza. This is a proper family trattoria, the kind that has been feeding the same valley for generations, with a menu anchored in Emilian classics: house charcuterie, roasts, boiled meats. In good weather the veranda opens up and the whole operation moves outside. They sell their own cured meats to take home, in case once wasn't enough.

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A wisteria-draped courtyard in summer, crackling fireplaces in winter, and a medieval castle village as the backdrop. This is a country inn where the cooking leans into Piacenza tradition with just enough modern thinking to keep it from feeling like a museum. Local wines anchor the list, the room runs on warmth, and the kitchen sends out dishes that taste like they belong exactly where they are.

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Country cooking with modern ambitions, this trattoria in the hills outside Piacenza holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and earns it quietly, through dishes that borrow from Liguria one course and pull from the garden the next. The kitchen combines regional Emilian traditions with ideas from across Italy, and the wine list runs deep with obscure labels that suggest someone back there cares rather a lot about what ends up in your glass.

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The stone walls and vaulted ceilings have been around forever, first as a monastery, then an inn, and now a contemporary regional restaurant in the small town of Borgonovo Val Tidone. The kitchen leans into Emilia-Romagna's pantry but updates it with enough modern technique to keep things interesting. A handful of guestrooms next door means dinner doesn't have to end with a drive.

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A modern Italian restaurant set inside an old monastery, with a wine cellar dining room and a courtyard terrace when the weather cooperates. The chef cooks personal, Italian-rooted food with the occasional South American lean, a nod to his Ecuadorian wife, who runs the front of house and keeps the wine list unusually interesting. Colorful, generous plates in a setting that makes the slightly out-of-the-way drive feel like exactly the point.

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A courtyard at the back opens up in warm weather, and it's the kind of detail that turns a competent dinner into a whole evening. This is a proper sit-down restaurant in the center of Stradella, serving classic Italian cooking nudged gently toward the contemporary, land and sea trading places across the menu. The room is put together with quiet care, and the service has enough warmth to make you feel noticed without making you feel managed.

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A farmhouse restaurant outside Piacenza where an open hearth warms the dining room in winter and a shaded terrace takes over come summer. The feel is a well-loved private home, and the menu leans into that generosity: four tasting menus plus a long à la carte spanning meat, fish, and vegetarian. The wine cellar runs to over 700 labels, with a soft spot for cooler-climate bottles that most Italian lists ignore.

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A glass-walled kitchen lets you watch the chef work while you eat, which either relaxes or unnerves you depending on your table. This small, quietly modern restaurant in Voghera's historic centre earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand with Lombardian cooking that leans local but bends the rules just enough to keep things interesting. The co-owner steers wine choices toward the Oltrepò Pavese, and half-portions are on offer for anyone exercising restraint.

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Vegetables from the family's own garden and orchard end up on the plate here, at a multigenerational Ligurian trattoria that's been an old-school institution in the Apennine interior for as long as anyone can remember. The menu follows the seasons closely, moving through mushrooms, truffles, and chestnut lasagnette with local cheese fondue, with daily market specials folded in. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand, and the welcome is the kind that makes you linger.

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Duck shows up across the menu at this rustic Lombard trattoria in the Bassa Pavese flatlands, most memorably in the ragù that comes folded through fusilloni pasta. Lunch runs casual and honest, weekends lean more regional and considered, and the wine list stretches further than the setting might suggest. Easy to reach off the A21, which means the midday crowd knows exactly what it's doing when it pulls off the highway here.

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Tucked into the Ligurian hills of Ne, this family-run trattoria has been feeding the valley on herb ravioli and slow-cooked suckling pig with chestnuts for longer than most regulars can remember. The wine cellar downstairs holds over a thousand labels, which explains why people drive this far from anywhere. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand, and the cooking stays rooted in the kind of local recipes that don't need updating.

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The vaulted dining room used to be a celebrated local address called Cavallino, and the bones of that history still set the mood. Ciccio Bistrot is a Piedmontese trattoria that takes its regionalism seriously, running a menu of traditional dishes with playful names, a daily handful of off-menu specials, and agnolotti del plin you dress yourself. The owner steers the wine pairings with the confidence of someone who has heard every wrong answer.

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The veranda's retro curve stops park walkers mid-stride, which is a reasonable way to find a restaurant. Inside, the Billis twins run an osteria that calls its approach "new tradition," meaning Piedmontese cooking refracted through wider influences. Local ingredients stay, but the techniques roam. The room has the kind of unhurried atmosphere that makes an extra glass feel inevitable, which is probably the point.

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An 18th-century ceramic stove anchors the dining room at this family-run restaurant in Piacenza's countryside, where the colorful mix of period and vintage decor manages to feel lived-in rather than staged. The kitchen covers both meat and fish, though the fish dishes are what regulars drive out here for. Service is the relaxed, professional kind where staff seem to know everyone and the wine list runs deep enough to keep you at the table longer than planned.

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The restaurant sits inside a wine estate, so the list leans hard on Barbaresco and Barolo, with Champagne as the only outside voice. La Gallina is a contemporary fine dining room with a rustic-elegant feel, the menu circling Piedmont and dipping into Liguria and the chef's native Campania. A dessert that arrives disguised as a cappuccino and focaccia breakfast suggests the kitchen has a sense of humor about where it draws its references.

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A 180-hectare biodynamic farm outside Gavi, producing much of what lands on the table, is a pretty good argument for eating where you sleep. This restaurant on the La Raia estate serves contemporary Piedmontese cooking rooted in local tradition, with tasting menus that follow the property's own wines from Gavi to Langhe. Organic, art-forward, and quietly serious, it's the kind of dinner that makes ordering off a regular menu feel lazy.

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The focaccia di Recco on the menu here isn't a nod to local tradition; it's the reason there is a local tradition. This old-school Ligurian restaurant in Recco has been in the same family for generations, and part of the building still runs as a focacceria so nobody has to wait for the good part. The main dining room goes further, with fish-forward cooking that leans traditional but takes the occasional modern turn.

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The 4.5km of switchbacks to reach this farm-to-table restaurant on a Ligurian estate might make you question your choices, but the Tyrrhenian Sea view from the table has a way of settling that debate. The kitchen leans on its own garden, local fish, and carefully chosen meat, and the cooking is bright and seasonal, occasionally pulled off the barbecue in the way that makes simple things taste like a point being made.

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The open kitchen runs the length of the room, and the minimalist design makes no apologies for it. This is a Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant in a small Ligurian coastal town, where nearly everything on the plate comes from small local producers. Three menus move through different registers of the region: coast to inland hills, deep sea, or purely vegetable. The cooking frames Liguria as a landscape worth exploring rather than a backdrop.

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The square outside was once a linen market, and the room itself has been a bank and a bookshop before settling into its current life as a casual Italian bistro. It shares a building with its fancier sibling, the fine dining Lino, but this place is the approachable one: honest, unfussy cooking presented with enough care that you notice. The crowd tends toward locals who know the neighbourhood and aren't performing a special occasion.

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Near Brignole station, this Michelin-starred restaurant holds the flag for Ligurian cooking with a quietly elegant room and a kitchen that runs on family instinct rather than trend-chasing. The menu moves between old Genoese traditions and more personal riffs on local ingredients, all plated with contemporary care. The wine list is an event in itself, with a dedicated volume for Italian and French sparkling wines that suggests someone takes this seriously.

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Farmhouse dining in the Emilian countryside, where the kitchen leans hard into the regional pantry: stuffed pastas, cured meats, and the kind of slow-cooked ragù that makes you wonder why anyone bothers with anything else. The cooking is traditional and unapologetic, the setting rural and unpretentious, and the Michelin Bib Gourmand signals generous cooking at a price that won't send you into quiet panic when the bill arrives.

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A fifth-generation family restaurant on the Ligurian coast, Rezzano has a Michelin star and a veranda aimed squarely at the setting sun over the central square. The kitchen leans into seafood and garden produce across three tasting menus, with dishes that manage to be delicate and genuinely flavourful without trying too hard to impress. The kind of place where the view and the food arrive at the table in roughly equal measure.

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The summer terrace at this modern Italian restaurant inside the Villa Riviera resort frames a sweep of Ligurian coastline that looks best when the sun goes down. Inside, the veranda dining room keeps things minimal and calm, a nice contrast to the view. The kitchen works in a contemporary register with the region folded in throughout, right down to a dessert that pairs basil and olives with white chocolate and pine nut ice cream, which sounds stranger than it eats.

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A short climb from Piazza De Ferrari leads to this old-school Ligurian trattoria where the kitchen treats trofie al pesto alla genovese and brandacujun as articles of faith. Book ahead, because the dining room fills with people who know better than to show up without a reservation. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand, and the menu reads like a regional argument for never straying far from tradition.

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A flower-scented courtyard in Albaro's quiet residential streets sets the tone before you've even sat down. Inside, this contemporary Ligurian restaurant trades on the pleasures of careful sourcing, steering between the coast and the hills as the season dictates. The room is warm and unhurried, the kind of place where dessert is not an afterthought but a small event in itself, which the menu will remind you of more than once.

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Berkel slicers near the door announce the priorities at this country trattoria tucked into a small Piedmontese hamlet, where local cured meats, freshwater fish, and snails in several forms are the point. The cheese trolley arrives in force, and the cellar leans toward small regional producers without ignoring the rest of Europe. On a grey winter afternoon, with a fire nearby and risotto incoming, the grayness becomes someone else's problem.

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Tucked into the arcades of Sottoripa, a short walk from the Porto Antico bustle, this casual sandwich and fried-food counter also runs a fish-forward cocktail menu sized for aperitivo hour, with the raw and poke options changing on whatever came in that day. It landed at number ten on 50 Top Italy's best sandwiches list, which is a good reason to stand in line. The team is young and moves fast, so you won't be there long unless you want to be.

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Wrought-iron tables spill onto one of Portofino's tiny squares, with the castle-crowned promontory framing the view like someone staged it. This contemporary Italian restaurant is run by the Cerea family, who also oversee the three-Michelin-starred Da Vittorio in Bergamo, so the kitchen takes the food seriously even when the scenery is doing most of the heavy lifting. Book ahead; the tables are few and the square is famous.

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A modern bistro near Via XX Settembre where the menu changes with whatever looked good at the market that morning. The chef works squarely in Ligurian tradition, so expect the kind of cooking that has always belonged to this coast, potato cream with sea snails prepared Genoese-style, minestrone served in a small pot. The room is warm and informal, the sort of place where the daily specials are the real point.

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Inside a palazzo off Genoa's grandest square, Etra hides its entrance deep in the building's courtyard, which is either annoying or atmospheric depending on your mood. Once inside, the dark, minimalist dining room doubles as a rotating art gallery, the name itself being an anagram of arte. Creative Italian tasting menus run the kitchen's ambitions, built around technical precision and an obvious restlessness to keep things moving.

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A contemporary tasting-menu restaurant on the first floor of an old palazzo above Genoa's ancient port, with views that do half the work before the kitchen starts. The cooking leans Ligurian but arrives through a fine-dining lens, with three menus that move through composed, technique-driven plates. The kind of place where the chef's philosophy gets spelled out on the plate rather than the menu cover.

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A trofie al pesto that the kitchen takes seriously enough to reimagine from scratch sets the tone at this intimate Ligurian fine-dining room tucked down a quiet side street in the Carignano quarter. Three tasting menus run from classic to vegetarian, but à la carte works too. The wine list leans into Ligurian labels, which makes sense here. The business lunch is a quietly generous deal that regulars have clearly already figured out.

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A 17th-century palazzo in the village square sets the stage for a traditional Piedmontese trattoria that takes agnolotti seriously, serving the stuffed pasta three ways: plain, cooked in wine, or with meat sauce. An open fire runs in winter, a courtyard appears in summer, and a handful of guestrooms sit out back for anyone who didn't plan to stop but did anyway. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand, and the wine list is long enough to make that an evening commitment.

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Olive wood does the heavy lifting here, sending smoke through the stone walls of a former oil cellar that dates back to the late 1500s. It's a contemporary grill restaurant just a short walk from the sea in Sestri Levante, with its own kitchen garden out front and a dining room that leans pleasantly rustic and romantic. No fish on the menu, which makes a statement in Liguria, the kitchen favoring self-grown vegetables and meat cooked over the coals.

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A walled medieval town split by the Adda River is an unlikely setting for a restaurant that pairs rustic stone interiors with modern plating, yet here we are. Tables spill under a portico in warmer months, and the kitchen leans into Lombardian cooking, lightening and modernising it without losing the thread. The wine list has been assembled slowly over years, and it shows.

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A restored riverside fortress on the Po, the kind of place that has a culatello museum on the grounds because of course it does. This Michelin-starred restaurant roots its cooking in the wetlands and farmland around it, from frogs' legs in saffron velouté to risotto that makes a serious case for Emilia-Romagna's pantry. The chef's family once farmed this land; now they own it, which gives the menu a particular sense of purpose.

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An 18th-century farmhouse in the Alessandria countryside, stripped back to clean lines and pale walls inside, which makes a quietly dramatic frame for Piedmontese cooking with a modern lean. This is a proper sit-down restaurant, meat-forward and rooted in the region, with a chef who adds just enough of a twist to keep things interesting without losing the thread. The kind of place where the room itself feels considered, and the food follows suit.

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A young chef cooking Ligurian to its bones, right at the tourist marina in a tiny clifftop village where the sea view alone makes the GPS confusion forgivable. This is a tasting-menu restaurant, though you can order à la carte, built around the region's produce: Albenga artichokes, Pigna beans, pine nuts, local seafood, and the foraged herb mix called prebugiun. Everything on the plate is an argument for staying in Liguria forever.

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An old-school osteria just outside Masone that sat dark for years before two young chefs decided to bring it back, cooking the border country where Liguria tips into Piedmont. The room feels pleasantly contemporary without forgetting what the building is, and the kitchen does the same, taking regional recipes and pressing them forward with technique that earns its keep. A Michelin Selected Restaurant.

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A trattoria on Ovada's main piazza that doubles as a wine boutique, so the Barolo list is organized by subzone the way serious shops do it. The menu is a tour of Piedmontese tradition: hand-rolled tajarin, beef braised in local wine, and the chocolate bunet that closes most meals in this part of the region. The finanziera, that old-fashioned offal stew almost nobody makes anymore, turns up occasionally if you're curious or brave.

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A portico farmhouse in the Vigevano countryside that looks more like a private villa than a restaurant, hung with antique furniture and paintings by local artists. The chef and his wife have been running this Michelin-starred kitchen together for ages, he in back cooking classical Lombard cuisine, she keeping the dining room warm. Duck and goose anchor the menu, which is exactly right for this corner of the Po plain.

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You book by email at least a day ahead and choose your menu before you arrive, tradition, land, or fish, which tells you everything about how seriously this Parmesan Apennines trattoria takes the whole enterprise. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and has been an old-school institution in the hills outside Parma for generations, still run by the same family, now with a Japanese cook folded into the kitchen adding the occasional modern note.

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A handsome old palazzo in Noceto's center, right at the edge of Emilia-Romagna's legendary food belt, now runs as a multi-floor dining destination with a bar and bistro on the ground level and a more formal gourmet room upstairs. The tasting menus lean creative and contemporary, with à la carte available alongside a serious wine list. The kind of place where the building does half the work, and the kitchen seems to know it.

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A few kilometres outside Parma, this trattoria sits in the kind of quiet countryside that makes you wonder why you ever eat in cities. The cooking is old-school Emilian, the sort where tortelli alle erbette arrive because someone made the ricotta locally and the pasta that morning. The Michelin Guide gives it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks. The owner circulates the room and genuinely knows what to order, so let him.

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A restored farmhouse on the Milanese plain where the dining room centers on a large stone fireplace and the wine cellar is open for a wander before you eat. This is a classic countryside restaurant, the kind that splits its menu between Mediterranean fish dishes and old Lombard meat preparations without making a fuss about either. The glass-enclosed veranda works in every season, and the cellar gives serious wine drinkers something to argue about on the way in.

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Goose is the whole point here, because the area around Corte de' Cortesi has always been famous for it, and this old-school trattoria leans into that without apology. Boiled meats round out a menu rooted in Lombardian tradition, everything sourced locally. A wine trolley moves through the dining room so you can choose a glass by eye. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand, and it has been earning it for decades.

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A brick-vaulted ceiling gives this cozy Lombardian osteria its feel, somewhere between a farmhouse and a proper dining room. The menu runs on seasonal ingredients and deep regional habit, from marubini in broth to pumpkin tortelli, with the kitchen leaning generous rather than fussy. The wine list skews sparkling, which in this part of the Po Valley is a statement of local pride. The Michelin Guide has awarded it a Bib Gourmand.

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Grandmother Erminia's recipes still run the kitchen at this family trattoria tucked into the hills above Felino, in the Parma countryside. The Leoni family has been doing regional Emilian cooking the old-school way for generations, salame aged in their own cellar, rabbit alla cacciatora boned and slow-cooked into something that makes you understand why this corner of Italy has such a high opinion of itself.

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The walk from the car park is part of the deal: stone houses, a castle overhead, and then a first-floor trattoria serving the kind of Emilian cooking that makes the drive out to Torrechiara make sense. Stuffed pasta with herbs and a board of local salumi, including Parma ham, anchor the menu. Service is informal without being sloppy, and the wine list covers enough local and Italian bottles that nobody leaves unhappy.

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