In Italy there are several "types" of restaurants that usually represents what that restaurant generally will provide. This is not a complete list of all the restaurant types throughout Italy, as you probably have seen by now, that I write the content for this site purely from our experiences.

 

This is exciting for me since I will update content as we experience new restaurants of different types. What we have experienced in many regions of Italy that when you are in the tourist areas these "type" lines may become blurred to a certain extent.

 

I remember the first time we visited Italy I was a little intimidated by the different restaurant name types that we ended up "playing it safe" many times in the beginning by just eating at the tourist piazza restaurants. Again, some good, but expensive. Once we began to understand the naming significance it allowed us that little boost of American confidence to open the door to that lovely dark lit Osteria that otherwise we would had never ventured into before.