Italian culinary memories abound with the Buon Ricordo restaurant union, and from Lombardy to Calabria, seven new restaurants have joined this leading association of professionals with Italian restaurants. The new entries are the Capolago Inn in Colico (Lecco), the Torcolo Restaurant in Verona, the Fratta in Verucchio (Rimini), Romanè and…

Neither a wine shop nor a traditional art gallery, Podere Casanova Wine Art Shop is a pleasant and informal meeting place dedicated to wine and art in the heart of the little medieval Tuscan town of Montepulciano. Full of charm, it is an ideal place to stop for a tasty…

The Italian multimedia and publishing group Gambero Rosso has ranked the best patisseries in Italy. No travel bucket list is complete without one, so here are five of them to get your taste buds tingling. Pasticceria Veneto – Brescia This year the prestigious World Pastry Stars jury ranked Iginio Massari…

Italian fashion house Gucci returns to Florence with the opening of Gucci Garden 25, the Maison’s first cafe and cocktail bar. The opening, initially scheduled for mid-January, has been postponed to a date yet to be announced due to the pandemic, but the excitement for the new opening is palpable…

Italy’s Dolomite Val Gardena valley has mountain chalets in which to enjoy culinary delights. The joy of skiing becomes a real pleasure when it is accompanied by a good lunch in a mountain chalet or lodge on snowy slopes. In the Val Gardena there are 65 lodges, almost all of…