Restaurants in the province of Novara

Novara is rice fields and hills: the plain grows rice, the upper province grows Nebbiolo on volcanic soil. The cooking sits between Lombardy and true Piedmont.

What you eat here

• Paniscia — rice, borlotti beans, vegetables and salam d'la duja, cooked together. The Novara dish.
• Rice in every form: this is one of Europe's rice capitals.
• Gorgonzola DOP — Novara is one of the historic production zones.
• Tapulone from Borgomanero — minced donkey meat cooked in red wine.
• Biscottini di Novara, light and made for dunking.

The wine

Ghemme DOCG and Boca, Nebbiolo (here called *Spanna*) on volcanic soils: austere reds, made in small quantities and recovering after decades of neglect.

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 The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date.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