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Restaurants in Cosenza
Where to eat in Cosenza: DOP figs, Calabrian liquorice DOP, Sila potatoes IGP, and caciocavallo silano.
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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 Cosenza
Cosenza lies between the Sila plateau and the Tyrrhenian, and its province has more denominations than any other in Calabria.
The products
- Fichi di Cosenza DOP — sun-dried, opened flat or threaded into "crocette";
- Liquirizia di Calabria DOP — the root is harvested, the juice extracted and reduced into pastilles. It has been worked here since the sixteenth century, in the *conci* along the Ionian coast;
- Patata della Sila IGP, grown above a thousand metres;
- Caciocavallo Silano DOP and the mountain pecorini.
The dishes
- Lagane e ceci, wide pasta with chickpeas;
- Rosamarina (or sardella) — tiny fish with chilli, spread on bread. It is made with other fish today, since whitebait is banned;
- Pipi e patate, peppers and potatoes in the pan;
- Cuzzupa at Easter and fried crispelle.
In the glass
Savuto DOC, Donnici, and Cirò a little further on; Magliocco is the local grape.
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 The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date.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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