Restaurants in Genoa

All over Genoa you’ll find shops selling focaccia, Liguria’s answer to pizza, a sort of thick flatbread often stuffed or topped with cheese, herbs, olives, onions, vegetables, or prosciutto. Many of these focaccerie also sell farinata, a chickpea fritter that usually emerges from the oven in the shape of a big round pizza. Just point and make a hand gesture to show how much you want. Prices are by weight and in most cases a piece of either will cost about 1.50€ to 3€. Most focaccia, especially if it has cheese, and all farinata are better warm so if the piece you are getting looks like it has been there a while ask for it to be warmed up (or, in Italian, "scaldarla").

A favorite spot for both snacks, and right near Stazione Principe, is La Focacceria di Teobaldo ★, Via Balbi 115r (daily 8am–8pm). Focacceria di Via Lomellini ★, on Via Lomellini 57/59 in the heart of the Old Town (Mon–Sat 8am–7:30pm), has great focaccia di Recco (also called focaccia al formaggio), a super-thin focaccia filled with cheese that is the specialty of the nearby town of Recco. Follow up your foccaccia with something sweet at Fratelli Klainguti (Piazza Macelli di Soziglia 98; (tel) 010-860-2628). Down at Porto Antico, get your focaccia fix (you will be addicted after your first taste) at Il Localino, Via Turati 8r (Mon–Sat 9am–7pm).