Elban cuisine is based on simple dishes, where imagination and skill play an important role in the choice of ingredients; with the advent of tourism, these dishes, at one time thought to be “frugal”, are now considered refined.

Some dishes requiring a long and complex preparation are particularly elaborate. One of these - stockfish as prepared in Rio Marina - is a superb dish, with salted anchovies, onions, tomatoes, basil, parsley, green peppers, black olives, pine-nuts, capers and, obviously, oil, paprika and salt.

Other excellent dishes are cacciucco (fish soup), rice with sepia ink sauce, stuffed sardines, mixed fried fish, spaghetti with crab, scorpion fish alla livornese, pappardelle with wild boar or hare sauce, all accompanied by a good Elba DOC wine.
In this section Infoelba recommends restaurants and trattorias where you can enjoy all these dishes. In many restaurants it is necessary to book in advance.