Best Restaurants and Vineyards in Italy

Each vineyard has a unique story, each chef’s passion has been inspired in different ways, each venues restaurant is bursting with history. Envy Italy brings you the stories to make your love of Italy grow even deeper. The best places to eat and do wine tasting in luxury Italy. Wine and restaurant reviews, top chef interviews, recipes.

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Enoteca Pinchiorri: Best restaurants in Florence

The three Michelin starred restaurant Enoteca Pinchiorri in Florence is a must visit for any gourmet lovers trip to Italy. Best food and Chianti wine

Summer Cocktail Recipes

Summer cocktail recipes from some seriously cool mixologists, designer bars and hipster drinkeries in Chianti, to enjoy at home and remember your trip to Italy.

Guide To Florence

Author Nardia Plumridge shares her secrets of her adopted and much loved city. A must read guide when planning your trip to Italy.

Teatime in Italy

It was two British ladies who opened Italy’s first tea shop in Rome, in 1893. Now tea is becoming very popular, we report on Italy’s new tea revolution.

Italy’s Oldest Sweet Shop

The Pietro Romanengo shop in Genoa is the same it was the day of its opening in 1814. In spring, the factory becomes dedicated to the processing of fresh roses.

Cook The Mountain: Italian Chef Interview

One of Italy’s freshest thinking and most innovative chefs, Norbert Niederkofler, who been awarded three Michelin stars using mostly natural ingredients sourced from an Italian mountainside.

Exciting New Era for Sabatini Firenze

Italy’s most historic restaurant, Sabatini Firenze is starting the 2019 season unveiling its exciting new food philosophy. Envy Italy visits the restaurant.

Egg Yolk Ravioli with Truffle and Parmesan

This recipe is by chef Daniele Usai’s of Il Tino, one of Lazio’s finest restaurants, based in the beautiful marina of Fiumicino, a stone’s throw from the hubbub of Rome. Usai is also a chef of Great Italian Chefs.Serves 4Time required 40...

Valdarno Chicken with Smoked Potatoes and Truffle

Michelin-starred chef Gaetano Trovato, who leds the team at the exclusive luxury restaurant Arnolfo shares one of his secret recipes with Envy Italy

Siddùra: Sardinia’s Secret Art and Wine Cellar

This Sardinian cantina is taking the world of viniculture by storm. We meet the CEO Massimo Ruggero at Siddùra’s contemporary art gallery and tasting room.

Tuscany Wine From Vine to Vernaccia

Vernaccia is one of the best white wines in Italy, attracting visitors in their thousands to its various vineyards in the San Gimignano region.

Bolgheri, a Land of Light and Coastal Wines

The Bolgheri DOC area is located on the Tuscan west coast. The unique territory and distinct climate, combined with a heritage of superior wine-making produce unsurpassable wines, respected by sommeliers globally.

Plant the Vine : Antinori Family Wines

The Antinori name has been on the viniculture radar since 1318. Sharon Kilby meets the family behind the vines.

The Art of Fine Wine

Located between Gaiole and Radda in Chianti, Castello di Ama rests within the hills that form the heart of the Chianti Classico region, where vineyards alternate with olive groves and interweave with the woodlands. An important vineyard with a notable lineage the Ama...