Milan | Seats 28
28 Posti was designed by architect Francesco Faccin – and fitted out by inmates of nearby Bollate prison.
Maruggio | Le Fabriche
Le Fabriche is near the Ionian coast, 50 minutes south of Taranto by car and close to Manduria, known for the potent primitivo grape variety
Rome | Il Sanlorenzo
Il Sanlorenzo is in an unassuming narrow street just off Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, in the heart of the city.
Florence | Fair Exchange
L’è Maiala opened last autumn in outlying Via Poliziano, not a tourist trap but a genuine Florentine osteria with a convivial mood
Galatina | Salento Tarts
Andrea Ascalone’s custard tarts are certainly legendary around here, as the queues in and outside the family pastry shop in Galatina testify.
Ferrara | Good Ageing Potential
Al Brindisi wine bar in Ferrara doesn’t measure its longevity in generations but in centuries, nigh on six of them actually.
Riva del Garda | Olive Ale
The Agraria winery and oil mill, founded in 1926, is – and I quote – a shining example of the modern cooperative entrepreneurship typical of the Trentino.
Trieste | Lister Sartoria Sociale
A conspicuous label on it read not Etro or Versace, but Lister Sartoria Sociale, and Lorena had the gen.
Milan | Marras Notwithstanding
Sardinian stylist Antonio Marras reopened in trendy Tortona-town, in another of those so-contemporary abandoned industrial spaces.
Turin | Archaeofood
Pulses, fish and meat, cheeses, honey and spices for creative near-eastern dining in central Turin.