If so what are they and where are they located?

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  2. I don’t know if there is one restaurant in Italy that is ‘more famous’ domestically.

    Italians tend to eat regionally in my experience, every region will have a wide range of places, some of them locally famous.

    If I had to choose one or two.. maybe the Osteria Francescana in Modena,or the Pergola in Rome.

    These are the kind of places that people seriously into food will travel just to eat at.You also need a very serious budget of course!

  3. [The Fat Duck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fat_Duck?wprov=sfla1), founded by the celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal, definitely comes to mind. It’s a restaurant that specialises in molecular gastronomy, with dishes that combine various different foods that you would ordinarily never dream of combining. The one it’s most known for is bacon and egg ice cream.

    Reservations are to be made well in advance as there’s a very long waiting list.

  4. Bar 21 is famous for its piglet sandwiches for anyone that drove in Center Portugal

    Santiago in Oporto and Taberna Belga in Braga are known for its francesinhas

  5. There’s the Jules Verne restaurant inside the Eiffel Tower.

    Also Le Fouquet’s in Paris where famously sarkozy had a big, shady, expensive party with tons of very influential people to celebrate his election back in 2007.

  6. Operakällaren at the Royal Opera in Stockholm is quite well known and has been around in various forms since the opera opened in 1787.

  7. Making a different comment for this as it definitely doesn’t belong in the same comment as The Fat Duck.

    Pizza Express is a well-known chain of pizzerias in the UK, definitely above the level of Pizza Hut/Dominos etc but gets a huge amount of flak on Reddit for some reason (I’ve only had positive experiences there myself). However, their Woking branch became famous due to a notorious interview with Prince Andrew a few years ago concerning his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in which he made a [very misjudged alibi](https://youtu.be/sE9iJPEuYHE), and Woking Pizza Express continues to be a meme to this day. [Zizzi’s in Salisbury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal?wprov=sfla1) is also famous for being the site of the poisoning of a former Russian double agent.

    And then of course there’s [Binley Mega Chippy](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/12/a-gift-from-god-binley-mega-chippy-owner-basks-in-tiktok-fame) which got famous off some stupid TikTok meme https://youtube.com/shorts/Tl-lmEH2mAg?feature=share

  8. We have internationally renown chefs. We go where **they** cook, not for the name of the restaurant.

  10. Not really. There are some haute cuisine places like the Twins’ Garden and the White Rabbit, but most people don’t really care.

    There Seventh Heaven (Sedjmoje Nebo) on top of Ostankino TV tower, but other than its location it’s nothing to write home about.

    Pushkin and Dr Zhivago are for foreigners.

  11. Probably Harry’s Bar in Venice. Not so much for the cuisine (that I know of) but because it’s a magnet for the rich and famous that visit Venice and the obscene prices.

    The restaurant Il Cambio in Turin is also an institution in itself, not just for its age (it’s been around since the mid 1700s), but also because it’s where our first prime minister of unified Italy, Cavour, dined regularly. There’s still a table dedicated to him to these days.

    The restaurant of the La Scala theatre is also relatively well known, not only for its prestigious location, but also for its cuisine. The chef there was Gualtiero Marchesi, a star chef of the nouvelle cuisine, whose trademark recipe was risotto alla milanese with gold leaf.

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