40 mid-range places in Parma, editor-picked. the comfortable everyday-good restaurants in Parma, with real cooking and no surprise on the bill. All Parma food.
Trattoria Ai Due Platani ★ 4.7
Coloreto · Strada Budellungo 104/A, 43123 Coloreto, Parma
Trattoria Ai Due Platani in Coloreto holds Gambero Rosso's Tre Gamberi and a Bib Gourmand, ten minutes from Parma and booked out weeks ahead for tortelli.
Tip: Reserve well in advance, even midweek. Finish with the house cream gelato, churned in a 1964 Carpigiani machine the owners refuse to retire.
Trattoria Antichi Sapori ★ 4.5
Gaione · Via Montanara 318, 43124 Parma
Trattoria Antichi Sapori sits in Gaione's countryside just outside Parma with a 2026 Bib Gourmand; the same kitchen team has rolled its pasta since 2005.
Tip: Order the square tortelli that made the trattoria's name. Book ahead for summer evenings; the drive from central Parma takes about ten minutes.
Trattoria Antichi Sapori ★ 4.5
Gaione · Via Montanara 318, 43124 Parma
Trattoria Antichi Sapori's Bib Gourmand menu in Gaione holds tortelli at 12 euro and trippa alla parmigiana at 14, countryside prices ten minutes from Parma.
Tip: Weekday lunch is the quiet, cheap slot; Sunday needs a booking and patience.
Trattoria Corrieri ★ 4.4
centro-storico · Via Conservatorio 1, 43121 Parma
Trattoria Corrieri fills an old posthouse courtyard near Parma's Parco Ducale with torta fritta, tortelli d'erbetta and anolini served all day long.
Tip: It runs continuous service from noon to midnight, so aim for 15:00 or 18:30 to skip the queues that build at classic meal times.
Brisla Trattoria ★ 4.4
centro-storico · Strada Luigi Carlo Farini 41/A, 43121 Parma
Brisla Trattoria earned a 2026 Bib Gourmand for chef Elia Otgianu's seasonal take on Parma classics: anolini in brodo, leek tortelli and bomba di riso.
Tip: Book online through their site; the room on Strada Farini is small and the Bib Gourmand listing keeps weekend tables scarce.
Trattoria Le Viole ★ 4.4
Baganzola · Strada Nuova di Castelnovo 60/A, 43126 Parma
Trattoria Le Viole, run since 1989 by the Petrera sisters north of Parma, plates savarin di riso and tortelli with a lightness rare in the food valley.
Tip: Rosanna talks you through the menu and Lucia runs the wine list. Order the savarin di riso here; almost nobody else still makes it.
Enoteca Tabarro ★ 4.4
centro-storico · Strada Luigi Carlo Farini 5/B, 43121 Parma
Enoteca Tabarro opens the Strada Farini wine mile in Parma, pouring grower wines at wooden barrels a few steps off Piazza Garibaldi until one in the morning.
Tip: Start the Farini crawl here at 18:00, when the barrels outside are still free and the salumi plates come out fastest.
Trattoria Le Viole ★ 4.4
Baganzola · Strada Nuova di Castelnovo 60/A, 43126 Parma
Trattoria Le Viole keeps its Michelin-listed tortelli at 12 euro and savarin at 14 north of Parma, white tablecloths without the white-tablecloth bill.
Tip: Two courses and a glass lands around 30 euro; the savarin di riso at 14 euro is the order.
Osteria del 36 ★ 4.3
centro-storico · Strada Aurelio Saffi 26/A, 43121 Parma
Osteria del 36 traces its name to 1880, when wine here cost 36 cents a litre; chef Francesco Ziveri has run its Emilian kitchen in Parma since 1997.
Tip: It closes from mid-July to around 20 August each summer, so check before an August visit and book for the small wine-lined room.
Trattoria Sorelle Picchi ★ 4.3
centro-storico · Strada Luigi Carlo Farini 27, 43121 Parma
Trattoria Sorelle Picchi grew out of a historic salumeria on Strada Farini in Parma, so lunch starts at the counter: culatello, coppa and spalla cotta.
Tip: The front counter is a working salumeria whose boards also sell to take away; tables book in two seatings at lunch, 12:00 and 13:45.
I Tri Siochett ★ 4.3
parma-sud · Strada Comunale Farnese 74/A, 43125 Parma
I Tri Siochett is the family trattoria on Parma's southern edge with a 2026 Bib Gourmand, feeding big tables tortelli d'erbetta at around 9 euro a plate.
Tip: The name is dialect for the three founding brothers, the three fools. Come hungry on Sunday lunch and treat it as the main event of the day.
Ombre Rosse ★ 4.3
centro-storico · Borgo Giacomo Tommasini 18, 43121 Parma
Ombre Rosse pairs one of Parma's deepest cellars with salumi boards in the courtyards off Borgo Tommasini, the pioneering wine bar turned all-day institution.
Tip: The enoteca side pours until 01:00 or later; the Ombre Mosse dining room behind it takes bookings when you want a full table.
Birrificio del Ducato ★ 4.3
Soragna · Strada Argine 43, 43019 Soragna, Parma
Birrificio del Ducato, founded in Parma's Bassa in 2007, is Italy's most-medalled craft brewery; Viaemilia took Best Pilsner at the 2026 Cerevisia Awards.
Tip: Book the guided tasting through their site and pair the trip with Soragna's Rocca; the brewery sits out on the Argine road.
I Tri Siochett ★ 4.3
parma-sud · Strada Comunale Farnese 74/A, 43125 Parma
I Tri Siochett prices tortelli d'erbetta around nine euro and seconds under fifteen at Parma's edge, Bib Gourmand cooking at trattoria-of-old prices.
Tip: Michelin files it under 'on a budget' and the menu agrees: pasta at 9 euro, mains topping out near 15.
Trattoria del Tribunale ★ 4.2
centro-storico · Vicolo Politi 5, 43121 Parma
Trattoria del Tribunale hides in a lane behind Parma's courthouse, rolling tortelli, anolini and tagliatelle daily under a ceiling of hanging salumi.
Tip: Open every day including Sunday evening, which is rare in central Parma. The lane entrance on Vicolo Politi is easy to walk past.
Osteria Virgilio ★ 4.2
oltretorrente · Strada Giovanni Inzani 3/B, 43125 Parma
Osteria Virgilio is Oltretorrente Parma at its most honest: 36-month prosciutto, anolini in brodo and horse tartare in a small room with natural wines.
Tip: The room seats very few, so call ahead. Gazzetta di Parma's February 2026 review called it a modern osteria of local tradition and a posto del cuore.
Soj Vino e Cucina ★ 4.2
centro-storico · Borgo del Parmigianino 26, 43121 Parma
Soj Vino e Cucina seats about fifteen people around an open kitchen in Parma, where chefs Federico Capocasa and Eugenio Restivo cook and serve everything.
Tip: The two chefs are also the waiters and sommeliers, so the pace is theirs. Reserve by phone and ask for the counter seats facing the open kitchen.
Osteria Ardenga ★ 4.2
Diolo · Strada Circonvallazione Chiesa, 43019 Diolo, Soragna, Parma
Osteria Ardenga feeds the culatello lowlands at Diolo di Soragna near Parma: farmhouse rooms, river-plain salumi and anolini that honour the Bassa's kitchens.
Tip: Lunch is the main service; Saturday is the only dinner. It is the natural stop between Soragna and the culatello villages on the Po.
Salumeria Garibaldi ★ 4.2
centro-storico · Strada Giuseppe Garibaldi 42, 43121 Parma
Salumeria Garibaldi slices Parmigiano aged up to 100 months and hand-tied culatello on Strada Garibaldi in Parma, a serious 1950s grocery institution.
Tip: This is the practical souvenir stop: they vacuum-pack prosciutto, culatello and aged Parmigiano for the flight home.
Trattoria Corrieri ★ 4.2
centro-storico · Via Conservatorio 1, 43121 Parma
Trattoria Corrieri keeps full trattoria service running to midnight every night of the week, Parma's safest answer to a 22:30 arrival with an appetite.
Tip: The kitchen takes orders late without the reheated-tourist-menu trap; go for the torta fritta round even at 23:00.
Soj Vino e Cucina ★ 4.2
centro-storico · Borgo del Parmigianino 26, 43121 Parma
Soj Vino e Cucina is the two-man counter Parma keeps half-secret: Federico Capocasa and Eugenio Restivo cooking, pouring and serving fifteen diners at a time.
Tip: Phone bookings only, and Friday is the single lunch service of the week; the counter seats are the ones to ask for.
Osteria Ardenga ★ 4.2
Diolo · Strada Circonvallazione Chiesa, 43019 Diolo, Soragna, Parma
Osteria Ardenga is the Bassa's kept secret near Parma: farmhouse rooms at Diolo where culatello, mariola and anolini stay at village prices.
Tip: Lunch is the service that matters; pair it with a stop at a Bassa curing cellar and the Po embankment road.
Officina Alimentare Dedicata ★ 4.1
centro-storico · Via Ferdinando Maestri 11/A, 43121 Parma
Officina Alimentare Dedicata reworks Parma tradition with organic produce from vetted local farms; anolini of stracotto arrive in capon broth at 16 euro.
Tip: The kitchen flags celiac and vegan-friendly plates clearly, which is rare among Parma's traditional rooms. Book the aperitivo hour too.
Trattoria del Grillo ★ 4.1
Vigatto · Strada Martinella 281, 43124 Parma
Trattoria del Grillo in Vigatto won TV Parma's contest for the city's best torta fritta, pairing the fried puffs with Ponte Romano prosciutto crudo.
Tip: Reservations are phone-only. The torta fritta arrives in waves, so pace the salumi board or the pasta courses will defeat you.
Gallo d'Oro ★ 4.1
centro-storico · Borgo della Salina 3/A, 43121 Parma
Gallo d'Oro keeps tavern hours behind Parma's town hall, frying torta fritta for salumi boards from noon to nearly midnight under old vaulted ceilings.
Tip: Continuous kitchen hours make it the reliable option when everything else is closed between lunch and dinner. The wine list leans local.
Passione e Tradizione ★ 4.1
oltretorrente · Via Savani 18, 43126 Parma
Passione e Tradizione entered Gambero Rosso's 2025 pizza guide from Parma's west side with a hydrated Neapolitan dough, home-made fried starters and desserts.
Tip: One of only two Parma pizzerias in Gambero Rosso's Pizzerie d'Italia 2025, and the cheaper of the two ways to test the city's pizza ceiling.
Bastian Contrario Public House ★ 4.1
oltretorrente · Strada Giovanni Inzani 34/A, 43125 Parma
Bastian Contrario Public House taps its own Parma-brewed beers on Strada Inzani: eleven lines plus two pumps, from Miss Matilda to the rotating one-offs.
Tip: The brewery's taproom and kitchen live at Via Rapallo, with a 1969 trailer as its roving festival bar; this pub is the nightly, no-booking way to the tanks.
Degusteria Romani ★ 4.1
centro-storico · Borgo Palmia 2/C, 43122 Parma
Degusteria Romani turns the Silvano Romani salumi counter into table service on Borgo Palmia in Parma: culatello flights, verticals, Emilian glasses.
Tip: It shares ownership with the Prosciutteria shop on Farini, so taste here and buy the vacuum-packed take-home versions there.
Gallo d'Oro ★ 4.1
centro-storico · Borgo della Salina 3/A, 43121 Parma
Gallo d'Oro's continuous-hours tavern menu behind Parma's town hall keeps torta fritta boards and fresh pastas in the low teens all afternoon and evening.
Tip: Eating at 17:00 costs the same as at 13:00 here, which makes it the budget fix for missed-lunch days.
Croce di Malta ★ 4.0
centro-storico · Borgo Palmia 8, 43121 Parma
Croce di Malta keeps a small bright modern room off Parma's Piazza Garibaldi, cooking precise seasonal plates built on herbs and artisan produce.
Tip: Gazzetta di Parma reviewed it warmly in January 2025 for balanced, modern cooking. Sunday is lunch only and Thursday is the closing day.
Trattoria Il Cortile ★ 4.0
oltretorrente · Borgo Paglia 3, 43125 Parma
Trattoria Il Cortile serves Parma classics in a vaulted Oltretorrente courtyard room: anolini in brodo, tortelli d'erbetta and slow-braised veal cheek.
Tip: The Oltretorrente side of the river stays calmer than the Duomo streets at dinner, so this is the easier good table on a Saturday.
Ristorante La Forchetta ★ 4.0
centro-storico · Borgo San Biagio 6/D, 43121 Parma
Ristorante La Forchetta runs family service steps from Parma's Baptistery, plating culatello and Parmigiano alongside a fish list rare for the centre.
Tip: One of the few central rooms mixing Parma salumi with seafood, useful when the table cannot agree. Sunday is lunch only.
Cavaedium ★ 4.0
parma-ovest · Largo Ca' del Fabbro, 43126 Parma
Cavaedium, opened in 2023 by Federico Tagliafierro, brought double-baked crunchy pizza to Parma and a Gambero Rosso 2025 guide entry within two years.
Tip: Pizzas arrive pre-cut in six slices and the dough rewards sharing; the pala romana is sized for two. There is a car park next door.
Antica Osteria della Ghiaia ★ 4.0
centro-storico · Borgo Paggeria 12, 43121 Parma
Antica Osteria della Ghiaia fries torta fritta by the basket near Parma's old market and hosts a tortellata every 23 June for the feast of San Giovanni.
Tip: Dinner runs Friday and Saturday only; every other day it is a lunch house. Book June 23rd weeks ahead for the tortellata di San Giovanni.
Taverna del Castello ★ 4.0
Torrechiara · Strada del Castello 25, 43013 Torrechiara, Langhirano
Taverna del Castello sits below Torrechiara's frescoed castle south of Parma, feeding prosciutto-country walkers on the village's stone lane before the climb.
Tip: Park in the small lot below the village and walk up. Pair lunch with the Castello di Torrechiara, the best-preserved castle in the province.
I Pifferi ★ 4.0
Sala Baganza · Via Zappati 36, 43038 Sala Baganza, Parma
I Pifferi occupies an old post house from the era of Duchess Marie Louise at Sala Baganza near Parma, on the edge of the Boschi di Carrega woods.
Tip: Combine it with the wine museum in Sala Baganza's Rocca and a walk in the Boschi di Carrega, the old ducal hunting forest.
Bastian Contrario ★ 4.0
oltretorrente · Strada Giovanni Inzani 34/A, 43125 Parma
Bastian Contrario has brewed independently in Parma since 2015, growing from a pub into a brand with its own kit, eleven taps and a 1969 trailer bar.
Tip: Italia a Tavola profiled the project in 2025 as Parma's craft reference point; the Strada Inzani public house is where the full range pours nightly.
Gallo d'Oro ★ 4.0
centro-storico · Borgo della Salina 3/A, 43121 Parma
Gallo d'Oro's continuous noon-to-23:45 service makes it central Parma's dependable late trattoria: old vaults, salumi boards, torta fritta at 23:00.
Tip: Arrive by 23:00 to eat unhurried; after that the fryer slows down with the town.
Antica Osteria della Ghiaia ★ 4.0
centro-storico · Borgo Paggeria 12, 43121 Parma
Antica Osteria della Ghiaia is where Parma actually eats its torta fritta, a market-quarter dining room whose lunchtime fryer sets the city standard.
Tip: The June 23rd tortellata di San Giovanni is the night to know about; otherwise treat it as Parma's torta fritta benchmark at lunch.
Osteria dei Servi ★ 3.9
ghiaia · Piazza Ghiaia 1M, 43121 Parma
Osteria dei Servi works the old Ghiaia market square in Parma with Vacca Rossa beef, cavallo pesto and vintage-furnished rooms open every day of the week.
Tip: Open seven days including Sunday dinner, and vegetarians eat better here than the meat-heavy menu suggests; ask for the veganisable risottos.