Perugia Restaurants

  1. Bangladeshi Alimentari

    Just the basics, but check out those opening hours.

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  2. Bar Centrale

    A popular meeting place for students with an indoor salon and umbrella-topped outdoor tables where you can munch a panini and watch the students on the cathedral steps.

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  3. Caffè di Perugia

    The fanciest sit-down café 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 and a smoking room indoors. Combine dessert and dinner with the tagiolini al caco con ragù di cervo (pasta in chocolate sauce with deer).

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  4. Caffè Morlacchi

    Bring your bongo drums and leftist rhetoric to this most hip of establishments. Students, professors and expats nosh on international fare, sipping tea or hot chocolate during the day and cocktails at night.

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  5. Enone

    The new trendy hotspot on the Perugian dining and drinking scene. A mix between a wine bar, restaurant and club, the vaulted brick walls hide all sorts of goings-on, such as live music (usually on Mondays) 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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  6. 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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  7. 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 or riso nero (black rice) with grilled vegetables and brie. There is always a good selection of salads.

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  8. 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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  9. Pizzeria Mediterranea

    Perugini 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 (fresh buffalo-milk mozzarella)to any pizza. It gets busy enough to queue, especially Thursday and Saturday nights.

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  10. 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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  12. Ristorante Il Bacio

    This rather cavernous ristorante and pizzeria sells good, cheap meals and also sets up a decent outdoor café 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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  13. 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 : paté with Sardinian flatbread or gnochetti in a pepper and radicchio cream sauce. The wine list is equally impressive and affordable.

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  14. 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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  15. Sandri

    When you enter into your third century of business, something must be right. Known for delectable chocolate cakes, candied fruit, espresso and pastries, they 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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  16. Tuttotesto

    Beyond Perugia's pasta and meat focus is this casual university spot where professors and students debate Nietzsche over sweet and savoury crepes, salads and torta al testo (Umbrian flatbread sandwiches).

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  17. Wine Bartolo Hosteria

    Descend a staircase into a low-ceilinged hobbitlike burrow that's lined by walls of wine bottles set around a handful of cosy tables. They do beautiful things with Chianina beef - stewed with Sangiovese or as a carpaccio with lemon over radicchio.

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