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Gluten free · checked November 6, 2026
Italy is the easiest country in Europe to eat gluten free. Coeliac disease is screened for, pharmacies stock gluten-free pasta, and the Italian Coeliac Association (AIC) trains and checks restaurants. You can eat carbonara, schiacciata, tortellini, fritto misto and a sfogliatella without a second thought, if you know where.
Sono celiaco (celiaca). È senza glutine, e cucinato a parte?I have coeliac disease. Is it gluten free, and cooked separately?
1Rome · Four in Rome: Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, the Pantheon, Monti, Prati
Get: Fresh pasta, made that morning: carbonara or cacio e pepe
Two separate kitchens. Coeliac plates come out square, so nothing gets mixed up.
Separate gluten-free kitchen and fresh-pasta lab. Source: Pasta in Corso's own site, with diners on Gluto (4.6, reviews through Oct 2026), checked November 6, 2026 · All of gluten-free Rome ›
2Rome · Near the Vatican
Get: The Fettuccine Experience (butter, parmesan, raw beef), or carbonara made gluten free
The sit-down restaurant from New Food, Rome's gluten-free bakery. Roman classics, nothing swapped out.
The whole restaurant is gluten free. Source: Laura Dolci (a coeliac Roman), checked November 6, 2026 · All of gluten-free Rome ›
3Florence · Santa Croce · Via dei Neri 49r
Get: A schiacciata: crudo, stracciatella and rocket, or the Bomba
Florence's sandwich street, made safe. Order at the original corner shop.
The whole place is gluten free, and AIC certified. Source: Wheatless Wanderlust (a coeliac traveller, updated May 2026), checked November 6, 2026 · All of gluten-free Florence ›
4Florence · By the Ponte Vecchio · Via delle Terme 23r
Get: Tagliolini with fresh truffle in season, or pappardelle al cinghiale
They ask who's gluten free as you sit down. Our source's best meal of a week in Italy.
AIC certified, with its own gluten-free menu. Source: Wheatless Wanderlust (a coeliac traveller, updated May 2026), checked November 6, 2026 · All of gluten-free Florence ›
5Milan · Corso Magenta 9, by Sant'Ambrogio
Get: Cotoletta alla milanese, then torta della nonna
Milanese classics, every one gluten free. A small room: book on weekends.
The whole place is gluten free. Source: Appetito Magazine (a coeliac writer in Milan, Sept 2025), checked November 6, 2026 · All of gluten-free Milan ›
6Rome, Florence and Milan · Piazza Navona in Rome, the Duomo in Florence, the Navigli in Milan
Get: Saffron risotto, plain or with octopus
Rice is the whole idea, so nothing has to be swapped. Even the desserts.
The whole place is gluten free, in all three cities. Source: Appetito Magazine and Laura Dolci (coeliac writers in Milan and Rome), checked November 6, 2026 · All of gluten-free Milan ›
7Naples · Piazza Cavour
Get: A sfogliatella, a babà, a slice of pastiera
The gluten-free shop of a Naples pastry name. The classics, from a lab with no gluten in it.
Dedicated gluten-free café and pastry shop. Source: Find Me Gluten Free and Gluto (diners report it fully gluten free), checked November 6, 2026
8Bologna · Bolognina · Via Piero Gobetti 49
Get: Tortellini in brodo, then tagliatelle al ragù
A real Bolognese trattoria with one kitchen, and all of it gluten free. Lunch and dinner every day.
The whole kitchen is gluten free. Source: Bologna Welcome (the city's tourist office) and Scatti di Gusto, checked November 6, 2026
9Venice · Cannaregio, near the Rialto
Get: The fritto misto
Fried seafood is usually off the table in Venice. Here the fryer runs on rice flour.
AIC accredited, rice-flour fryer. Source: Wheatless Wanderlust (a coeliac traveller), checked November 6, 2026
10All over Italy · Rome, Florence, Milan and most Italian cities
Get: Crema come una volta, in a cone
The gelato chain that went fully gluten free, cones and toppings too.
Every shop is gluten free. Source: Appetito Magazine and Wheatless Wanderlust, checked November 6, 2026
Restaurants in the Italian Coeliac Association's network are trained and checked. Its free app, AIC Mobile, lists them by town.
Pharmacies sell gluten-free pasta, bread and biscuits. Most supermarkets have a senza glutine shelf.
A gluten-free pizza baked in the wheat oven, or supplì from a shared fryer, isn't safe for a coeliac. Ask how it's cooked.
Ask Chef. He'll find the coeliac-safe places in any town, and save them to your trip.
How Chef checks: every place here says it on its own site, or a coeliac writer or diners who ate there do, and we link which. Checked November 6, 2026. Photos are each place's own food, credited. Kitchens change: if it's coeliac disease, say so every time. No place paid to be here.
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I have coeliac disease. Is it gluten free, and cooked separately?
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