10 great vegetarian menus to try in Italy that everyone likes

It’s one thing to find good, sometimes excellent, vegan and vegetarian dishes in restaurants. Another is to sit at the table of the best vegetarian restaurants or those where you can enjoy 100% green tastings. Our most capable and creative chefs have been working for some time to enhance vegetables in their proposals: it does Enrico Crippathree Michelin stars in Piazza Duomo in Alba, for example, which has among its most iconic dishes the salad 21, 31, 41…, and in general a menu with lots of vegetables that is recovered daily in the Ceretto family’s greenhouses. As Michelangelo Mammoliti (two Michelin stars at Rei Natura at the Boscareto Resort) plays a lot with the raw materials from his garden. Or again The MagnoliaPiedmontese green star (and Michelin macaron) with a kitchen green and feminine.

Not all of these places are strictly vegetarian restaurants, and meat is by no means out of the picture. Yet even a carnivore will end up appreciating the menus dedicated to vegetables, so imaginative, full of flavor and carefully crafted that they surprise (and even convince) those who support the poverty of a “green” vision only. Niko Romito, the number 1 also in this field, told us that his greatest satisfaction is receiving the appreciation of gourmets with a strong passion for carnivorous food (there are still many, especially of mature ages), without having used any tricks. Because it’s one thing to present vegetables in an elegant way, it’s another to create dishes where they apparently disappear or are deconstructed in such a way that they look like another food. Romito, in this sense, but also many others go straight to the goal or at most have fun with the color palette, one of the strong points of the vegetable. Then, as we know, we are a country of saints, navigators and conservatives in the kitchen. It’s hard to remember that spaghetti with tomato sauce is nothing more than a vegan dish, because many people combine vegetarian or vegan cuisine with something distant, while in fact they eat it every day.