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Restaurants in Lucca
Where to eat in Lucca: tordelli with ragù, Garfagnana spelt IGP, biroldo, and buccellato.
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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 Lucca
Lucca sits between the plain and the Garfagnana valley, and eats accordingly: filled pasta in town, chestnuts and spelt as you climb.
In town
- Tordelli lucchesi — half-moon meat ravioli dressed with ragù. They are the Sunday dish, and the pasta is deliberately thick;
- Spelt soup, made with Farro della Garfagnana IGP;
- Rovelline, breaded slices of beef finished in tomato.
Cured meats and cheese
Biroldo della Garfagnana is a spiced blood sausage and a Slow Food presidium; alongside it come mondiola and the local pecorinos.
The sweets
Buccellato is the sweet bread with raisins and aniseed that people take home from here. "Whoever comes to Lucca and does not eat buccellato might as well not have come" is a local saying, not a slogan.
In the glass
The Colline Lucchesi and Montecarlo denominations make the local wine, and Lucca DOP olive oil is the other name these hills carry.
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 The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date.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 Lucca
For when dinner is a few kilometres away.