Finest Restaurants in Parma

The city of Parma is ranked 18th amongst the biggest cities in Italy which are having plenty of restaurants to dine in both locals and tourists. There were plenty of star-class restaurants in the city limit along with far corners of the city. Eventually, we found our treasured restaurant outside the city line.

Go through the review of restaurants and however, see who makes it to the top of the list.

Trattoria Ai Due Platani

Initially, we were obsessed to leave the city because it resides plenty of restaurants that can provide us plenty of meaty meals at any time of the day. We walked into Trattoria Ai Due Platani in nearby Coloreto and it took us to another level of meaty food.

If you hire a taxi, Ai Due Platani is a 15-minute drive but if you walk it takes 90 minutes and a bus ride takes 50 minutes. You never regret your special journey to this finest restaurant.

What we chose was, we took a 25-minute bus ride to Savino then decided to walk. You don’t find sideways during this final stretch and it took us 25 minutes along roads. We recommend using a cab if you are not a fan of dodging vehicles.

Trattoria Ai Due Platani looks casual in its appearance with red checkerboard clothes and warm service. Chef Matteo Ugolotti and his members can significantly cherish your memory using the finest Parmigiano with locally picked supreme ingredients.

As mentioned, Ai Due Platani is a casual restaurant with common Italian cuisines, but the care and details in each preparation differ from other restaurants.

Our lunch consists of delicious, simple-looking dishes but used a high level of skills to retain both texture and flavor.

After leisurely progressed our meal comprised of Culatello, Prosciutto, and Salumi similar to what we ate in Parma, a new order was placed for a portion of Tortelli. This time we asked for half of the pumpkin and the rest to include cheese and herbs.

We ordered tagliatelle and asked to serve with Porcini rather than go for Ai Due Platani’s ragu where forced to hold our seasonal theme after the server appeared with a bucket full of Porcini mushroom. We both agreed to have ragu during another visit.

Emilia-Romagna is a place where you can taste Porcini mushrooms and truffles commonly in the autumn. As an American, you don’t get a chance to eat Porcini mushrooms regularly.

Porcini is so deep in its foresty flavors where we haven’t had something like that. Tortelli is made out of very thin crispy dough that produces a sweet taste with rich pumpkin filling. Master pasta maker was responsible for this type of cooking.

To bring our experience on the main course, we unwillingly did not order Vitello Tonnato. This is made out of young calf flesh, garnished with tuna sauce, and extremely large grilled steak. Though loved the proficiently cooked rare lamb chops, dressed with a sauce made in the Tuscan town Maremma, accompanied with carrot puree and purple potatoes.

Here you get memorable meals ranging from starters to desserts. We got freshly made zabaglione gelato. It’s like a mountain colored in Sunbright yellow. The gelato was accompanied by few toppings such as chocolate sauce, chocolate pebbles, and sugarcoated hazelnuts with two types of liquor. One had made out of herb and spices named Borsci with colorless Orange flavored liquor called Cointreau. All of these were wheeled to our table by a Mattia Serventi server then start to make sundaes for us to enjoy.

We can recommend to all the restaurant lovers reading this article as one of the best dessert services.

The restaurant owns its branded lavender flavor Lambrusco makes a strong aroma while tasting. You don’t get half a bottle of such deep red, best quality Emilian wine for €5.50 anywhere.

Trattoria Ai Due Platani is reasonable in pricing for both we spent €79 for such a meal. Surely we will be returning to this wonderful city and one thing we can’t figure out is what to choose from this incredible menu.

Due to the prime location of the Emilia-Romagna food valley, the chefs in this Parma region have the opportunity to access premium quality food products in Italy.

Parma has many restaurants that serve good food and we suggest visiting the following:

Ristorante La Greppia

La Greppia’s menu is there for decades but no one wants to change it. The menu consists of century-old delicacies favored by Napoleon’s wife Maria Luigia. Presently, Chef Filippo Diego is leading the kitchen but the restaurant’s heritage continues.

La Greppia’s dining area is more traditional than stylish, with several comfortable tables where diners may enjoy local favorites for lunch or dinner. Diego and his crew happily prepare meals in a kitchen located behind the back glass window of the dining area.

Food lovers who like traditional Parma cuisines should visit Ristorante La Greppia because they serve Parmigiano Reggiano cheese matured for 12, 24, and 36 months. Also, meals covered with Parma Ham, Culatello, Coppa, and Salumi. Artichokes in Mornay sauce or Veal Tongue with Chestnuts and Black Truffle are two options for customers who look for more excitement in their food.

The primary menu at La Greppeia is inclusive of Parma traditional cuisines like Tortelli, Anolini, and Tagliatelle. We ordered the restaurant’s inventive thin green Taglione and crispy Culatello also, Pork Chops with seasonal Porcini Mushrooms and black garlic.

Osteria dello Zingaro, a vividly painted Parma restaurant near the city’s cathedral, is popular with locals. The casual café serves traditional Emilia-Romagna fare such as pumpkin or spinach-stuffed tortelli, as well as sliced meats such as Culatello, Prosciutto, Culaccia, and Spala Cotta.

We had Cavallo (horse meat), a native special dish to this restaurant, instead of the customary menu during our supper at Osteria dello Zingaro. Mindi had Insalatona Zingaro salad with artichokes, boiled potato, tomatoes, and Cavallo tartare, while Daryl had Roast Beef di Cavallo with roasted tomatoes.

If you prefer Tortelli di Erbette to Cavallo, the restaurant will not judge you. True food adventurers, on the other hand, will celebrate the opportunity to try a local delicacy that isn’t available in their native country.

Il Trovatore Ristorante, which has been open since 1998, pays homage to roaming minstrels while honoring Parma’s tradition. If you stop by Il Trovatore for a dinner during your visit to Parma, you can expect a classic cuisine with plenty of seafood and meat options. Vegetarians will also be able to request food.

We had a hearty meal at Il Trovatore with a large party, which was accompanied by sparkling Lambrusco wine. The saucy lasagna slabs and creamy tiramisu were the highlights of the meal.

Naples and Rome are cities that are famous for their pizza. However, culinary tourists who pay more attention will find excellent pies in locations such as Verona, Modena, and Parma.

We hunt for the best pizza in every city we visit since we are true pizza enthusiasts. Continue reading to learn about our favorite pizza in Parma.

Oven

An oven isn’t your standard Parma pizza place, with meter-long utensils on one wall and moss on the other. The Oltretorrente restaurant is a short walk from Parma’s historic center and provides some of the tastiest Neapolitan pies we’ve had in Northern Italy.

We ate two delicious pies at Oven throughout our supper, both topped with fantastic local Parma vegetables as well as elements from Campania in southern Italy.

Prosciutto and stringy Stracciatella cheese, as well as Campanian Red Piennolo Tomatoes, Olive Oil, and Fresh Basil decorated the Crudaiola pizza. With its soft crust, spicy small shoaling fish, and bright yellow piennolo tomatoes, our second pie, aptly dubbed Napoli 2.0, brought back memories of our stay in Naples.

The oven features specialty cocktails like the renowned Rosemary Tonic, a G+T prepared with premium gin, tonic, rosemary, and pink grapefruit, in addition to its great pies. The little pizzeria’s craft beer collection, which includes our favorite, Greendew Saison beer created in nearby Fontevivo, will not disappoint beer fans.