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  • Up on the panoramic terrace overlooking the town, you can enjoy lake specialities and cool breezes.

  • Many restaurants in town serve over-priced tourist slop, so locals patronize this homely trattoria and pizzeria.

  • The most romantic restaurant on the lake offers excellent fish dinners and dishes such as spinach tagliatelle in vegetable ragù .

  • Verbano, Isola Superiore (Isola dei Pescatori)

    The hotel’s restaurant is set on a terrace at the tip of the island, with great views. Regional dishes are very good and reasonably priced.

  • Stylish restaurant in a unique Moorish-fantasy hotel. Elegant service and top-quality regional cuisine.

  • A gorgeous historic villa and hotel, serving impeccable food that revisits the formidable tradition of Italian cooking (see Villa Fiordaliso, Lake Garda).

  • The setting is marvellous: beyond the historic Liberty-style villa (now a hotel) where D’Annunzio lived and Mussolini’s mistress spent her final days, the tables are scattered about a shaded terrace lapped by lake waters. The cuisine is inventive and international, if sometimes overly minimalist (see Villa Fiordaliso, Gardone Riviera).

  • Vineria Cozzi, Bergamo

    Don’t let the over-busy window decorations and trilling recorded birdsong put you off – Cozzi is the best spot in all of Bergamo to while away an hour or two with some wine and a choice of cheeses, cured meats, quiches and tortes .

  • Zucca (Caffè Miani), Milan

    Verdi and Toscanini would stop by after La Scala shows and King Umberto I declared that it served the best coffee in Milan. It even shows up in Boccioni’s Riot in the Galleria (see ). This café opened inside the Galleria Vittoria Emanuele (see GalleriaVittorio Emanuele II) in 1868, though the Art Nouveau décor came a little later. Its prime location at the galleria entrance gives a great view of the Duomo façade (see Zucca in Galleria (Caffè Miani)).

  • A gorgeous Liberty-style café, with views of the Duomo. Zucca holds the dubious honour of having introduced Milan to the apéritif Campari (see Zucca (Caffè Miani), Milan).

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