26 stores · curated ORBIS register
Italian cheese is protected by name, aged by patience, sold by people who remember the wheel's arrival. Antica Salumeria Rastelli cures family-recipe Parma meats and cheese since 1952. Caseificio Starace 1920 makes caciocavallo and its signature Provolone di Vico with mozzarella-making experiences. Volpetti stacks Roman salumi and pecorino as Testaccio's temple of salumi and cheese since 1973. The heart of a wheel ages slowest; a good counter will cut you a piece from it if you ask early in the day.
Modena / Italy
The Giusti salumeria in central Modena has curated cured meats, cheeses and artisan specialties for generations, offering gift boxes and a made-to-order counter. Its adjoining hosteria and bottiglieria round out the enogastronomia on Via Farini.
Best for Salumeria, Delicatessen, Gourmet Food
Parma / Italy
Parma delicatessen trading since 1952 on family recipes passed down through generations. The counter stocks regional cured meats, cheeses and wines representing the city's food traditions.
Best for Family-recipe Parma cured meats and cheese since 1952.
Parma/Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna
Parmigiano Reggiano is aged 12 to 36 months and made from raw cow's milk in the designated zone. The Consorzio protects the tradition.
Best for 12-36 month aging, raw milk, and the king of Italian cheeses.
Pavia / Italy
A small cheese shop in Pavia, Formaggeria Pavese curates an ample selection of cheeses, cured meats and local specialties. The Viale Venezia counter is built around a passion for the region's dairy tradition.
Best for Cheese, salumi, Pavia specialties, deli
Pavia / Italy
This Pavia salumeria on Via San Pietro in Verzolo sells cured meats, fresh bread, cheeses and ready-cooked regional dishes like lasagne and roast meats, filled to order. Open every day including holidays, it also runs a small bistrot and neighbourhood home delivery.
Best for Deli, salumi, prepared foods, Pavia
Pienza / Italy
Antichi Sapori di Pienza is the Zazzeri family’s food shop in Pienza’s historic center, selling Pecorino di Pienza, Cinta Senese cured meats, Tuscan wines, olive oil, pasta and traditional sweets sourced with local dairies and farms. Its online shop also carries preserves, sauces, honey, aged cheeses and gift baskets, extending the Val d’Orcia pantry range beyond the physical Pienza shop.
Best for Pecorino di Pienza cheese, Cinta Senese cured meats, and Tuscan wines
Pienza / Italy
Bindi Enzo Pienza sells Pecorino di Pienza cheese and Tuscan cured meats made using traditional artisanal methods from its shop in the Il Borgo area of Pienza. The business ships gift baskets and cheese assortments nationwide through its online shop, with free shipping on orders over 120 euros.
Best for Cheese, Charcuterie, Specialty Food
Pienza / Italy
Caseificio Di Mario is a small family dairy in Pienza that makes its own sheep's and goat's cheese from locally sourced milk, sold from its shop, La Bottega Del Naturista, on Corso Rossellino. The dairy also ships its aged and flavored Pecorino wheels through an online store.
Best for Cheese, Dairy, Specialty Food
Pienza / Italy
La Taverna del Pecorino is a Pienza food shop run by Matteo Pasquetti, selling aged Pecorino cheeses, Tuscan cured meats, truffle products, and regional wines. The shop holds a 4.9-star Google rating and ships its curated selection nationwide through its online store.
Best for Aged Pecorino cheeses, Tuscan cured meats, truffle products
Porto Mantovano / Italy
Latteria Sociale Mantova is a dairy cooperative that has pressed Grana Padano since 1929, working around 700,000 kilograms of milk a day into roughly 1,380 wheels across four cheese-houses. Its retail store in Porto Mantovano sells the co-op's cheeses and butter alongside Mantuan specialties like pumpkin ravioli, salami and wines, with tastings offered on site.
Best for Grana Padano, cheese making, dairy
Via Roma 296, Recco (Genova)
Operating in Recco since 1885, Manuelina is regarded as a home of focaccia col formaggio, the region's cheese-filled focaccia. Alongside the focacceria it serves Ligurian specialties and offers a 'Home Edition' product line.
Best for Focaccia di Recco col formaggio IGP
Via dei Giubbonari 21, Centro Storico, Rome
The Roscioli family cure their own guanciale, stock over three hundred cheeses, and serve a carbonara purists dream about.
Best for House-cured guanciale and 300-plus cheeses
Rome / Testaccio / Online
Testaccio's temple of salumi and cheese since 1973 — Rome's most serious gourmet counter, shipped.
Best for Roman salumi, pecorino, and gift hampers.
Vico Equense / Italy
Caseificio Luigi Parlato has produced Provolone del Monaco and other fresh and aged cheeses from its dairy in the Arola hills above Vico Equense since 1973, continuing a family cheesemaking tradition that traces back to the seventeenth century. The dairy sells directly from its Via Aiello premises to visitors and local buyers.
Best for Provolone del Monaco and aged cheeses from a family dairy tradition tracing
Vico Equense / Italy
Caseificio Starace has made cow's-milk cheeses in Vico Equense since 1920, selling caciocavallo, mozzarella fior di latte, and its signature Provolone di Vico daily from its Via Luigi Avellino shop and online store. Visitors can also book hands-on mozzarella- and butter-making experiences at the dairy.
Best for Caciocavallo and signature Provolone di Vico, plus hands-on mozzarella-making experiences
Aosta / (Valle d'Aosta)
Italy’s smallest region, framed by Mont Blanc, Roman remains and a bilingual Alpine culture, with Fontina and other mountain cheeses central to the region’s food identity.
Best for Mont Blanc, Roman theatre, Fontina, French-speaking.
Assisi
This independent gourmet shop in central Assisi gathers typical Umbrian foods: Norcia cured meats, truffles, local cheeses and torta al testo. It also carries artisanal pasta, oils, honey and regional wines and craft beers.
Best for Typical Umbrian food and truffle products
Portovenere / Italy
Bajeico, born from the Massa family's half-century-old Portovenere grocery, is an artisanal pesto laboratory on Via Capellini making pesto by hand from Ligurian basil, garlic, pine nuts and cheese. Visitors can taste and buy jars directly from the shop while wandering the town's carruggio.
Best for Food & Gastronomy, Pesto
Sicily / Online
Curated Sicilian producers' marketplace — cheeses, conserves, sweets, plus Burgio ceramics and coppole from island artisans.
Best for One-cart Sicilian pantry raids.
Po Valley, Veneto/Emilia
Parmigiano's approachable cousin — aged 9 to 20 months, produced across a wider zone, and the everyday grating cheese that Italians reach for at home.
Best for 9-20 month aging, wider production zone, and Italy's everyday grating cheese.
Castellina in Chianti
A village butcher in the center of Castellina working in the Tuscan tradition of carni e salumi tipici, cutting local meats and curing its own salami, finocchiona, and prosciutto. The counter also sells cheeses and regional foods to travelers passing through Chianti.
Best for Tuscan cured meats and salumi
Campania
The queen of cheeses — water buffalo milk, hand-stretched, milky and soft, and the DOP-protected mozzarella that is the essence of Campanian cuisine.
Best for Buffalo milk, hand-stretched, and the queen of Campanian cheeses.
Bergamo province
Ol Formager has sold Bergamo's mountain cheeses for more than sixty years, specializing in the DOP varieties of the local Cheese Valley such as Taleggio and Formai de Mut. The family shop also stocks cured meats, wines, and other typical products of the Bergamasque valleys.
Best for Bergamo DOP mountain cheeses
Sardinia
The sheep's milk cheese of Sardinia — sharp, aged, and the cheese that defines the pastoral tradition of the island. The shepherds' gift to Italian cuisine.
Best for Sheep's milk, sharp and aged, and the pastoral gift of Sardinia.
Via Garibaldi
Handcrafting focaccia and Ligurian pastries since 1964, this third-generation Camogli bakery is known for its classic and cheese-filled focaccia and the crisp 'croccantina,' plus seasonal pandolce and colomba. The family ships its specialties online and runs harbor boat tours with sunset aperitivi built around its baking.
Best for Focaccia and Ligurian pastries
Brescia
STPN gathers a butcher, delicatessen, wine cellar and kitchen under one roof in Brescia, selling cured meats, cheeses and regional wines. The counter also prepares ready dishes and salumi platters drawn from its own gastronomia.
Best for Cured meats, cheeses and regional wines
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