Food shopping in Italy
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Anastasio Nicola Sas
Unless you’re flying long haul, gourmet goodies can make excellent gifts. Here, among the hanging hams, you’ll find a full selection, ranging from local cheese and preserves to coffee, chocolate, limoncello and every imaginable shape of pasta. There’s also a collection of fruit-scented soaps and natural shampoos, perfumes and moisturisers.
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Wine & Drugs
Despite the tongue-in-cheek name, no mind-altering substances are sold here, only grappa, organic olive oil, saffron and a good selection of local and international wines. There are also complimentary daily tastings of aged Parmesan dipped into similarly elderly 24-year-old balsamic vinegar. Check out the owner’s collection of baseball caps (over 400 at last count), sent by appreciative customers from around the world in exchange for a Ravello cap which is routinely included in any shipment.
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Emporio del Gusto
This food co-op is sponsored by the comune and sells produce from around the region. It stocks olive-oil products (including toiletries), fresh milk and yoghurt, cheese, vegetables, locally grown saffron, truffles, pasta, bread and wine.
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Consorzio Agrario di Siena
This farmer's co-op, operating since 1901, is a rich emporium of food and wine, much of which has been locally produced.
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Pizzicheria de Miccoli
Richly scented, de Miccoli has a stuffed boar's head over its entrance and windows festooned with sausages, stacks of cheese and sacks of porcini mushrooms. It also sells filled panini to go.
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Focacci
One of several smashing delis along this pretty street, this is where to buy cheese, cold cuts, smoked fish, caviar, pasta and olive oil as well as wines.
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Gusto Italia
Angelo Biagi is the charmingly enthusiastic force behind this small, well-stocked deli. He sells homemade pasta and many other delicious items – try the fantastic Sicilian pesto.
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La Bottega del Cioccolato
Run by the younger generation of Moriondo & Gariglio is a magical world of scarlet walls and old-fashioned glass cabinets set into black wood, with irresistible smells wafting in from the kitchen and rows of lovingly homemade chocolates on display.
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Olivo
Extra virgin olive oil is sourced from small regional producers around the country and beautifully packaged in containers big and small. It also finds its way into aromatic oils and luscious cosmetics.
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Teichner
This is one of Rome’s many temples to food, so wander in, inhale the delicious scents and select from cheese, hams, pickles, pestos and so on. There are also a select few ready dishes, such as aubergine (eggplant) parmigiana.
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Fratelli Fabbi
A small but flavour-packed delicatessen, this is a good place to pick up all sorts of Italian delicacies – fine cured meats, buffalo mozzarella from Campania, parmigiano reggiano, olive oil, porchetta from Ariccia – as well as Iranian caviar.
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La Bottega del Cioccolato
Andrea Bianchini makes his prize-winning chocolate on the premises of his chic little side-street shop. Unafraid to experiment, he marries the finest chocolates with flavours such as mango with coriander and ginger, lemon with violet, rosemary with sea salt, and passionfruit with Szechuan pepper.
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L’Isoletto
Stock up on a mouth-watering selection of local produce, from spicy peperoncino, rum-soaked babà and lemon-cream cannoncelli (pastry filled with lemon cream) to Ischian vino and the ubiquitous limoncello. Less tasteful – but deliciously kitsch – is the collection of tourist souvenirs, from seashell placemats to 3D souvenir wall plates.
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Antica Macelleria di Francesco Esposito
This century-old deli is gourmet foodie heaven. Drop in from 8am for fresh mozzarella and wood-fired casareccio bread, plus a lip-smacking choice of cheeses, prosciutto, homemade peperoncino salami and marinated peppers. In fact, they've got everything you need for a picnic on the beach, including the bottle of obligatory falanghina (dry white wine).
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