Restaurants in Brescia
Where to eat in Brescia: spiedo bresciano, casoncelli, Rovato beef in oil, and Franciacorta.
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Eating in Brescia
Brescia has the lake on one side and the mountains on the other, and a kitchen of slowly cooked meat in between.
The spiedo
Spiedo bresciano is the Sunday dish: mixed meats threaded with sage, turned for three or four hours and basted with butter. It is eaten with polenta, and in the province's trattorias you book it ahead.
The other dishes
- Casoncelli alla bresciana, with a different filling from Bergamo's;
- Manzo all'olio di Rovato — beef braised in Sebino oil, with anchovies;
- Malfatti, dumplings of chard and ricotta;
- Bagòss hard cheese with saffron, and Silter DOP from the Valcamonica.
In the glass
Franciacorta DOCG is half an hour away: bottle-fermented, and the wine that opens the table here. On Lake Garda there are Lugana and the reds of the Valtènesi.
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 The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date.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 Brescia
For when dinner is a few kilometres away.