Bar San Calisto in Trastavere Rome. We paid $3.80 for two Cappuccino’s and crème cornetto and we sat outside. Incredibly inexpensive compared to most places. We absolutely loved people watching while having breakfast in Italy.
@Nooner27 I was in Rome in November. I discovered a Restaurant called Mama Eats, I have Celiacs and was in heaven the food was so good. It is in Trastavere.
@@Nooner27 espresso and cornetto need to be cheap because most of us couldn't afford it otherwise. It's something everyone eats before working and bars work on the volumes. I hope you enjoyed your stay in Rome.
"Serial Killer" breakfast school here... 😆. Now, beside the needed compliments on the excellent Italian, finally a person who pronounces “pistaCChio” correctly, very well done Sir! 😅
“no cappuccino after 11” isn’t really a thing. it only became a trend to say it on the internet. it is considered weird to have a cappuccino ant time after lunch. as long as you haven’t had lunch, no matter the time it is considered normal to have a cappuccino. if you show up at a bar and order cappuccino at 12:30 it’s not frowned upon. the barista will probably assume you woke up very late and, if in rome, male fun of you for it
@@GregorBrown well.. I'm italian and I've a coworker who takes cappuccino (sometime even hot chocolate) after lunch instead of expresso. I think if someone tells you something about it if you order a cappuccino after 11 am is just because he recognises you're stranger and he want to tell you traditionally it's a breakfast thing. If you clearly show you're a tourist expect it. But in every day life ? Yes, it's unusual, but not so weird at all. At least here in Genova (northen Italy).
@@GregorBrown I believe that a lot of the Italian habits depicted on the internet are nonsense. There is no problem having cappuccino at any time you want, as well is socially accepted eating meatballs within pasta or pizza with fruit toppings (I tasted from excellent pizza shops pizza with pears, grape, figs and more). Moreover, in the northern part of Italy pizza is served with mayonnaise on top as well. I believe the problem is solely that is a shame putting bad quality ingredients like canned pineapple or ketchup on pizza while other ingredients are generally good (one of the best thing is Italy is having great quality ingredients). Finally, Italians use to eat a lot of Chinese and Japanese food. Milan is full of ayce sushi and they are not serving original Japanese cuisine of course, but an italianized version of it. Basically we blame others for something we do ourselves
I was raised in an Italian household. As long as I can remember our bkfst was a slice of Italian bread with butter and milky coffee. My Dad had corn flakes. Very simple. Fond memories.
We absolutely got that habit from yall here in Brazil. Sometimes we add cheese, ham or scrambled eggs too. But I personally like my coffee black and almost no sugar at all 😅
Italian from Marche region here: wake up>espresso at home with my machine at home>get ready>go to bar get espresso and cornetto salato usually with prosciutto crudo>drive work>get off sunglasses>espresso with office's espresso machine>work>espresso>work Repeat.
A historical perspective: most of the modern Italian breakfast came as a result of the 1960s economic boom, itself part of the larger scenario of Italy's re-building after World War II. The development of the food industry and general increase of wealth allowed many people to buy goods such as confectionary and afford real coffee (something which was scarcely available during the Ventennio, as Mussolini's regime posed economic and agricultural isolationism, leading to an unspoken ban of coffee and the development of barley and chicory-based coffee substitutes). My paternal grandma, who was born in 1920, essentially ate dinner leftovers for breakfast, as she had always done for her whole life.
In Piedmont we correctly call it croissant, brioche are other kind of pastries. But I learned that the croissant is made with puff pastry, while the cornetto is made with normal, heavier dough.
give another chance to fette biscottate but this time spread some butter on them before you put the jam. total game changer. i even do weird things with all sorts of nut butters, the weirdest of which, and also the best one, is fette biscottate with tahini and sour orange jam. italians often do butter and apricot jam. plus a lot of Italians have cereal with milk or biscuits/cookies, yogurt, fruit, it isn’t just fette biscottate and merendine (the packaged stuff). up until some 30 years ago it used to be either bread with butter and jam or some sort of cake that your mom would bake on Sunday for it to last a few days but these traditions got kinda lost. sometimes i buy a lemon flavored ciambellone, some semi-industrial stuff but it’s not bad, and have it with earl gray tea and plain yogurt. one of my favorite breakfast. some people do bread and nutella. there’s a ton of different options actually
personally i sometimes go super weird, if i have fresh pears, and have fette biscottate with stracchino on top next to a pear. always paired to earl gray tea. or i have toast with pb&j and my fellow Italians look at me like i’m a total weirdo
Thanks for sharing all these great tips and insights! 🙌 I definitely need to give fette biscottate another try with some butter and jam-sounds like a game changer! I love hearing about the different Italian breakfast traditions, especially the mix of old and new. Earl Grey tea and yogurt with a lemon ciambellone? That sounds like the perfect way to start the day. 🍵🍰 Appreciate the variety you’ve shared-there really are so many options! 😊
@@GregorBrown when I was still living with my family basically each had their own Breakfast preferences. My mom and brother milk and fette biscottate. Me and my sister tea and cookies or toasted bread, real bread, not fette biscottare, which I never liked. My father just coffee, moka coffee.
1:50 the prices are high, maybe it's in a turistic area or since the place is pretty they charge more. I live in the south so an espresso €4,50 is crazy ahaha
Nice video, breakfast in italy should be split in 2 categories: at home and at bar. At home are very common to drink moka coffee, tea, orzo, caffé latte (a shot of moka inside a mug of milk) succo di frutta or spremuta and eat biscotti, pane or fette biscottate with burro e marmellata (bread, butter and jam), also, if you want a "Fetta Biscottata" that is a game changer try the fette biscottate from other brands. For example in Rome you can find a brand called "Gentilini" that make very good fette biscottate, bigger and stronger than the mulino's one. At bar, instead, the breakfast is pretty standard: cappucino, caffè, caffè corretto (coffee + liqueur like sambuca or mistrà, but only eldery people doing this in the early morning), caffè macchiato (coffee with a pinch of milk that could be plain or like the milk in the cappuccino) latte macchiato (milk with a pinch of coffee), caffè latte (milk with a shot of coffee), ginseng or orzo, most of the time at the bar you will eat pastry like: cornetto, brioche + gelato or granita (if you are in Sicily), maritozzo (brioche with whipper cream if you are in Rome) and so on. In most of the bar you will eat at "banco" or, if you are allowed, you can take your order. by your self, on a free table, in these cases the price has no surcharge, if you order directly on the table you will pay much more, like double or triple the original price. It is a scam? Could be, for me yes, i'll never ever pay 4€ for a coffee. Last but not the least, we also have salty breakfast somewhere in Italy, it is very regional or can change from a city to another, for example in Bolzano (north-east of italy) you can order eggs and speck, in Genova (north-west of Italy) you can eat focaccia, In Pesaro (Center of Italy) you can eat Pizzette Rossini (pizza + eggs and maionese).
A Cagliari caffè e pizzetta sfoglia ( due dischi di pasta sfoglia uno sull'altro con dentro un po' di sugo di pomodoro semplice senza mozzarella ma è più buono con un cappero al centro). Tipiche cagliaritane che non esistono altrove.
cornetto is just the one with the horns (corno means horn in italian). The other pastries have their own name (fagottino, treccia, bomba, ciambella, danese, etc.), unless you're in Milan where they say brioche for everything (except actual brioches, which are french pastries that taste nothing like a cornetto)
You can take a cappuccino whenever you want but you can't have a pasta with seafood with milk, please. As an italian sometimes I drink a cappuccino with a cornetto at 4 pm.
On my first visit to Italy breakfast was just a 'sugar and milky caffeine' hit - then I realised that apart from ice cream that was the only 'sugar and milk' most Italians had during the day.
@@marcotd7923 One of the many things I enjoy about Italy is the food, as you are expected to sit down when eating, not walking along the street. I always sit when I eat/drink and increasingly in UK people are expected to 'grab and go' - which I find horrible. Luckily I live in a town with many visitors - so there are plenty of cafes for them!
Breakfast for me includes coffee with crème (would that be a caffè con latte?) and usually a buttered, toasted piece of toast or bagel or English muffin. And then maybe a pastry.
Actually the term brioche is more general than cornetto and is used all around Italy, also in the south. The name cornetto instead is originally from Rome and refers to a specific type of brioche.
caffè d'orzo is a barley tea, actually. "decaffeinato" is any coffee made with caffeineless coffee. they misunderstood you there, you asked for a decaffeinato cappuccino (it does exist, yes), they gave you a cappuccino d'orzo instead xD.
Hi me and my wife are travelling to Italy next April,it's my first time there we will be travelling around for 12 days via coach any tips my friend,many thanks chris
For home breakfast is more widespread to either have bread with nutella/jam, or milk and bisquits, usually any type of frollini, of which there are infinite variety, the most popular being Pan di Stelle, Abbracci, and Tarallucci from Mulino Bianco or Gocciole from Pavesi. ;)
At the risk of being strung up and my body beaten like Mussolini, what if you are not a coffee person (more like Tea or Chai or Hot Cocoa or even Juice)? Are there good go-to-places for that or would you just be run out of town?
He was shot dead first but we won't subject you to the same process 😂😂😂you can happily find tea and as I showed in the video fresh orange juice and is cheap
@@GregorBrown hah good point, I almost forgot about being shot as well! Anyway, fantastico that I can find alternatives to drink. I'm an odd ball in that I also don't drink alcohol (now I know for sure i'll get shot) but it is still fun to watch your content and grazie mille for showcasing Italy at its best!
Would not recommend tea from a bar, juice is generally the safest option. You can still find pretty nice tea rooms or bakeries around (needs more planning to find one, but they are easier to find nowadays)
hated when they serve you coffee in a glass….what’s that about….? I started asking if they serve in cups with handles before I ordered and to my surprise found many that said no, so I left.🙈
hi i want or have to say that you are the best in every way to explain everything about italy and when i say everything i mean everything because i know a little about everything what you explain helps people to understand and know you are the best greetings from a Albanian
You made me laugh so much when you ate that 'fetta dorata' with such struggle 😁 you're right! they break down in million pieces. By the way.. they're generally called fette biscottate, I think 'fette dorate' is the name the brand Mulino bianco gave them
Ok Gregor I’m watching as many of your videos this week so I can take notes and snap some pics of places to visit while I’m in the med. Question: can I get zuccaro with my cappuccino. I am hooked on sweet cafe or is it frowned on.
They eat a lot of carbs, from morning pastries through lunchtime pasta to after dinner dolci and liqueurs. But they walk a lot too, and the terrain is hilly in many places. They burn their calories.
question: how on hearth can you drink an (excellent on its own) FRESHLY SQUEEZED orange juice and have any milk (as in the cappuccino) with it??? Unless you want it to become a yoghurt in your stomach...
I suggest you to avoid drinking salt food with coffee, maybe eat salt food before and then coffee at the end. It would be awkward from an Italian pov. Anyway, bar usually also have salt alternative, but it’s not in our culture to eat salt food like eggs or something in the morning, so I don’t think you would find what you’re searching for
Your video is full of life and gets the idea of an Italian breakfast in a big posh city bar, Just a few points as an Italian. Bars in tourist cities often don't open until later, and in the country, many open at 4 am for workers. A spremuta is a freshly squeezed orange juice. A juice is a succo, and some in a jar. I think one has to be careful about spreading these stereotypes, Italians love to play with foreigners on this. The Cappuccino myth for one. Italians don't drink Cappuccinos after a heavy meal, but they might like it on a cold winter's day, mid-afternoon. Bars in smaller towns and villages are a great place to talk to locals and practice your Italian.
hi there, unfortunately that's not traditional but you can find places that do that (watch out for tourists traps) but we have some savory/hot options: focaccia or a slice of pizza (in Liguria they do focaccia with cappuccino) or crespelle if you want some egg in your breakfast but still keep it Italian
I don't like sweet so my savory breakfast when I'm there is espresso dopio and a panino. Sometimes I invade in pizza al talio shops as well. 😊. Hi from Greece
😂 I’m italian and I don’t drink coffee. I usually get a tisana with biscuit (I think you forgot to mention them). 😊 also hot lemon tea or decaffeinated coffee when I’m at work 😊
€25 for a breakfast, even when sit at a table, is quite a lot.. probably it was a very high end "pasticceria" or in a very touristic area. A Cappuccino and brioche can be found for ~€ 3.50/4 when sit at a table hope that €25 at least included the whole, 2 cappuccini, 2 brioche and the orange juice. Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed our italian style of breakfast :)
Sono italiana e ascolto le tue parole, la mia impressione è che ami la mia Toscana ❤ , hai speso 25 euro per la colazione 😂😂 , in un normale bar bastano 5 euro
Di solito alloggio a Certaldo e la mia colazione preferita al bar (ma non ogni giorno!) è un croissant integrale con marmellata di frutti di bosco e un cappuccino = 2,70. E posso sedermi se voglio! 😁
@@aventureracletteThat's what I said, from Austria. But the cornetto arrived in northern Italy late 1600 thanks to the commercial exchanges between Venice and Vienna, Marie Antoinette wasn't born yet. She brought the croissant in France about 100 years later.
@@saturno-wl3rw didn't know croissant came after in France, but one day I will try your cornetto, I don't like that much croissant, only when they come out of the oven, ahaha.
It's easy. LOL. I love these little things and "ideas" about Italians. Like the moms telling the children to wear a scarf around their neck or they will get a cold :) Dai!!! Provi!!!
@@lynyrdskynyrd9742 yeah, why not? It's one of the historical bars in Florence, founded in 1904 and since then managed by a Polish family for several years, its setting and furniture is protected by the Fine Arts Department as having Historical relevance.
Mmh🤔 it will be probably difficult to find eggs at breakfast time (but in the hotel, of course). If you are not a sweet person in the morning 😬 you can have a slice of pizza, or step in a bakery, get a Panino (sandwich) with cheese or prosciutto....
Pastries and orange juice first thing in the morning sounds like a recipe for diabetes eventually leading to a host of other degenerative diseases. Argentina, with a high population of Italian immigrants has identical dietary breakfast habits and I found it was impossible to find a restaurant that would serve eggs in the morning.
You'll find eggs for breakfast in very expensive and bad tourists traps... In Italy eating eggs for breakfast is considered quite disgusting and a bit unhealthy ahaha. For us breakfast is a fast sweet meal. We eat healthy food for lunch
@@procrusteusthe funny thing is that Italians is one of the healthier population in the world. It's not a small sweet breakfast as Italian onethat give you diabete. Consider that Italians don't make breakfast outside everyday. Most of the days they do breakfast at home with cereals, bread, jam, yoghurt and biscuits
As a Milanese sometimes I order a cappuccino in the afternoon. It's uncommon but all the "Italian food rules" stuff is exaggerated in the internet as a meme.
Damn I can't believe the difference in price to sit down, thanks for the heads up! I think if I found out I was paying 20 euro over the odds just to sit at the table I'd go through the roof😂
That was a very high-end example, as the person above said. Gilli is a different calibre of bar (it also has a restaurant) with a quite a history, in Piazza della Repubblica. Breakfast at the bar is so good - especially away from the centre and small towns - where everything is fresh and served on proper cups and plates, and you can soak in the lively atmosphere of local life, all at a much, much lower price!
There are a lot of ways to say ‘cornetto’, I usually say ‘cornetto’, ‘brioche’ or ‘Le paste’ when there are more than one. It depend on where you live basically. My friends from the north say only ‘brioche’, while here you can say it in different ways, people still understand you I guess.
I' m italian but I don't like coffee, I have breakfast at home with green tea (without sugar) with whole oats and bran, raisins and various seeds. It's a healthy and tasty breakfast for me
Yes guys, of course, as he said you can find Tea, or maybe herbal/fruit infusion...whatever fruit juice...maybe hot chocolate...orzo, sometimes you can have a fresh milkshake what else? 🤔 And it's cheap, yes. I guess 25€ 😱 is due to the special pastry place, maybe in the very center of the city. Actually, at least in Rome, if you are not in the center, you don't even pay to sit in a bar
Gregor, Sounded like u loaded up on Lemoncello before making this vid. Love it ! Teaching people how to order decaf is sacrilegious. Should be outlawed
The croissant's origins are widely accepted to be in Austria (not France). it is a descendant of the kipferl, a crescent-shaped pastry that dates back to at least the 13th century 🤓 Can you get porridge in Italy?
Cornetto and brioche are actually two different products with different ingredients. Cornetto cornetto is Made with eggs and a bit of butter, brioches are Made without eggs and with a lot of butter. To be honest they are used as synonyms and especially in bars you can find just one or an other. To better understand what you are eating just observe if the pastry makes a lot of debris when you bite it: if it sticks together and it’ fluffy it’s a cornetto, if it’s brittle and creates a lot of debris it’s a brioche.
Orange juice AND cappuccino together are a no-no in an Italian breakfast: you don't want to mix milk with the acids from the juice, just as you wouldn't mix lemon and milk, as the citric acid causes the milk to curdle. The only accepted savory breakfast in Italy is to have a "toast" (in Italy that word indicates a toasted sandwich with ham and cheese).
I love coffee and how highly regarded it is in Italy. I get my cappuccino as my last step before boarding the plane at the airport. In the US, I’ve been getting a flat white.
Venice here and never heard the rule of no capuccino after 11! If it exists as every rule it is made to be broken! If you like capuccino you drink it when you want! And nobody tells you anything ! Recently i saw people don't knowing what to it for breakfast and ordered at 8am...carbonara pasta 🤦♀️ That really is something to discuss
Absolutely nowhere at breakfast. We don’t eat salt breakfast, at bar you can find some salt alternatives, but you won’t find eggs or bacon. In hotels they usually offer also a salt breakfast based on foreigners taste.
look like i´m a serial killer. solo caffe espresso in the morning 😅 sometimes also caffe corretto, but that´s later in the day. also, nearly gotten a heart attack when i saw 4,50€ for an espresso😵so much more when you sit down, it´s crazy
I love your Italy videos! ☕️❤️ Thank you for these amazing tips!! My husband and I are visiting Italy in March 2025 because my brother is getting married in the province of Pisa! However, I will be visiting Starbucks because I collect the mugs everywhere we travel together 🇮🇹 😂
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After going to Italy i will never never drink Starbucks again, Starbucks now feels like the worst coffee i have drank after Italy.
@@jasonalper7898 I'm glad. I'm in the US and hate Starbucks. I can't wait to try Italian caffè!
@jasonalper7898 yup. Same here.
@@jasonalper7898 Starbucks does have the worst coffee! I tried one once and will never do that to myself again.
Bar San Calisto in Trastavere Rome. We paid $3.80 for two Cappuccino’s and crème cornetto and we sat outside. Incredibly inexpensive compared to most places. We absolutely loved people watching while having breakfast in Italy.
That's an amazing experience that you can still enjoy in Italy
@Nooner27 I was in Rome in November. I discovered a Restaurant called Mama Eats, I have Celiacs and was in heaven the food was so good. It is in Trastavere.
@@Nooner27 espresso and cornetto need to be cheap because most of us couldn't afford it otherwise. It's something everyone eats before working and bars work on the volumes. I hope you enjoyed your stay in Rome.
Bruh 2.50 euros in Settecamini, tourists love getting robbed in the center of Rome, outide the walls you dont even need to pay to sit down
Wow! That's cheap even for Eastern Europe, let alone Rome!
"Serial Killer" breakfast school here... 😆. Now, beside the needed compliments on the excellent Italian, finally a person who pronounces “pistaCChio” correctly, very well done Sir! 😅
@@deckard1970 Excellent italian? You gotta be kidding. Non fa niente, è bravo lo stesso. Divertente e tutto vero. Please work on your accent.
“no cappuccino after 11” isn’t really a thing. it only became a trend to say it on the internet. it is considered weird to have a cappuccino ant time after lunch. as long as you haven’t had lunch, no matter the time it is considered normal to have a cappuccino. if you show up at a bar and order cappuccino at 12:30 it’s not frowned upon. the barista will probably assume you woke up very late and, if in rome, male fun of you for it
Seems to be a thing based on some Italians. Buy yes order whenever you want. Just not with dinner or lunch.
@@GregorBrown well.. I'm italian and I've a coworker who takes cappuccino (sometime even hot chocolate) after lunch instead of expresso. I think if someone tells you something about it if you order a cappuccino after 11 am is just because he recognises you're stranger and he want to tell you traditionally it's a breakfast thing. If you clearly show you're a tourist expect it. But in every day life ? Yes, it's unusual, but not so weird at all. At least here in Genova (northen Italy).
@@GregorBrown I believe that a lot of the Italian habits depicted on the internet are nonsense. There is no problem having cappuccino at any time you want, as well is socially accepted eating meatballs within pasta or pizza with fruit toppings (I tasted from excellent pizza shops pizza with pears, grape, figs and more). Moreover, in the northern part of Italy pizza is served with mayonnaise on top as well. I believe the problem is solely that is a shame putting bad quality ingredients like canned pineapple or ketchup on pizza while other ingredients are generally good (one of the best thing is Italy is having great quality ingredients). Finally, Italians use to eat a lot of Chinese and Japanese food. Milan is full of ayce sushi and they are not serving original Japanese cuisine of course, but an italianized version of it. Basically we blame others for something we do ourselves
If your stomach can handle it, do what you want. I wouldnt, but who cares
@@94jmbottaro i’m not advocating for enforcing the rule. i’m just saying what the custom is
I love your excitement to discover our country. Now you are ready to have the Italian citizenship!!! We want you here ,with us!
I was raised in an Italian household. As long as I can remember our bkfst was a slice of Italian bread with butter and milky coffee. My Dad had corn flakes. Very simple. Fond memories.
Simple and sweet. Thanks for sharing.
American breakfast is 10 times better, trust me
We absolutely got that habit from yall here in Brazil. Sometimes we add cheese, ham or scrambled eggs too. But I personally like my coffee black and almost no sugar at all 😅
In Lombardy, "cornetti" means green beans. Which obviously produces a number of fun situations.
In general in northern Italy "Cornetto" is just an ice cream brand, why call that pastry "croissant" or "brioche".
@lornova79 cornetto is a green bean first and foremost.
Perfetto! All things you said are correct, from an italian point of view.
Cool, thanks!
Italian from Marche region here: wake up>espresso at home with my machine at home>get ready>go to bar get espresso and cornetto salato usually with prosciutto crudo>drive work>get off sunglasses>espresso with office's espresso machine>work>espresso>work
Repeat.
A historical perspective: most of the modern Italian breakfast came as a result of the 1960s economic boom, itself part of the larger scenario of Italy's re-building after World War II. The development of the food industry and general increase of wealth allowed many people to buy goods such as confectionary and afford real coffee (something which was scarcely available during the Ventennio, as Mussolini's regime posed economic and agricultural isolationism, leading to an unspoken ban of coffee and the development of barley and chicory-based coffee substitutes).
My paternal grandma, who was born in 1920, essentially ate dinner leftovers for breakfast, as she had always done for her whole life.
Mia mamma, 1920, latte, caffè dorzo o cicoria, pane secco. Zucchero non pervenuto!
In Piedmont we correctly call it croissant, brioche are other kind of pastries. But I learned that the croissant is made with puff pastry, while the cornetto is made with normal, heavier dough.
@@iTube22100 quelli non sono croissant.
@@nicoladc89 quali??
@@iTube22100 i cornetti
@@nicoladc89 e io cosa ho detto?!!
Hai detto che chiamate il cornetto con il nome di croissant, è sbagliato, sono due cose diverse.
give another chance to fette biscottate but this time spread some butter on them before you put the jam. total game changer. i even do weird things with all sorts of nut butters, the weirdest of which, and also the best one, is fette biscottate with tahini and sour orange jam. italians often do butter and apricot jam. plus a lot of Italians have cereal with milk or biscuits/cookies, yogurt, fruit, it isn’t just fette biscottate and merendine (the packaged stuff). up until some 30 years ago it used to be either bread with butter and jam or some sort of cake that your mom would bake on Sunday for it to last a few days but these traditions got kinda lost. sometimes i buy a lemon flavored ciambellone, some semi-industrial stuff but it’s not bad, and have it with earl gray tea and plain yogurt. one of my favorite breakfast. some people do bread and nutella. there’s a ton of different options actually
personally i sometimes go super weird, if i have fresh pears, and have fette biscottate with stracchino on top next to a pear. always paired to earl gray tea. or i have toast with pb&j and my fellow Italians look at me like i’m a total weirdo
Thanks for sharing all these great tips and insights! 🙌 I definitely need to give fette biscottate another try with some butter and jam-sounds like a game changer! I love hearing about the different Italian breakfast traditions, especially the mix of old and new. Earl Grey tea and yogurt with a lemon ciambellone? That sounds like the perfect way to start the day. 🍵🍰 Appreciate the variety you’ve shared-there really are so many options! 😊
@@GregorBrown thank you for the reply! you’re a good guy, i’m subbing to your channel
@@GregorBrown when I was still living with my family basically each had their own Breakfast preferences. My mom and brother milk and fette biscottate. Me and my sister tea and cookies or toasted bread, real bread, not fette biscottare, which I never liked. My father just coffee, moka coffee.
@@GregorBrown you can also replace butter with ricotta
1:50 the prices are high, maybe it's in a turistic area or since the place is pretty they charge more. I live in the south so an espresso €4,50 is crazy ahaha
Video apprezzatissimo. Mi piace come tratti la cultura italiana e la rispetti. Huge respect mate!
Nice video, breakfast in italy should be split in 2 categories: at home and at bar. At home are very common to drink moka coffee, tea, orzo, caffé latte (a shot of moka inside a mug of milk) succo di frutta or spremuta and eat biscotti, pane or fette biscottate with burro e marmellata (bread, butter and jam), also, if you want a "Fetta Biscottata" that is a game changer try the fette biscottate from other brands. For example in Rome you can find a brand called "Gentilini" that make very good fette biscottate, bigger and stronger than the mulino's one.
At bar, instead, the breakfast is pretty standard: cappucino, caffè, caffè corretto (coffee + liqueur like sambuca or mistrà, but only eldery people doing this in the early morning), caffè macchiato (coffee with a pinch of milk that could be plain or like the milk in the cappuccino) latte macchiato (milk with a pinch of coffee), caffè latte (milk with a shot of coffee), ginseng or orzo, most of the time at the bar you will eat pastry like: cornetto, brioche + gelato or granita (if you are in Sicily), maritozzo (brioche with whipper cream if you are in Rome) and so on.
In most of the bar you will eat at "banco" or, if you are allowed, you can take your order. by your self, on a free table, in these cases the price has no surcharge, if you order directly on the table you will pay much more, like double or triple the original price. It is a scam? Could be, for me yes, i'll never ever pay 4€ for a coffee.
Last but not the least, we also have salty breakfast somewhere in Italy, it is very regional or can change from a city to another, for example in Bolzano (north-east of italy) you can order eggs and speck, in Genova (north-west of Italy) you can eat focaccia, In Pesaro (Center of Italy) you can eat Pizzette Rossini (pizza + eggs and maionese).
A Cagliari caffè e pizzetta sfoglia ( due dischi di pasta sfoglia uno sull'altro con dentro un po' di sugo di pomodoro semplice senza mozzarella ma è più buono con un cappero al centro). Tipiche cagliaritane che non esistono altrove.
cornetto is just the one with the horns (corno means horn in italian). The other pastries have their own name (fagottino, treccia, bomba, ciambella, danese, etc.), unless you're in Milan where they say brioche for everything (except actual brioches, which are french pastries that taste nothing like a cornetto)
@@sapinta I'd say Lombardy instead of Milan. Or better, as he clearly mentioned in the video, northern Italy.
I live in Lombardy and the actual brioche (or french brioche) is usually called "pan brioche" because it's like a sweet bread (pane dolce)
In Bologna we also use “pasta” a lot for saying different type of brioche that aren’t cornetto 😂
Finalmente una spiegazione precisa su cornetto e brioche.. 👍 a tutti gli italiani cercate di chiamare questi dolci ogniuno con il suo nome
You can take a cappuccino whenever you want but you can't have a pasta with seafood with milk, please. As an italian sometimes I drink a cappuccino with a cornetto at 4 pm.
This video was great. As an Italian-American living in Italy I can you couldn't have got it better.
Bellissima colazione!
YES!!!!!!!! I'm hungry again!!!
Planning my Rome+Florence trip, your videos are so helpful thank you 🙏🏾💛
Great show, I really enjoyed. 😋👍
Thank you 😋
You have taught us a lot , we will visit Florence soon
The croissants and pastries are so frigging good
Yes they are
@@retrogamingnmore2513 CORNETTO E AND CROISSANT ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!
Well done Sir. Really nice to see italian habits from an american perspective 🙂
Glad you liked it!
On my first visit to Italy breakfast was just a 'sugar and milky caffeine' hit - then I realised that apart from ice cream that was the only 'sugar and milk' most Italians had during the day.
@@flower-ss2jt exactly! During the day in Italy we don't eat so much sweet food. Just a piece of chocolate or a small pastry at mid afternoon
@@marcotd7923 One of the many things I enjoy about Italy is the food, as you are expected to sit down when eating, not walking along the street. I always sit when I eat/drink and increasingly in UK people are expected to 'grab and go' - which I find horrible. Luckily I live in a town with many visitors - so there are plenty of cafes for them!
I drink it whitout sugar. If it is hight quality, you know jet.
Thank you for making this videos, now I feel not that lost.
Breakfast for me includes coffee with crème (would that be a caffè con latte?) and usually a buttered, toasted piece of toast or bagel or English muffin. And then maybe a pastry.
That's a café macchiato, i think
@@GregorBrown thank you! Good to know.
Actually the term brioche is more general than cornetto and is used all around Italy, also in the south. The name cornetto instead is originally from Rome and refers to a specific type of brioche.
you will surely never have tried 2 things: coffee cream and coffee with the addition of a teaspoon of coffee cream... both delicious
Thanks for the tips!
In Sicily must have granita with brioche. Cornetti is a whole different pastry!
Subbed forever ❤😊
caffè d'orzo is a barley tea, actually. "decaffeinato" is any coffee made with caffeineless coffee. they misunderstood you there, you asked for a decaffeinato cappuccino (it does exist, yes), they gave you a cappuccino d'orzo instead xD.
He asked for a caffé d’orzo after
And they gave him a cappuccino anyway, so I don’t really know what they gave him 😂
Love coffee. Any recommendations for those of us who can’t drink dairy? Is it acceptable to order an Americano?
Hi me and my wife are travelling to Italy next April,it's my first time there we will be travelling around for 12 days via coach any tips my friend,many thanks chris
Thank you for the info I will be in Italy soon ❤
You’re welcome 😊
In Naples,in one of the best pastry shops, cappuccino and coffee is 3,10 al banco.
I'm Italian but I LOVE the American French toast, specially the Torrejas version served in SOCAL
For home breakfast is more widespread to either have bread with nutella/jam, or milk and bisquits, usually any type of frollini, of which there are infinite variety, the most popular being Pan di Stelle, Abbracci, and Tarallucci from Mulino Bianco or Gocciole from Pavesi. ;)
Fond memories of my Junior Year of College in Roma (1968-1969). Cappuccino e un cornetto ogni mattino.
I love that you mentioned latte macchiato and macchiatone...
Evviva la colazione italiana! 😂
Opinione da italiano: Perfect Explanation! :)
Hi what is less fattening brioche or corneto
Never have been to Italy, but, don't like Starbucks coffee. Newly subscribed. For breakfast: Oatmeal, Bagel, sometimes cold cereal.
Welcome aboard!
What if I am not a coffee drinker? Do they serve teas?
Yes, in bars you can also order teas. If the bar is a little fancy they also let you chose what kind of tea, but not all bars do.
@@nix103161 obviously and chocolate and anything you want ! Strange questione!
At the risk of being strung up and my body beaten like Mussolini, what if you are not a coffee person (more like Tea or Chai or Hot Cocoa or even Juice)? Are there good go-to-places for that or would you just be run out of town?
He was shot dead first but we won't subject you to the same process 😂😂😂you can happily find tea and as I showed in the video fresh orange juice and is cheap
@@GregorBrown hah good point, I almost forgot about being shot as well! Anyway, fantastico that I can find alternatives to drink. I'm an odd ball in that I also don't drink alcohol (now I know for sure i'll get shot) but it is still fun to watch your content and grazie mille for showcasing Italy at its best!
thanks Paul. Yeah, you'll still love Italy, plenty to eat and see.
Would not recommend tea from a bar, juice is generally the safest option. You can still find pretty nice tea rooms or bakeries around (needs more planning to find one, but they are easier to find nowadays)
@@furanpyon Now I'm curious... unsafe tea in a bar? What are they using toilet water or something?
I have breakfast at home and it's usually tea (black or green) or milk with orzo and a slice of homemade ciambellone.🥰
Here cornetto and brioche are different kind of pastries, the paste is made usually differently.
hated when they serve you coffee in a glass….what’s that about….? I started asking if they serve in cups with handles before I ordered and to my surprise found many that said no, so I left.🙈
😮 it never happened to me lol
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I live in Sardinia , which is not in the North part, and i ve never used the Word 'Cornetto ', we say brioche or croissant
hi i want or have to say that you are the best in every way to explain everything about italy and when i say everything i mean everything because i know a little about everything what you explain helps people to understand and know you are the best greetings from a Albanian
You made me laugh so much when you ate that 'fetta dorata' with such struggle 😁 you're right! they break down in million pieces. By the way.. they're generally called fette biscottate, I think 'fette dorate' is the name the brand Mulino bianco gave them
haha, so true :)
Btw fette biscottate are basically rusks. Yummy
Are there any traditional breakfast pastries suitable for Hindu vegetarians? Ie, no eggs, lard, gelatin, etc? Milk and butter allowed.
Haha. Your vids are getting better and better. Keep it up, Gregor. 😎
Glad you like them!
Ok Gregor I’m watching as many of your videos this week so I can take notes and snap some pics of places to visit while I’m in the med. Question: can I get zuccaro with my cappuccino. I am hooked on sweet cafe or is it frowned on.
oh yes, they will always give you sugar packets! No problemo!
Coolest glasses!!!!!!! AYEEE THE MUSIC IS MY JAM lol 😂🥳🤪
wow, great to have you aboard.
They eat a lot of carbs, from morning pastries through lunchtime pasta to after dinner dolci and liqueurs. But they walk a lot too, and the terrain is hilly in many places. They burn their calories.
question: how on hearth can you drink an (excellent on its own) FRESHLY SQUEEZED orange juice and have any milk (as in the cappuccino) with it??? Unless you want it to become a yoghurt in your stomach...
easy, no problem. I do it often. and bars will often have fresh squeezed OJ for very little money.
Orange juice it not, cappuccino will become yoghurt in your stomach because of gastric acids
Ugh, I can’t eat pastry for breakfast. I end up feeling unwell. I need protein WTH my cappuccino. Any suggestions?
we have lot of good places serving more international/nonsupertipical breakfasts, where are you staying?
I suggest you to avoid drinking salt food with coffee, maybe eat salt food before and then coffee at the end. It would be awkward from an Italian pov.
Anyway, bar usually also have salt alternative, but it’s not in our culture to eat salt food like eggs or something in the morning, so I don’t think you would find what you’re searching for
Your video is full of life and gets the idea of an Italian breakfast in a big posh city bar, Just a few points as an Italian. Bars in tourist cities often don't open until later, and in the country, many open at 4 am for workers. A spremuta is a freshly squeezed orange juice. A juice is a succo, and some in a jar. I think one has to be careful about spreading these stereotypes, Italians love to play with foreigners on this. The Cappuccino myth for one. Italians don't drink Cappuccinos after a heavy meal, but they might like it on a cold winter's day, mid-afternoon. Bars in smaller towns and villages are a great place to talk to locals and practice your Italian.
Eating a cornetto and drinking a cappuccino as I watch this.
Can't beat that.
Actually travelling to Florence, Bologna and Parma in 2 weeks but don’t drink coffee, do bars sell tea ?
Yes. They sell tea! Not a wide selection but it's ok.
Yes, absolutely.
They will make you chose between some flavors 😊
Oh my God! Look at the table prices on that menu, Greg! We'll, that's an exception, I suppose 😂
Haha. Expensive? 😅😅
@@GregorBrown yes, way too expensive, about 8 times more than at regular bar. You went to fancy ones and you paid. It's ok, you pay for the experience
4.50 for an expresso is basically armed robbery
Is there a hot Italian breakfast? Something that has eggs or pancetta?
hi there, unfortunately that's not traditional but you can find places that do that (watch out for tourists traps) but we have some savory/hot options: focaccia or a slice of pizza (in Liguria they do focaccia with cappuccino) or crespelle if you want some egg in your breakfast but still keep it Italian
I don't like sweet so my savory breakfast when I'm there is espresso dopio and a panino. Sometimes I invade in pizza al talio shops as well. 😊. Hi from Greece
Sounds great!
I go for espresso doppio, that mean 2 espresso in a larger cup, so what am i ?
You are awake for a while...😊
😂 I’m italian and I don’t drink coffee.
I usually get a tisana with biscuit (I think you forgot to mention them).
😊 also hot lemon tea or decaffeinated coffee when I’m at work 😊
€25 for a breakfast, even when sit at a table, is quite a lot.. probably it was a very high end "pasticceria" or in a very touristic area.
A Cappuccino and brioche can be found for ~€ 3.50/4 when sit at a table
hope that €25 at least included the whole, 2 cappuccini, 2 brioche and the orange juice.
Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed our italian style of breakfast :)
Sono italiana e ascolto le tue parole, la mia impressione è che ami la mia Toscana ❤ , hai speso 25 euro per la colazione 😂😂 , in un normale bar bastano 5 euro
Di solito alloggio a Certaldo e la mia colazione preferita al bar (ma non ogni giorno!) è un croissant integrale con marmellata di frutti di bosco e un cappuccino = 2,70. E posso sedermi se voglio! 😁
At the " Bar" I usually have breakfast with " savory" brioche and an espresso.
Actually, croissants is the french version of the Cornetto. And both are from an Austrian pastry.
no, croissant origine came from directly from austrian kipferl, introduced by Marie Antoinette
@@aventureracletteThat's what I said, from Austria. But the cornetto arrived in northern Italy late 1600 thanks to the commercial exchanges between Venice and Vienna, Marie Antoinette wasn't born yet. She brought the croissant in France about 100 years later.
@@saturno-wl3rw didn't know croissant came after in France, but one day I will try your cornetto, I don't like that much croissant, only when they come out of the oven, ahaha.
@@saturno-wl3rw but for me, the morning it's only coffee.
come fai a bere la speremuta di arancio e il cappuccino insieme?! Ci vuole uno stomaco di ferro😅
It's easy. LOL. I love these little things and "ideas" about Italians. Like the moms telling the children to wear a scarf around their neck or they will get a cold :) Dai!!! Provi!!!
I’ll take the coffee variants by the gallon but will pass on the pastries-can’t do sweets in the AM 🤓
that's a very Italian thing
@@GregorBrown I’ll eat pasta for breakfast though
What!!!!!!!!!!???????????? I've been eating noodles for breakfast in China. I guess it's the same.
Pazkowski? In Italy?
@@lynyrdskynyrd9742 yeah, why not? It's one of the historical bars in Florence, founded in 1904 and since then managed by a Polish family for several years, its setting and furniture is protected by the Fine Arts Department as having Historical relevance.
Fare colazione in Italia,cappuccino e cornetto,the best😘
What city are you in here?
Does anyone sell eggs in Italy for breakfast. Hate eating sugary crud first thing in the morning.
Mmh🤔 it will be probably difficult to find eggs at breakfast time (but in the hotel, of course). If you are not a sweet person in the morning 😬 you can have a slice of pizza, or step in a bakery, get a Panino (sandwich) with cheese or prosciutto....
Pastries and orange juice first thing in the morning sounds like a recipe for diabetes eventually leading to a host of other degenerative diseases. Argentina, with a high population of Italian immigrants has identical dietary breakfast habits and I found it was impossible to find a restaurant that would serve eggs in the morning.
You'll find eggs for breakfast in very expensive and bad tourists traps... In Italy eating eggs for breakfast is considered quite disgusting and a bit unhealthy ahaha. For us breakfast is a fast sweet meal. We eat healthy food for lunch
@@procrusteusthe funny thing is that Italians is one of the healthier population in the world. It's not a small sweet breakfast as Italian onethat give you diabete. Consider that Italians don't make breakfast outside everyday. Most of the days they do breakfast at home with cereals, bread, jam, yoghurt and biscuits
I don’t drink coffee BUT If I was in Italy I would probably get a cappuccino or latte macchiato just for the experience!
As a Milanese sometimes I order a cappuccino in the afternoon. It's uncommon but all the "Italian food rules" stuff is exaggerated in the internet as a meme.
Triple espresso...always
Cornetto is not italian version of croassant..viceversa, but it's ok..in Napoli you can learn abuot it
Damn I can't believe the difference in price to sit down, thanks for the heads up! I think if I found out I was paying 20 euro over the odds just to sit at the table I'd go through the roof😂
Is not always like that, but if you go in one of the oldest pastry shop in florence that is there since 1733......yeah you will pay a bit.
That was a very high-end example, as the person above said. Gilli is a different calibre of bar (it also has a restaurant) with a quite a history, in Piazza della Repubblica. Breakfast at the bar is so good - especially away from the centre and small towns - where everything is fresh and served on proper cups and plates, and you can soak in the lively atmosphere of local life, all at a much, much lower price!
There are a lot of ways to say ‘cornetto’, I usually say ‘cornetto’, ‘brioche’ or ‘Le paste’ when there are more than one. It depend on where you live basically. My friends from the north say only ‘brioche’, while here you can say it in different ways, people still understand you I guess.
I' m italian but I don't like coffee, I have breakfast at home with green tea (without sugar) with whole oats and bran, raisins and various seeds. It's a healthy and tasty breakfast for me
Yes guys, of course, as he said you can find Tea, or maybe herbal/fruit infusion...whatever fruit juice...maybe hot chocolate...orzo, sometimes you can have a fresh milkshake what else? 🤔
And it's cheap, yes.
I guess 25€ 😱 is due to the special pastry place, maybe in the very center of the city.
Actually, at least in Rome, if you are not in the center, you don't even pay to sit in a bar
Yes, it's because it's an historic famous place in the city center.
Gregor,
Sounded like u loaded up on Lemoncello before making this vid. Love it !
Teaching people how to order decaf is sacrilegious. Should be outlawed
HAHA, What do you mean? I sound drunk?
@@GregorBrown let’s just say exuberantly jovial for breakfast time . 🤙🏼
The croissant's origins are widely accepted to be in Austria (not France). it is a descendant of the kipferl, a crescent-shaped pastry that dates back to at least the 13th century 🤓
Can you get porridge in Italy?
No porridge. 😭
Boo 😆
As as italian i didnt even know what porridge was! 😂
You can buy oats in shops everywhere. But porridge isn’t available in bars. As he explained beautifully, it’s coffee and pastries.
Same origin of cornetto (that was born before Croissant in Venice).
Its exactly what I though but great video anyway
Cornetto and brioche are actually two different products with different ingredients. Cornetto cornetto is Made with eggs and a bit of butter, brioches are Made without eggs and with a lot of butter. To be honest they are used as synonyms and especially in bars you can find just one or an other. To better understand what you are eating just observe if the pastry makes a lot of debris when you bite it: if it sticks together and it’ fluffy it’s a cornetto, if it’s brittle and creates a lot of debris it’s a brioche.
Orange juice AND cappuccino together are a no-no in an Italian breakfast: you don't want to mix milk with the acids from the juice, just as you wouldn't mix lemon and milk, as the citric acid causes the milk to curdle.
The only accepted savory breakfast in Italy is to have a "toast" (in Italy that word indicates a toasted sandwich with ham and cheese).
you can space them out between drinks. it's really not that big of a deal. LOL
I love coffee and how highly regarded it is in Italy. I get my cappuccino as my last step before boarding the plane at the airport. In the US, I’ve been getting a flat white.
Venice here and never heard the rule of no capuccino after 11! If it exists as every rule it is made to be broken! If you like capuccino you drink it when you want! And nobody tells you anything ! Recently i saw people don't knowing what to it for breakfast and ordered at 8am...carbonara pasta 🤦♀️
That really is something to discuss
❤so, where do you go if you want to eat eggs+bacon?
You pretty much need to be able to get that at your hotel because it's difficult to find it out and about
Absolutely nowhere at breakfast.
We don’t eat salt breakfast, at bar you can find some salt alternatives, but you won’t find eggs or bacon.
In hotels they usually offer also a salt breakfast based on foreigners taste.
I’ll never forget the looks I got when I asked my Italian aunt for oatmeal. She had no idea what I was talking about.
LOL ;)
@@fleur5397ma davvero?
seriously? LOL
Great channel! Keep up the great work.
Thank you 😊 🙏
I'm from Nord and I call cornetto the cornetto and brioches the brioche ...
look like i´m a serial killer.
solo caffe espresso in the morning 😅
sometimes also caffe corretto, but that´s later in the day.
also, nearly gotten a heart attack when i saw 4,50€ for an espresso😵so much more when you sit down, it´s crazy
Yes. They can charge what they want when u sit down.
I won't report you to the police. Serial killer 🤣
I love a Ristretto.
I love your Italy videos! ☕️❤️ Thank you for these amazing tips!! My husband and I are visiting Italy in March 2025 because my brother is getting married in the province of Pisa! However, I will be visiting Starbucks because I collect the mugs everywhere we travel together 🇮🇹 😂
That's great. There's one in Florence and a beautiful one in Milan. A Reserve.