Il Covo Trattoria
Victoria, Canada
The read// why locals go
Il Covo Trattoria is a family-run Italian dining room on Superior Street, started in 2014 by a Genova-born cook who has fed Victoria since 1999. The place stays deliberately small: pasta made fresh in the kitchen, focaccia baked for every table, and Salt Spring Island mussels steamed in white wine and black pepper when the season delivers them. Seafood, produce and meat are sourced locally and shift with the calendar. The garden patio is not decoration either, since the herbs and edible flowers grown out there end up in the dishes and the drinks. Delivery apps are refused outright, which tells you where this food is meant to be eaten.
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Superior Street 106 — Victoria
The read// why locals go
Il Covo Trattoria is a family-run Italian dining room on Superior Street, started in 2014 by a Genova-born cook who has fed Victoria since 1999. The place stays deliberately small: pasta made fresh in the kitchen, focaccia baked for every table, and Salt Spring Island mussels steamed in white wine and black pepper when the season delivers them. Seafood, produce and meat are sourced locally and shift with the calendar. The garden patio is not decoration either, since the herbs and edible flowers grown out there end up in the dishes and the drinks. Delivery apps are refused outright, which tells you where this food is meant to be eaten.
