Lucca, Italy City Guide
For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Lucca, Italy Travel Guide has been your connection to Lucca's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
Lucca Dining
Dining in Lucca is truly a wonderful experience. Lucca’s signature dish is tortelli lucchese. The color of pasta is determined the wealth of the people preparing it. People of little means had very pale colored pasta because it lacked eggs. But Lucca was a wealthy town due to banking and the silk trade, so it stands to reason that the pasta is bright yellow in this dish stuffed with seasoned meat and topped with a meat-laden ragù. Other local favorites are faro (barleylike grain) soup with beans, rabbit prepared in many styles, and baccalà (salt cod). Since Lucca is close to the Mediterranean Sea seafood when on the menu will be fresh. Be sure to ask your bed and breakfast innkeeper about their favorite local recipes! In abundance are Italian sausages, fresh and dried pastas, olive oil and fresh produce. You will find pizza and gelato seemingly on every corner. Don’t forget to sit at a bistro and enjoy the delicious coffee or sip on a glass of limoncello. Knowing how important food is to the Italian culture, Lucca won’t disappoint your taste buds. Recommendations are the best way to find what’s good to eat so ask your fellow bed and breakfast guests where they dined the night before or if it’s something specific you’re craving your bed and breakfast innkeepers will be able to direct you to the right place.
Prepare to step back in time when you arrive at your Lucca bed and breakfast hotel. The pace slows as your senses are peaked with the aroma of food cooking, the elegance of your surroundings and perhaps you’ll hear some Puccini playing in the background, this is what a bed and breakfast vacation planned at LanierBB.com is all about.
