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Eating and drinking
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Salerno isn't a tourist town, but it's a very sociable place with plenty of street life and an intriguing choice of
eating places
. If all you want is a bite at lunchtime, there is a good
tavola calda
at
Pranz Express
, Corso V. Emanuele 15 (closed Sun), and the fruit and vegetable market off to the left just before the end of Corso V. Emanuele is a good source for picnics, as are the
alimentari
and
panificio
outside the station by the
Plaza
hotel. Among sit-down options, the nearby
Trattoria da Rosalia
, tucked away at Via degli Orti 22 (closed Wed & Sun), a right turn off Corso V. Emanuele immediately after Via Diaz, is a reliable and inexpensive restaurant, used by locals, serving decent fish and seafood. Other than that, there are a number of places in and around the old town, and on the main roads - Via Roma and Lungomare Trieste - that sweep around by the sea.
Antica Pizzeria Vicolo delle Neve
, left off Via dei Mercanti about 50m past the duomo (closed Wed & lunchtimes) - one of the scruffiest streets in the old city - is a deliciously downbeat place with both pizzas and local specialities;
Il Caminetto
, five minutes' away at Via Roma 232 (closed Wed), is a little pricey but friendly; while
Ristorante Santa Lucia
, in between the two at Via Roma 182 (closed Mon), is the elegant haunt of Salerno's young and trendy.
Trianon
, Piazza F. Gioia (closed Sun lunchtime) sells many variations on the traditional, huge Neapolitan pizza - the best in the town.
As for bars , Mennir at Vicolo Giudaica 50 is a friendly, stylish place open in the evening for as long as its customers want to drink. A few doors away, La Cantinella offers a more traditional Italian atmosphere and cheap drinks, and is welcoming to foreigners. Via Roma is the place where things get really busy from around 9pm at night, with people crowding the street, talking and drinking. It's lined with good bars, from the unnamed, bustling place tucked into a corner at the northern end of the street, past Easy Rider which, despite the name, is an Irish pub, to the more ostentatiously trendy Zen .
Salerno hosts what claims to be the oldest
fair
in Europe - the Fieravecchia - on the first weekend in May, when townsfolk parade in medieval gear, food stalls are set up along the waterfront and a 2000-egg omelette is cooked down at the beach on a giant metal contraption. Incidentally, if you fancy a
swim
Salerno does have a scrappy bit of beach but swimming from there isn't recommended. Better to make the short bus journey to Vietri
or even south to Paestum and make a day of it. Other useful information
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