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Dining in Rome: Rooftop Restaurants and Special Occasions

by Melanie on 08. Jun, 2010 in Ask the Italy Expert, Food and Wine, Rome

In the first installment of “Ask the Italy Expert,” a feature in which I ask Italy travel specialists to help me answer reader inquiries, Stefania Troiani of Rome Shopping Guide about outlet shopping and pastry shops in Rome. This week’s questions are also about Rome and eating. What can I say…? Those are two topics [...]

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Rome’s Best Trattoria? You decide…

Rome’s Best Trattoria? You decide…

by Melanie on 26. Mar, 2009 in Destinations, Food and Wine, Lazio, Rome, Things To Do

Choice Tables – A Debate Over the Best Roman Trattoria -NYTimes.com How could I possibly let this headline from the New York Times pass me by? Apparently, the global recession has led Italians to rediscover their local trattoria. And where better than Rome to start the debate? The problem with trattorie is that there are [...]

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Foreign Food Ban in Italy

Foreign Food Ban in Italy

by Melanie on 04. Feb, 2009 in Food and Wine, Italy News

Now I love Italian food as much as the next person. But, a ban on foreign food in some municipalities and regions is, in my opinion, a kind of gastronomic racism (as described by Italian chef Vittorio Castellani). I learned of the foreign food ban in such towns as Lucca from the Hugging the Coast [...]

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Touring the Venice Lagoon by Pénichette

Touring the Venice Lagoon by Pénichette

by Melanie on 01. Jul, 2008 in Deals and Packages, Destinations, Eco Travel, Featured Articles, Food and Wine, Out and About, Specialty Travel, Travel Articles, Veneto, Venice

While browsing the web recently, I happened upon Emmanuelle Jary’s excellent primer on touring the Venice Lagoon on ViaMichelin (full disclosure: I have written for Michelin Travel Guides). But what, I wondered, was a pénichette? Turns out that it is a small barge-like houseboat - just the perfect type of transportation for getting around the city [...]

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Italy Summer Article Round-Up 2008

Italy Summer Article Round-Up 2008

by Melanie on 21. Jun, 2008 in Accommodations, Amalfi Coast, Campania, Capri, Destinations, Emilia-Romagna, Florence, Lazio, Le Marche, Lombardy, Milan, Out and About, Parks and Nature, Rome, Sardinia, Shopping, Sicily, Travel Articles, Tuscany, Umbria, Veneto, Venice

Lots of Italy-related articles this time of year. So, here goes: New York Times Wandering Beyond Classic Rome (The Frugal Traveler Does Europe on a Budget) On Venice’s Grand Canal in a Kayak Prescription Med (Ischia) Los Angeles Times Exploring Rome’s Famous Seven Hills Budget Travel in Rome 10 Books and Movies to Prep for [...]

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Rome’s Best Pizza

Rome’s Best Pizza

by Melanie on 21. May, 2008 in Destinations, Food and Wine, Lazio, Rome

Think you know the best place in Rome to get a slice (or pizza al taglio, as it were)? Fodor’s Travel Wire recently listed their five favorite pizza joints in the Eternal City and detailed some of the specialties of the Italian pizza table, including the cappriciosa and the margherita. The post fails to mention, however, [...]

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Dining Near the Forum

Dining Near the Forum

by Melanie on 05. Mar, 2007 in Destinations, Featured Articles, Food and Wine, Lazio, Rome

I recently received an e-mail from an Unofficial Guide reader asking about the best places to dine near the Roman Forum. The Forum “complex,” which includes the Roman Forum, Palatine Hill, Colosseum, and Trajan’s Market (and, to a lesser extent, the Capitoline and the Vittoriano) is ultimately a tourist area. So, as like in other [...]

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