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Eating, drinking and nightlife
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Like Bologna, Modena is a terrific place to
eat
, with a large array of restaurants in all price ranges. Try if you can to sample some of the local pork-based specialities, like
ciccioli
- flaky pork scratchings laid out in bars in the evening - or, in a restaurant,
zampone
(pig's trotters, boned and filled with minced meat) or
cotechino
- the same thing, but stuffed inside an animal bladder.
At the bottom end of the price scale, Giusti, Via Farini 75 (closed 12.30-5.30pm), a delicatessen since the seventeenth century, is a good source of picnic food; Giusti also run a bar, a few doors up, which is a good place for ready-made sandwiches. There is a self-service restaurant,
Il Chiostro
, at Via San Geminiano 3 (closed Sun), and a reasonable
mensa
at Via Leodino 9. Up a notch, the ristorante-pizzeria
Al Grotino
, Via del Taglio 26 (closed Wed), and the
Trattoria Aldina
, Via Albinelli 40 (closed Mon), are both decent, affordable standbys. If you want to try Modenese specialities,
Da Enzo
, Via Coltellini 17 (tel 059.225.177; closed Mon), is a nice, slightly old-fashioned place to do so - though not especially cheap; there's also
Santa Chiara
, on Via Ruggera (tel 059.225.302; closed Sun), a swish restaurant with adventurous contemporary local cooking. Nearby
Fini
, off Largo San Francesco (tel 059.223.314; closed Mon & Tues), is a pricey and rather upscale establishment, but the food is delectable in the extreme. Other useful information
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