"If one dish is symbolic of Rome’s cucina ebraica and the ghetto, this is it. If one dish sums up my roots (Jewish, a...

Rocket and datterino tomato salad with balsamic vinegar.  Wild rocket, datterino tomatoes from the shadow of Etna in ...

"I met this dish in Barbaresco, on a wine trip to visit producers in the Langhe. It was love at first sight. As in ma...

"Vitello tonnato – veal with tuna-mayonnaise sauce – is such a gloriously passé concept it has never ceased to be coo...

FROM BOCCA (cookbook) Food is an emotive subject, especially for Italians. Everyone has their own way of doing things...

If you have a smallholding with a few rows of vines, you have something as valuable as a home or a family, be you fis...

Courgettes can be cooked many-a-ways – grilled, marinated, steamed, boiled, fondant – but pan-frying is amongst the b...

Escarole is a wonder lettuce, bittersweet (like life) and just as delicious cooked as it is raw as a salad leaf. Here...

Pasta with tomato sauce has to be the most humble – and the proudest – dish to bring to the table. I imagine there a...

Ragu Bolognese is the meat sauce that begat spag bol. And in honesty, it isn’t so very different – I make mine with ...

Pesto Genovese – the basil one – is something everybody loves, or at least, everybody with a soul. It must be fresh-...

There is little, if anything, more wholesome, refreshing and joyous than greens. This risotto is a simple celebratio...

Super fresh and mineral as Gavi should be, but with texture too. Very versatile.

BACCALÀ ALLA PICCHIAPÒ – salt cod with peppers, potatoes, tomatoes & olives Picchiapò means ‘beaten up a little’...

A dream match for baccala. This is a rare gem from southern Lazio. Complex even just on the nose, with lime and apric...

If you like, or love tripe, this is the dish for you: it is a rampant celebration of the unique flavour and velvety ...

A bold, smooth red from the main grape of Campania. This is big and deep, purple plums and blackberries with a hint o...

"Tagliata just means ‘sliced’ – a steak which is sliced when grilled. Sometimes, they are served plain – other times,...

"Potatoes are soooooooo boring. That really is their point – to be a bland, comfortingly inoffensive background to e...

"Bright green vegetables are just awesome on the grill – convenient, as they come into season just as the weather pe...

"There is no pride so great as to be found in making your own sausages. I discovered this 12 years ago, inspired by m...

"Octopus are such amazing animals – beautiful, intelligent, otherworldly – one does well to examine one’s conscience...

Ultra-premium lumpwood charcoal. It is a bundle of branches turned into charcoal. It will burn steadily and give an e...

A delicately set ‘panna lighter’ (yoghurt panna cotta) spiked with Grappa di San Leonardo (grape spirit from arguably...

Order a Caprese in an Italian restaurant and you will get one of two things – a tomato and mozzarella salad, or a nut...

"Gelo di melone is a bonkers, and bonkersly wonderful, Sicilian dessert. It is a kind of jelly of watermelon, and I’...

If cannoli are the most famous Sicilian dessert, and I am sure they are, cassata is the crowning glory of the island....

Fun, light, sweet and spritzy, this is the perfect partner for fresh fruit or gelato (or both!). Serve very cold, and...

Dry and surprisingly textured for Prosecco, this is a cut above. Persistently fizzy with classic pear notes and just ...

Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, made just like Champagne in Lombardy. Fine fizz and a classic bread dough nose. A perfect...

Pale copper rosé, made like Champagne. This gives the French a run for their money. Delicate and dry, perfect with Pa...

Fizz with a lovely earthly depth. Blackcurrants and roses, enjoy with salami and hard cheese. Not to be taken at all ...

A veluptuous, tasty Primitivo; deep and full of plum and black cherry. The Puglian sun gives us ripe sweet fruit an...

From Marsala in southern Sicily, this is textured and tasty. Beeswax and preserved lemons with a lovely sapid finish...

Delightfully soft and juicy Nerello Mascalese from Sicily.

Light and fresh with stone fruit and lime zest. 

A gluggable, juicy baby from.one of our favourites in Montalcino, Tuscany. Sangiovese and Merlot combine to give swee...

From a single vineyard of old bush vines on Mt. Etna's prized northern slope, this rosé delivers fruit and minerality...

Refreshing, floral and green. Charmingly fruity dry drop from Campania. Frighteningly easy to enjoy. 

Dark fruit, medium body and a crunchy fresh finish. Great for a barbecue. 

Barbaresco is Barolo's prettier sister, and this is a benchmark example from the world's finest co-operative. The cra...

Mouthwatering pretty red from Veneto, with balanced acidity and light tannins to keep it foody. 

I'm not going to go on too much about this one, save to say that it's a great pale, dry rosé from Sicily. We love wha...

Little known Sicilian Perricone. Deep and dark, prune and tobacco, cocoa and spice. 

From Sardinia's oldest grape, wonderfully fresh with a touch of stone fruit. Begging for sunshine and seafood.

A great spring wine, full of zest and zing. Lime and blossom on the nose, and just the right side side of mouthwateri...

Bibi Graetz's cultish white - Vermentino lifted with a touch of Moscato. Summery and fragrant, floral & zesty. Dr...

Off to Tuscany for a Sangiovese by another name, Prugnolo Gentile. Classic nose of red cherries and raspberry with a ...

Delicious volcanic Soave. Structure and depth, almond and a hint of toast. If you love Chablis, try it!

Calabria in the far South West gives us the delightfully named Gaglioppo grape, and this wine shows rather well what ...

Lively, playful drop from Friuli. Lemon and lime, with melon and Granny Smith. Bright, tingly and very refreshing.

Super fresh and mineral as Gavi should be, but with texture too. Very versatile.

This estate only grows Erbaluce, in Piemonte, so they know it well. Green and mineral, with some weight and texture.

A bold, smooth red from the main grape of Campania. This is big and deep, purple plums and blackberries with a hint o...

Nero d'Avola but with freshness and pretty red fruit. Not the usual overripe monster, this is elegant and fine.

Silky Chianti made the old way. Great pedigree and a stunning vintage. Absolutely delicious!

Not the candied sweet Moscato you may be thinking of. This is weighty, flinty and serious. Memorably good.

Across to Friuli in the far East of Italy for a grape still locally known as Tocai Friulano. Perfection with ham and ...

Green apple and fennel nose, with texture and bags of flavour. We love this wine!

A local Friulian grape of such character and versatility. A touch over medium body for this vintage, a little subtle ...

From the Riviera Ligure Di Ponente, a local variant of Vermentino. Like most Ligurian whites, this is built for seafo...

A dream match for baccala. This is a rare gem from southern Lazio. Complex even just on the nose, with lime and apric...

A gorgeously refined blend from Friuli. Pale yellow, with Williams pear and jasmine, given real poise with balanced a...

Mostly from the Covina grape, this is full and dark, yet soft and juicy. Blackcurrants and juniper accent from a top...

Big, bold and sumptuous Cru Barbera. Blackberries and pomegranates mingle with sweet spices, with power and structure...

A rather big boned wine from a rising star of a grape called Timorasso. Grown in the hills of eastern Piemonte above ...

A stunning Montepulciano. Like a barely tethered animal, inky and savage. Structure, depth, and bags of character. 

From the rolling hills of the Maremma on the Tuscan coast, this fine blend (Cab. Sauv., Cab. Franc, Petit Verdot, Mer...

A chance to try one of the finest whites of Italy, from the high Alps. Burnished gold, nutty, complex and super long...

Fun, light, sweet and spritzy, this is the perfect partner for fresh fruit or gelato (or both!). Serve very cold, and...

Italy is a land of appetite, where life is embraced with passion, and food prepared with generosity and joy. But the...

This voucher can be put towards a meal at Bocca Di Lupo, 12 Archer Street, W1D 7BB. Your recipient will receive a 35...

This voucher can be put towards a meal at Bocca Di Lupo, 12 Archer Street, W1D 7BB. Your recipient will receive a 35...

This voucher can be put towards a meal at Bocca Di Lupo, 12 Archer Street, W1D 7BB. Your recipient will receive a 35...

This voucher can be put towards a meal at Bocca Di Lupo, 12 Archer Street, W1D 7BB. Your recipient will receive a 35...