GUIDES-HALF THE RESTAURANTS WITHIN € 25HAVE DISAPPEARED

In Italy half the restaurants where it is possible to eat with a € 25 cost have disappeared in only one year from 1522 to 1240. These are the data spread by the 2009 edition of “ La gola in tasca” ( troath in the pocket); the Guide to Italian restaurants published by Sitcom edition sold in book-shops. This Guide has taken into consideration 10.240 restaurants, pizza-houses, inns, mountain refugee, agro touristic restaurants, trendy and historical places; 5230 kg, small or very small touristic places where you can eat in every single part of Italy. According to a the survey led by this Guide, involving 500 readers, who yearly send the responsible of the Guide reports on the most appreciated places, 27% people more and more often renounce a very expensive dinner out to accept a rich but cheaper happy hour; while 19% people admit to give up two-third of the times they could eat out . The most people (36%) renounce going to restaurants unless they cost less than € 25. This Guide reports also some 2008 articles published in the foreign papers(over 100 papers from 20 countries; this gives an interesting indication both for simple tourists and VIPS: they all prefer restaurants costing between € 25 and €40. At the first place(8,46%) leads” l’Osteria della Villetta”, at Palazzolo sull’Oglio(BS) voted more than the most famous restaurant “Dal Pescatore” (Canneto sull’Oglio, in the province of Mantua). With a bill raging between € 25 and 40,the Austrian paper” Der Standard explained ”you can fill with the aroma of garpacho with ricotta, grilled fish and for everybody’s joy , polenta”. The VIP customers are really numerous. In the South in Eolie isles, at Lipari the English daily the Guardian adviced “Da Flippino” with a cost between €25 and €40. “The Guardian” comments it doesn’t have a very good appearance at first sight. But it attracts VIPs’ attention like Naomi Campbell and Sting”. The French paper “Le Figaro” points at “Il Focolare” at Ischia, precisely Baramo ( 3,17% ) “Le Figaro” describes it as a “place for from the crowded restaurants. It has a great rustic saloon decorated with posters of films from the 50’s”. The foreign press appreciates also the most famous and best-known restaurants with an international fame (but with a bill always over €75) such as the “trattoria Toscana” (10,51%) of the very famous French chef Alani Ducasse at Castiglion della Pescaia (Tuscany) where you can find the synthesis between old tradition and new trends (le Figaro), and the restaurant by Gualtiero Marchesi (9,75%) at Erbuseo, in the province of Brescia where “the house specialities are rice with golden leaf and ravioli with seafood “La Masseria Torre Maizza” (7,07%) at Fasano (BR) where dinner is served in the stalls and “Club Moritzino” a 2000 metres high refuge in Val Badia (Piz la Villa) “it is the symbol of Alta Badia with its Italian elegance joining men’s sports-nature” (Le Figaro).