While in Florence, we found a nice little restaurant to eat dinner--Ciro & Sons—we highly recommend it (found out later that it got 4.5 out of 5 stars on TripAdvisor with #12 out of 544 popularity). Yummy food, reasonably priced pasta (for Italy), nice atmosphere, g
ood service, family-run business—all in all, a good experience. The most remarkable thing to Gary & me, however, was the two full pages of water choices—just like a wine list! There were 10 choices, 4 naturale (non-fizzy) and 6 frizzante (fizzy), each with a picture of the bottle, a description, and the bottle size listed. Who knew?
By the way, there’s no such thing as ordering tap water around here. If you want water, you have to pay for it, and the prices start at 1 euro (about $1.50) at a snack stand for 500 ml. In restaurants, bottled water starts at around 3 euro, and the sizes vary. We had a 1.5 liter bottle that cost 2.80 euro at Ciro, served ice cold, no less. And for 3 euro at a restaurant in Venice we got a small, barely cool, 500ml bottle. The most expensive water at Ciro was 10 euro for 750 ml. Gary said we should have asked for a water tasting.
ood service, family-run business—all in all, a good experience. The most remarkable thing to Gary & me, however, was the two full pages of water choices—just like a wine list! There were 10 choices, 4 naturale (non-fizzy) and 6 frizzante (fizzy), each with a picture of the bottle, a description, and the bottle size listed. Who knew?By the way, there’s no such thing as ordering tap water around here. If you want water, you have to pay for it, and the prices start at 1 euro (about $1.50) at a snack stand for 500 ml. In restaurants, bottled water starts at around 3 euro, and the sizes vary. We had a 1.5 liter bottle that cost 2.80 euro at Ciro, served ice cold, no less. And for 3 euro at a restaurant in Venice we got a small, barely cool, 500ml bottle. The most expensive water at Ciro was 10 euro for 750 ml. Gary said we should have asked for a water tasting.
if you go to the Hard Rock Cafe in Rome--there is a nice waiter that brought us a pitcher of tap water and then kept it full--and no charge. It was a nice break from paying for water all the time.
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ReplyDeleteDrinking tap water can be tricky though water treatment may have improved over the years.
ReplyDeleteMmm, sparkling water (I like "frizzante"; that's a good word!). Love it! But it does stink to have to pay for it.
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