Bars of Italy 2024: the best and most innovative in the Gambero Rosso Guide

There are 45 of the best bars on the peninsula awarded by the Guide with the symbols of the Three Cups and the Three Grains 2024. Piedmont shines, as always. Paolo Griffa of Al Caffè Nazionale in Valle d'Aosta wins the sustainability award for energy from renewable sources and recyclable packaging. The list of all the awarded bars. The sore point of staff shortages

A place to take a moment's break during the day - but also to start it well - where to meet with four friends as Gino Paoli sang "destined for something more than a woman and a job in a bank" where we spoke with depth of anarchy and freedom". The bar is no longer simply a meeting place, today it has evolved, is a place where today the breakfast, sweet and savory, becomes slow and borders on brunch, where the lunch break increasingly highlights seasonal vegetables supporting new dietary regimes and where the indispensable ritual ofaperitif is marked by Spritz and glasses of wine supported by studied cocktail lists, with interesting zero alcohol proposals or drinks that enhance coffee, tea or even beer. In short, an important place in our lives.

To guide the consumer in making wise choices, La. arrives in bookstores Gambero Rosso Guide to Italian Bars 2024 which in collaboration with illycaffè, photographs a world in which tradition is increasingly combined with innovation with a truly commendable multiplication of the offer.

“One trend above all – explains Laura Mantovano, Editorial Director of the Gambero Guides – is that of specialty coffee shops, which are enjoying growing success cwith their new positioning in the market, as well as the investment by large groups and funds in Italy's historic cafés, new venues alongside museums and art venues and much more to discover. But the same is true for the world of bars too sore point that affects catering in the broad sense: the lack of adequately trained staff. A handicap which, together with the high management costs, continues to cause a heavy turnover between openings and closures here too, which is important to pay attention to, to continue to best support such a strategic segment".

“Our bars and restaurants are places capable of representing the maximum expression of the Italian lifestyle, attention to the beautiful, the good and the well done and the attention to detail. And it is precisely for this reason that illycaffè has chosen to support the most demanding merchants, not only with superior sustainable quality products, but also by offering professional training to staff, to guarantee the perfect Italian coffee experience" comments Cristina Scocchia, CEO of illycaffè.

They are 45 of the best bars on the peninsula awarded by the Guide with the symbols of the Three Cups and the Three Grains 2024. A shine, as Piedmont always does, where the historic coffee tradition ensures two brands the maximum stars for 20 consecutive years, such as Baratti & Milano and Turin and Converso in Bra, joined by Biasetto in Padua, Tuttobene in Campi Bisenzio (FI) and Antico Caffè Spinnato of Palermo with the same record.

The Aosta Valley is also in the spotlight: Paolo Griffa at Caffè Nazionale, who opens the guide with his palmares with full points, also wins the illy Bar of the Year Award 2024, thanks to sustainability which is its underlying theme. Electricity entirely obtained from renewable sources, 97% recyclable packaging, all-round attention to waste, selection of suppliers with shared values, guaranteeing product quality and the living conditions of those who work along the supply chain, valorising the products of small businesses Aosta Valley and the wild herbs used in the preparations, harvested from a synergistic garden just a few steps away. A sum of small daily gestures, not shouted but understood as "normality".