CIBREO -- FLORENCE'S BEST FINE DINING
Cibreo is the most misunderstood restaurant in Florence.
A foodie paradise, Cibreo doesn't even crack the top 400
of more than 1,000 Florence restaurants ranked by the esteemed members of one
of the world's most popular on-line rating sites.
Perhaps the fine dining establishment of star chef Fabio
Picchi isn't for everyone -- the Olive Garden, it ain't.
But for anyone who appreciates slow food, outstanding
service, premium ingredients and local sourcing, Cibreo easily deserves to be
ranked among top dozen dining spots in fabled Florence.
It seems like the philistines who rail against Cibreo
have a quartet of common complaints:
- Long waits for food (do you want fast service from a microwave or proper service from a kitchen that cares?)
- Small portions (they aren't small -- they are just appropriate size. Notice how Europeans aren't as obese as Americans? There's a reason -- normal-sized portions.)
- They don't serve pasta (Tuscan cuisine involves a wide area of cheeses, game meat, beans, farm to table vegetables and other items that are not based on the noodle and slathered in red sauce.
- High prices (Florence is an expensive city and for the record, you could easily spend more than half of what it costs to eat at Cibreo drinking horrible wine, eating crappy food and being upsold on lousy appetizers and desserts at any number of tourist traps with pretty piazza views but cruddy kitchens. In other words, you get what you pay for.)
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