Eating & Drinking in Italy: Italian Menu Translator and Restaurant Guide (Open Road Travel Guides) (Paperback)
May 30, 2009 by Destination Guide
Filed under Travel Italy Guides
Product Description
Nothing can make a trip to Italy more enjoyable and rewarding than a great dining experience—that is, of course, if you know what you’re ordering! This handy, pocket-sized guide helps you navigate Italian menus, in addition to steering you to some great Italian restaurants, bistros, cafes, wine shops, and food markets. Most of the book is a comprehensive menu reader, translating thousands of Italian words into English. There are also sections on restaurant etiquette, a pronunciation guide, English-to-Italian words and phrases, and descriptions of the many different kinds of eating establishments in Italy.
Reviews:
“…an opinionated little compendium…the right size for a traveler”—The New York Times
“A charming and whimsical guide…irresistible”—Chicago Tribune
“…a terrific primer for first time visitors…a pack-along must for the less-adventurous eater.”—Houston Chronicle
“…elegant”—Minneapolis Tribune
“…opening up the world of good eating with their innovative paperback series.”—Salt Lake Tribune
About the Author
Andy Herbach is a lawyer and professional travel writer. He is co-author of Open Road’s ‘Eating & Drinking’ menu-translator guides to Paris, Italy, Spain, and Latin America, and is also the author of Open Road’s Paris Made Easy, Open Road’s Best of Paris, Open Road’s Best of Provence & the French Riviera, Europe Made Easy, Berlin Made Easy, and Amsterdam Made Easy.
Not only does this book have the most comprehensive menu translator available (and it really can save you from making some huge mistakes when ordering), but the restaurant recommendations are perfect if you’re looking for excellent Italian dining. There are great recommendations for restaurants in Rome, Venice, Florence and Milan that we used on our last trip. We dined at moderate prices on great meals thanks to this pocket sized book. Highly recommended!
This is a must have guide for anyone who wants to really understand what they are eating or shopping for at the open air markets in Italy. While I speak “un po” Italiano, I don’t have a command for the language at all and I really am interested in the foods and wines. So, when I purchased this book, I had a world that was opened up to me during my food experiences in Italy. It made ordering so much easier and more pleasurable. And I could share it with other English speaking people around me. I highly recommend this book for anyone going to Italy. And, if I travel to other cities where these two gentelman have written a guide book for, I will be sure to secure one before beginning my journey.
This book is awesome, we live in Italy most of the year and dining out has proven to be difficult at times. This book is small enough to carry with you and easy to understand and very informative. A real must for anyone traveling or dining out in Italy.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Eats
We are living in Italy for a couple of years so we needed something that could help us survive when we go out to eat. This book is fantastic.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book!
We just got back from a 1 week trip in Italy to Pisa, Cararra, Parma and Monte San Sevino. This book was perfect for translating menus during our trip.
4.0 out of 5 stars
does the job
If you need a little help reading an Italian menu, this will do.