Enoteca Fontana
What the experts agree on
This beloved local wine bar trades polished ambiance for authentic charm—gregarious crowds squeeze around communal tables for cheap wine-paired nibbles that outshine pricier panini. Classic Parma institution.
“Cheap nibbles and a huge selection of wine by the glass draw a local crowd to this plain room with a long bar and battered wooden communal tables.”
– Frommer's
"Gregarious locals flock to this old-school enoteca (wine bar)."
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There's an enormous selection of wine bottles to go, so you can avoid the madding crowd with takeout.
"Parmesans take the pulse of their own city at this hectic institution, where the cheap nibbles are strangely better than the panini you pay a lot more for." Full review
"I fortify myself with an eritivo at Enoteca Fontana — a salmon-hued cantina on the thoroughfare of Strada Luigi Carlo Farini from which ebullient young Parmigiani spill, laden with €5..."