Awesome Local places to eat in France and Italy, Amsterdam
Mar 23rd, 2015, 07:34 PM
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Awesome Local places to eat in France and Italy, Amsterdam
We will be in Paris, Milan, Venice,Florence, Naples, Positano, Rome, Amsterdam in April
We love local cool places to eat. Anyone have favs to recommend??
We love local cool places to eat. Anyone have favs to recommend??
Mar 23rd, 2015, 10:16 PM
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www.elizabethminchilliinrome.com has some great suggestions for Rome and Florence - other cities as well, but that's where I have been concentrating. She also has a couple of apps for Rome and Florence which you can put on your smartphone.
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Ronda,
IMHO you are asking the question prematurely. Ask the locals where they prefer to eat in any location, and you will find the best local places. We have found the best places to get recommendations are from hotel concierges, wine shops, cheese shops, and, for no known reason, shoe stores.
E.g. in Portugal, we asked at a shoe store and were directed to fish restaurant where we could see the fish being brought in from the harbor. After observing two locals spend a great deal of time selecting a fish to be gutted and grilled for lunch, we asked the manager if we could have the second best fish. After some laughter, he helped us with a selection that was exceptional.
Just last week, after an early morning in the Musee D'Orsay, we walked down to a local hotel and were directed to the Cinq Mars, a bistro in the 7th arrondisement. (It is recommended highly on trip advisor, not the least by me now, but we had not planned in advance to eat in that area.)
But, you might also consider the "Food Lovers Guide to Paris" app. We found that useful when we could not find another source of information.
IMHO you are asking the question prematurely. Ask the locals where they prefer to eat in any location, and you will find the best local places. We have found the best places to get recommendations are from hotel concierges, wine shops, cheese shops, and, for no known reason, shoe stores.
E.g. in Portugal, we asked at a shoe store and were directed to fish restaurant where we could see the fish being brought in from the harbor. After observing two locals spend a great deal of time selecting a fish to be gutted and grilled for lunch, we asked the manager if we could have the second best fish. After some laughter, he helped us with a selection that was exceptional.
Just last week, after an early morning in the Musee D'Orsay, we walked down to a local hotel and were directed to the Cinq Mars, a bistro in the 7th arrondisement. (It is recommended highly on trip advisor, not the least by me now, but we had not planned in advance to eat in that area.)
But, you might also consider the "Food Lovers Guide to Paris" app. We found that useful when we could not find another source of information.
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You are unlikely to find yourself in Arques in the Pas de Calais. It is a small industrial town which used to have a glass works. But it does have a small restaurant in the town square which is not much to look at but seems to be exactly the thing that so many travellers (and locals) are looking for. Just read the reviews, one of which is mine.
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaur...de_Calais.html
If you can read French, the reviews by the locals are especially enthusiastic, and it is interesting to see what was important to them. "Le rapport qualité prix et parfait". The food was locally sourced and prepared on the premises to unique recipes. The staff were "chalereux" - so much for French coolness.
To help you more. perhaps Kerouac or someone with a better knowledge of contemporary French can translate "Ambiance estaminet "total look", but it seems to be the sort of place "off the beaten track, where the locals go" that many on Fodors are seeking.
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaur...de_Calais.html
If you can read French, the reviews by the locals are especially enthusiastic, and it is interesting to see what was important to them. "Le rapport qualité prix et parfait". The food was locally sourced and prepared on the premises to unique recipes. The staff were "chalereux" - so much for French coolness.
To help you more. perhaps Kerouac or someone with a better knowledge of contemporary French can translate "Ambiance estaminet "total look", but it seems to be the sort of place "off the beaten track, where the locals go" that many on Fodors are seeking.
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