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Save/ShareLast week, Christopher Winner, the Rome-based editor of The American magazine, answered more than 100 reader questions about Italy in one of Budget Travel's weekly live chats. (Read the informative transcript by clicking here.)
Winner's publication recently picked the best dining spots in top Italian cities. I trust this list partly because it's written by English-speaking Italians and American ex-pats and is intended for use by English-speaking visitors to Italy. I also trust this list because...
... I've sampled a few of the top restaurant picks myself, and I know they're fantastic choices. One of the picks is Da Abele in Milan, which serves the best risotto I've ever eaten in a restaurant. (Its creaminess and toasted nuttiness are the stuff of dreams.)
Winner's list includes restaurants that are located outside of the main tourist districts. Da Abele, for one, is located several subway stops away from Milan's pedestrianized tourist zone. Visiting a restaurant like Da Abele offers a chance to truly eat like a local, instead of dining at one of the usual suspects listed in a guidebook. During my visit to Da Abele last fall, I was seated in a room with four tables. Seated around me were a family celebrating a father's milestone birthday, a set of three fashionably-dressed friends having a girl's night out, and a pair of middle-aged lovers. No tourists were in earshot.
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having traveled much of ltaly over the years my favorite alltime restaurant remains da silvio's in bologna...followed closely by antica mola in venice
Posted By ron flick on April 19, 2007, 8:49 AM
I have been eating at ALLA RAMPA just under the Spanish steps in Rome (Piazza Mignanelli) for over 23 years. I have never been disappointed with the food or the service. The antipasto buffet is a very special not-to-be missed treat.There are tables outside as well as inside.
BUON APPETITO
Posted By Barbara LA SALA on April 19, 2007, 12:27 PM
need rec in cortona italy
tuscany area i hr s. of florence.
Posted By kenneth blum on April 19, 2007, 5:07 PM
REC IN CORTONA...
Trattori La Grotta in Cortona is wonderful. It's located in Piazza Baldelli in the center of town. It's very small and you need a reservation, but definitely worth it. Tel # 0575.630271
Posted By Lynn Wells on April 22, 2007, 11:32 PM
Sylvios of Bologna.
no other restaurant compares.
By far the very heart and soul of Italian cooking
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