The best!
So useful, especially for eating in places off the beaten track!
Indispensable app when dining in Italy
The words used to describe different Italian dishes vary by region, and can baffle even people who speak the language fairly fluently.
This app will help you decipher the most confusing Italian menus. With helpful pictures and a good search function, it provides context for what’s on offer, which will help you avoid unwelcome surprises .
This app will help you decipher the most confusing Italian menus. With helpful pictures and a good search function, it provides context for what’s on offer, which will help you avoid unwelcome surprises .
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Great app
Love that I can search any word on a menu & have it translated for me!!!
NOMNOMNOM
I’m getting hungry and feeling such a longing for travel from looking through the seafood section!!
Simply the best!
My wife and I rely on this app. It is a lifesaver and has led to so many extraordinary meals from rumb to Venice.
Recommend
I appreciate this app. A lot effort went into it and it’s not only a good language tool, but also a compact culinary reference!
I should add that the support team is amazing and quick response to questions!
Thank you!
I should add that the support team is amazing and quick response to questions!
Thank you!
The Best Italian Food
Absolutely the best Italian food app I have found it covers everything , history, culture , regions , anything else you need to know about Italian food. Great app!
Informative in a hurry; fascinating to browse at leisure
You need it when the menu comes but you’ll treasure it at home with a glass or two.
Excellent Italian Food Resource
The App is extremely well-organized. The “search” function is great for both food shopping and in restaurants.
Decipher those Italian Menus with Aplumb
Love the update.
If only I had the benefit of this app when I was in Siena back in 1986. Then, my future wife ordered us mortadella sandwiches for a picnic lunch, perhaps the worst dining experience of my life, at least in Italy. With Italian Menu Decoder I would have avoided that catastrophic meal and the courtship may have run its course more smoothly.
Truth be told, I have dined with the authors of this app on several occasions, both in the states some 30 years ago, and abroad. I knew them when they could barely cook a kielbasa and did not have great sense of finer cuisine. But now that they have lived in Italy and France since 1985, and traveled extensively writing over 40 Cadogan tour guides and numerous newspaper and magazine articles on Italy, France, Greece and Spain, things have changed dramatically. To be invited to dine at chez Pauls and Facaros is a culinary delight. The starters themselves are worth the trip. Michael makes a mean aranchini and Dana’s exotic pizzas are beyond compare.
Italian Menu Decoder has strong merits. The recent update makes it even better. It deciphers not only the language and dialects that you’ll find on any Italian restaurant menu, but will also explain the cutlery, meats, pastas, ingredients and sauces that bring life to Italian cuisine.
If you dine Italiano frequently, or if you jut wish to learn more about Italian cuisine, this app is for you.
If only I had the benefit of this app when I was in Siena back in 1986. Then, my future wife ordered us mortadella sandwiches for a picnic lunch, perhaps the worst dining experience of my life, at least in Italy. With Italian Menu Decoder I would have avoided that catastrophic meal and the courtship may have run its course more smoothly.
Truth be told, I have dined with the authors of this app on several occasions, both in the states some 30 years ago, and abroad. I knew them when they could barely cook a kielbasa and did not have great sense of finer cuisine. But now that they have lived in Italy and France since 1985, and traveled extensively writing over 40 Cadogan tour guides and numerous newspaper and magazine articles on Italy, France, Greece and Spain, things have changed dramatically. To be invited to dine at chez Pauls and Facaros is a culinary delight. The starters themselves are worth the trip. Michael makes a mean aranchini and Dana’s exotic pizzas are beyond compare.
Italian Menu Decoder has strong merits. The recent update makes it even better. It deciphers not only the language and dialects that you’ll find on any Italian restaurant menu, but will also explain the cutlery, meats, pastas, ingredients and sauces that bring life to Italian cuisine.
If you dine Italiano frequently, or if you jut wish to learn more about Italian cuisine, this app is for you.
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Italian Food Decoder is a must
If one is going to visit Italy, and plans to eat ANYTHING during that time, be sure to get this app. My visit is for three months, and this guide has been invaluable. If you like to cook, as I do, this is an absolute necessity.
Whether you are buying food or going to restaurants, this is essential beyond helpful. Do yourself a big favor and download it.
Whether you are buying food or going to restaurants, this is essential beyond helpful. Do yourself a big favor and download it.
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Confused at the Coop grocery store, try Mangia to help
I am living in Florence for two months. I am not fluent in Italian and this app has been a great help, I bring it with me on my iPad when I go grocery shopping at the local Coop grocery store which is huge with an endless variety of food some of which I have never seen.
Now if only they would make an app to decipher menus!
Now if only they would make an app to decipher menus!
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Absolutely essential for visiting Italy
A real life saver in Italy, essential if you go off the beaten track and want to eat where the Italians eat!
Italian Cuisine Unbound
This new app is a gem, proving once again (after Barcelona A & C), that Facaros/Pauls have mastered this new travel writing genre. I unfortunately didn't discover their Cadogan guides until a few years ago. So much time was lost, not to mention money spent, digging through numerous travel destination sources when their books alone would have sufficed and provided their special brand of humor and insight - both of which their apps also possess in spades.
In The Italian Menu Decoder, Facaros/Pauls have been able to expand the limits of travel writing, making use of this new genre to provide information about anything you could ever want to know about Italian food culture, and making it so much fun that you really do want to jump on the next plane to the Italian Peninsula with your new app in hand and start digging in!
In The Italian Menu Decoder, Facaros/Pauls have been able to expand the limits of travel writing, making use of this new genre to provide information about anything you could ever want to know about Italian food culture, and making it so much fun that you really do want to jump on the next plane to the Italian Peninsula with your new app in hand and start digging in!
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Second edition even better!
The new version is much improved by a better Home screen that makes it easier to navigate.
Everything you could possibly want to know about Italian cuisine is still here, with the inimitable style that made the Cadogan travel guides so much fun.
Beautiful pictures add the finishing touch to an app that will make you crave a trip!
Everything you could possibly want to know about Italian cuisine is still here, with the inimitable style that made the Cadogan travel guides so much fun.
Beautiful pictures add the finishing touch to an app that will make you crave a trip!
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5 stars are not enough!
This app is monumental. We travel to Italy all the time, and I can't count how many times it would have come in handy on previous trips - but so glad we have it now. Can't wait to take it to Sicily next month. Mille grazie, Dana and Michael!
Fascinating
The fullest and most interesting app of its kind that I have ever found.
Italian Food Decoder
Terrible. Crashes upon opening. I have sent three emails to their support and have yet to receive a reply much less a solution. Finally received a return email giving me suggestions I had already tried. They did contact me again and gave me a refund, but no fix.
Not Just for Travel - a "Foodie" Must-Have!"
I love this app! I only used it a few times while traveling. Not only was it useful, but provided odd bits of history - leading me and my husband down the rabbit hole of Italian gastronomy. Since then I've used it several times with foodie friends just for the fun of it. Great app!
Really really useful
Helped me not to order dishes with eggs...which I hate..but also to get around in the mountains of Liguria, where no one spoke English in the restaurants. Just downloaded the latest version and it works like a treat!
