We ate too much food in Italy. It was inevitable.
Generally we found the best experiences were reasonably priced cucina tipica. Almost every time we tried to go up a notch and try more inventive & modern cooking… it was disappointing (Cortex in Parma being the noble exception!). This might well be our own inability to seek out the really good examples, of course; we’re tourists, mainly staying in tourist-focused areas, and there are typically no locally-written English language food blogs around Italy.
Of course we also had a couple of truly fine Michelin-starred meals, one very disappointing and one utterly amazing.
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