Restaurants in the province of Vercelli

Vercelli is Europe's rice capital: the flooded plain in April is a landscape found nowhere else in Italy. The cooking is all rice, eaten in summer too.

What you eat here

• Panissa — rice, Saluggia beans, pork rind, lardo and salam d'la duja, with a splash of Barbera in the cooking.
• Rice and frogs, and risotto with whatever the season gives.
• Salam d'la duja and small salamis kept under lard.
• Toma and gorgonzola from the pre-Alpine belt nearby.
• Bicciolani, Vercelli's spiced biscuits with cinnamon and clove.

The wine

Gattinara DOCG — Nebbiolo on porphyry, one of upper Piedmont's great reds — and neighbouring Lessona and Bramaterra.

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 The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date.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