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Restaurants in Pescara
Where to eat in Pescara: brodetto, arrosticini, parrozzo, and the wines of the Abruzzo coast.
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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 Pescara
Pescara is Abruzzo's sea city, and it eats Adriatic fish with mountain cooking at its back.
From the sea
Brodetto alla pescarese is made with peppers — sweet and hot — and oily fish, served with toasted bread. Scapece from Vasto, mussels, cuttlefish with peas and fried fish complete the coastal menu.
From the mountains
Arrosticini come down from inland and are eaten everywhere, including on the seafront; pasta alla chitarra and pallotte cace e ove — bread and cheese balls with no meat — are at home here.
The sweet
Parrozzo was created in Pescara in 1920: an almond and semolina sponge covered in chocolate, modelled on the peasants' rough bread. D'Annunzio wrote verses for it, and the box still prints them.
In the glass
Montepulciano d'Abruzzo, Cerasuolo, and Pecorino (the grape) from the Pescara hills.
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 The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date.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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