Where to Eat in Rome, Some Suggestions

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My post about a Japanese couple's bad experience in a Rome restaurant sparked some discussion, and also led to Blog from Italy reader David suggesting a few places in Rome which serve good food at reasonable prices.So, after writing about the bad, here is a little post based on David's … [Read more...]

Setting Up a Restaurant in Italy

With Italy's complex employment laws and fiddly bureaucracy setting up a restaurant and making it successful appears to be no easy task.My other half was involved in the closure of a mixed bar stroke restaurant here in Milan and the business just was not making any real money.  Why? … [Read more...]

Have You Discovered Italian Cuisine?

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Italian food is supposedly well known the world over, but the world's knowledge of Italian cuisine is somewhat limited.  There so much wonderful cooking just waiting to be discovered in Italy, but sadly, not many people discover it.Many people appear to be missing out on the gastronomic … [Read more...]

Eat like a God in the Aligia Restaurant, Vrasi

According to my Italy expert, Gaetano Salvo, 'si mangia da Deo' - 'you eat like a God' (rough translation from Italian), or rather 'the food is wonderful' in the Aligia Restaurant (map link), down in Vrasi. Vrasi, by the way, is about half way between Salerno and Catanzaro in south Italy, and a … [Read more...]

Pizzeria Photo Gallery

It was pizza night tonight, although it was not the standard Italian type pizza, but the 'pizza al trancio', which is the 'deep pan' version of the traditionally thin pizza. There are two pizzerias near us that do this type of pizza. One is Da Giuliano which is located at the Corso Sempione end of … [Read more...]