Wine Bar restaurants in Italy
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Enoteca Fuori Porta
Set just outside one of the city’s medieval gates, this mellow old enoteca (wine bar) proffers up to 500 different wines, including dozens by the glass, with a special strength in Tuscan and Piemontese reds. For a light lunch or evening meal, take a seat on the pleasant terrace and order a plate or two from the limited list of pastas, salads and crostoni (grilled, open-faced sandwiches).
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Ristorante Enoteca La Torre
This is Viterbo's best restaurant: the Japanese chef combines precision and delicacy of presentation with innovative uses of fresh seasonal produce.
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Trattoria Biondo
Biondo has a split personality. The trattoria side is pure Fellini film set, always crammed with congenial, noisy locals who come for Palermitan classics such as involtini di pesce spada (swordfish roulades) or pasta con le sarde. Crates of fresh produce greet you at the door, which leads to several low-ceilinged dining rooms decorated with plates, tiles and paintings. Just around the corner, Pizzeria Biondo offers the same great quality at half the price. An animated crowd fills the sidewalk tables every night for some of Palermo’s finest pizza.
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Trimani
Part of the Trimani family’s wine empire (their shop just round the corner stocks about 4000 international labels), this is an unpretentious yet highly professional enoteca, with knowledgeable, multilingual staff. It’s Rome’s biggest wine bar and has a vast selection of Italian regional wines as well as an ever-changing food menu – tuck into local salami and cheese or fresh oysters. Book ahead to take one of the regular wine-tasting courses.
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Vineria Roscioli Salumeria
Walk in and swoon over the mingled aromas. This traditional deli is a temple to food, with olive oils, cheeses (around 450 varieties), Italian and Spanish hams etc to buy. It’s packed at meal times, when you can dine deliciously in the molto chic interior (think exposed brick arches and contemporary paintings). Dishes include fresh pastas and beef tartare, and the wine list has some 1100 labels (900 Italian, 200 French).
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Buccone
Step through the door, under the faded gilt and mirrored sign, and you’ll feel as though you’ve gone back in time. Once a coach house, then a tavern, in the 1960s this building became Buccone, furnished with 19th-century antiques and lined with around a thousand Italian wines as well as a good selection of international tipples. It’s perfect for a light meal, with salads, cured meats, cheeses, torta (cakes) etc.
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Del Frate
Locals love this upmarket wine bar with its simple wooden tables and high-ceilinged brick-arched rooms. There’s a formidable wine list and a small, but refined, selection of beef and tuna tartares, appetising salads, cheeses and fresh pastas.
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Enoteca Carso
Locals love this unassuming place with streetside seating. It has a great range of fresh wines on tap or from the bottle, and can't-go-wrong tasty dishes of the day such as mozzarella-and-tomato salad or pasta with basil and tomato - point and choose from the glass cabinet. The waiter with the headband will see you right for wine.
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Pane, Vino e San Daniele
This wine bar explains itself in its name: 'bread, wine and San Daniele' - San Daniele being a sought-after ham from the north of Italy. It's a friendly, dark-wood and mirror-lined place in the Ghetto. Try all sorts of northern hams and salamis, alongside a strong wine list. A great place for a drink and a light meal.
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Settembrini Vino e Cucina
Media types from the nearby RAI television offices adore this slinky wine bar/restaurant; its contemporary lines make a suitable backdrop for celebrity bitching. Fuelling the conversations is a sassy Italo-Gallic wine list, new-wave rustic dishes, and a five-course degustation menu paired with five different wines.
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Palatium
Conceived as a showcase of Lazio’s bounty, this sleek wine barclose to the Spanish Steps serves excellent local specialities, such as porchetta (pork roasted with herbs), artisan cheese and delicious salami, as well as an impressive array of Lazio wines (try lesser-known drops such as Aleatico). Aperitivo is a good bet too.
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Antica Enoteca
Near the Spanish Steps, locals and tourists alike prop up the 19th-century wooden bar, or sit at outside tables or those in the back room, sampling wines by the glass, snacking on antipasti, and ordering well-priced soul food such as pasta or polenta.
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Vineria Chianti
This pretty ivy-clad wine bar is bottle-lined inside, with watch-the-world-go-by streetside seating in summer. Cuisine is Tuscan, so the beef is particularly good, but it also serves up imaginative salads, and pizza in the evenings.
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Cantina Foresi
This family-run enoteca and cafe serves up panini and sausages, washed down with dozens of local wines from the ancient cellar.
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La Jalantuúmene
This renowned restaurant serves excellent fare, accompanied by a long, select wine list, in picturesque surroundings. In summer, tables spill into the piazza.
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Fusion
You'll need to dress up unless you want to be outsmarted by the slick designer furniture and sexy, self-conscious drinkers at this chic wine bar.
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Buffet al Spaceto
Locals gather here for a few glasses of local wine and delicious little snacks, including tiny panini with various fillings.
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La Canova di Gustavino
The rear dining room of this atmospheric enoteca is lined with shelves of Tuscan wine - the perfect accompaniment to a soup, pasta or hearty main.
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