Bernie Zang

Ah yes, the fine dining options of Florence.  From what I can tell and from what others have told me, Florence is a tourist trap.  The whole damn city is just one huge sink for money to get flushed into.

While it is expensive to eat any where in Florence, the food is pretty amazing.  I’m a student volunteer (SV) at the conference so most of the time I eat breakfast and lunch here.  Now in most places, if you get a buffet breakfast and lunch, it’s mostly very light and nothing that spectacular.  The first day of SVing, breakfast consisted of various pastries, coffee (which incidentally is just espresso in a coffee karaf), various juices, and some meat filled sandwiches…  Yep, procuitto for breakfast.  Lunch had a light salad with some crusty Tuscan bread, pasta in a very nice tomato sauce, mozerella wrapped around procuitto and tomatoes, spinich quiche, and wine.  Yes, wine at noon.

Besides the random SV food, we’ve gone out every night for dinner.  I have to say the Italians have this great thing called the set menu.  You get your choice of a and a 2nd meal (also an amazing Italian invention, like elevenses, but without a break) all for a set price.  I got saffron rissoto with mussels and a huge salmon steak with some sort of delicious sauce for 16 euros.

Ok… cutting it short, gotta run to a session.  Just posted more pictures so take a look.