‘Some 60 Percent of Italian Restaurants Abroad Are Awful’
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 04.27.07 | 3:25 PM ET
That’s the conclusion of the Italian Academy of Cooking, which has been (unhappily) reviewing hundreds of overseas Italian restaurants. In their travels, academy experts encountered stringy pasta and—gasp—pineapple on pizza, according to a BBC report. Something tells me they wouldn’t care for my goat cheese-jalapeņo pizza. Oh well.
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Photo by landexter via Flickr, (Creative Commons).
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Tim Andersen 08.21.07 | 12:54 AM ET
I went to a Woolworth’s type diner in Milan and ordered the risotto and it was delicious. It was great hearing the sizzle when the chef poured in the white wine. You could hear it from alll over the store. I also ordered some overpriced food at some swank joints and the food there was also excellent. Also, I have had pasta in Paris and Brussels and pizza in London and Frankfurt and I would advise that looking for pizza joints in Western Europe is a great way to eat inexpensively. I have yet to have a bad meal at an Italian restaurant in Europe.
Afi Graves 08.23.07 | 5:42 AM ET
I discovered Italy last summer and was mildly disappointed with the food. While in Florence I had doughy, flavorless pizza (I’ve had better in Brooklyn truth be told). I then tried an overpriced restaurant near a famous square (the name escapes me this late at night) and the food was mediocre. Suffice it to say I had the best Italian meal (while backpacking through Europe) in *gasp* and *shock* non other than Edinburgh, Scotland! The owner was a Scottish man who married an Italian woman and they opened a lovely place on the main tourist strip in Edinburgh. Great people and even better Italian food.