🍷 *The Taste of Viterbo*: cafés, pastry shops, and venues where time has flavour

Every city has a special way to savour it.In Viterbo, the city’s true flavour hides in a small cup of coffee, in a tray of old-fashioned pastries, in a glass of wine sipped under a peperino stone tower.

Eating and drinking in Viterbo is not just a necessity:it’s a ritual—an intimate meeting between time and taste, between memory and pleasure.

Come with me: I’ll take you to the cafés, bistros, and pastry shops where the city reveals itself… bite after bite, sip after sip.

☕ Historic cafés: the taste of elegance

✨ Gran Caffè Schenardi

📍 Corso Italia, 11Opened in 1818, this is a liquid monument of the city.Crystal chandeliers, high ceilings, and waiters who look like they’ve stepped out of a 19th-century painting.

What to order:

• Espresso “corretto” with brandy

• Mini artisan pastries served with a noble flair

👉🏻 Every sip tells a page of history.

✨ Caffè del Teatro

📍 Piazza Giuseppe VerdiCozy, refined, with the effortless charm of timeless elegance.The scent of cappuccinos blends with the atmosphere of vintage theatre posters.

What to order:

• Creamy cappuccino and a slice of wild cherry tart

👉🏻 Perfect for watching the slow theatre of daily life.

🍰 Hidden pastry shops: sweets with deep roots

✨ Pasticceria Garibaldi

📍 Via Garibaldi, 97No frills, just heart.A tiny shop where butter sings, custard dances, and chocolate plays the chorus.

What to try:

• Custard-filled sfogliatelle

• Wild blackberry jam tarts

👉🏻 One bite, and you’re in the real Viterbo.

✨ Antica Latteria

📍 Via della Sapienza, 6Legendary artisan gelato and traditional desserts guarded like relics.

What to taste:

• Ancient-style cream gelato

• Rustic Viterbese cake

👉🏻 A place that’s kept the city’s sweetest soul alive.

🍷 Secret spots for true connoisseurs

✨ Bistrot del Duca

📍 Via San Lorenzo, 55A hidden courtyard, carefully selected wines, small dishes to savour slowly, while time melts into a glass.

What to choose:

• A chilled glass of Grechetto wine

• Toasted bread with Colonnata lard

👉🏻 The kind of place you whisper about only to close friends.

✨ Caffè Letterario

📍 Via Garibaldi, 24Books, local wines, signature coffee: this is where you come not only to drink, but to absorb culture.

What to order:

• Viterbese Spritz (with local vermouth!)

• Tuscia-style charcuterie board

👉🏻 Where taste meets the written word.

✨ Because in Viterbo, flavour is tradition

To sit at a table and order an old-fashioned pastry or a steaming coffeemeans experiencing Viterbo through its most authentic heart.

Here, food is not a trend:it’s memory, identity, a liquid and solid emotion.

Every coffee, every pastry, every glass tells a story of patient hands and eternal flavours.

🛶 Quick guide: The Taste of Viterbo

📍 Where to go:

• Gran Caffè Schenardi for historic elegance

• Pasticceria Garibaldi for authentic sweets

• Bistrot del Duca for a hidden aperitivo

🗓️ When to enjoy it:

• Anytime, but especially in spring and autumn, when the light makes every flavour shine.

🎯 Pro tip:

• Always save room for dessert.