With very few exceptions, tourist menus tend to live up to their name, appearing only at the sort of tourist-pandering restaurants that the locals wisely steer clear of. Some restaurants do offer a menu turistico ('tourist menu'), which can cost from €8 to €20 and usually entails a choice from among two or three basic first courses (read: different pasta shapes, all in plain tomato sauce), a second course of roast chicken or a veal cutlet, and some water or wine and bread. Tourist menus: The concept of a bargain prix-fixe menu is not popular in Italy.If il servizio is, indeed, already included but the service was particularly good, it's customary to round up the bill or leave €1 per person extra-just to show you noticed and that you appreciated the effort. (If it says ' servizio non incluso,' tip is, obviously, not included.)Įven if the menu doesn't say it, ask É incluso il servizio? (ay een-CLOU-so eel sair-VEET-zee-yo)-'Is service included?' If not, tip accordingly (10%–15% is standard).ĭon't be stingy about tipping, though. If the menu has a line-usually near the bottom of the front or back-that says ' servizio' with either a percentage, an amount, or the word ' incluso' after it, that means the tip is automatically included in the price. Find out if service (tip) is included: Don't double-tip by accident.This is perfectly normal and perfectly legal (though a few trendy restaurants make a big deal about not charging it). 'Pane e coperto' is not a scam: Nearly all Italian restaurants have an unavoidable pane e coperto ('bread and cover' charge) of anything from €1 to €15-though most often €2 to €5-per person that is automatically added onto your bill.Via Scudo di Francia 3 (off Via Mazzini), Verona. At mealtimes the regulars head home, and the next shift arrives: Journalists and local merchants fill the few wooden tables ordering simple but excellent dishes where the Veneto's wines have infiltrated the kitchen, such as the risotto al Amarone, sauced with Verona's most dignified red. There's no mistaking Verona's prominence in the wine industry here.

The ambience and conviviality are reason enough to come by for a tipple at the well-known bar, where five dozen good-to-excellent wines are for sale by the glass 2€–10€ ($2.30–$12).

This atmospheric bottega first opened in 1890, and the old-timers who spend hours in animated conversation seem to have been here since then. Oenophiles can push an evening's meal here into the stratosphere if they succumb to the wine cellar's unmatched 80,000-bottle selection, the largest in Verona. TK The best restaurants, trattorie, and other places to eat in Verona, Italy

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