Restaurants in the province of Brescia

Brescia runs from Lake Garda to the Valcamonica, and contains Italy's most famous traditional-method sparkling zone. Lake, plain and mountain cooking in one province.

What you eat here

• Casoncelli bresciani and bigoli, with melted butter or ragù.
• Spiedo bresciano — mixed meats threaded with sage leaves, turned for hours over embers and basted with butter. The Sunday dish.
• Manzo all'olio di Rovato, beef braised slowly in local olive oil.
• Bagòss di Bagolino, a rich, sharp cheese made with saffron, eaten in shards.
• Garda Bresciano DOP oil, and lake fish: whitefish, perch, dried shad.

The wine

Franciacorta DOCG is Italy's benchmark traditional-method sparkling wine; on Garda they make Lugana, an ageworthy Turbiana white, and the Valcamonica grows vines at altitude.

Opening hours 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 The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date.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.