It didn’t take long on my trip to realize that my Fodor’s Italy guidebook wasn’t exactly infallible when it came to culinary advice. But when someone points out a restaurant as being the best in a region often considered to be the best food region in Italy, you definitely take note. I came to find [...]
Listed in all the food guidebooks, this place sounded quite promising, and the unanimous verdict among the staff at Salumeria Garibaldi (my daily hangout while in Parma) was that it is the best restaurant in the city. One of the guys even had a good friend at the restaurant, so he called and made [...]
I first heard about this place through Cristina Parizzi in Parma, who pointed it out to me in the Jeunes Restaurateurs d’Europe book as a good place to check out in nearby Modena. Having already been to a couple of restaurants in this association, I was curious to see what this young chef (38, if [...]
With only a few days left in my vacation, it was time to try arguably the most well-known restaurant in Italy among food-lovers worldwide. I had heard so much and read so much that I, in turn, expected so much from this meal. How could I not? Massimiliano Alajmo had earned two Michelin stars at [...]
I first ran across a recommendation for this place in Frank Bruni’s NYT article from last October, I think, comparing Emilia-Romagna and Piemonte to see which region is the bigger culinary gem of Italy. The chef, Marco Bottura, is certainly well-known, not only in his own region, but seemingly all across Italy. Other chefs throughout [...]