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(More customer reviews)The Gabero Rosso guides are legendary in Italy. Serious Italian food and wine lovers will rarely try something new without a recommendation from a friend, and often that friend is the Gambero Rosso guide. And I, along with many of my friends, won't travel through the countryside without a copy of the Gambero Rosso restaurant guide -- that way when we get hungry, we can quickly locate a great place to eat, call ahead and find ourselves sitting down before tasty meal very quickly and easily.
The problem for the causal tourist has always been that the Gambero Rosso restaurant guides are not published in English.
Now there is at least this book. While the Rome guide obviously lacks the vastness of the national editions, it is the best available English-language resource for anyone in the Eternal City looking to find a great meal at a restaurant that isn't already listed in every other guide book.
Granted, this book suffers from some of the shortcomings of the Gambero Rosso series as a whole: it generally doesn't reward restaurants that do something out of the ordinary, no matter how good, and the growing sector of ethnic and fusion restaurants in the capital are ignored. One might even criticize the choice of Rome for Gambero Rosso's first English-language restaurant guide, since Florence, Bologna and Genoa all have culinary traditions superior to that of Rome (no doubt Rome's 30 million tourists a year were the deciding factor there). But for any ex-pat living in Rome or any English-speaking visitor who wants some solid advice on where to eat his or her tripa or tagliateli, this is the book you want.
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