piatti

Piatti is the plural form of the Italian noun piatto, meaning dish or plate. In Italian cuisine, piatti denotes prepared dishes served as part of a meal and is commonly used on menus and in recipes to refer to distinct items or categories of dishes. The singular piatto also exists and is used to denote a single dish or plate. In both everyday speech and culinary writing, piatti helps describe courses and types of food, such as pasta dishes, meat dishes, or fish dishes.

On Italian menus, piatti are often grouped by course, with phrases like antipasti (before the meal), primi piatti (first courses, typically pasta, risotto, or dumplings), secondi piatti (main courses, usually meat or fish), contorni (side dishes), and dolci (desserts). Other common pairings include piatti freddi (cold dishes) and piatti caldi (hot dishes). The term is also used more broadly to refer to any dish in a collection of recipes, cookbooks, or menus.

Piatti is also an Italian surname.