So here I am with my new friend the Capo Barbara who has made her bubbly yet business-like impression on the restaurant elite of Verona. She has acquired my favorite tiny hidden down the alleys of Verona romantic restaurant named Il Bertoldo, where she is the boss the last 5 years; the Due Mori Osteria which is a funky chic Osteria more NY happy hours bistro & the very elegant restaurant with garden of Du Schei, her latest investment of only about 3 months. 
https://www.osteriabertoldo.com
Barbara invites me to walk with her to Due Mori, the Osteria down the alley located at Corso Sant' Antanastasia 20, which is all brass bar swanky style. 045 611 7541
"It's my passion it has to be passion. It is from the heart, I love my Il Bertoldo. It is my first restaurant. I wrote the entire menu, all of it, and the team in each of the 3 restaurants is mine. I decorated each restaurant and made my own signature on these. I am very involved everyday running from one to the other to mold the team & the restaurant atmosphere what I want. I am many different fantasies and each restaurant represents my many different fantasies," laughs Barbara & I say if she acquires 50 restaurants, we can name her 50 shades of Verona!
The Il Bertoldo is a romantic tiny place where you must have reservations: here is the number! It is well worth it, tucked away in a little alley near the river and as private as you need.
045 80156 04
"At Du Schei we have lots of fresh fish. ALL of my restaurants are of the highest quality ingredients. I insist on every item is fresh and that I have very good suppliers. My pasta at each location is home-made fresh everyday. And we make fresh home-made bread in all of the locations." 
ZIGA bistro
Via IV Novembre 1B, Verona, Italy
Alright let’s talk about ZIGA, the 3rd “star” of Ms. Bianchi’s Trilogy of healthy Vegan & Vegetarian Osterias. “The first two, my first being at the Florence Mercato & the second at the Rome Termini Mercato are really more Bistros. We have takeout & you sit at the Mercato’s tables where you choose & here at the 3rd a little away from the center is ZIGA. The reason for the word ZIGA is that it is the sound that a bunny makes & because I know that a rabbit is meat, I am assuming that it is because little bunnies eat lettuce & veggies. Either that or it is the famous Playboy bunny & Ms. Bianchi is assuming that to look like a Playboy bunny one must eat at a place such as ZIGA with its natural shakes & 100% all natural cooked to order vegetarian dishes.
The first time that I entered ZIGA, I loved the place. Mostly the feel of the Vegan vibe which is always low key & hippy! I don’t know why the feel is that, perhaps the green plants everywhere, the décor, the vibe, the vibe of the team who usually themselves are vegan & vegetarian & health & earth conscious? So that they are easy & smiling at you. Or the memories of my own 8 weeks at the Vegan Speakeasy Cocktail & Tapa Bar in Philadelphia that just won the number #1 Vegan Bar in America. It was some of the best days & nights working here during the border closures when I kept in touch with my “capos” around the world by working in some of these amazing places myself. Loved the food, especially famous at Charliewasasinner, the Speakeasy’s name, loved the drinks all signature & vegan, & LOVED MY TEAM & boss Nicole Marquis. I told Marcella that I would love to introduce the two women who I know could exchange fascinating stories & ideas.
ZIGA has that vibe, yet a young vibe & as it is the youngest of the boss, Ms. Bianchi’s projects, perhaps that is why. “I’m just shaping it to what I want it to be & I started the vegetable & herb society garden to use these herbs in my ZIGA’s dishes. We use all the herbs that we grow here & my cook is learning & experimenting with these everyday. I would ask that my team have more social interaction with the guests as I want the guests to feel very comfortable here.” I tell her that Vegan has become a needed specialty that people search to find. Some people search their vacation city for the best steaks only or the best seafood yet Vegans search the same. It used to be a fad a trend til people understood what Vegan & Vegetarian truly is. Ms. Bianchi says that she makes all of her food with natural herbs & natural ingredients, no preservatives or chemicals. Some Vegan places serve sweet potato French fries, for example, yet she says that isn’t healthy & just because it is a vegetable if it isn’t in its natural form it mightn’t be good for you. Here at Ziga, Marcella wants to shape her concept & image as a totally healthy place where you can be confident that the food is natural, vegetarian & vegan, & prepared in a fresh new way. I loved Ziga so I hope you do to. 
Outside the trendy local Osteria, it seems very quaint & casual. I absolutely love the inside, though. Especially the upstairs loft that has railings where you can peruse the people coming in, dining, standing at the bar while you eat your dinner & drink your great choice of the huge selection of wine that Nicolo is constantly changing. "We've added something new since Covid & it has been very successful. It is a mini wine degustation of 30 euros with 4 wines & 4 plates per person. Every week I invite some owners of the local vineyards to come share their wine." You can make reservations on the website & if you are living near Verona, which is to say even Austria, Germany & Switzerland, I hope you try to make it down here on Thursdays for the wine & food night. The atmosphere inside is a little dark & cosy at night, with the lights dim so you can have a intimate night with your partner &/or friends. Love it. https://www.sottoriva23.com/ reservations
Alright let's try the Vecio Mulin, which Nicola has owned the last 13 years & the most elegant one. https://veciomulin.com/
At the entry you will most certainly be greeted by either Anna the owner, Matteo the director, or Mercutio the cat!
"We've received the best small hostel worldwide from Hostelworld & #7 and #6 best female solo hostel worldwide. I haven't a clue why the girls love my hostel, yet they do. Sometimes I will have 30 girls & 1 boy in the entire hostel!" says Anna. I say that is very cool considering that girls always want to feel safe when traveling the world alone & it just shows that here they do.
"I also am so amazed all the time at the amount of time the guests spend cooking in the kitchen, which is open to the tables & lends itself to conversation & inclusion. My brother is a architect & he designed the entire hostel, so I am very happy to see it used the way he intended. He had traveled one year before he designed it & he incorporated many ideas that he had seen in his journeys. The guests do real elaborate cooking in the kitchen,too, with complicated meals & it intriques me. We have 2 bins, you can use both of these free during your stay here & one Free Food Fridge where we encourage guests to use & donate to. It helps to have everybody able to use the kitchen & join in the fun," says Anna. 
Giacomo, who Mattia calls, "Jack" delivering my gluten-free pizza. The BEST Gluten-free pizza I ever had! 
"Yes, well we open our second Pizzeria, or should I say we reopen it soon opposite the street. You shall see that we are constantly experimenting with making the gluten-free pizza as best as we can. The other pizza we make with twice as much yeast, which is the typical pizza from the local where my family comes from in Tramonti. Naples pizza has thick crust, but here we have thin. Everybody in Verona has loved the pizza from 1971 when we opened. It's funny to work here, yet I make it modern too, & always know if they need me at the Pizzeria & if yes I zoom here fast." 
Here is the pizza that is 60 Centimeters long. Mattia says that 3 people share that & that one time one person ate the entire pizza all by himself! O my Gosh I say, it looks like some table of 5 people could eat it!
"I study economics in University, & afterwards because of Covid I started selling cars: Porsches. I drive soo many Porsches. I drive Porsches home. It is great. Yet, when we reopen here during the pandemic we have a huge staffing problem & so all the family must work at the Pizzeria! So I come here to work." I start laughing asking is he drives a Porsche now? "I drive the motor scooter to deliver the pizzas!" laughs Mattia. Is he teasing? "Well usually we had a driver that delivers the pizzas, yet with the staffing problem now either Jack or my brother, Andrea or me drive the motor scooters & deliver the pizzas!" he says. 
Two guys downing wine after the pizza eating contest of "if the gluten-free pizza is the best in Italy!" talk fast in the Italy way.
"We need to do a alcohol test on these two guys," laughs Mattia!
There is a sudden problem & the "Italian" comes alive as they gesture with each other, the brothers & cousins gathering around the reservation book & Mattia starts making these very Italian gestures with his hands & over dramatic body language & the woman server bursts out laughing at him & so they all start laughing & just say, Okay, we fix it, & all is
back to the calmness just minutes before!
"Some regions of Italy are very jealous of their local pizza. Such as the city of Naples. They love only the Naples pizza & they brag about the Naples pizza only. You can try having a Naples-style pizza in every local in Italy, but you definitely better not have a Roman pizza in the city of Naples itself because they will never eat this!" says Mattia. Do they have famous people in Bella Naples? "Well, I know that the Americans love love love Andrea Bocelli, when I went to Las Vegas Andrea is over everywhere & so he used to live very near here & so I have met him. Politicians do come in here & eat, too. Hey we have to say we have very good pizza here!"
ROMEO Bistro & Cocktail Bar
+39 045 9787103
Vicolo S. Marco in Foro, 1b, 37121 Verona VR
Okay Romeo Cocktail Bar is a fun one, from the down-to-earth Capo who is the "BAR MAN" for DOLCE & GABBANA at Fashion Week starting September 22, 2022 in Milan Italy, THE FASHION CAPITOL of the WORLD, to the funny friend of mine, Albert, bringing all the Michelin Chefs to surprise Andrea with his signature cocktails of 8 of the 3 stars around the world. AMAZING. The team is VERY competent & yet playful, showing me the "trickster" behind the scenes of the 2story 600bottle bar with a facebook photo worthy of instagram & the highly technical affordable cocktails of the world. "Hey it is Verona," says Andrea when I say that 12 Euros only to enjoy the lovely superb ALINEA Michelin 3 star cocktail from my hometown, Chicago. "If I had the same bar in Milan the cocktails would be 18 to 24 euros."
"I wrote each restaurant chef & told them of my cocktails & 3 out of the 8 wrote me back & that is very amazing," says Andrea who is to bartending of the world what the Michelin chefs are to Foodys. O Gosh I said "Foodys" in the same sentence as Michelin...let's hope they don't find the villian me.
Rene of Noma, 
Peruvian Master & the signature of Romeo Cocktail Bar: Central.
Or my very good friend Grant Achatz of Alinea in my hometown of Chicago or
Chi-town as we call it, with the mayors of: Daily, Emanuele, & Lori Lightfoot. With the "L" as the metro...it's my city & I love Alinea.
At Zazie we eat Vegan including that amazing chocolate cake that the very beautiful porcelain skin owner, Debora makes every morning...where do we get that porcelain skin you might ask? Well at ZAZIE in Verona, of course, where every ingredient you put into your mouth is as natural as the good Mother earth can make it. Tucked in a sidestreet at: Via Gaetano Trezza 1A, Verona, Italy https://www.facebook.com/zazieverona
My Couscous salad is pictured below and as I already said on Twitter the day I ate it, it is the very best salad that I have ever eaten. It had tumeric in it,which usually is okay with me, yet every couple of months my body rejects new spices so now I know I can't eat tumeric any longer. Debora says that next time she can make it for me without tumeric. Just ask about your allergies & although every item that she uses in the kitchen is natural, you should ask anyway. Yet would I order that salad again? Of course I would. Her boyfriend, Dan, is a biologist, which is perfect for research! He helps her cook in the Ramen special every Saturday night! 
Debora has done several trips to Asia, & has learned the art of using Asian spices, so you will taste a little Vegan fusion of all Verona farm to table ingredients with her special touches mixed in. I personally have always loved veggies & fruits, along with chicken & fish, yet thought eating healthy was very expensive.
I was sooo surprised that my CousCous salad was only $7-8. And you see how huge it is. So, please come & try these lovely dishes that she cooks from brand new every morning. She makes the cakes every morning. She decides the recipes for the day at night, "I dream recipes. I write these down as I dream them & that is how I create everyday a new menu." Okay I call Debora the Steven Spielberg of Cooking!
I was sooo surprised that my CousCous salad was only $7-8. And you see how huge it is. So, please come & try these lovely dishes that she cooks from brand new every morning. She makes the cakes every morning. She decides the recipes for the day at night, "I dream recipes. I write these down as I dream them & that is how I create everyday a new menu." Okay I call Debora the Steven Spielberg of Cooking! Okay, so for everybody who is still living in the 2010s, Vegan is very cool & very real. It isn't a "trend" any longer & especially with the pandemic attacking all of our immune systems, it is time to give all natural a try. Hey Joaquin where you at? Ha.
Here is the Vegan you have been looking for-especially because Deborah does Vegan for purely personal reasons: She LOVES ANIMALS. When Deborah was young growing up on a farm her mom & dad didn't know what to feed her! She said that her mom said that she had to cook for herself because they were the steak & potatoes kind of family that typically does grow up on a farm. So Debora read books & cooked for herself. Isn't she amazing? She said that she loved all the animals on her farm & seriously could never even think of eating "bessie!". (My words, bessie, yet you get the idea.)
So, hence, the Vegan magic has begun. I had first started eating Vegan, myself, from my stint at Charliewasasinner in Philadelphia. LOOOVED: IT.
Now my skin is gorgeous outside & I look so much younger eating healthy. So, I'm eating healthy now.
Um, so you must come play games on get your game on Saturday night at Ramen night. You love Ramen? We love Ramen. Open til Midnight on Saturday nights so come & party. "All of my team is women except my boyfriend, Dan, who is in the kitchen on Saturday nights cooking sooo much Ramen it is unbelievable. Usually I am here from 6:00 am, we open at 9:00 am, til 8:00pm. Yet on Saturday we're here from 6:30 am to Midnight. It is crazy!" says Deborah. And yes they have wine, biological of course, from Dan the Ramen Chef!
https://www.instagram.com/lafigaccia/reels/
LA FIGACCIA
Remember the great Saturday Night Live skit: Cheeseburger?
well here it is Focaccia Focaccia Focaccia! All Focaccia, first made so famous in Florence that the city banned sitting on the cobblestoned alley where tourists lined up for blocks.
Via daniele manin 4/A, Verona, Italy
NOW IN VERONA...yum wait til you see how BIG these Focaccia sandwiches they make to give guests...
Allessio & Gypsy started the Verona edition of the famous Florence Focaccia about 3 years now & they're famous already. 
See that meat? Each section is one sandwich. The couple from New York & Miami can't believe how big their sandwich is & I say that it looks like an entire steak dinner.
"We have local wine & local beer. We try to find Verona breweries because I want people to come here for the real local culture." says Allessio & I tell him about the Santa Maria Craft Pub. It is a local brewery & they're seem very nice, so maybe in the future you can grab a local beer from the La Figaccia beer case, your focaccia & sit outside chatting with internationals around the world.
I love to see when "corporate" people become entrepreneurs because they're so proud & happy to do what they do & to laugh & share their success stories with you.
No exception is La Figaccia & Allessio & Gypsy. "I love meeting everybody & yet I am the shy one having been with IT. Gypsy loves to talk to people," says Allessio. I ask him if he misses the IT corporate world? "Now I am having fun talking to people from everywhere actually. I love my place." https://www.facebook.com/lafigaccia
Okay tourists come on & with a beauty such as here, how could you stay home!
I ask to see Allessio's facebook & he saamys he deleted his facebook & instagram & I start laughing. If the Florence team uses social media how does he do it? "O gosh, of course the La Figaccia has Facebook & Instagram. We have 4,000 followers already on Instagram, I just deleted the other social medias!" he says. O thanks to heaven. I so believe that people love to discover social media sites to check out cultural places. And they're way way up there on Trip Advisor, too, so the "boys in the band" do something right! 
However, know that she cares very deeply for the fact that all of her ingredients are real, fresh, the best she can find, the recipes traditional real & true to Verona & Italy. She cares very much for these facts & spends a lot of her time everyday making sure that she has the freshest available at her restaurant everyday. It is important to know for us with allergies: they use zero chemicals in the kitchen-all natural ingredients & in addition to the wheat pasta "Senatore Cappelli", they use Spelt pasta with a very low gluten content. They have warm carrot soup & 13 vegetables soup for the vegetarians, in addition to huge salads & fish main entries. 
Try some of these: Rocket salad with dry smoked Horse Meat, Raspberry vinegar and Parmigiano cheese waffle or HOME MADE EGG FETUCCINE
with Turkey, Duck and Guinea Fowl white Ragu, Rosemary flavored.
They have an amazing collection of Amarone wines & a very nice selection of Champagne in addition to the local Verona Reds & Whites, they have Italian wines from all around Italy & some great French wines, too,
Greta is one of a handful of Restaurant owners or "Capos" as I fondly call these great dedicated loyal people who sacrifice their entire life so that they can present to you the local traditions of their regions. She is very proud that her entire team is hers. That she is the boss & hand selects her team herself & they have been loyal to her & Osteria Sgarzarie for years. "I have finally hired 2 women, a server & a bartender. Usually I work only with men on my team at least the last 7 years & now I am training the girls!" She laughs when I say O okay seeing that she herself is a woman.
Along with playful tables down the front alley, a intimate tiny inside dining room, they have the lovely historical portico that you sit under ancient stone pillars & have a lively time chatting with each other & close guests sitting next to you. 
TIGELLA BELLA of VERONA VIA SOTTORIVA 24
Okay aren't they the cutest couple ever? The two owners are Dario & Vanessa and both would much rather have their food taken pictures of by their newly hired social media director from Sri Lanka, although he says he has never actually been to Sri Lanka, then themselves, but I'm glad I convinced them because they're so adorable.
“Well we do
have the local wine from the Tommasi Vineyards & the 3 Italian pasta dishes
that we change with the season, yet keep these traditionally Veronese. And
while the ham that we use is the highest quality from the choice of the Tigella
Bella franchise(we gladly use it in all of our menu items), the vegetables
& products that we use to accompany the Tigella bread are all from Venuto.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/CetK367sOAj/Dario said that they added chicken wings, a huge real beef hamburger, which the younger generations from everywhere in the world(uh-oh, they're becoming americanized)seem to love and these french fries in addition to 3 plates of various regional pastas. Yet they're famous because of the tigella. Finally I enjoyed it, & especially the chance to have real Lambrusco from Modena again. I had it several years ago in 2019 at a little café in Modena & it was delicious. Very different from the Americanized version we have in the United States. Here it is smooth & sweet. I had gone to Modena naively thinking I could talk one of the big exotic car owners into producing & sponsoring my script, The Life of Albert, which of course has car racing in it. Modena for those you don’t know, is home to Lamborghini, Ferrari, Bugati, Maserati, & of course Luciano Pavaretti & Massimo Bottura of the #1 Restaurant in the world according to Michelin 2016; Francescana. It is also the home of Balsamic Vinegar, you know the one dressing you love on all of your salads around the world. O & it has one hostel for my backpackers:Ostello Felippe. Very cool little city, near Bologna, & birthplace of my grandfather Dante Vignali. So I am a little partial to Modena!
My grandfather’s brother, Kelly(Alfonso)Vignali was Jimmy Hoffa’s right-hand man & mentioned in the movie with Robert DeNiro, The Irishman. O & have I mentioned that Robert DeNiro visits Massimo about once a month to try cooking techniques for his TriBecca Grill in New York? Many reasons to visit Modena & many little Tigella reasons to eat at Tigella Bella.
Perso
And my little baby order of tigella. Yes they have a baby size, which is named baby tigella and it is way too big for me! The cool thing about the Tigella Bella is that although they are a franchise born in Modena, the Tigella Bella owners give their partners a lot of chances to tweak their menu to the location of their own Tigella Bella. “We have 3 items that are particular to the Venuto traditions & we added the other ‘Americanized” items during the pandemic,’ says Dario who also says that it helped with delivery when the people wanted a Hamburger & fries, for instance. Here they had Tigella delivered to, & so they weren’t ever completely closed. When the Osteria opened up again, the people usually chose to eat outside, right on the river, with its beautiful view. I think that it is a very brave choice to try a little bit of something that isn’t regional & yet it is.
Vanessa is the cook of the family, and Dario is the Director who talks to and greets the guests, although except when it is super busy, which is almost always, Vanessa is out chatting with everybody, too! The wine Dario tells me is Venuto except they carry 2 Modena wines of Lambrusco which is very sweet. Must try.
OSTERIA Al Carroarmato + 39 045 894 4413
Vicolo Gatto 2A
As you can see the food is perfectly simply presented & you feel as if you should call, "Mama, do you have a spoon?" So home-made everyday. 
Yes, it is true that they have horsemeat on the menu. It is named Pastisada de caval con polenta, which translates to Traditional veronese horse meat stew with polenta. She has 4 Piatti di mezzo, 4 Pimi Piatti, & 5 Antipasti. That is it. She has dessert, too.
That is 5 dessert items only. Chocolate Lava Cake with Creme is special, as is a Degustazione of chocolate tasting.
I rave about her 3 polenta plates because I love polenta & she has Lingotto di Predazzo cheese with mushrooms & polenta, she has Baccala with polenta which is salt cod, & she has Burrato cheese with grill vegetables as the other option. However the "kicker" is the Horse meat with Polenta as I have mentioned if you're into exotic choices & it is your first time you should try it. 
Located at: Via Sottoriva, 10/A
along the river with outside tables
Try the Polenta at lunch & come to dinner on the romantic river to eat some pasta or fish. It is amazing. I have known David about 8 years now, if you count the 3 that we have been away from Italy, & I know that what is important to him is the cooking process & the local farmers. It must be fresh & natural & he supports the local farmers always. Something that is very important to me, too.
Typical Veronese appetizer would be perhaps Polenta with cheese and mushrooms, of which my mother used to make for us every mushroom hunting season near Chicago where they would find wild mushrooms and on Sundays we would watch American football and eat Polenta! Yum. You could try the horse meatballs if you are very exotic or the Tenerona beef chop with Baldo mount. Intrigued? Try it.
If you are very lucky David shall invite you to his medieval cellars below the river level...cool! And as far as homecooked goes!
I love the emotions of the Italians: if they are happy with you they tell you & show you & if not the same thing! As they say when arguing: "Ah Lara..." 
Here is the usual table at Antica Verona, full of friends laughing & arguing & drinking David's highest quality of Italian wine.
One of my favorite Capos and friends Luca of Ristorante Sant'Eufemia in Verona 
Via Francesco Emilei, 21b
Luca has a famous poster that he has everybody, mostly famous people, take his photo with. So, a tourist took our photo & here it is...Luca says that a camera crew filmed Love in the Villas for Netflix awhile since and that he is drinking lots of wine with friends and so he wasn't in the movie as he is supposed to yet that his restaurant is and that the director & he stood at the famous photo.
Luca Loves Life. He loves family. He loves tradition, creating great food for his guests & loves to drink wine! He has a love for music & you must ask when he is having live Jazz musicians again as they are super great! 
Luca is as traditional as you can ever find. He comes from a long line of formal dining here at Sant' Eufemia, & it was Luca actually who brought his fine dining restaurant to a more family food fare with a addition of pizza, for instance. Back in the day Luca says that jackets were required when his mother & father ran the restaurant and all of the Vatican higher ups dined here. "The cooking and recipes are mine and a long standing tradition of my family.
The kitchen is Verona and Venuto. I believe that people come here to
try our culture and the regional food and that is the reason I choose
it. And I happen to love my kitchen," says Luca.
One of the reasons that I love the food of Sant'Eufemia is that Luca and the team make the homemade pasta fresh everyday...yum!
One of the reasons I love to say hi to Luca every year is that he is a
real good guy. A nice person. A no-nonsense and down to earth Capo who
is honest and appreciates honesty of his guests. If you love something
tell him. If you want a little something special ask and he does his
best!
Here is my ultimate favorite I can find of polenta!
I love the quality and seasonal variety and the
seafood is quite good here to. "Every year people come back and say Hi
Luca we are here again and that makes me feel happy. To know that they
remember me and that they make a special journey to Sant'Eufemia. It is
still fun for me and that is the reason I continue to do it."
Reservations if you wish: Via Garibaldi, 16/a
37121 Verona VR
Tel. +39 045 800 8261
info@trattoriapanevino.it
37121 Verona VR
Tel. +39 045 800 8261
info@trattoriapanevino.it
https://www.instagram.com/trattoriapanevino/
https://www.trattoriapanevino.it/
Angelo is the very cool & funny boss of Osteria Pane & Vino. He says that he has been here about 22 years & he is both the Cook & the Owner, which is very usual for a Michelin Restaurant, actually. It shows the highest quality & care when the Cook is the owner. He has a invested interest in his guests & with Angelo it is the same as Michelin quality. "All my pasta is home-made everyday & I take care to use both traditional Verona recipes that I have made & new recipes from regions around the world that I have visited."
With the fun team that Angelo has, all kindness & smiles only smiles and of course parmegian! Why Parmegian? Because when I ask to take their picture and ask what I should say instead of the American,"Cheese" they say that Parmegian is local traditional cheese!
The menu to me is of a special quality, unique. It has Roasted Guinea fowl breast on it, for instance both on the degustation menu & the second course menu. I, personally, love Guinea fowl & it is the first time I have seen it on a Italian menu in a very long while & so I would come here just to taste the Guinea! The Degustation is only, 60!, euros. Amazing for such a high quality menu, so I know that once I add to the EmmeAnesBook that you can have a highest quality dinner degustation for that here, many will flock to the restaurant. Pun intended! Angelo cooks with many other surprises, too. Such as his Amarone based Arancini with Amarone wine, stuffed with Verona cheese, served in cream onion sauce, and of all menus I have ever seen in Italy, his is the most original. I wonder if he is so famous that he is pulling my leg & I am thinking he is a Verona based local chef when he is everywhere in the world. However, you MUST COME HERE and he tells me that his festival of one month of the gnocchi during Carnival every year that each restaurant has colorful exotic ways to make gnocchi. It coincides with the famous wine festival of Verona in April & so you can come, drink wine & party & eat very fattening Gnocchi while visiting Juliet's house. You can not get more romantic than that here. All is home-made!
That is true. The travelers of today especially after the stay at home orders of the last 2 years are eager to venture into the world again. Yet they are discerning travelers who have had chances to do research & so to have them come back to Italy is a challenge that here at EmmeAnesBook we are glad to help the Italian people meet. Italy has authenticity which has stayed traditional & that is why people travel. https://it-it.facebook.com/trattoriapanevino/ Angelo offers me a espresso while we talk and he says that I must write that they use the very good & very strong Verona based roasted coffee . IT is so strong, yet very good & you must try to come here to have all; the dinner, the dessert Bacio di Giulietta which is Juliet's kiss of soft white chocolate pudding with strawberry chocolate topping, dark chocolate sponge cake & almond cookie! yum.
WANT some fun happy hour from 11:00am to 1:00pm & from 6:00pm to 9:00 pm.
CAFE BARBARINI on the VERONA MERCATO SQUARE
EVERYDAY
https://www.caffe-barbarani.it/
They have a amazing dessert menu, too, along with a "real menu" other than the teasing appetizers at Aperitivo Buffet...based on the pizza and rice & fun tiny sandwiches that you try you can order a dinner. The guests always are laughing and talking since you are right on the Mercato right in the center of the Square!
And the doorway to the world, I have had at least 8 different spritzes during happy hour lunches and my favorite is the Royal Martini spritz. Fun and quick. Quirky and Surreal with a mixture of elegance & casual. You will love it here and feel at home. 
It is crazy, the place. It is as if you are at your family's Christmas dinner every minute, with lunch people drinking wine yelling at me, or the waitress telling me of the great calimari or Sofia finally arriving to the interview and pouring me a huge glass of wine! crazy fun. PS the food great! 
The prices are soooo low that you will drink 5 glasses of the best Verona white wine and still not reach the 10 euro rate! I drank about 5 yet the girl Capo, Sofia, maybe gave me about 10. I am not sure. The wine is good and the conversation of 3 hours better. The plate with bigoli pasta and duck, for instance, is only 7.00 euros. That is wild! And the bigoli with the donkey is 7.00 euros. The wine 1.50 euro! Incredible. The food is great, the atmosphere alternates between quirky and strange to the 90 year old woman who comes every night and dances in the taverna section of the Osteria about 10 feet from the dining room. A hilarious night! 
"My boyfriend went to West Virginia, his name is Ronnie. He loved America!" says Sofia when she introduces her boyfriend of 6 years who laughs and drinks wine with us. He loved America. "Right now I am a interior designer and I hope to do my own interior designs with the businesses of Verona." he says. Below, locals having a chat! 