Lunch in Florence

Choose wisely...I have a few favorite places and this is one. It is near the Duomo...I don't want to always go back to the same places I have been wanting to go to an Ethiopian restaurant here for years but it is a little far out of the center area. Everything is so expensive, They get you for everything...3 euro for bread, ( I tell them no bread)  3 euro for  just being there...3 euro for water which they push...It's crazy. Italy will suck every penny they can out of you.   Tourism is what is keeping Italy afloat.

This restaurant is great as they have some twists on some basic cuisine...I love the Tuscan crostini but they have adapted it now to terrine of chciken liver with fig preserves, pistachios and black bread ( carbon)...I told the waitress that would have licked the plate if I was not in a restaurant. I can easily make it at home but this as so great...the black toast points...oooohhh...so good.

I wanted to order the pasta with the pistachio pesto but I am tying to avoid carbs so I ordered the salad. ..it was OK...it was a salad...I continue to love tus restaurant.

2 little snapshots..\-when I ordered a glass of wine...Sangenovese...I pronounced it "genoveseeeeee"...the owner corrected me...no eeeeee on the end. I realized and told the owner when I left...I was thinking of the Genoveseeeeeh crime family...we laughed.

-and there was an english family with their 2 small children...2 boys , one about 6, the other about 4. There was an Asian woman with them which I am sure was a nanny. The 4 year old was out of control and the mother was just besides herself...She kept giving him to the count of 3...NO gelato, no more food today...she had NO control...at one point she picked him up like a sacrificial animal and brought him into the other room he was screaming and kicking...She was odious...All I could think of was the damage she was doing to that child for years to come with her strict One Two Three!...and the other thing I thought was...how can her husband sit there and take it...it was such a major turn off. Never having had children, I can see what a nightmae it could be travelling with children.