Restaurants in the province of Pavia

Pavia is three provinces in one: the rice-growing Lomellina, the Pavese plain, and the hilly Oltrepò, Lombardy's largest wine district.

What you eat here

• Rice from the Lomellina in every form: risotto with frogs, with mushrooms, with goose salame.
• Salame d'oca di Mortara IGP — goose and pork in goose skin, cooked.
• Zuppa alla pavese — boiling broth poured over toasted bread, a raw egg and grana: it cooks itself in the bowl.
• Fried frogs and snails, and the red onion of Breme.
• Torta paradiso, born in a Pavia pastry shop, and the *offelle* of Parona.

The wine

The Oltrepò Pavese is one of Italy's largest Pinot Noir districts, much of it becoming traditional-method sparkling; then fizzy Bonarda (Croatina), Barbera and Buttafuoco.

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 The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date.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