All about food!

[LuigiZ]

All about food

Yes, all about food … what? Posts and pictures of course, while writing a review of a nice “bistecca alla fiorentina” or a crunchy fish & chips.

When you travel, whatever is for leisure or business, you will of course end up in a restaurant (really?), and why not in a good restaurant just after quickly checked reviews about it. That’s what I commonly do and that’s why I’d love to review as well my experience. Let me share few picks really worth of!

I’m a software developer, although it doesn’t seem to [lol] and I like and enjoy travelling and tasting local food, never Italian! ok almost, exceptions are always welcome. I love fish but it is really difficult to find something I won’t eat because I really don’t like it.

Imagine 10 years ago when we won’t grab our phone to check if the restaurant in front of us might be a good selection or not, just try, now see nowadays how a review can help everyone else.

If you love fish, like me, and you see such a wonderful picture for a small and nice restaurant in the historical city center of Lucca (Tuscany, IT) I would bet you won’t try it! Raw excellent fish, catch of day and just served on your plate from a wonderful Italian chef, the plate seems a colorful painting.

However you can also be surprised from a great, delicious kangaroo meat found in a randomly picked restaurant in the middle of the Blue Mountain, Australia.

Not selected by reviews but indeed deserved a 4 stars one!

I found quite often discussing with friends about the use/useless of spending time taking pictures of plates and write a review for it, good restaurants are well known without that. Yeah that’s sure, especially when they are unique. The best fish and chips (for me) ever eat! Where? In New Zealand, on Waiheke Island. Late 2008 when reviews were not even existing like now, small bus tour on the island (btw a very old bus just like you can find in movies). The driver will leave me in the small town center of the island, it was around lunch time, suggesting to try this small shop, down the street going on the beach, they just sell local catched fish and chips deep fried on the spot! Well, as said the best ever had … and I couldn’t review that those days.

Today I’m always taking at least a picture of the restaurant and for sure some plates (if not all) with the specific intention to make a comment for that experience. I just love food and love travelling, so what a great combination for a nice recommendation, always available directly to you. Just like the driver of the old bus I was lucky to meet for that wonderful, still in my memories, fish and chips shop.

I’m even more eager when I get into those small restaurants because of a local suggestion just like the fish and chips on Waiheke. Another great taste? Dumplings in Beijing! Fresh, hand made with the flavor you wish and directly cooked at your preferences … what a taste!

Have a look at those other nice local picks down the post! It is just wonderful … all about food!

Ah forgot about that, I said never Italian … oh when exception is allowed, yes we are really fanatic about our food and because of this I never attempt to eat Italian outside my country unless it is a well proven Italian restaurant with an Italian chef and with Italian ingredients (I told you fanatic hehe). This is a very good one in Shanghai.

[StephenAbraham]

@LuigiZ thanks for this post. Glad you are travelling the world over and enjoying wonderful food.

I removed it from the spam list, sometimes although rarely, some posts may be wrongly flagged by the system.

[deeppancholi]

Hello @LuigiZ

Thank you for sharing!

[sajid_khan]

Hi there

[Petra_M]

Hello @LuigiZ ,

I’m speachless, thanks for the experience!

I totally agree that we already cannot imagine how was a holiday few years ago without our phones. We were not posting and reviewing, and see, how fast our lives have changed.

Your photos are absolute mouthwatering and I don’t know what would I try first. Maybe the oysters, and than all the dishes can come after each other.

Do you like tasting local food on your trips? That’s what I like the most.

[LuigiZ]

Thank you very much for the support @StephenAbraham ! Yes I find myself lucky to had such possibility :-).

[LuigiZ]

Hi there @iDepp & @sajid_khan !

[LuigiZ]

Thanks a lot @Petra_M, you are very kind.

Yes I definitely like to taste local food, I think that’s one of the multiple expressions of a different city, country, culture. Let me show you one more pic below.

Bit old one but probably more expressive, took it in a very poor suburb outside Kuala Lumpur, small street shop serving house-like food without any pretension. Colleagues brought me there for a business lunch, unusual. Yes not the most sophisticated one but for sure of a special local, unique, taste :-).

[Petra_M]

Thanks for the reply @LuigiZ ! Sometimes small places which don’t look that great have the most delicious food.

[Giuseppe75]

@LuigiZ ,

What a beautiful post.

I define your story as the love for tasting good foods.

I can feel from your post the passion you have for good foods and the way you describe your photos is the best promotion to invite everyone to visit these places I definitely love and agree when you say that traveling and exploring new foods is overall an experience that gives somewhere an added value to our life. Who doesn’t feel relaxed and in a good mood in front of a good food?

@Petra_M , I definitely agree with you. Quality of foods are not always given by the dimensions or modernity of a place. I have got the pleasure to experience in my life mouth-watering foods in small places in the far countryside of a town or in those areas that nobody would not visit if there was not a specific reason. .

What makes the difference in these places is the tangible perception that we ge once we enter inside :

The warm hospitality, the love of the owner for what they do. I like to define these places as businesses that base their continuity on their passion for their job, quality of ingredients used and few choice of meals in the menu that are always the best guarantee of foods prepared every day.

Here as good example my recent experience in a very small restaurant La Grande Vitesse in Strasbourg. A nice discovery done with the Explorer Tab of Google Maps that I will always keep in my memory.

[KarenVChin]

@LuigiZ - thanks for tagging me to your post. Looks like you have enjoyed great meals while traveling overseas.

Anyone who enjoys a bistecca or bone-in steak “rare” is a friend of mine (Disclaimer: Sorry, if I have offended any non-meat eating, non-beef eating Local Guides).

Cheers,

Karen

[LuigiZ]

@Giuseppe75 thank you very much for nice words!

And thank you for the pictures of that cosy small restaurant, it looks like one of those small Italian “trattorie” in the middle of a mountain town .

@KarenVChin , thanks a lot, I’m happy you liked it … and yes then we are definitely friend, “rare” cooking is a must for a perfect steak .

[Giuseppe75]

Grazie for sharing with us always great contents here on Connect

Have a good week, me flying to Paris

[LuigiZ]

Enjoy your flight and have a good trip @Giuseppe75

[FaridTDF]

Me apunto a todos los platos, espetó el plato con la carne un poco cruda para mi gusto @LuigiZ , los garbanzos se ven muy sabrosos.

Saludos Farid.

[LuigiZ]

Thanks a lot @FaridTDF , yes chickpeas are very special and tasty!

[Giuseppe75]

Grazie mille my dear friend @LuigiZ …

Everything went well

[pacomorett]

@LuigiZ

I felt so identified with every word you wrote… For me, food goes way further than just satisfying my appetite. When I travel, I always try to avoid Mexican food as you do Italian cuisine.

A few years ago I went to Tuscany, had some of the best wines and definitely the best gnocchi I ever had.

Really fun post!

[LuigiZ]

Thank you very much @pacomorett for your kind words, hehe we do pretty much the same .

[Cagil]

i thought the raw fish is japanese sashimi at first! Is the italian version smoked in any way??