Cafe Life Venice: A Guidebook to the Cafes and Bacari of Le Serenissima [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Wolff, Joe

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ISBN 10: 1566567181 ISBN 13: 9781566567183

Casa editrice: Interlink Pub Group Inc, 2008

Riassunto

Venice is a city without parallel. This essential companion will enrich anyone's experience of the magical city of lagoons. The Café Life series takes you to its third Italian city-La Serenissima (the Most Serene Republic)-with Café Life Venice. Like predecessors Café Life Rome and Café Life Florence, it explores a select group of family-run establishments. However, because Venice moves to the stroke of its very own gondola paddle (voga), you'll be drinking less coffee, eating less gelato and sipping more wine. This may be good news to some of you. The Venetians do love their wine, and you'll see them loving it at almost any time of day in one of the city's many bacari. The bacaro is a cross between a café and a wine bar, where you'll find locals knocking back an ombra (Venetian for glass of wine) and eating cichetti (tapas-like snacks) as they stand at the bar. This wine that they quaff like mineral water is usually lower in alcohol content-around 11 percent. Bacari are a hidden treasure: they offer good value for money (remember, Italy is expensive), and they are run by proprietors obsessed with the quality of their traditional Venetian cuisine. In addition to the bacaro, this guide includes some superb pasticcerie (bakeries), a café or two, and one gelateria. Filled with richly anecdotal text and fascinating interviews with the owners, it is also illustrated by stunning photography that beautifully evokes the city, its neighborhoods, and bacaro. Carefully chosen establishments sprinkled throughout the sestieri of Venice will help you refuel during your wanderings.

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Recensione:

Café Life Venice is a lively, anecdotal, and highly readable introduction to friendly neighborhood hangouts where you can enjoy good food, drink, and company in Venice's historic center. It's well worth reading before any trip to Venice, and it makes a perfect gift for the Venetophiles on your shopping list... --www.veniceforvisitors.com

Venice: a supermodel among cities, but one that has been written about and photographed so thoroughly, it's hard for guidebooks to find anything new to say. Although there are some fine restaurants in Venice, the family-run cafés, or 'bacari', a cross between a café and a wine bar, are probably a better way to get a glimpse of the glamorous bustle of everyday life. This little guide is full of interesting information about the city, while selecting and telling the stories of some of it's longest-established and best-loved, cafés. --Sunday Telegraph

L'autore:

Joe Wolff and Roger Paperno worked together on Café Life Rome and Café Life Florence in this series.

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• Editore: Interlink Pub Group Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1566567181
• ISBN 13: 9781566567183
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 175