This app has it all!
Easy to use and fun! Excellent organization; smooth navigation. Lots of ways to search--very cool structure. Provides way more than translation of menu terms: historical tidbits, background information and explanations that make ingredients/dishes come alive! Perfect decoder at the market, too--a huge bonus! The authors obviously love Italy and Italian food. Brilliant app! Far more than anticipated!
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Keep the menu APPs coming!
We recently bought this APP in preparation for our next trip to Italy. I only wish we had had it during our last trip, where we visited many small villages and often had no idea of what we were ordering - as the locals only spoke Italian and our knowledge of the language, as well as our Italian/English dictionary, were of little use.
We have been enjoying the APP's lively and informative text, beautiful pictures and all of the extras (such as the 5 minute grammar lesson!) - while dreaming about all of the delicacies that await us.
This book is a treasure for anyone who loves Italian food. And being the foodies that we are - we hope that the authors write a food APP for France and Spain soon!
We have been enjoying the APP's lively and informative text, beautiful pictures and all of the extras (such as the 5 minute grammar lesson!) - while dreaming about all of the delicacies that await us.
This book is a treasure for anyone who loves Italian food. And being the foodies that we are - we hope that the authors write a food APP for France and Spain soon!
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The perfect accompaniment!
The Italian menu decoder is one of those apps you wonder how you ever lived without!
Whether in your local Italian restaurant, or touring the more remote regions of Italy, this easy to use and beautifully written app is the perfect accompaniment!
Whether in your local Italian restaurant, or touring the more remote regions of Italy, this easy to use and beautifully written app is the perfect accompaniment!
Italian Menu Decoder 'Mangia'
We spent a year living in Italy in 2009 and have been back twice since in different regions. What a splendid app this is! We looked up many of our favorite unusual food names eg ‘puntarelle’ and always it has the answer with excellent explanations in words but also with beautiful photos which look great on iPads. Also very handy on iPhone when exploring menus in Italy.
We would strongly advise anyone travelling in Italy to buy this app, but also just to wander through it and dream.
We would strongly advise anyone travelling in Italy to buy this app, but also just to wander through it and dream.
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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.
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.
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La Dolce Eater
This is an excellent guide for someone wishing to become buongustaio. Easy to navigate and extremely informative .
Delicious Decoder
This App is mouthwatering. Just reading all about Italy,learning Simple phrases and Food words is enough to make you yearn fro a trip to Italy to sample their wonderful food.
The App is easy to navigate, sprinkled with enticing photographs and has a user friendly feel about it.
I give it 5 stars.
Kiki In Singapore.
The App is easy to navigate, sprinkled with enticing photographs and has a user friendly feel about it.
I give it 5 stars.
Kiki In Singapore.
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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.
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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!
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!
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