Month: July 2015

Baccano – Rome, Italy

This is a great “non-touristy” Italian restaurant just around the corner from the Trevi Fountain in Rome.  The Trevi fountain was closed because it is under repair (photo shown above). We had lunch there and I got the smoked salmon sandwich (check out photo above).  I am noting this restaurant not as much for the […]

La Taverna – Perugia, Italy

This was definitely the best meal we had while in Italy.  It is the La Taverna restaurant in Perugia, Italy (yes where Amanda Knox had her drama). My wife (Marnie Schmidt) posted a review on TripAdvisor on July 3, 2015 so I thought the easiest thing for me to do is copy that review below.  […]

Trattoria Papei – Siena, Italy

  My wife and I took a www.goaheadtours.com guided tour of Italy in June with some friends of ours that were celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary.  We had a 2 day delay getting out of the US due to flight issues but when we got there we started in Florence, spent 2 days in Siena, […]