Eat Like in the Movies: 4 Verified Stops

There is a special way to travel in Italy: sitting at the very tables of our favourite characters. Here are four real, existing and documented stops where scenes of famous films were shot, from north to south.

1. Bar Vitelli, Savoca (Sicily) — The Godfather (1972)

In the village of Savoca, Bar Vitelli is tied to one of the best-known scenes of The Godfather: here Michael Corleone meets Apollonia’s father. The venue, inside the 18th-century Palazzo Trimarchi, didn’t even have an official name before filming in 1971 — it was Coppola himself who chose it.

2. Le Gatte restaurant, Castellabate (Cilento) — Welcome to the South (2010)

On the port of Castellabate, Le Gatte is the restaurant where the hilarious dinner among colleagues in Welcome to the South is set — the box-office hit comedy that made this beautiful Campanian village famous.

3. Caffè Florian, Venice — The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

In St Mark’s Square, at the tables of Caffè Florian, Italy’s oldest café (since 1720), Tom Ripley meets Marge and Dickie’s father. A toast at the Florian is a cinematic — and grand — experience, in the same rooms once frequented by Casanova and Byron.

4. Trattoria Santa Lucia, Rome — Eat Pray Love (2010)

Near Piazza Navona, this is the trattoria where Julia Roberts savours Roman cuisine in one of the film’s most loved food scenes. It isn’t the film’s only food stop: in Naples, Julia Roberts also treats herself to the famous margherita pizza at Da Michele, the subject of our article on Eat Pray Love’s pizza.

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