Restaurants
In this section I write short comments about accommodations and restaurants in some places I have visited. I think that in principle it is worth to mention only venues that I would recommend, but I make a few exception for places I think it is worth to warn people off.
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Renato
e Luisa - Via dei
Barbieri 25 tel. 06-6869660 (closed on
monday) City centre, good and not too expensive:
try the various starters. Chinese restaurants in Italy are usually incredibly cheap but infected, to be carefully avoided. For eastern food the Thai option is much better. I tried the Isola Puket, Via di Villa Chigi, 91 (06 86212664) and was good. Pierluigi, P.zza
de' Ricci 154, tel.06 6861302, central, not cheap but good. Pizzeria Montecarlo. Vicolo Savelli 12, Rome, Italy · 06-68-61-877. It is next to the more famous "da Baffetto", where you have to cue for a long time before you can sit! The service in this one is sloppy, but the pizza is fine. Naumachie, via Celimontana (near Colosseo, good for a couple of pasta dishes and Chateaubriand steak (to be eaten rare). In central Rome: Myosotis, Vicolo della Vaccarella 3/5 (RM) Tel. 06/686554, a bit pretentious and not the cheapest, but food is ok. Ethiopian-Eritrean food was a pleasant surprise to me when I first tried a few years ago. A good restaurant is the Sahara, 43, Viale Ippocrate – tel 0644242583/0644242063. |
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Where not to go in |
Lazio
Fumone
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Tuscany and Liguria
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Arezzo
Genova
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El Gran Café Calle Avinyò,
9 . Tel. 933 187 986 It's
elegant but cosy, it wasn't
expensive when last tried, in the old town. Can Punyetes C. Maria' Cubi', 189, 932009159 (metro Fontana), good traditional catalan. The Basque is the most valued Spanish cuisine, and Taktika Berri, in C. Valencia 169, Tel. 934534759 is an excellent Basque restaurant. There are many and generally good tapas bar and a very good one, with a vast selection is the Cerveceria Catalana, Mallorca 236, 932160368 (metro Diagonal). Among the vary many and attractive fish restaurants in the Port Olimpic, I was invited in the last one on the left side, the Cangrejo Loco and was very good. |
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Restaurant Canovas Pl. Cánovas
del Castillo, 10 46003 VALENCIA (VALENCIA), Tel: +34(0)963 331 159 ,
excellent tapas |
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The Creel -
St. Margaret's hope, 01856 832322 It's probably the most known restaurant in
the Orkney's, and certainly the price accounts for it. I keep not
understanding why, when a restaurant stands in the poshy
side, it feels obliged to provide the customers with small portions, though
served in enormous dishes. This restaurant goes even further on this route:
the food has not only to be little, but possibly tasteless. It certainly
failed to impress me (a part from the bill). |