Elba cuisine: food and wine and typical products
The flavours of the Elba cuisine come from simple dishes where fantasy mingles with knowledge when choosing the ingredients. This very cuisine, considered poor in the past, thanks to tourism is today considered refined.
The most popular dishes are those that require long and complicated preparation, and one of the hot favourites is without a doubt the Rio style stockfish, an exquisite dish made from salted anchovies, onions, tomatoes, basil, parsely, green peppers, black olives, pine nuts, capers and of course oil, chilli peppers and salt.
Gurguglione is another Rio speciality made from vegetables; cuttlefish ink risotto, stuffed tattlers, the famous cacciucco or fish soup, but also very simple dishes like boiled octopus, fried picarels or stuffed sardines.
After all these delicious dishes you could only finish off with a good wine, even though, sad to say, Elba used to have about 3.000 hectares of vineyards but over the past fifty years they have gone down to less than 200.
However the Elba wines are first class and many bear the DOClabel, such as the excellent: Elba White, Elba Red, Rosato, Ansonica, Moscato and Aleatico.
Local recipesThe most antique dishes of the Elba cuisine: gurguglione, Rio style stockfish, schiaccia briaca. 
Elba winesThe most important wines from Elba are elba white, red, aleatico, moscato, rosato and ansonica.
Herbs and typical productsHome-made honey, beer from Elba, extra virgin oil, wild and aromatic plants.
Typical dishes and their originsAll the Elba dishes have simple, basic ingredients that the skilled members of the previous generation turn into delicacies.
Restaurants and pizzeriasA choice of restaurants and pizzerias in Elba where you can savour the typical Elba cuisine.
