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ACT LIKE a LOCAL Viale Roma on the Opposite Side and Turn 23 Berga 52) 12-14/19-1.30 Closed on Sat Morning and Are the Greatest Experts of Pastries, Sunday (Porta S 1 JOIN THE RICE SIDE - If you feel like the nearby library. The slices of pizza are beer you will want more! You will be able where young lovers spend their evenings! eating Italian risotto, go to La Fojeta perhaps a bit expensive but filling: you must to treat yourself even on Sunday mornings and you will have plenty of choices: risotto try the sausage & potato pizza. As soon as with sweet or salty brunch served from 10 29 SELF SERVICE, GREAT SERVICE with strawberries and soft cheese, chicken, you have taken your slice of pizza and have SIGHTSEEING SUPERMARKET a.m. It will get you back on track! Tue-Sun - Lay the table by yourself, order curry and peppers, asparagus and eggs, sat outside on the sidewalk, enjoy! (Good 10-2./Mon 19-2. directly from the kitchen and enjoy! bruscandoli (wild hops) and much more... luck with the oil dripping!). (Contrà Riale 21) CAFFE & GELATERIE PANINO ONTO Righetti is a place with self-service prices In short, risotto for all tastes! Mon-Sat 12- and the quality of a restaurant. Look out 15/19-24. (Via Giovanni Durando 62) 12 SHAKESPEARE IS A COPYCAT! - 21 MMMM… TARTTEENEH! - The small for the chefs though! They cook very well A commemorative stone of Luigi 1 FOOD & RESTAURANT INFOPOINT “Fiaschetteria da Renzo” is located but they are pretty rough, so order only 2 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE - Russian da Porto (1485-1528) hangs by one of on a hidden side street of the center, when you are 100% sure about what you Pub is very close to the city center the magnicent buildings of the glorious so that it goes unnoticed by tourists. want! 12-15/19-22 Closed on Saturday and and it’s quite popular among the local Contrà Porti. Luigi is the author of a novel APERITIVO 24/24 MONEY However, you can’t miss Renzo’s famous Monday. (Piazza Duomo 3) youngsters. If you like Baltika beer and fat- which tells about two young lovers, named tartine (pronounce tart-tee-neh, small open TERRACE ON THE PARK - Caffè rich sandwiches you will love this place. Romeo and Giulietta, whose impossible GOING OUT/NIGHT LIFE STATION sandwiches). The system that this historic 30 Moresco was established in 1838, The outside seating area gets crowded love was adversed by their family and bar has adopted is simple: each tartina destroyed by bombs in WWII, rebuilt and especially during the weekend so grab eventually killed themselves: Romeo by costs € 1, as well as most of the drinks PLACE TO KISS SHOPPING AREA then closed again for years. Today, it is your beer and find a place to sit before it’s taking poison and Giulietta by stabbing served in the goto, our local small glasses. back again and gives us a nice place to too late! Open 17-2. (Via Giuseppe Mazzini herself with his dagger… does this remind Tartine are freshly prepared, topped with stop before starting a city stroll (see Act 267) you of something? HOSTEL OPEN Wi-Fi AREA homemade mayo and simple ingredients. like a local!) or after one. If you haven’t You will be able to choose among so many been on the terrace upstairs you cannot GREEN LUNG - Parco Querini is PREMIUM DELICATESSEN - Il ceppo colorful delicious bites: eggs+anchovies, 3 13 say you have really been there! Open till the largest green lung of the city. (“the log”) is the most popular truffles, eggs + Bassano white asparagus, late! Tue-Sun 7-2. (Viale Dalmazia 3) It is popular among people of all ages for gastronomy shop of Vicenza, which is ham&mushrooms, octopus, swordfish and its peace and tranquility, it offers a great especially frequented by well-off lads of also caviar. So you just order your favorite AUTHENTIC OSTARIA - Dive into sporting course for those who like jogging the town center. The shop at ground level 31 tartina and a goto of prosecco... Et an authentic and historical ostaria and sports, numerous benches for more is plenty of typical delicatessen, a unique voilà! There you have your happy hour! (tavern) of Vicenza, where patrons may thoghtful people and big lawns where collection of premium salami, cheese, WARNING: Renzo’s tartine are seriously not be that young but they are certainly you can have a picnic, play ball games, wines and other local specialties. During addictive and it’s hard to stop, this is distinctive! At the Cursore you can frisbee, and whatever is to your liking. The lunch breaks, the fascinating underground why the place is always crowded and it choose whether to take some spunciotti local fauna is very interesting; it consists of wine cellar is converted into a small bistrot is difficult to find a place to sit! (Contrà (appetizers) at the bar or sit down and eat bunnies and cocks strolling on the grass. and it is possible to taste typical local Frasche del Gambero) a local dish! 11-15 / 18-2. Closed on Tuesday Swans, ducks, water turtles, and nutrias dishes prepared just as only the best (Strada del Pozzetto 10) swim in the pond surrounding the small grandmas can do. Tasting menu from €18. 22 MASTERCHEF ICE CREAM - Vicenza temple in the center of the park. The park Mon - Sun 8-19.45. (Corso Palladio 196) city center boasts an incredible A STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN? - Come is great for romantic walks or family strolls, number of gorgeous ice cream parlors, 32 CHEAP - BUT - GOOD PIZZA - A on, 192 steps are not that many! and especially in summer, for doing some 14 which prepare delicious homemade ice Start here your way up to Monte Berico. sport with friends. Open from sunrise till welcoming restaurant with one of cream in the best Italian tradition. Among the cheapest pizzas in Vicenza: Pizzeria After the steps, follow the main road U sunset. these parlors, you can find Pretto, whose (always uphill!). Vesuvio is great if you are unpretentious 3 4 TO RIST INFO pride is the gourmet tastes personally EUROPE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE THE REAL PANIN ONTO - and want to go cheap but stay in the city 4 2 created by Michelin-starred master chefs! 33 A LITTLE PIECE OF NAPOLI - Da Sandwiches and rolls! A homegrown center. Open at lunch and dinnertime. Try the mysterious Segreto di Lorenzo Vittorio is considered one of the fast food with a variety of options for all (Corso Palladio 204) flavor with Lara walnuts and maple syrup, best pizzerias in Vicenza. Maybe because tastes and a careful selection of beers... or the one with saffron and caramel, they the pizza maker comes from Naples? The I mean, do you want a real Panin onto ITALIAN GRAFFITI - Giardino Salvi 15 is a garden situated next door to are simply great! These flavors are a bit prices are really good and the owner will (literally “dirty sandwich”)? Go to Beppe more expensive than the traditional ones make you die laughing if you’re willing Snack and don’t forget to try his special Porta Castello. It is one of the entrances to the old town and a popular green area. (3.5€ vs 2.5€) but you can ask to taste to be made fun of! The place is small so sauce! Don’t be in a hurry, the service a spoon of each for free! Tue-Sun 11-24 it might happen that you have to eat next is a bit slow but it gives you the time to The river surrounding this garden mirrors the Loggia Valmarana, another building (Contrà Muscheria 12) to strangers, a good chance to make new impregnate yourselves with the smell of 5 friends. 19-24 Closed on Tuesday. (Borgo fried food and it makes your mouth water. attributed to Palladio. If you enter from SIORE’S CAFÉ - Le sióre (old ladies) ACT LIKE A LOCAL Viale Roma on the opposite side and turn 23 Berga 52) 12-14/19-1.30 Closed on Sat morning and are the greatest experts of pastries, Sunday (Porta S. Lucia 168) left, you will find great wall murals. PS: and Sorarù is one of their favorite places in PASTA, PASTA, PASTA - If you want Giardino Salvi is the place where 16-year- 34 THE CAT EATERS - People from of the Cup Winners’ Cup. At the moment 7 town. Here you can order a quick espresso to binge on pasta dishes, this is the 5 ULTRAS, WINE AND SPUNCIOTTI olds hide out for a first kiss: please, do not on the XIX century wooden bar or have a right place to go! At Al Fiore the portions Vicenza are known as magnagati we are playing in the second series of - Pitanta is the traditional ostaria of disturb ;) Open 7-20. 6 (“cat-eaters”). This is because of an ancient the Italian league, but we are not worried: cappuccino sitting in the shade of Andrea are generous and the price is really cheap. Vicenza football club supporters. It is quite 8 Palladio’s statue. Tip: try the Sacher Torte, Test your stomach by ordering the Giro and popular saying in Veneto: “Venessiani sooner we’ll rise again! P.S. Remember, if crowded on the weekends during spritz- 16 BOOKS & ESPRESSOS - Galla Cafè is gran signori / Padoani gran dotori / Veronesi you’re from Vicenza you can never be a connected to the bookshop, making 9 you won’t find a better one, not even in Pasta (10€). Wash everything down with time. Fingerfood here is just delicious Vienna! 7.30-19 Closed on Wednesday the house wine and finish with a limoncello tuti mati / Visentini magnagati.” (Translation: fan of Hellas Verona.
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