Trip to Italy, theme: Gastronomy & Wine

Solo in Italia is based on the premise that each of us has been at least once in an Italian restaurant close to home. The basics of the food common to Italians are therefore taken for granted, even if they are far removed from their real daily lives.

The aim of the culinary journey in Italy is exactly complementary to the one you pursue by going to the trattoria around the corner: to make you discover a world of new flavours.

Everywhere in Italy, sometimes with a little trouble but most of the time not at all (except in Venice where you really have to look for it, even if it’s a little better now !!!), you’ll find restaurants at very affordable prices that will satisfy your taste buds with succulent dishes that sometimes you never heard of before you push their doors.

Three factors explain this great difference compared to our country:

• the richness, freshness and incredible variety of seafood available to seafood lovers along Italy’s 7000 km of coastline. You only have to experience a seaside restaurant that is not a tourist attraction to understand the difference with any other European country bordering the Mediterranean Sea…
• the ability to make the most of local or even ultra-local products in the kitchen maintained as an ancestral tradition: a certain culinary know-how has not been carried away in Italy by the uniformity of taste and food standardisation, unlike in other western countries. It only takes a single trip to an Italian supermarket to realize this. As a result, local restaurateurs take pride and pleasure in bringing this cuisine to life, knowing that Sunday dining out with the extended family in a restaurant is still a very lively tradition in Italy. It is therefore a question of not disappointing the table, which knows it very well!
• the “slow food” movement created in Italy in 1986 which advocates the defence of food biodiversity and promotes the beneficial effects of the deliberate consumption of local food in a philosophy of pleasure. This movement, which is particularly precursory with regard to today’s concerns, has been a huge success from the outset throughout Italy.

Everywhere you will find these restaurants with a macaroon in the form of a small snail, a sign of a cuisine that adheres to this philosophy. And while not all restaurants are slow food… This has created a remarkable emulation between restaurateurs for the benefit of those who are looking for fresh and original local cuisine.

In conclusion, you really have to want it to be disappointed by a culinary experience in Italy once you have given yourself a little time to choose a restaurant that suits your taste of the moment …and if you want to go faster, Solo in Italia can also recommend restaurants in your stopover cities.

Finally, for the more fortunate, you should know that from the north to the south of Italy, there are 11 restaurants that are rated three stars in the Michelin guide for a truly exceptional meal.