Why Italian Breakfasts Are NOT What You Think 🇮🇹🥐☕

Italian breakfast, everything you need to know! Join me in breaking down the differences between a cornetto and a briosche, a cappuccino and a latte, and exploring the distinctions between a local bar and a traditional pastry shop. Discover what Italians savor for breakfast at home, including their affinity for decaffeinated coffees.

We'll delve into the intricacies of the breakfast experience, including the costs and the art of ordering at an Italian coffee bar. Get ready for an eye-opening journey into the heart of Italian breakfast culture. Ready? Let's go!

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[jasonalper]

After going to Italy i will never never drink Starbucks again, Starbucks now feels like the worst coffee i have drank after Italy.

[Nooner]

Bar San Calisto in Trastavere Rome. We paid $3.80 for two Cappuccino’s and crème cornetto and we sat outside. Incredibly inexpensive compared to most places. We absolutely loved people watching while having breakfast in Italy.

[deckard]

"Serial Killer" breakfast school here... 😆. Now, beside the needed compliments on the excellent Italian, finally a person who pronounces “pistaCChio” correctly, very well done Sir! 😅

[alicetwain]

In Lombardy, "cornetti" means green beans. Which obviously produces a number of fun situations.

[deerhoads]

I was raised in an Italian household. As long as I can remember our bkfst was a slice of Italian bread with butter and milky coffee. My Dad had corn flakes. Very simple. Fond memories.

[henrylabengineer]

I love your excitement to discover our country. Now you are ready to have the Italian citizenship!!! We want you here, with us!

[uncopino]

“no cappuccino after 11” isn’t really a thing. it only became a trend to say it on the internet. it is considered weird to have a cappuccino ant time after lunch. as long as you haven’t had lunch, no matter the time it is considered normal to have a cappuccino. if you show up at a bar and order cappuccino at 12:30 it’s not frowned upon. the barista will probably assume you woke up very late and, if in rome, male fun of you for it

[zebergjo]

Italian from Marche region here: wake up>espresso at home with my machine at home>get ready>go to bar get espresso and cornetto salato usually with prosciutto crudo>drive work>get off sunglasses>espresso with office's espresso machine>work>espresso>work

Repeat.

[AlexTenThousand]

A historical perspective: most of the modern Italian breakfast came as a result of the 1960s economic boom, itself part of the larger scenario of Italy's re-building after World War II. The development of the food industry and general increase of wealth allowed many people to buy goods such as confectionary and afford real coffee (something which was scarcely available during the Ventennio, as Mussolini's regime posed economic and agricultural isolationism, leading to an unspoken ban of coffee and the development of barley and chicory-based coffee substitutes).

My paternal grandma, who was born in 1920, essentially ate dinner leftovers for breakfast, as she had always done for her whole life.

[Noriginalgazza]

Perfetto! All things you said are correct, from an italian point of view.

[blackkaos]

Here in Italy we don't have breakfast standards, we eat what we want

[sapinta]

cornetto is just the one with the horns (corno means horn in italian). The other pastries have their own name (fagottino, treccia, bomba, ciambella, danese, etc.), unless you're in Milan where they say brioche for everything (except actual brioches, which are french pastries that taste nothing like a cornetto)

[iTube]

In Piedmont we correctly call it croissant, brioche are other kind of pastries. But I learned that the croissant is made with puff pastry, while the cornetto is made with normal, heavier dough.

[uncopino]

give another chance to fette biscottate but this time spread some butter on them before you put the jam. total game changer. i even do weird things with all sorts of nut butters, the weirdest of which, and also the best one, is fette biscottate with tahini and sour orange jam. italians often do butter and apricot jam. plus a lot of Italians have cereal with milk or biscuits/cookies, yogurt, fruit, it isn’t just fette biscottate and merendine (the packaged stuff). up until some 30 years ago it used to be either bread with butter and jam or some sort of cake that your mom would bake on Sunday for it to last a few days but these traditions got kinda lost. sometimes i buy a lemon flavored ciambellone, some semi-industrial stuff but it’s not bad, and have it with earl gray tea and plain yogurt. one of my favorite breakfast. some people do bread and nutella. there’s a ton of different options actually

[amaroaverna]

Nice video, breakfast in italy should be split in 2 categories: at home and at bar. At home are very common to drink moka coffee, tea, orzo, caffé latte (a shot of moka inside a mug of milk) succo di frutta or spremuta and eat biscotti, pane or fette biscottate with burro e marmellata (bread, butter and jam), also, if you want a "Fetta Biscottata" that is a game changer try the fette biscottate from other brands. For example in Rome you can find a brand called "Gentilini" that make very good fette biscottate, bigger and stronger than the mulino's one.
At bar, instead, the breakfast is pretty standard: cappucino, caffè, caffè corretto (coffee + liqueur like sambuca or mistrà, but only eldery people doing this in the early morning), caffè macchiato (coffee with a pinch of milk that could be plain or like the milk in the cappuccino) latte macchiato (milk with a pinch of coffee), caffè latte (milk with a shot of coffee), ginseng or orzo, most of the time at the bar you will eat pastry like: cornetto, brioche + gelato or granita (if you are in Sicily), maritozzo (brioche with whipper cream if you are in Rome) and so on.

In most of the bar you will eat at "banco" or, if you are allowed, you can take your order. by your self, on a free table, in these cases the price has no surcharge, if you order directly on the table you will pay much more, like double or triple the original price. It is a scam? Could be, for me yes, i'll never ever pay 4€ for a coffee.

Last but not the least, we also have salty breakfast somewhere in Italy, it is very regional or can change from a city to another, for example in Bolzano (north-east of italy) you can order eggs and speck, in Genova (north-west of Italy) you can eat focaccia, In Pesaro (Center of Italy) you can eat Pizzette Rossini (pizza + eggs and maionese).

[amandaviola_]

Planning my Rome+Florence trip, your videos are so helpful thank you 🙏🏾💛

[christianpontecorvi]

This video was great. As an Italian-American living in Italy I can you couldn't have got it better.

[UnaTazadeTe-gh]

Thank you for making this videos, now I feel not that lost.

[ChaiTogether]

Coolest AYEEE THE MUSIC IS MY JAM lol 😂🥳🤪

[grandeleader]

I'm Italian but I LOVE the American French toast, specially the Torrejas version served in SOCAL