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Restaurants in Livorno
Where to eat in Livorno: cacciucco and its five Cs, cinque e cinque, red mullet alla livornese, and ponce.
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From the Bitebooker blog
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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 Livorno
Livorno is a port city built by people from elsewhere, and it eats exactly like one: humble fish, spices, and dishes that do not exist anywhere else.
Cacciucco
This is the Livorno fish soup, and tradition spells it with five Cs — one for each kind of fish it needs. It is made with whatever the market gives: scorpion fish, dogfish, octopus, cuttlefish, mantis shrimp, served over toasted bread rubbed with garlic.
The other local things
- Cinque e cinque — the roll filled with chickpea cake, named after what it used to cost;
- Red mullet alla livornese, stewed in tomato;
- Salt cod alla livornese and black rice with cuttlefish.
Ponce
Ponce livornese is not a cocktail: it is coffee, rum and a strip of lemon peel — the "sail" — served scalding in a small glass. It is drunk after lunch, and you order it by that name.
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 The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date.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 Livorno
For when dinner is a few kilometres away.