I got RIPPED Off so many times in ITALY! Here's why.

Italy can be a culinary paradise, but tourists often end up with overpriced and underwhelming meals. The US often offers better food options, so it's crucial to know where to go in Italy to truly savor the best cuisine. Here's what I've learned!

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#travel #food #italy

[robdielemans]

My tip for Florence is, if you're in the touristy area, cross one of the bridges and keep walking until the menus with pictures on them disappear, then it's fairly safe starting from that line.

[HamelinSong]

I'm from Florence and I work in tourism. The amount of times I had to tell people that Osteria Pastella is kind of a tourist-trap is incredible 😂 They go very hard with internet Ads, their SEO must really be top-notch.

[carlodechiro]

A few tips many already have mentioned
1. Don't eat there if there are no locals
2. Only order Italian food
3. Go into a non food shop or ask a local where they eat
4. Expensive doesn't mean its the best in fact locals will not be eating at those places on a day to day basis

[tonymaiorano]

In any country you visit, eat where the locals eat. I always found small family owned restaurants were generally best

[ErwinSchrodinger]

You rarely ever get YouTube reviews where the reviews are not spectacular. This is a good thing.

[fromthepeanutgallery]

Went to Rome. Needed a taxi from Metro to Hotel. Ride was perhaps 4 blocks. Got there the taxi driver tells me. "Fifty and Five Euro please". What? €55? "Yes sir" I go into hotel and check with desk clerk. He gets very angry, steps out to taxi, screams at taxi driver, backhand slaps him across the face back and forth, spits on the ground, throws some change at him, grabs the receipt, and steps with me inside the hotel. Turns out it was €5.50 (Five Euro and 50c) When they say the 50 first and 5 second, it comes out 50 and 5 Euro. Big scam, he knew exactly what he was doing. The desk clerk sent his con a-ss packin'

[bobtausworthe]

Spent 3 weeks in Italy: Venice, Florence, Rome, Cinq Terre. Always ate where the locals ate and had wonderful food.

[Masterchiefsteve]

Guga reminds me of Mom. To this day I can count on one hand how many times she actually was impressed with food at a restaurant. It's always "Eh, it's OK... I could make this way better at home."

[tanyawormald]

Guga: "Meat should always be refrigerated."

Also Guga: "I Dry Aged steak in Small Pox Virus for 1 month."

[Megrov]

I appreciate the honest reviews. Good stuff.

[emilianoilserpe]

I’m Italian and as an Italian, we would never ever go to a restaurant in the middle of the city where is full of tourists… you wanna go out of the city centre and look for some nice little restaurants where actual Italians goes because otherwise in any other part of the world you are going to get ripped off 99% of the times . Basic rules baby basic rules….

[combo]

As an italian, I am so sorry for you and the foreigners for all of these tourist traps you tried to have a lunch or dinner in. Some Italian restaurant owners are not smart, they prefer to earn a lot of money robbering tourists with average food, instead of keeping they on their side with good food without scamming.

[griftingnightmares]

Haven't seen your vids in a while, and here I am binging again

[Lilsauce]

Think about it, do we Italians really need to see what a lasagna, a pizza, or a risotto looks like? When you see a restaurant displaying pictures of food, it’s clearly a tourist trap.

[marcomorelli]

Coperto is normal in Italy, you have paid it in every restaurant with service at the table, it's the fee for being service and cleaning. To be noted, we do not tip and you are not expected to

[chiefbosnmate]

Guga! luv your honesty i'm glad you spoke your mind and taste buds this is why i trust you a longtime viewer subscriber and owner of all your products,

[onionjello]

I was stationed in Italy with the NAVY for three and a half years in the early 90’s. I made friends with some locals and I got to sample their home cooking. I also would go to various restaurants with my Italian friends and the food was always delicious. I was fortunate to travel a bit through Italy as well as Europe and I would always try to find out where the locals ate when I was in a new place.

[Asdasty]

3:39 Notice how the "A5" is in quotations.

[desart]

I lived in Italy for a year and I can assure you all that it’s very easy to fall on tourist traps. For that reason, if you’re traveling to Italy and you want to have the best experience, try learning some Italian. Italians are in general very warm and receptive people IF you take time and effort to speak the bare minimum of their language.

Here’s some advice for you guys not to fall on tourist traps, however, you have to understando one thing before; if you are going out for fine dining, very expensive places, michelin star restaurants, 50 best etc, you will get some of the best food of your life and I would not consider it a tourist trap. The advice listed below refers to your day-to-day restaurants and food establishments in general.

1- Always ask a local, it could be your guide (although some are not very honest with tourists), but preferably ask someone at the inn, hostel or hotel you’re staying and make it very clear you’re looking for an authentic place. Ask them for places that they usually go, whether it’s for dates, fine dining, casual dining or night outs. They’ll give you the best advice.

2- Italians don’t like to mixing with foreigners at all, especially Americans. For that reason authentic restaurants will rarely make an effort to receive tourists.

3- Avoid places that serve Italian dishes from multiple regions. Authentic Italian places usually only serve dishes from the region they are established at. Also, it´s fairly common for people to say "I went to Milan and their pizza was terrible". Yes, if you're not eating at a place that is especialized in pizza in Milan, it is probably not going to be good. Since Milan is not the region where pizza comes from, the average pizza there is not that good. Food in italy is very segregated, so don´t expect to eat good food from Campania in Lombardia, cause it is not going to happen, unless you go to a specialized place.

3- If you’re in a major city and you’re trying to find local, authentic and traditional food and you are searching on google and yelp in English, forget it, you’re gonna fall into tourist traps. Always make your searches in Italian and use google translator on the webpages and apps to help you out. The restaurants that take time to promote themselves in English are most likely to be tourist traps.

4- If the menu is completely in English or has an English version, you probably already fell in a tourist trap. If it has photos, be sure it is a tourist trap.

5- If the staff speaks perfect English, you probably fell into a tourist trap.

6- If you’re at a place with stellar costumer service, especially if it is similar or even better than American and Canadian standards, you’re also probably in a tourist trap.

7- Although it seems counterintuitive, since people usually associate pasta with easy to eat meals, authentic italian pasta recipes are not what some palates are used to. Usually people think about pasta with super creamy, rich, consistent and dense sauces, almost like a bechamel sauce. Real Italian pasta recipes are far from that. Pasta is made in several manners, and most of them require very few ingredients and result in only sufficient sauce to coat the pasta, maybe a bit more than that. When looking at something an American refers as Chicken Alfredo, an Italian would probably find it inedible for being to fatty, too rich, too dense and for having a volume of sauce that makes it similar to a soup for them.

8- Avoid places known for gimmicks, like restaurants that put someone on display making fresh pasta or a place that sells pasta made on cheese wheels. Pasta made on cheese wheels is a somewhat recent trend that got hyped on social media, but it´s not common or traditional in italian cuisine.

As for fresh pasta, please understand that IT IS NOT BETTER than dry pasta, it is not an exclusive delicacy to be searched for during your trip. If you are looking at a restaurant that promotes itself for making fresh pasta, it most definetely is a tourist trap.

Fresh pasta is a type of pasta to be eaten with certain dishes, due to its consistency and overall richness due to usage of eggs into the mix. The vast majority of pasta dishes you are all looking for in Italy (for instance, carbonara) IS MADE WITH DRY PASTA.

[hackerino]

Preparing pasta in a cheese wheel is also just a tourist attraction