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Restaurants in Bergamo
Where to eat in Bergamo: casoncelli, polenta taragna, and the DOP cheeses of its valleys — nine, more than any other province.
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Eating in Bergamo
Bergamo is the Italian province with the most DOP cheeses, and its cooking is that of a town set high above a plain: butter, polenta, meat.
The dishes
- Casoncelli alla bergamasca — ravioli filled with meat, amaretti and raisins, dressed with butter, pancetta and sage. Sweetness inside a savoury dish is this kitchen's signature;
- Polenta taragna — buckwheat polenta beaten with valley cheese;
- Rabbit and uccelli scappati with polenta;
- Stracciatella, which as an ice cream was invented here.
The cheeses
Taleggio DOP, Gorgonzola DOP, Strachitunt DOP, Formai de Mut dell'Alta Valle Brembana DOP, Branzi, Bitto: ordered on a board, from the mildest to the bluest.
In the glass
Valcalepio DOC is the wine of the hills east of the city, red and white. Moscato di Scanzo DOCG is a very rare sweet wine, made on a handful of hectares.
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 The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date.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.
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