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Restaurants in Benevento
Where to eat in Benevento: torrone, Sannio Falanghina, Aglianico del Taburno, and the hill olive oil.
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The catalogue currently covers Pistoia and Prato, and grows one province at a time. This town may also be listed under a different name: try searching for it.
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From the Bitebooker blog
We have not written about this town yet. In the meantime: how bookings, requests and reviews work.
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Instant confirmation or on request: what actually changes
On the same page, two restaurants can behave in two different ways. The difference isn’t cosmetic: it’s whether the table is yours or not.
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Where the listings come from, and why they’re sometimes wrong
No restaurateur asked to be here. That’s why the catalogue is broad, and it’s also why it goes stale.
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«All verified»: what it means, and what it doesn’t
Here a review is tied to a meal that took place. It is an inconvenient rule — it shuts a lot of people out — and everything that «all verified» can promise lives inside it.
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Eating in Benevento
Benevento is the Sannio: hills of vines and olives, with a country kitchen that never looked to the sea.
The dishes
- Cavatelli and scialatielli with ragù or beans;
- Minestra maritata, greens and pork, the feast-day dish;
- Lamb cacio e uova and rabbit the Samnite way;
- Caciocavallo and hill pecorino, with Venafro beans.
The torrone
Benevento nougat has been made here for centuries, hard with almonds and soft under chocolate: the sweet the city sends out.
The liqueur
Strega has been produced in Benevento since 1860, from seventy herbs: it is yellow from saffron, and in torrone Strega the two products meet.
In the glass
Falanghina del Sannio DOC — this province is its largest producer — and Aglianico del Taburno DOCG among the reds.
Opening hours and closing days change. The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date. Where a restaurant confirms tables with us, the availability you see is the real one.
Other towns in the province of Benevento
For when dinner is a few kilometres away.