The best restaurants Bergamo

Excellent restaurant and a few rooms lost in a palace in the upper city.

It's impossible not to come across the Donizetti in the heart of the Ville Haute. Part bistro, part wine bar, this place pays tribute to the Bergamo composer in the best possible way: with tastings of products from the local culinary tradition. As an aperitif, try a platter of taleggio cheese or Bergamo sausage, accompanied by excellent Franciacorta vintages. For a more substantial meal, choose a dish of casoncelli or polenta with cheese or boletus, to be enjoyed indoors in the vaulted hall or under the medieval arbour outside.

A resolutely regionalist inn, with menus in dialect and waitresses in costume. In the lower town, a little outside the tourist circuits, you will meet a clientele of regulars who appreciate the abundant dishes such as the risotto with sausage and red wine, the roast with potatoes and the dessert trolley which always makes its little effect. The four chefs Darwin, Barbara and Alioscha Foglieni and Isabella Plebani pool their know-how to offer us a refined and excellent quality cuisine.

Lio Pellegrini is high quality in a refined atmosphere and is a gastronomic institution located just a few meters from the Accademia Carrara. Very pleasant interior room and beautiful summer garden. The menu is enticing and reveals a Mediterranean-inspired cuisine rich in flavours for both meat and seafood. Gourmet desserts and an interesting choice of wines. One of the best choices in Bergamo if you have the budget for. Reservation recommended. It is also possible to order take-away.

It is the best shot of the upper city, trustworthy by tourists. This discreet restaurant offers a delicious and varied buffet at will, with an unforgettable seafood salad as a starter, sumptuous meats and fish, endless salads and even a homemade tiramisu. Fast, good and cheap unless you have an appetite like a sparrow.

Don't be fooled by its baretto (little bar) name; in reality it's a restaurant where you can dine in style, but get away with a €25 lunch. And what a meal it is! Baretto's location has earned it a prominent place among Bergamo's favorite restaurants. The terrace is superb, offering a bird's-eye view of the Lower Town as you sample local specialties such as casoncelli with butter and sage and delicious desserts. Wine list with over 250 labels.

Gastronomic stage for fine palate with this star restaurant held by the Cerea family for 40 years. Each dish is a work of art, accompanied by great wines.

Young and friendly address, just a few steps away from Piazza Vecchia in the Upper Town. This small temple of beer, which stretches widely on the pavement in Piazza Mascheroni in the summer, is always full of happy drinkers who come to relax after a day's work. An accomplished pub that serves only homemade beers, the Osteria della Birra also does well in terms of catering with tasty paninis, boards of cold meats and cheese and abundant pasta dishes