Bakery restaurants in Italy
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Gran Caffè
This elegant place has the most fabulous gelati, mouth-watering pastries and cakes, and a great selection of drinks. Try the tè freddo alla pesca (iced tea with peach) on a hot day, or choose from a selection of delicious hot chocolates and coffee when the weather is cool. Remember it costs much more to sit.
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Cantinetta dei Verrazzano
Together, a forno (baker's oven) and cantinetta (small cellar) equal a match made in heaven. Sit down at one of just five marble-topped tables, admire prized vintages displayed behind glass in wall-to-ceiling wooden cabinets and sip a glass of wine (€3.50 to €8) produced on the Verrazzano estate in Chianti. The focaccia, perhaps topped with caramelised radicchio or porcini mushrooms, is a must - as is a mixed cold-meat platter (try to ignore the bristly boar legs strung in the small open kitchen).
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Dolce Maniera
This 24-hour basement bakery supplies much of the neighbourhood with breakfast. Head here for cheap-as-chips cornetti, slabs of pizza, panini and an indulgent array of cakes.
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Princi
Equally delicious for an early-morning cornetto (Italian-type croissant) or stracchino (Lombard cows-milk cheese) -filled focaccia on the way home at midnight, Princi is perfect for a filling bite on the run.
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Bocca di Dama
The ‘Mouth of a Woman’ (named after a traditional almond cake) is a lovely little patisserie/café run by creative types – think cakes as art. Huge windows overlook the street, and you can tuck into divine little cupcakes topped with blueberries or delicate little sugar carrots, or exquisite bonbons with names like bacio dell’architetto (the architect’s kiss).
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Pattini & Marinoni
Non-stop, hot-out-of-the-oven action for under around €3. Weekdays the wood bar is lined with working stiffs, ties tossed over one shoulder and hair tucked behind ears to dive into house-made pasta. After 21:00, art students and aperitivi revellers amble in for tomato and green olive foccacia, only to return hungover the next morning for brioches.
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Boccione
This tiny, unsigned Jewish bakery on the corner with Piazza Costaguti is where the locals come to buy their special occasion dolci. The burnished cakes are bursting with fruit and sultanas, and specialities include ricotta cake with chocolate flakes and cherries, marzipan amaretto biscuits, and mostacciolo romano (a kind of sweet biscuit) – all served by authentically grumpy elderly ladies.
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Dianda Pasticceria
Cakes, pastries, puff-pastry apple strudels, meringues and a multitude of other killer calorie-rich sweet treats are baked at Dianda Pasticceria, a delightful cake shop, within picnic distance of Lucca's botanical gardens, and with coffee counter to down an espresso standing up.
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Dolci e Dolcezza
Done up in mint-green panelling like an aristocratic boudoir, this sweet little bakery is considered to be one of the city’s best. The remarkable flourless chocolate cake is worth the walk to the old city’s western edge. The little espresso bar is also first-rate.
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La Dolceroma
Bringing the sweet taste of Vienna to the Roman Ghetto, this well-known bakery specialises in delicious strudel and Sacher torte, as well as carrot cake, pumpkin pie (October and November only), pastries, muffins, cookies and splendid ice cream. Everything’s made on the premises.
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Ignazio Benivegna
An old-timer among Trapani's pasticcerie (pastry shops), this place has been providing tasty cannoli, cassate and other delicious cakes since 1939. It's a bit of a walk down towards the Erice funicular.
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Il Gianfornaio
A busy bakery that does a fantastic range of sweet and savoury snacks – think strudels, cornettos (Italian croissants) and thin and crispy pizza slices – as well as pasta and meat dishes to eat at one of the few indoor tables.
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California Bakery
It’s not just expats that flock to this small cafe for brownies, bagels, cheesecake or late-night burgers. Even when you have the world’s most envied food culture, every now and again tu vuoi fare l’Americana.
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Il Fornaio
For freshly baked bread, all manner of foccaccia, pizza and pasticciotto (custard-filled pastry) take a ticket and line up in Il Fornaio .
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Forno Giusti
Join the crowd queuing in front of this excellent bakery to purchase fresh-from-the-oven pizza and focaccia with a variety of fillings and toppings. It’s the perfect place to buy picnic provisions.
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Caffè Minerva
A popular, people-watching café serving a good range of Sicilian cakes and pastries, the best cup of tea on the island and a nice, frothy cappuccino.
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