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Rua dei Notari
( 0736 25 83 93; www.ruadeinotari.it ; Via Cesare Battisti 3; meals €30-35; dinner Wed-Sat & Mon,
lunch & dinner Sun) Nestling in the vaulted 16th-century Palazzo Guiderocchi, this refined
restaurant is one of the top tables in town. Artfully presented specialities play up seasonal,
regional flavours: a pappardelle with porcini and winter truffles might prelude a prefectly
layered millefeuille of veal and aubergine. The five-course degustation menu is a respect-
able €30.

TRADITIONAL ITALIAN €€

Caffè Meletti
(Piazza del Popolo 20; 7.30am-11pm Tue-Sun) From the elegant shade of the portico you can
sip a coffee or a glass of the famous homemade anisette with olive all'ascolana as you
gaze onto the piazza. The cafe, founded in 1904, was once a popular haunt of Ernest Hem-
ingway and Jean-Paul Sartre.

CAFE

Information

Police station ( 0736 35 51 11; Viale della Repubblica 8)

Post office (Via Crispi 2; 8.20am-7.05pm Mon-Fri, 8.20am-12.35pm Sat)

Tourist office ( 0736 29 82 04; [e-mail]; Piazza Arringo 7; 9am-6.30pm

Mon-Fri, 9am-1pm & 3-6.30pm Sat, 10am-6pm Sun)

Getting There & Away

BUS
Services leave from Piazzale della Stazione, in front of the train station in the new part of
town, east of the Castellano river. Start ( 0736 33 80 28; www.startspa.it ) runs buses to
Rome (€14.50, three hours, eight daily) and Civitanova Marche (€4.95, two hours, 12
daily).

TRAIN
Connections to Ancona (€6.95, two hours, 14 daily) often involve a change in Porto
d'Ascoli. Trains to Macerata require one or two changes (€6.30, 2¼ hours, 10 daily). The
station is a 15-minute walk east of the centre.

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