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  • All'Antico Vinaio

    September 14, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    Got what mark Weins ordered. Liked inferno best

    Inferno - fav of the 3 due to gnujia
    Paradise - mild.
    Lavolosa - a bit bland but could taste some fennel

    Crunchy bread with olive oil poured on top

  • Gelateria Artigianale La Sorbettiera

    September 14, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    Via Mazzetta, 9/a, 50125 Firenze FI, Italy

    Thai and milk gelato with sour cherry ( tastes like green curry)
    Hazelnut and rose - dad (tastes like praline. Tastes like rose petal)
    Lemon sage and plum - mom (strong sage flavor)Read more

  • Manifattura

    September 14, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    Piazza di S. Pancrazio, 1, 50123 Firenze FI, Italy

    Ova soda (good with celery salt)
    Negroni- 1st one listed (well balanced)
    Emilia R - sour. Couldn’t taste the Lambrusco

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  • La gelateria

    September 14, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    Via de' Ginori, 21R, 50123 Firenze FI, Italy

    Peanut and hazelnut

    Watermelon, lemon, strawberry

  • Trattoria dall’Oste

    September 15, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    Florentine steak - white cow. Tender. Not gamey

    Wild boar pappardelle. Meat was dry and pasta was homemade but al dente

  • Artesfizio Ristorante

    September 16, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

    Pizza - spicy salami. Very thin crust

    Spaghetti olive oil garlic chili. Good technique but not a lot of garlic flavor

    Sautéed spinach

  • Biscottificio Artigiano Innocenti

    September 16, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

    Not the best - good but not worth a special visit. Minus one for Rick Steve’s and 101cookbooks for recommendation

    The best cookie was the apricot butter cookie

    Biscotti was stale

  • L’archangelo

    September 16, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    Got the four pastas including the risotto

    Risotto had strong mushroom porcini flavor

    The cod pasta was good with parsley, cured roe, lemon

    Carbonara was rich but not salty

    Chef was nice to plate out each dish rather than us sharing family style

    Very firm pasta - a bit hard like what google reviewers said
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  • Bonci

    September 17, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

    Got cheese and cartilage pizza
    Chicory and roasted tomato
    Chicken and roasted peppers

    Best one was the chicken. Least favorite is the cartilage one as it reminded me of cilantro

    Dough was crunchy

    Got fried balls - classic which was best, carbonara, and potato and mozzarella
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  • Trattoria SantoPalato

    September 17, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    Place needs reservations

    Meatball, tomatoes and peppers were good
    Tomatoes had lemon and parsley with a red wine vinaigrette possibly
    Meatball’s sauce tasted of celery more than peanut

    The beef for the ziti was a bit dry though dad liked the flavor

    Rigatoni tasted of Ragu and is pork based

    The spaghettoni was saucy and had crunchy bits of guancale. Dad liked it better than l’archangelo version.

    Firm pasta where the centers aren’t cooked through.

    White people - mix of Americans and Italians
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  • Lulu’s

    October 6, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 37 °C

    Pretty good brunch. Crowded even at 3:30 pm

    Dad said baba’s breakfast had least amount of flavor but the tater tots and lamb sausage had flavor. Sausage just dry

  • Fat scoop gelato

    October 6, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 36 °C

    Gelato still better in Italy. Passion fruit was icy. Strawberry lavender tasted a bit like cherry cough syrup. Black sesame was ok. Small scoops for $6

  • San Ho Won 2

    October 30, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

    San Ho Won’s bingsu looks like a cook opened the back door, dipped a metal bowl into a snowdrift and called it a day. Skim the top of the surface with a spoon and there will be nothing to dispel this illusion; the ice is the texture of fresh powder. But dig down and you’ll uncover treasures — cubes of mango jelly, tiny tapioca pearls, segments of pomelo and coconut milk. If you’re not a fruity dessert person, go for the buckwheat soft serve, adorned with puffs of charred buckwheat and drips of honey, or the decadent choux buns filled with chocolate cream.Read more

  • Contimo

    November 2, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

    Breakfast sausage biscuit
    Ham and ham biscuit
    Roast beef sandwich
    Meatball sandwich
    Yuzu kombucha that we really liked

  • Outta sight pizza

    November 3, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    The Pear
    gorgonzola, delicata squash, radiccio, balsamic, pear, honey, pepitas

    The lunch lady

    Fuyu and ham

    A pizza with a black sauce and chicken: He’s also worked on a “black pie” recipe, topped with mozzarella colored with activated charcoal, blackened chicken and a black sauce. It’s meant to resemble a pizza that was left in the oven far too long, a nightmare scenario for pizza lovers.Read more

  • Goodthing cafe

    November 3, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    Yuzu matcha cheesecake
    Strawberry chiffon cake - not enough strawberries
    Chocolate Dubai cookie - dry and crumbly

  • Satelitte SB

    November 8, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 14 °C

    Skin contact Riesling that was very dry

    Yoga pants salad in lemon dressing
    Snap peas with yuzu but more likely lemon and was very tart with pickled carrot slices
    Grilled cheese

  • Uni at Saturday fish market

    November 9, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    $7 for purple smaller uni that is mild
    $15 for red larger uni that has savory umami notes

    Both sweet but purple might be sweeter and tastes less if the sea

  • Tondi gelato

    November 9, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Sour cherry - vanilla with cherry swirl
    Passion fruit

    Byounghwa didn’t like her almond and tiramisu choices. The almond tasted like almond milk with sugar rather than the Asian almond pudding

    Gelato still better in Italy
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