Hunting For Vegan Food In Genoa

I’m in Genoa and I want to know if it is weird referring to it as Genoa on my blog and not the Italian Genova?

I am such an uneducated fool. For most of my life I thought Genoa and Genova were two different places. The anglicised name for this Italian city was obviously the one I’m most familiar with so perhaps I should just stick with it for clarity.

My husband is feeling a bit under the weather so we are taking it easy with a few gentle strolls around the port and historic centre, but of course day one had me looking for vegan snacks.

This morning we popped into the Eataly cafe opposite the port and I was surprised to find fresh vegan croissants, including fruit jam filled varieties. The cafe also had pre-packaged vegan biscotti.


These croissants were delicious but they were just stop one for the day.

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