You may come across restaurants that boast of serving Italian food but there is a lot of difference between authentic Coral Gables Italian restaurants and restaurants that ‘also’ serves Italian food. The most significant characteristic attribute of an authentic Italian restaurant is they will supply fresh food and smell made from fresh ingredients only. Apart from that, the ambience of the interior and its settings will be starkly different from the others. There will be exquisite wines displayed from drinking as well as for cooking. If you see any of these traits missing, rest assured you are not sitting in an authentic Italian restaurant.
Ingredients to look for
Restaurantsthat are authentically Italian will use all seasonal ingredients and most of it will be unrefrigerated. Amongst these ingredients you will see a lot of tomatoes, garlic, basil and fresh cheese of different types. All these are used in generous amount and by generous Italians men ‘generous.’ Almost all recipes will have these ingredients used. Apart from the ingredients, look at the menu. As Italian food names are easy to understand no Italian restaurant will deviate from it. They will stick to the original namesin the menu. Therefore, each dish named in half a dozen foreign languages in a menu signifies the restaurant is a hot spot for tourist to have modified version of Italian food.
No alluring ads required
Lastly, observe how keen the restaurant owner is in advertising and increasing the traffic. Ideally, authentic restaurants will rather rely on quality and freshness of their food and believe in ‘word of mouth’ marketing by their patrons. There will be no pictures of foods on the walls, in the menu and at the entrance because everyone knows how a pizza, pasta or spaghetti looks like. A restaurant that claim one thing, offers something different and depends on tourists does this. Their food is as cold as the picture.
