Originally Posted by
PWMTrav
I've been to Paoli recently. Here's my take:....
.......They handle lots of tourists because of the location. One thing I haven't looked at is if their menus differ - we were handed English menus....I had a pretty "safe" meal - ribollita and then an ossobuco - and enjoyed it. However (for me), even factoring in the location I think the place is expensive. You can do just as well in that area at a lower price point.
In other words, cross it off the list. If you walk into a place in
Italy and they hand you a menu in
english, my "tourist trap" alarm would go off, and I would leave before what happened to you happens to me, getting ripped off for an overpriced meal. I can't imagine traveling all the way to Italy to a restaurant where they hand me a menu in english, and have multiple menus to dish out to tourists, including basmati rice with mango chutney if you ask for the Indian menu.