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Restaurants in Genova
Where to eat in Genoa: pesto with DOP basil, focaccia, farinata, pansoti with walnut sauce, and cappon magro.
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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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Eating in Genova
Genoa is a sea city that eats mostly green: herbs, basil, chard, and very little meat.
The pesto
Pesto Genovese is made in a mortar with Basilico Genovese DOP — the small-leaved basil of Prà, with no hint of mint — pine nuts, garlic, pecorino, parmesan and Ligurian oil. It goes on trofie, on trenette with potatoes and green beans, and into minestrone.
Eaten in the hand
- Focaccia genovese, a finger thick, oily and salted: eaten at breakfast, dipped in cappuccino, and that is not an oddity here;
- Focaccia di Recco col formaggio IGP, two paper-thin sheets with crescenza between them;
- Chickpea farinata, baked in a copper pan in a wood oven.
The dishes
- Pansoti with walnut sauce — filled with preboggion, the mix of wild herbs;
- Cappon magro, the feast-day pyramid of fish and vegetables;
- Cima alla genovese, the stuffed veal pocket served cold;
- Anchovies, stuffed or marinated, and bagnun.
In the glass
Vermentino and Pigato from the riviera; with focaccia, Bianchetta Genovese.
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 The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date.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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