/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I just came back from 20 days in Italy. I am a big /ck/ fag and naturally I wanted to indulge in a country whose cuisine has conquered the world. Yet eating out in Italy was simply average, if not subpar, and disappointing. Especially in Bologna, muh food capital.

>Service
Service in Italy was absolute shit. The servers seemed to hate their lives and their jobs with a passion. They were typically grey-haired men in their 50s, who would often smoke while working. They would do mistakes like turning their back on you while ordering to speak to colleagues, sighing loudly and in general be very slow. They would bring out cold bread (no spreads), and crackers in their supermarket packaging -wtf-. Ironically, they would all wear white collared shirts and bow-ties, but acted like their wife didn’t suck their dick in 10 years. Speaking Italian to them wouldn’t help at all. Inb4 anyone accuses me of being American, I am not, I am a med, and even by my standards service was bad.

>Trattorias, Osterias
Food here was good-ish, I made good effort to keep away from tourist areas, and used /trv/’s suggestions which despite the memes always turn out good. Service ranged from crap to okay. However, for the full experience you were supposed to order antipasto (~5-10€), primo (a pasta, ~10€), secondo (meat or fish, ~15-25 €) and dolce (~5€). For the second course you are paying for the protein only, and side (polenta, potatoes is extra, ~5€). Add drinks and a bullshit “cover charge”, you end up with 60€ per person. You can have a great 3-course, steak and lobster meal with that, in the centre of London. Yet in Italy, you pay that in no-aircondition Jacomo’s trattoria for