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Mangia is right!
I can't believe how much useful info is jammed into this app. Both practical and enlightening. LOVE it.appwarriorking
Armchair Tourist
Traveling to Capri/Amalfi next week and want quick lookup of menu items while dining. Poor connectivity in remote areas is why I purchased this app. App is very slow, wants to download many MB of photos, and worst did not list a random test of 5 southern specialties that are all prominently described on various live web sites. Search function does not indicate if it is still searching or simply has no entry found. No wonder they say so little about the app. Its worthless.Show lessForque
Awkward divisions, navigation
The overall info seems OK, and it's good that the authors keep up a running dialog in the Comment, and the pictures are often useful. But I very much dislike that vocabulary is strewn between various sections, forcing the reader to root around (is is under General? Restaurant Words? Bar Words? Cheese Words? I also find some of the navigation awkward, what with the General vocabulary split into 4 sections and some of the linked items leading to peculiar results (e.g. the link from 'all'amatriciana' leading to 'in bianco,' and a somewhat cryptic remark about sauces without tomato in them—whereas the name for an 'amatriciana' made without tomato sauce is alla gricia, which ought to be linked there but is not). Some of the choices for vocabulary entry are mysterious. E.g., alla gricia is found under gricia, but all'amatriciana is found under all', and alla milanese is found under alla, not milanese. Peculiar. So, good idea, needs work.Show lessitaltrav
Insanely comprehensive
These guys wrote the Cadogan regional guides to Italy (still the best I've found) and every September we travel with them and the latest edition of the Slow Food Osteria guide. Over the years our Italian has improved, but I can't count the times we've been completely stumped by dialect names on menus and in the shops that are NEVER NEVER in our Italian-English dictionaries. But they're on this app!
Great pics, and masses of information and anecdotes, even a guide to the cuts of meat in Italian (always one of the big mysteries). Other good news is the fat heavy old Osteria guide is now an app, too. If you like touring and eating off the beaten track in Italy, get both; you won't regret it!Show lessBest of Barcelona
