What makes good Italian food and a great Italian restaurant? This exactly what I think.
Italy has a wonderful tradition of fine food. Italian food’s importance to Italian culture is not to be overstated. It is one of several central elements, and why don’t it be? Think about Italy’s geography for a second:
It runs some distance from north to south. Therefore, offers wide array of growing seasons and soil types. This means a rich diversity of ingredients for food.
It is a peninsula, meaning can nearly surrounded with sea but also connected to the great Eurasian land muscle. There is an abundance of fresh seafood and foreign ingredients from neighboring lands.
It sits between Europe and Africa in the Mediterranean. All Mediterranean cultures have excellent food traditions from North Africa to Lebanon and Israel, France, Greece, Spain and, of course, Toscana.
When you involving noodles and pasta, you probably think of Italy, but those wonderful inventions found Italy from China thanks to Marco Polo. It notifys you a lot about Italian food culture that something so basic became related to Italy even though it did not originate there.
Anyway, food is a key element of Italian culture. Therefore, the food is easily important part of the restaurant. Of course, a great Italian restaurant will have a great wine list, a clean and stylish decor, and wonderful service, but a positive Italian restaurant can have by on great food alone, even when they have a crummy wine list, poor service, which has a dingy decoration schemes.
By the way, if you leave an “Italian” restaurant hungry, it’s rarely authentic. A white tablecloth and high bill do attain a great great bistro make. Frankly, I can’t stand those fancy Italian restaurants in Manhattan that charge a fee $400 for a morsel that allows want to stop for a slice of pizza en route home. A great Italian ristorante will leave you full, not stuffed, but full.
The second aspect of a great Italian restaurant is each month. The service will be warm and professional, even though overly friendly. Following your orders are taken and the meal gets rolling, 200 dollars per month should be nearly invisible. Run — don’t walk — from any Italian restaurant where the waitperson address the table like this:
“How you guys doin’ tonight?” when ladies are seated at the table. This is most un-Italian of them. An Italian would never call a woman “guy.” In spaghetti-and-meatballs-type places, the waiter might say, “How is everyone at some point?” The won’t tarry with small talk in the white-tablecloth places, not fortunately ones, however. It is all about the meal and your comfort.
The third aspect of one great Italian restaurant is the ambiance. I don’t know what it is, but Italians seem to be able to create a wonderful atmosphere anywhere. I have eaten at places in strip malls in the suburbs of Denver — as un-romantic an environment as have to — that come close to great. A truly outstanding Italian restaurant will just have a certain feeling from as soon as you walk in the door, a warmth and a glow that can’t sometimes be described.
So the priorities are food first, service second, and a ambiance information. If all three are met, you have found a great Italian restaurant.
Ciro & Sal’s
4 Kiley Ct, Provincetown, MA 02657
(508) 487-6444
https://g.page/Ciro-and-Sals-Italian-Restaurant
Posted on:
September 2, 2019