Regional cuisine

What to eat in Reggio Calabria

21 typical dishes of Reggio Calabria with cultural context, origin story and verified restaurants.

Regional cuisine

What to eat in Reggio Calabria

Aspromonte-style goat

Aspromonte-style goat is a rustic, intense dish in which goat meat is slowly cooked in a tomato sauce scented with…

Reggio Calabria frittole

Reggio Calabria frittole are rustic morsels of pork slowly cooked in their own broth and fat until extremely tender…

Strait Whitebait Fry (Neonata/Bianchetti)

A golden, crispy veil encloses tiny silver fish freshly caught in the Strait. The fried neonata – or bianchetti…

Bergamot gelato

Bergamot gelato usually appears in a pale, almost ivory shade, with a creamy, velvety texture. At the first taste it…

Stockfish Salad with Potatoes, Capers, and Olives

Stockfish salad with potatoes, capers, and olives appears as a simple yet luminous dish: pale bites of stockfish…

Reggio-style swordfish rolls

Reggio-style swordfish rolls are small golden, fragrant bundles made with thin slices of swordfish wrapped around an…

Maccheroni al ferretto with goat sauce

Maccheroni al ferretto are long, hollow, and slightly irregular, hand-rolled around a thin metal rod that gives the…

Reggio-style stuffed eggplants

Reggio-style stuffed eggplants are soft and generous, cut open and filled with a fragrant mixture of bread, cheese…

Reggio-style stuffed eggplants

Reggio-style stuffed eggplants arrive at the table golden and fragrant, nestled in a veil of rich tomato sauce. The…

Pasta with stockfish

Pasta with stockfish is a bold and fragrant first course, where the pronounced flavor of dried stockfish intertwines…

Pasta with Reggio-style stockfish

A dish with the intense aroma of the sea and the Mediterranean: short pasta wrapped in a bright red sauce where the…

Pasta with Eggplant and Salted Ricotta, Reggio-Style

A dish that smells of Mediterranean summer: pasta wrapped in a bright, fragrant tomato sauce, enriched with soft…

Reggio-style pasta with swordfish and eggplant

Reggio-style pasta with swordfish and eggplant is a bright, fragrant first course where the colors of the…

Swordfish alla ghiotta

Swordfish steaks first seared and then enveloped in a fragrant sauce of tomato, olives, capers, and Mediterranean…

Grilled Swordfish from the Strait of Messina

A thick slice of freshly caught swordfish, laid on a scorching grill until it develops a golden, lightly smoky…

Pignolata di Reggio Calabria

Pignolata di Reggio Calabria appears as a small mountain of tiny golden balls of fried dough, gathered together and…

Reggio-style Pignolata

Pignolata reggina appears as a small golden mound of fried dough balls, compact and glossy, half coated with a white…

Reggio-style stuffed sardines

Reggio-style stuffed sardines are little treasures of the sea: sardine fillets opened and filled with a fragrant…

Mammola-style stockfish

Mammola-style stockfish is a hearty, fragrant dish in which large pieces of stockfish are slowly cooked with potatoes…

Mammola-style stockfish

Mammola-style stockfish appears as a rich, aromatic stew in which large pieces of stockfish mingle with soft potatoes…

Seafood Soup of the Strait

A deep, fragrant seafood soup where the red of tomato envelops slices of swordfish, scorpionfish, and freshly opened…

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