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Hey, the phil travelers, Mark here with Walters World, and today we need to talk about how you
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can spot a tourist restaurant when you're here in Italy. And I think the first thing you need
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to realize, the first way you can spot a tourist restaurant when you're here in Italy, is actually
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if it's near a tourist site, if it's near the Colosseum, if it's near the Grand C
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if it's near the beach in Amalfi on the Amalfi Coast. Yeah, you might have a tourist restaurant
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there, okay? So if you're going to be going to some of these more touristy spots, don't eat right
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there, go two or three blocks away. You're more likely to hear locals and see locals eating and
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that's where you should go because otherwise right next to the tourist spots you're probably going to
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have tourist restaurants. Okay now the second way you can see if it's a tourist restaurant if they
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say tourists welcome because honestly they're asking for tourists to come there so it's made
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for you tourists and honestly there's nothing wrong with going to a tourist restaurant. Sometimes you
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want to have that view of the Pantheon. You want to have that view of the Grand C. That's okay
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just know that you're going to be paying up for it and sometimes you're getting a little bit less taste for that view
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Okay because they know with that view they don have to be as good with the food All right So next thing I want to tell you and this is a little small thing you might not notice but in Italy it a big way to tell if this is a tourist restaurant or not If there
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salt and pepper on the table already when you sit down, that
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means it's a tourist restaurant because Italians respect the chef and think the chef will be the one that decides what the
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food should taste like. So they don't actually have salt and pepper already on the table. Now, they'll be in salt and pepper
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in a restaurant, of course, but it won't be on the table. So if see that be oh that's a tourist restaurant right there now another way you could tell is when you
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look at the menu if it has a bunch of pictures in the menu of every single food that's in there
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you're probably at a tourist restaurant also if it's in four or five or six languages and not just
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italian you're probably in a tourist restaurant now another thing you might not think is something
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that would give it away but one that you can really tell in italians would be like this isn't right
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is if you go to a restaurant and they have food from all over Italy on the menu
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Because Italy is very much a regional country and people like the regional food
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So when you in Veneto you having your biggily When you here in the Amalfi Coast you having a lot of seafood and the lemons will pop up But if all of a sudden you seeing food from Bolzano here and from Sicily here and you seeing it from Bari and you like
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wait, this is like every place of Italy restaurant. It's probably a tourist restaurant, okay
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Now let's go talk about some more stuff in Italy Now another thing I would say that might give it away as a tourist restaurant is if there's a very aggressive tout outside trying to bring you in
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Now in Italy, there's always somebody kind of outside, you know taking reservations or having people come in
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But when it comes to tourist destinations and there's something really forcing it
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Yeah, that's probably a tourist restaurant because good restaurants don't have to try to trick people to come in
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Now another way you can tell if it's a tourist restaurant is if it's full of tourists
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That kind of gives it away right there Now it doesn mean the food bad it just means it more of a tourist restaurant So have a heads up for that one And i think another way you could tell if it a if it a tourist restaurant or not is just listening if you don hear any of
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the local language you don't hear any italian you're probably at a tourist restaurant and then
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of course there's the most important way to tell if this place is a tourist restaurant or not and
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that is if they have cappuccino on the dinner menu look in italy you don't put any milk with
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your coffee after like 11 in the morning. That is not something you do. So if they have that
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cappuccino on their menu and it's the denier menu, it's probably going to be a tourist restaurant
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okay? Another sign you might be at a tourist restaurant is if you ever see pasta and meatballs
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because spaghetti and meatballs isn't really a thing a lot of places in Italy, okay? So if you
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see some kind of pasta and meatballs or spaghetti and meatballs, it might be a tourist restaurant in
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Italy. So I hope you enjoy this way to kind of see how you can find tourist restaurants when you're
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here in Italy. Nothing wrong with them. Go and enjoy them. They usually have great views and stuff
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but if you want something more local, walk a little farther afield, listen for that Italian
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and you'll smell the deliciousness. Anyway, I wish y'all the best. I'll say bye from here in the
