🇮🇹Kosher Restaurants in Italy

Rome is home to the oldest Jewish community in Europe and the richest kosher dining scene in Italy, almost all of it clustered in the historic Jewish Ghetto around Via del Portico d'Ottavia in the Sant'Angelo rione. Kosher supervision is centralised under the Rabbinato of the Jewish Community of Rome (Comunita Ebraica di Roma), whose kashrut office publishes the official list of certified restaurants, pizzerias, bakeries, pastry shops, gelaterie and butchers. The area is famous for Roman-Jewish (giudaico-romanesca) cooking, above all the deep-fried carciofi alla giudia.

Milan is home to Italy's second-largest Jewish community and has a compact but varied kosher scene spanning meat restaurants, dairy pizzerias, cafes, bakeries, a gelateria and several caterers. Most establishments are supervised by the kashrut department of the Jewish Community of Milan (the Milan Rabbinate). The eateries cluster in the western neighborhoods around Via Sally Mayer, Via Soderini and Viale San Gimignano, close to the community's school and synagogues.

Venice's Jewish Ghetto in the Cannaregio district, established in 1516, is the oldest ghetto in the world and remains the heart of the city's Jewish life, centered on the Campo del Ghetto Nuovo and its synagogues and museum. The kosher scene here is small but genuine, clustered within a few minutes' walk of the Guglie Bridge and Santa Lucia station. It is supported by the Jewish Community of Venice and by Chabad of Venice, which caters to both local Jews and the many Jewish travelers passing through.

Florence has a Jewish community dating back to the Renaissance, centered on the grand Moorish-style Great Synagogue (Tempio Maggiore) in the Sant'Ambrogio district. The kosher dining scene is small but well established, with a meat restaurant and a longstanding dairy/vegetarian restaurant near the synagogue, plus Chabad-run Shabbat meals for visitors. Kashrut is overseen by the Jewish Community of Florence and Chabad of Florence.