Dining out:
Ascoli Piceno has a great selection of places to enjoy the local cuisine from take away pizza taglia where you can point to what you want to sit down restaurants that treat you like part of the family. Pizzerias are only open for dinner and most restaurants will be open for lunch, usually after noon, and dinner, usually after 7:30 PM.
Pizza by the slice:
• Pizzeria Battisteria - Piazza Arringo - No English
Tavola calda:
This is place where the food is on display and you can point at what you want and eat it there or get it to go.
• San Martino - Via Iannella 23 - No menu, no English
Pizzerias:
• Pizza Napoli - Piazza Viola - Written menu - Closed Thursday - Limited English
• Pizza Menistrello - Via Pretoriana - Written menu - Closed Tuesday - No English
Restaurants:
• Cantina dell’Arte - Rua della Lupa, 5 - Written menu - Closed Sunday evening -
Limited English (near the main post office)
• Da Middio - Via delle Canterine - Oral menu in Italian - Closed Sunday, Monday
• Dietro le Quinte - Via Q C Rufo, 14 - Oral menu in Italian - Closed Sunday, Monday -
Fixed price menu
• Il Grottino - Piazza V. Basso - Oral menu in Italian - Closed Sunday evening
• Kursaal - Via L Mercantini, 68 - Written menu - Closed Sunday
• La Liva - Piazza della Viola, 13 - Written menu - Closed Tuesday eve, Wednesday
• La Locandiera - Via C. Goldoni, 2 - Written menu - Closed Sunday eve, Monday
• Leopoldus - Via Vidacilio, 18 - Written menu - Closed Sunday - Limited English
• Taverna di Cecco - Piazza Matteotti, 9 - Limited English
• Tornasacco - Piazza del Popolo, 36 - Written menu - Closed Friday
• Trattoria Arringo - Piazza Arringo Menu board - Limited English
Helpful hints:
In some of restaurants you will not be given a bill at your table but simply walk up to the register located at the coffee bar or by the door to pay. Watch what other people before you do and just follow along Many times you will simply tell them what you had and they will give you a receipt with a total, no itemization. Again things are much less formal in this area and done on the honor system.
If you want a light lunch or dinner most of the bars/cafes on Piazza del Popolo and Piazza Aringo serve salads, pastas and deserts. You can also get a light snack when ordering a cocktail or glass of wine in the evening after 6:30PM at most bars, this is called a stuzzichini and is included in the price of the cocktail.
This page was last modified on 27 December, 2008 17:43:00