Osteria La Vecete is on Via Pellicciai, a few steps from the Piazza delle Erbe, and operates on the logic of a trattoria that has not needed to revise its offering in decades. The room is small — low vaulted ceilings, oak tables, the kitchen audible from the dining room — and the menu is the Veronese canon: pastissada de caval, risotto all'Amarone, bigoli con ragù d'anatra, the braised and slow-cooked preparations that the wine culture of the Valpolicella produced. The wine list is a study in Veronese DOC viticulture: Amarone, Valpolicella Ripasso, Soave, and Bardolino in the correct proportions. La Vecete opens for lunch and dinner on the schedule of a place that respects the midday meal — this is a city where lunch is still a serious event.
Città Antica, Verona, Italy