The Ristorante Concordia is an elegant place right in the center of Old Town Udine at the foothill of the famous castle hill, from which you have a scenic view over the entire city. Udine is one of these cute and placid northern Italian cities you don’t want to miss. I really love Udine as it is the closest Italian city from my home country Austria and unlike Trieste, which I also love by the way because it is by the sea, Udine doesn’t have the infamous Bora, this Adriatic wind on the East coast of the Adria which occur once in a while and literally will blow you away. So you really have to wrap yourself up and stem against the wind. This won’t happen to you in Udine as this city is just located on the southern foothills of the Alps and about 40 minutes by car away from the Adria.

Back to the Concordia. The staff is friendly and we got our meals very quickly and they tasted delicious, meaning here you will get this typical thin-crusted Italian pizza and an al dente Spaghetti Bolognese. Here at the Ristorante Concordia as well as all over Udine by the way, the Spaghetti Bolognese is to be found as Spaghetti Ragout on the menu. I had a pizza with sweet salami, as they call it here, in other regions it is called Pizza Milano, bt here the typical salami pizza is with hot salami, in other words the Pizza Diavolo. So as I am not so much into hot stuff, I asked for a change of the salami piccante into a non-spicy salami.

They were very willing to make my wishes come true and, so as here they are good in improvising, only a few minutes later I had my pizza con „salami dolce“, this so-called sweet salami. It was so delicious to enjoy a true Italian pizza in Italy again, surrounded by Italian waiters, Italian language, Italian menu...

From Udine with Love! Dr. Dr. Immanuel Fruhmann