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.

Food

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

Chin Chin to Italian Gin

While Italy is renowned for its award-winning wines, elegant cocktails and delicious sun-soaked juices, surprisingly, it is also more quietly recognised for its bold, alcoholic botanicals, namely gins. Envy Italy takes an eye-opening and altogether more “refreshing” trip into the world of distilling in Italy.

Sweet Sensations: Christmas Cakes in Italy

The festive season brings with it the flavours and aromas of Christmases past, as the nostalgic perfumes of mixed spice, cloves and cinnamon fill the air. The traditional cakes of the various regions are all beautifully wrapped making delightful displays in shop windows where their delicious flavours capture the essence of Natale and ideal luxury food gifts from your trip to Italy during the holiday season.

Recipe for Cenci

Recipe for Cenci: Delicious fried dough covered with powdered sugar, prepared throughout Italy during carnival season. They’re golden, crispy, light and easy to prepare.

Soul Food : Michelin Chef Massimo Bottura

Italian Michelin Starred chef Massimo Bottura is a modern food hero in every sense, here we discover a little about his deep-rooted, culinary journey.

Sweet Sensations

The festive season brings with it the flavours and aromas of Chsritmases past as the nostalgic perfumes of mixed spice, cloves and cinammon fill the air. The traditional cakes of the region are beautifully wrapped and make delightful displays...

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...