IL CALICE

Restaurant, wine bar and wine shop on Walter-Benjamin-Platz: regional Italian cooking and around 750 wines, including the house's own from Friuli.

Il Calice on Walter-Benjamin-Platz is restaurant, wine bar and wine shop in one. Antonio Bragato opened it in 2001, and since 2016, after a break, he has been running it again himself, together with his son Louis, a sommelier. The wine list counts around 750 entries, including the wines Bragato makes in Friuli with the winemaker Gianni Maccari. Every summer father and son host a wine festival on the square.

Danny Benedettini's kitchen calls itself "L'Osteria moderna" and sets out to rediscover Italy's regional cooking, with top-quality produce and gentle cooking methods. The menu lists sgombro in saor, Venetian-style sweet-sour mackerel with raisins and pine nuts, vitello tonnato and buffalo mozzarella with cherry-wood-smoked ham from the D'Osvaldo family. Tuesday to Friday there is a two-course lunch menu, such as rigatoni alla Norma, grilled sea bream with fennel and citrus or rack of lamb in a herb crust.