Livorno Part 1

Today we got up and packed up and headed on to Livorno to explore before heading on to our next place. We got there and headed for the indoor market to see what we could find and I enjoyed that so much! Yes, there were lots of meats and fish and cheeses, but there were also a lot of bakeries and produce stalls and even ones that had crackers I could eat (though we didn’t get any as we have too many snacks like that already!). It was more what I expected from the other markets and that was fun. Afterwards we stopped to try a local speciality - a 5&5 sandwich. We got it on focaccia and it is cecina (that chickpea pancake we tried the other day, but this one was soooo much better) and grilled eggplant as the filling. That is all they serve - either with or without eggplant and oh it was amazing. It doesn’t look like much, but if we lived nearby we would stop by often for one.

Then we headed out to explore the city! It is not the prettiest city or the most pedestrian friendly (there were cars and mopeds and stuff everywhere!), but I enjoyed it. I didn’t think I had that many photos to post until I stared to go through them. We wandered through another market and then headed towards lunch - a vegan restaurant that sounded good.

The restaurant was a bit odd. There main restaurant is up on the second floor, but there is no one at the door on the first floor so it looks empty and I wandered up the stairs to see if they were open and it is set up in all these different little rooms. Like it was an apartment at one time, but with very small rooms. It was odd. We sat out on the sidewalk so if we needed anything we would have to go upstairs and try and find someone. Maybe it is not always like that, but they also seemed to be behind and prepping and the food took forever to come, but it was really tasty when we got it. They make their own cheeses and we got the stuffed zucchini flowers (with potato and cheese filling, served with pickled onion, balsamic, and puffed rice cracker). This was so good!! And it was nice it was one serving, but they plated it for two! Then the mains were seitan with radicchio, sousvide pear and feta mousse - I know it doesn’t look like much, seitan is not her most photogenic thing, but it was really good. And then we tried their Pici pasta with sun-dried tomato and strawberry pesto with their Parmesan cheese on top. I wanted to try this one as it sounded odd, but we both loved it. I never would have thought to put strawberries with sun-dried tomatoes on pasta or that that is a flavor combination that would work, but it did. So that was fun! Fancy vegan food! Oh they also had some odd people cutouts in the bathroom…

After lunch at headed towards the waterfront. The directions were to turn left after the Spider-Man statue so I was looking for that and didn’t realize it would be on the roof!Weiterlesen