Florence - Food

I thought just to mix things up  a bit I'd do Florence by theme rather than day by day, and I'm starting with the food because we arrived late afternoon and went out for a stroll and a meal so the first photos I have are of our first evening meal. 

We had pre-booked tickets for the Uffizi on our first full day so we went out to time our walk to there, so that we could turn up on time, and then once we'd found that we had a quick look around the Piazza della Signoria,  and then wandered off down several of the side streets trying to decide where to eat. It's always a bit of  gamble isn't it? Too close to a tourist hot spot and you're sure you're getting ripped off; too far away and can you make yourself understood/find anything on the menu that you recognise? 

Anyway we found a little place that looked nice, and the menu had several things on it that we did recognise,  and it had pannacotta on the dessert menu so we went in. And we had a lovely meal. We started with bruschetta, which was fabulous

and followed that up with lasagne for me and wild boar pappardelle for the OH ( don't have photos of either of those and then for dessert I had the pannacotta and the OH had tiramisu. Sadly the pannacotta was a bit gelatine heavy and so I wished I'd gone with  the tiramisu myself but you live and learn. 

And here's the OH looking wildly enthusiastic about being in Italy. 

The next day we had 'lunch' in the cafe at the Uffizzi!

No photos of  the evening  meal which we had in our hotel; I had ravioli which was very nice and the OH had a cheeseburger. 

I don't think we had any lunch the next day as we had booked a restaurant for the evening which had been recommended by a friend. It was, as I often say, Not Cheap and we wanted to do full justice to it. so we 'saved ourselves' as the old phrase has it. 

It may not have been cheap but the food was beautiful and the views from our table overlooking the Arno were amazing. There was great bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, the OH started off with a risotto with lemon, mint and zucchini, and then we both had the same main and dessert. The main was lamb with little cubes of potato, leek. onion, and plums and the dessert was a chocolate and hazelnut concoction that was totally delicious. 

The views from our table 

to the left ( Ponte Vecchio) 

straight over the river

and to the right

I didn't actually take any photos of the food but I did take one of the table and it does show the  OH's risotto

A special evening.

And the following night, given that we had to be up early the next day for breakfast and then the airport transfer, we ate at the hotel again and this time I follower the OH's lead and we both had cheeseburgers.

I don't know why the OH is always telling people that I don't like foreign food. I think what he means is that I don't like curry and although that is foreign, and although I don't like it, this leaves a long list of foreign cuisines that I'm happy with; Italian, Spanish, Swedish,  Czech, Austrian, Mexican, North African and Chinese.  As well as plenty that I have yet to try. Also, if you've been paying attention, you'll note I had one more Italian meal on this trip than he did!