1.The shorter the menu the more likely you are to get good quality fresh food.
2.The more dishes offered with ingredients, which are in season, the better the food will be.
3. In Italy ingredients, which are frozen have to be indicated on the menu, so look out for those little stars on the right.
4.Water is always ordered at the beginning of the meal, a lightly fizzy is recommended to clean the palate especially if you will be eating rich food.
5.If you start with fish or meat, you should stick with the theme or have lemon sorbet between courses.
6.Avoid anything labelled tourist menu or you will end up with fish fingers for your main.
7. It’s good to know what different areas are famous for e.g. Naples has mozzarella, Rome the Amatriciana, Tuscany has it’s Fiorentina and Genova has pesto. But these are just the obvious, Italians can be so passionate about their way of making a certain pasta that they will talk about the people in the next town who don’t know how to cook because they add onions. They will discuss these onion lovers as though they come from a far off land.
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