Restaurants in Perugia
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Il Gufo
The owner/chef gathers ingredients from local markets and cooks up whatever is fresh and in season. Try dishes such as cinghiale (wild boar) with fennel (€12.50) or riso nero (black rice) with grilled vegetables and brie (€12.50). There is always a good selection of salads for €5. Note: no credit cards.
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Sandri
When you enter into your third century of business, something must be right. Known for delectable chocolate cakes, candied fruit, espresso and pastries. Staff wrap all take-home purchases (picked up at the counter but paid for at the till), no matter how small, in beautiful red paper with a ribbon bow.
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Pizzeria Mediterranea
Perugini (Perugians) know to come here for the best pizza in town. A spaceship-sized wood-fired brick oven heats up pizzas from the simplest margherita to the 12-topping ‘his and hers’. Add delectable mozzarella di bufala (buffalo mozzarella) to any pizza for an additional €1.60. It gets busy enough to queue, especially Thursday and Saturday nights.
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Enone
The trendy hot spot on the Perugian dining and drinking scene, Enone is a mix between a wine bar, restaurant and club. The vaulted brick walls hide all sorts of goings-on, such as live music (usually Monday) and sushi made by a Japanese chef (usually Thursday). The regular menu features funky dishes like carrot and black truffle gnocchi in a Parmesan basket.
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Ristorante dal Mi’Cocco
Don’t ask for a menu because there isn’t one at this most traditional Perugian restaurant. Diners receive a set menu of a starter, main course, side dish and dessert. You may receive asparagus risotto in May, or tagliatelle (long, ribbon-shaped pasta) with peas and ham in November. Extremely popular with students, it’s best to call ahead.
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Ristorante Nanà
It’s a good sign when approximately 47 members of the same family run a 15-table restaurant. Simply furnished with a small menu, the food is ‘ nuovo italiano ’: pâté with Sardinian flatbread (€7) or gnochetti (little gnocchi) in a pepper and radicchio cream sauce (€6.50). The wine list is equally impressive and affordable.
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Al Mangiar Bene
Ahead of its time, this underground pizza and pasta restaurant is Umbria’s first almost entirely organic restaurant. Pizzas and calzones, baked in a hearth-like brick oven, are all made with organic ingredients, including organic flour from the agriturismo Torre Colombaia. Even the beer and local wine are organic.
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Il Cedro
Those in need of a food product besides pasta should drop in for a quick kebab at what is reputedly the best in the city. The tiny tiled takeaway is run by a family from Lebanon, who serve up good, cheap and filling shawermas and kebabs to students, tourists and passers-by.
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Wine Bartolo Hosteria
Descend a staircase into a hobbit-like burrow that’s surrounded by walls of wine bottles around a handful of cosy tables underneath a low brick ceiling. Staff do beautiful things with Chianina beef – stewed with Sangiovese or as a carpaccio with lemon over radicchio.
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Ristorante Il Bacio
This rather cavernous ristorante and pizzeria sells good, cheap meals and also sets up a decent outdoor cafe on Corso Vannucci, but its selling point is that it’s one of the only late-night restaurants in the historic centre.
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Ristorante Sole
Sure, there are better-quality restaurants in Perugia, but you're here for the view. The pasta's not bad, and the duck carpaccio with truffles and grana might just trick you into thinking you came here for the food.
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Tuttotesto
Beyond Perugia’s pasta-and-meat focus is this casual university spot where professors and students debate Nietzsche over sweet and savoury crêpes, salads and torta al testo (Umbrian flatbread sandwiches).
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Bar Centrale
This is a popular meeting place for students, with an indoor salon and umbrella-topped outdoor tables where you can munch a panini and watch students on the cathedral steps.
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Caffè di Perugia
The fanciest sit-down cafe in town, its desserts are worth the high prices. It also serves a fine choice of basic pasta and meat dishes and offers outdoor seating in summer.
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Il Segreto di Pulcinella
Come here for the only 'real' Neapolitan pizza in Perugia, as well as a beautiful selection of salads and pasta dishes.
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