Food and Wine of Lake Como Lombardy Italy - Travel Guide & Information

This description page of Lake Como in the Italian Region of Lombardy Italy, will guide you in planning your trip to Italy and help you to find useful travel information about the Food & Wine of this Italian Region.

Food (Cibo)

The restaurant in the many great hotels and in restaurants the popular resort areas will have excellent recognizable Lombardian cuisine with great meats, game, pasta and risottos. At the smaller family run places, the local bounty of the lake is evident.

Perch, small whitefish, shad and river trout are very popular, as Lake Como is bountiful with fish. Pastas stuffed with fish are common in local restaurants. A favorite main dish is fresh perch, a clean-tasting fish that has been filleted and then rolled in flour and breadcrumbs, and then pan-fried in butter and often seasoned with lemon and sage. This is often served on a bed of risotto as risotto con filetti di persico. Other popular fish dishes include lavarelli alla salvia, which is prized whitefish cooked with sage, fittura di alborelle, a small whitefish that is fried and eaten whole, and the distinctive missoltini, sun-dried agoni (shad) that is char-grilled over coals and served with a bed of polenta. This ancient preservation and presentation technique is more popular further up the lake from Como. Another unique preparation of preserved fish is marinate in carpione. There is more than fish to be found as secondos on the lakeside menus, as game and beef are found nearby, and many of the restaurants aptly serve their well-heeled visitors.

There is some olive oil made along the lake. Cheese is made in the upper part of the Brianza, the area between the legs of the lake, and towns on the lake such as thick-crusted unripened sharp-tasting semuda.

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