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Entries tagged with: Every Time I Die
tix on sale: Johnny Marr, Afghan Whigs, Interpol, Ryan Adams, Aimee Mann / Ted Leo, Sloan, Deer Tick, more
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RSVP is open for the BrooklynVegan-curated Red Bull Sound Select show at Palisades with White Lung, Power Trip and Sick Feeling TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT. It's $3 at the door with RSVP and $10 without.
Tickets for the Johnny Marr shows at Gramercy Theater and Stone Pony go on sale today at 10 AM. Tickets for his MHOW show are still available.
Tickets for the Holy Ghost! show at Irving Plaza go on sale today at 10 AM.
Tickets for The Head & The Heart's show at Hammerstein Ballroom go on sale today at 10 AM.
Every Time I Die and The Ghost Inside are playing Webster Hall on December 12. Tickets for that show go on sale today at 10 AM.
The UK's Circa Waves and the NYC-based but UK-beloved Public Access TV are playing Bowery Ballroom on October 22, part of CMJ. Tickets for that show go on sale today at noon.
Florida band Black Kids, who returned last year after taking some time off, will be in NYC to play Cameo on October 9. Tickets are on sale now.
Tickets for the Aimee Mann & Ted Leo Christmas shows at Town Hall, The Space at Westbury and Tarrytown go on sale today at noon.
Tickets for the Sloan show at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon.
Tickets for the Afghan Whigs' show at MHOW go on sale today at noon. Tickets for their Beacon Theatre show are still available.
Tickets for Deer Tick's six-night run at Brooklyn Bowl go on sale today at noon.
Tickets for the Electric Youth show at Music Hall of Williamsburg go on sale today at noon.
Tickets for the newly-added third Interpol show at Terminal 5 go on sale today at noon.
Tickets for the Les Sins show at Verboten go on sale today at noon.
Tickets for the Ryan Adams shows at Hammerstein Ballroom go on sale today at 11 AM.
Tickets for the Frankie Cosmos and Porches. shows at Baby's All Right go on sale today at noon.
Tickets for the Tyler, The Creator shows at Starland Ballroom and Terminal 5 go on sale today at 3 PM and noon, respectively.
Tickets for the Leftover Crack show at SRB Brooklyn with Mutilation Rites and others are on sale now.
$5 tickets for The Blow's "Unplugged" residency at Union Pool are on sale now.
Tickets for the Deerhoof shows at Baby's All Right are on sale now.
Tickets for the Wampire and TOPS show at Baby's All Right are on sale now.
Tickets for the Pharmakon record release show at Palisades are on sale now.
Hank Wood and the Hammerheads and L.O.T.I.O.N. are playing Palisades on September 25 and October 25. 9/25 is with Ansazi and 10/25 is with Blazing Eye, Savageheads, Face the Rail and Ivy. Tickets for that 9/25 and tickets for 10/25 are on sale now.
Jeffrey Lewis & the Jrams, Shilpa Ray and Palberta are playing Palisades on October 4. Tickets for that show are on sale now.
Brooklyn bluegrass band The Defibulators are performing The Kinks' 1971 album, Muswell Hillbillies, at The Bell House on September 24 with Dustbowl Revival. Tickets for that show are on sale now.
Only Crime (featuring current and former members of Converge, Descendents, Black Flag, Modern Life Is War, Tegan & Sara and Good Riddance) are playing Saint Vitus on October 19 before The Fest. Tickets for that show are on sale now.
Bayside are playing Saint Vitus on October 6, an even smaller venue than their already-small (and sold out) MHOW show with I Am the Avalanche happening two days earlier. Tickets for that show are on sale now.
Aloe Blacc is playing Santos Party House on September 30. Tickets for that show go on sale today at noon.
Herman's Hermits starring Peter Noone are playing BB King's on February 6, 2015. Tickets for that show are on sale now.
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Code Orange Kids & Every Time I Die playing early show at Saint Vitus on Wednesday before sold-out late show (on sale)
Code Orange Kids at Acheron in 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro)
As discussed, post-hardcore noisemakers Code Orange Kids are on a tour supporting Every Time I Die which comes to NYC for a show at Saint Vitus on Wednesday (12/18). That show is long sold out, but if you didn't get tickets you're in luck because they've added an early show happening at 6 PM at the same venue. Tickets for the newly added show are on sale now. LetLive and Angel Du$t are also on both shows.
Stream a recent Code Orange Kids track below...
Continue reading "Code Orange Kids & Every Time I Die playing early show at Saint Vitus on Wednesday before sold-out late show (on sale)"
tix on sale: Cher, Megadeth, Elton John, Code Orange Kids, Justin Timberlake, Albert Hammond Jr, Bear Mountain
Possibly the longest-running American pop star in existence, Cher released her first new album since 2001 this week, and she'll be supporting it on a tour that brings her to Brooklyn for a show at Barclays Center on May 9, 2014. Tickets for that show go on AmEx presale Monday (9/30) at 10 AM. Venue/Radio presales start Thursday (10/3) at 10 AM and general on sale starts Friday, 10/4 at noon.
Tickets to see Justin Timberlake at Madison Square Garden go on Live Nation/Mobile App/Venue/Facebook presales today at 10 AM.
Tickets to the Chance The Rapper and DJ Rashad shows at SOB's go on sale today at 10 AM.
Tickets to the Megadeth shows at Wellmont Theater and The Paramount go on sale today at 10 AM.
Tickets to see Albert Hammond Jr. at Webster Hall's Marlin Room go on sale today at 10 AM.
Tickets to the Elton John show at Madison Square Garden go on sale today at 11 AM.
Bear Mountain announced that one of their CMJ shows will be the ASCAP showcase at The Studio At Webster Hall on October 16. Tickets to that show are on sale now.
Code Orange Kids, who will be here in October on their tour with Terror and Counterparts, will be back in the winter on their tour with Everytime I Die and letlive for a show at Saint Vitus on December 18. Tickets to that show go on sale Friday, 10/4 at noon.
Though it was initially announced that tickets for the MGMT show at Barclays Center would go on sale today, they actually go on sale next Friday (October 4) at 11 AM.
Browse our 'Tickets On Sale' tag for more recently announced NYC shows.
Browse our NYC Concert Calendar for shows happening today and every day - comedy shows, heavy metal concerts (courtesy of our heavy metal blog), and free shows included.
We try to keep tabs on various festivals around the world here on BrooklynVegan, many of which you'll eventually see pictures from. Today we focus on Belgium.
Pukkelpop goes down from August 16 - 18. That festival includes The Stone Roses, Bjork, Bloc Party, The Black Keys, Refused, Wilco, The Hives, The Shins, The Afghan Whigs, Lykke Li, Hot Chip, Feist, Flying Lotus, tUnE-yArDs, Chromatics, Cloud Nothings, The Tallest Man on Earth, Baroness, Ceremony, A-Trak, Rustie, Hudson Mohawke, and more. The full lineup is listed below. Tickets for the festival are on sale now.
Rock Werchter, which falls a bit more on the mainstream side, happens in Belgium even sooner, running from June 28 - July 1. That lineup includes The Cure, Jack White, X, Mastodon, Garbage, The xx, M83, Metric, Amon Tobin, Skrillex, Perfume Genius, Bat For Lashes, Michael Kiwanuka, Alabama Shakes, My Morning Jacket, Regina Spektor, Florence + the Machine, The Vaccines and more. Tickets for the festival are
on sale now sold out.
The full lineups for both Pukkelpop and Rock Wercher are listed below.
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Art for Shiner's The Egg
Shiner was a band from Kansas City, Missouri that was active from 1992 to 2003. The group formed in 1992, and quickly found wide exposure, releasing a vinyl EP in 1993 and touring with acts such as Sunny Day Real Estate, Chore, Jawbox, Season to Risk, The Jesus Lizard, and Girls Against Boys. The group released their first LP, Splay (recorded at Steve Albini's Chicago studio) in 1996, and a second album, Lula Divinia the next year. Sub Pop took notice, and released a 7" single of the group's songs "Sleep it Off" and "Half Empty". Following this the band toured with Hum in 1998.[1] A third full-length, Starless, was released on a label run by members of The Descendents, Owned and Operated, in 2000. A fourth LP, The Egg, would follow before the group broke up in 2002.Shiner called it quits with a show in their native Kansas City in January of 2003, with its members taking to projects like Every Time I Die, The Damned Things, The Life & Times, With Knives, and many others.
Close to ten years later, the band is back for a quintet of reunion shows in the US in celebrate of The Egg's reissue, due on August 7th. The dates include stops in Lawrence, Kansas, Chicago, LA and NYC at Irving Plaza on August 11th with Errortype:11. Tickets are on sale.
In related news, Errortype:11 shares members of Primitive Weapons, who will team with Whores, Family, and Tiger Flowers at Saint Vitus on June 13th. Tickets are on sale. As previously mentioned, Whores will also play Union Pool on June 15th with Harkonen, The Atlas Moth, and Fight Amp as part of a Brutal Panda/BV-BBG Northside event. Tickets are still available, or get in with your Northside badge.
A listing of all Shiner tour dates and a teaser video for The Egg reissue are below.
Continue reading "Shiner reunites for US dates (including Irving Plaza)"
by BBG
Gwar at MHOW (more by Chris LaPutt)
Gwar will take their pus-ridden tour on the road with Every Time I Die, Warbeast, and Ghoul(!), hitting Irving Plaza on October 23rd. Tickets for that show go on sale today (August 12) at 10AM.
The tour, dubbed the "Return of The World Maggot Tour", will kick off in middle October in North Carolina and loop the country, eventually heading back to the East Coast by the end of November. Full tour schedule is below. Gwar is also headlining the Gwar-B-Q, which will feature the debut of Argonauts, as well as performances from Darkest Hour, Battlemaster, and many others.
Ghoul (who may or may not contain members of Impaled, Ludicra and Engorged) will perform material from their forthcoming eleven-track Transmission Zero LP, due on Tankcrimes. The band will also dip into that new LP at the California Discord Fest in Los Angeles, alongside Rattus, Dropdead, Lack of Interest, Despise You, Magrudergrind, and many many notable others on 9/24 and 9/25 at the Vortex. Tickets are still available.
All tour dates and some classic Gwar video on Joan Rivers and Jerry Springer is below.
Continue reading "Gwar announce Fall Tour w/ Ghoul & others (dates)"
"arcade fire. scarlett johansson. snl. win." - Paul
"Sometimes SNL shows me great new bands that I cant believe I haven't heard of... Arcade fire is not one of them #bandsthatsuck" - dj tillery
"I think I just became a fan of Arcade Fire." - Gregory
"I'm so confused by Arcade Fire. #SNL" - Vince Mahtani
"nick zinner from the yeah yeah yeahs is adding synth
for arcade fire on snl right now." - Christian Davis
"Could anything get more pretentious than Arcade Fire on SNL tonight? hitler youth haircuts, tron blazers and interpretive dances? Beat it."
- keith buckley of Epitaph-signed band Everytime I Die
"Arcade Fire (plus owen pallett) on SNL ...amazing" - Julie Foster
"Never heard Arcade Fire before.
Hope to never hear them again. Ugh." - Karen Sugarpants
"Regine and Win are so crazy/awesome/cute/spectacular.
Arcade Fire, I love you." - Andrew R
"whoa, arcade fire's snl performance was worse than ashlee simpson's. and the singer's hair was even worse than the performance." lisa cunningham
"Just watched The Arcade Fire on SNL.
Man, I'd love to see that band live." - Nicole Harpel
"Arcade fire is super weird." - Sarah Evans
"Could arcade fire be the worst band to ever grace snl?
Im beginning to think so." - Lauren Burdick
this was someone's ticket to see Arcade Fire on SNL (trishavirga)
Arcade Fire made their second appearance on Saturday Night Live last night (11/13/10). Videos from the show, and more below...
photos by Greg Cristman, words by BBG
Trap Them
"Shit Happens: The Tour" crash-landed at the sold-out Studio at Webster Hall on 11/3. Featuring headliner Every Time I Die with Howl and She Rides, the show marked the return of the great Trap Them, who was last seen in NYC supporting Cave In at the also-sold-out Knitting Factory close to a year ago. Since then, the band has kept a low profile on the live circuit but released the killer Filth Rations EP on Southern Lord and recorded a new LP with Kurt Ballou (!) which is due at their new home Prosthetic Records in March of next year. Look for that, I will.
More pictures from the mayhem and all setlists except Trap Them's from The Studio at Webster Hall are below.
Continue reading "Every Time I Die, Trap Them, Howl & She Rides played the Studio (pics & setlists) "
by BBG
Trap Them at Knitting Factory (more by Samantha Marble)
Trap Them and Howl will hit the road for a string of dates with Every Time I Die as part of "Shit Happens: The Tour", tagging The Studio at Webster Hall on 11/3 in the process. Tickets are on sale. The show is one of two Howl dates in the NYC area, as the band will play Southpaw on 9/23 with Valient Thorr and Junius (who recently played Acheron). Tickets are still on sale for that too.
Meanwhile, Trap Them will spend the month of September working on their new LP for Prosthetic Records with Kurt Ballou at God City, documenting the process on their spankin' new blog.
All tour dates and some videos, below...
Continue reading "Trap Them touring w/ Every Time I Die & Howl who is touring w/ Valient Thorr & Junius (dates)"
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Happy New Year and Welcome Back to The Week In Metal! We took some time away, but believe me, the hate only grew STRONGER.
Wolves In The Throne Room have emerged from the dark forests of the Pacific Northwest to announce a pair of new releases and drop more details on their previously announced upcoming live LP, Live At Roadburn 08! First up, the Malevolent Grain EP will hit Southern Lord with a 180-gram LP bang, with Conspiracy Records dropping a small pressing of picture discs for the record (a limited batch of CDs will be available on tour). Then on March 31st, the band will drop Black Cascade their new full-length on Southern Lord! Both Malevolent Grain and Black Cascade were recorded by Randall Dunn/Mell Dettmer and are the first to feature new guitarist (former touring member) Will Lindsay of ex-Middian / Age Eternal fame. In addition, WITTR's Live at Roadburn 08 will be released with a companion DVD available with the first pressing of 500 copies, with 150 coming in gold vinyl with a silkscreen. Full WITTR tour dates are below, including their date at Scion Rock Fest.
Obscura, an astonishing tech-death band from Deutchland that may or may not be named after the classic Gorguts LP, are streaming a trio of new tracks from massive and recommended upcoming LP Cosmogenesis. Relapse has been kind enough to allow one of those tracks to be made available here for download... check out "Universe Momentum" available above! Cosmogenesis impacts on Feb 17th.
Tombs is pulling double duty on Feb 21st, having scheduled a day show at ABC No Rio with Black Anvil, Woe, and Bastard Sapling and a Winter Hours Record Release show with Defeatist, Engineer, and The Wayward later that night at Death By Audio. Winter Hours is due on Feb 17th via Relapse.
YOB have announced that they will hit the studio in late March with Sanford Parker to record their new album of "5 songs hitting about the 60+ minute mark". Look for it to surface in late summer 2009. In the meantime, Northwesterners can catch the band at their first reunion gig on 2/28 at The Ash Street Saloon in Portland, Oregon.
Shrinebuilder is in progress! The band blogged through the weekend as they completed recording of their debut album for Neurot.
The previously announced Down/Weedeater/Evil Army tour has been postponed.
With a tagline like "2 stages + 2 days = Total Brutality", you better f'n deliver. That said, The LA Murder Fest will turn those sunny California skies black on May 9th & 10th when Coffins, Landmine Marathon, Ghoul, Stormcrow, Agenda of Swine, and Lack of Interest hit the stages of The Knitting Factory in Hollywood! Also on the bill are sickening sludgemeisters -16-, who's new record Bridges To Burn drops on Jan 20th. Check out "So Broken Down" available for download above from the record and to all y'all left coasters, support the band when they hit the road with Giant Squid! Tour schedule is below.
General Surgery will also report for duty at the LA Murderfest, and recently announced the release of their split with Butcher ABC. Look for it on CD via Obliteration Records on January 11 (email email@example.com for a copy) and limited-to-1,000 LP in February via Living Dead Society/Coperaction Records (email firstname.lastname@example.com for a copy). The band will also hit the road with Ghoul following the Murderfest and leading up to Maryland Death Fest (thx SMNNews). Full tour dates are below.
Malkuth, an absolutely killer black metal band featuring members of No Neck Blues Band, have scheduled a show on 1/25 at Public Assembly with Villians, Castevet, and Ipsissimus. Malkuth recently released Mutus Liber out on Hospital Productions and are prepping their second LP for the label.
Converge have scheduled a show at Europa on March 27th! Tickets are on sale. Converge has been added to the Scion Rock Festival in Atlanta... yet one more reason to go! (Thanks Chris!)
Also recently added at Europa, Young Widows will team up with The Austerity Program, My Disco, and Tournament for a show on April 1st! Ticket info is forthcoming, full Young Widows tour dates below. Tournament is lined up to play with Kylesa, Tombs, and Black Anvil at The Charleston.
Satyricon's new record The Age of Nero drops on Jan 13th via KOCH Records, and I have to say that I definitely enjoyed it a hell of alot more than Now, Diabolical. Check out the video for "Black Crow On a Tombstone" below and dig on "The Sign Of The Trident", which the band has made available for download above! Satyricon will hit the road opening for Cradle of Filth at Starland Ballroom on Jan 15th (tix here) and have scheduled an NYC date at Nokia Theater on Feb 27th (tix here).
That Satyricon video, Mastodon, Khanate, Burnt By The Sun, Dillinger Escape Plan, Coliseum, Amenra, Pestilence and more as The Week In Metal continues...
by Black Bubblegum
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Attila Csihar of Mayhem, The Winterdemon (metalnorge)
Highly influential black metallers Mayhem have announced that they will tour the US in spring of 2009! The 21 date tour will be announced soon, but in the meantime, look for the band to announce a new guitarist to replace departing axe-slinger Blasphemer. Mayhem's Attila Csihar lent his unholy vokills to the new Jarboe record Mahakali due Oct 14th on The End. Skip on down for video of Thurston Moore discussing Mayhem.
Doomriders are currently grinding away at their new album due on Deathwish in 2009! In the meantime, look for the band to hit the Autobahn on a European tour with Disfear & SSS. SSS is currently streaming two new tracks from their upcoming record The Dividing Line. Doomriders recently played Europa.
Metallica is streaming six tracks from Death Magnetic. Check out my review for their new record below.
Guitarist Kris Norris has left Darkest Hour and is "actively pursing some producing routes and any band that might want a guitarist".
Corrupted LIVE (tawaraya)
The extremely elusive Japanese doomers (in fact, the above is one of the only pictures I have ever found of them), Corrupted announced a brief West Coast tour with Asunder, check out the flyer here. Asunder's Works Will Come Undone recently dropped on vinyl via Kreation Records, pick it up here. Corrupted's (current? these guys are elusive I tell ya!) bassist Lowell Isles's old band, YOB recently reformed.
Vikings Amon Amarth are streaming a new track, "Guardians of Asgaard", from their upcoming Twilight Of The Thunder God.
Bloodbath, the death metal supergroup featuring Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth), Anders "Blakkheim" Nyström (Katatonia), Jonas Renkse (Katatonia), Martin "Axe" Axenrot(ex-Witchery, Opeth), and Per "Sodomizer" Eriksson, will drop their new studio album The Fathomless Mystery on Oct 28th via Peaceville Records. Filled with ""nothing but hateful brutality", check out "Slaughtering The Will To Live" available for download above and stream another track, "Mock The Cross", at their myspace.
Bloodbath's cover art, plus news on Danzig, Celtic Frost, Landmine Marathon, sunn 0))), Necrophagist, Immortal and so much more....


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Alex Santamaria, program director and drive-time jock on KAJM, "Arizona's jammin' R&B," effectively bridges that gap by shrewdly peppering the station's boomer-skewed playlist of classic Motown and cruisin' slow jams with songs that reveal the source of current hip-hop's most sampled beats. The kids in the back seat won't hear the Beyoncé/Jay-Z hit "Crazy in Love" on KAJM, but they might hear the 1970 Chi-Lites platter "Are You My Woman," from which Beyoncé's hit lifts its propulsive horn riff. Santamaria, a longtime player in the Valley R&B scene (he helped program AM powerhouse KQ in the '80s), also allows himself to share in the uncoolness foisted on his listeners by humorously mishandling current slang and copping to his own dance-floor ineptness -- even while coolly cueing up that old Gap Band jam that Ashanti lifted for her latest CD.
Readers' Choice: Dave Pratt

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November 25, 2014
(AP) A library book checked out from a Tulsa high school in 1947 has been returned _ with a $250 check to cover overdue fees. Holland Hall School librarian Betty Niver says the book "New Word Analysis: Or School Etymology of English Derivative Words" was mailed to the school by Martha McCabe Jarrett.
Jarrett, of Venice, Fla., was Martha McCabe, a sophomore, when she signed out the book 61 years ago at what was then Holland Hall School for Girls. She recently found it while cleaning out her other home in Rome, Ohio.
"It was just there, with the things I enjoy and my kids don't," she said Friday.
In a note sent with the book, she included the check to pay any fines. But she wasn't sure how she wound up with the book. "I don't know if it was something the library was getting rid of, or my Latin teacher had given me, or if I just kept it," she said.
"I sent it back just because I value the education I got at that school," she said.
School officials said they were not sure what they will do with the $250 because there is no specific overdue book fund. It might be put toward student scholarships.
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Data Science of Love
Vaclav Petricek digs some of the romantic interactions nuggets hidden in eHarmony's large collection of human relationships.
The Big Data Revolution
Claudia Perlich keynotes on M6D's approach to Big Data, using data granularity to build predictive models used for user targeting, bid optimization and fraud detection.
Tackling Complex Data with Neo4j
Ian Robinson discusses the complexity of highly connected data and how graph databases can help, illustrating the talk with practical examples implemented using Neo4j.
The Evolving Panorama of Data
Rebecca Parsons proposes taking a different look at data, using different approaches and tools, then looks at some of the ways social data is used these days.
Scaling Scalability: Evolving Twitter Analytics
Dmitriy Ryaboy shares some of the lessons learned scaling Twitter's analytics infrastructure: Data loves a schema, Make data sources discoverable, and Make costs visible.
Big Data, Small Computers
Cliff Click discusses RAIN, H2O, JMM, Parallel Computation, Fork/Joins in the context of performing big data analysis on tons of commodity hardware.
View Server: Delivering Real-Time Analytics for Customer Service
Richard Tibbetts presents a three-tier architecture for real-time data staging analysis, storing the results and delivering them to clients as a service accessible through a variety of interfaces.
NetApp Case Study
Kumar Palaniapan and Scott Fleming present how NetApp deals with big data using Hadoop, HBase, Flume, and Solr, collecting and analyzing TBs of log data with Think Big Analytics.
Data, Be Like Water
Paul Sanford presents the transformations supported by data throughout its life cycle, and how that can be better done with Splunk, an engine for monitoring and analyzing machine-generated data.
Machine Learning on Big Data for Personalized Internet Advertising
Michael Recce discusses how advertising works and what algorithms Quantcast uses to analyze large amounts of data in order to find out what people are interested in.
Grid Gain vs. Hadoop. Why Elephants Can't Fly
Dmitriy Setrakyan introduces GridGain, comparing it and outlining the cases where it is a better fit than Hadoop, accompanied by a live demo showing how to set up a GridGain job.
Distributed Data Analysis with Hadoop and R
Jonathan Seidman and Ramesh Venkataramaiah present how they run R on Hadoop in order to perform distributed analysis on large data sets, including some alternatives to their solution.


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From a food lovers perspective, is Venice worth it?
- s
- sixteenbiticon Jun 13, 2012 08:34 AM
First some background on our trip. My wife and I will be spending 10 days in Northern Italy for our third anniversary this October. The secondary reason for this trip is to visit a longtime friend in the Air Force whos stationed in Desenzano del Garda. Nothing, aside from our flight, is set in stone and as of right now our tentative travel schedule is:
2-3 days in Desenzano del Garda (probably checking out Brescia and Verona as well during this time--I'm leaving the plans for this leg of the trip up to my buddy.)
1-2 days in Venice
2-3 days in ER (with a focus on Parma and Modena)
2-3 days in the Langhe region and Turin
I've been surfing the Italy CH boards for a few weeks now, updating my google map with restaurants that've piqued my interest and I've noticed the general consensus here that the dining scene in Venice leaves something to be desired. This combined with the fact that neither my wife nor I are big seafood eaters has lead me to reconsider our plans for visiting Venice. On the other hand, I'm reading nothing but great things about the other regions we're planning on visiting (especially the Langhe!)
Restaurants I have marked on my map include Il Ridotto, Hosteria Giusti, Ai due Platani, Il Cascinalenuovo, Ristorante Centro, and Ristorante Bovio among others.
So if you would be so kind as to give your opinion on this matter I would be eternally grateful. General comments about our planned itinerary are encouraged as well!
Venice's restaurant scene may not be world class but "general consensus here that the dining scene in Venice leaves something to be desired" is not true for a short stay. Without going much more into that subject, if you are not big seafood eater and have no desire to spend a couple of days in Venice, then I would skip it and concentrate on the rest of your trip. And If you do decide to spend a day or two in Venice, my advice is to skip Il Ridotto (have not been there and have no reason to think it is not good) and choose a more traditional place has some good non seafood choices.
Don't understand Ristorante Bovio. If you want the best in food around the Alba area, Da Renzo in Cervere and Borgo Antico are far superior. I'd definitely keep Centro and Cascinalenuovo of course and for great trattoria food, La Torre in Cherasco and Del Belbo Da Bardon in San Marzano Olivetto, both of which happen to have great wine lists.
I have had many fantastic meals in Venice ... and I am not a huge seafood fan either. I would stop in Venice for cicchetti at Al Bottegon alone!
Glad to see you have Ai due Platani on your list - one of our favorites from that trip. We also had a lovely meal at Bovio, but I would defer to allende.
If at all possible, try and fit in a stop at Antica Corte Pallavicina - one of the best meals (we had lunch) we have had in all our trips to Italy.
re: ekc
No need for anyone to defer to me. I don't have all (any of) the answers, just my own taste... and many, many years of going to lots of restaurants in the countryside.
Nothing wrong with Bovio, but there are so many better restaurants for food. It has a great wine list, but this year I noticed on the list that many of the really drinkable barolos, that were on the list last year, from 1996, 1999 and even 2001, are gone. If not for the wine, no reason to go there IMO.
re: allende
allende, your extensive experience eating in the Piemonte is exactly why I would defer to you for recommendations in the area versus my suggestions based on my 3-day trip there last year. Sure, I had many fantastic meals on my trip, but you have much more dining experience which gives you a much stronger foundation for your recs. Of course, it is all personal opinion in the end! :-)
Our trip to Italy that included the Langhe was the most food-indulgent trip I've ever had; it was amazing. Though we didn't like Da Renzo very much, as the service was not pleasant at all. My favorite was a very long and leisurely lunch at La Ciau del Tornavento. Also wonderful was dinner at Trattoria della Posta, just outside Monforte d'Alba, followed by dinner at Giardino del Felicin. Especially if you're Barolo lovers, with your rather limited time, I would skip Turin and stay in the Langhe. We stayed in the Barolo town of Monforte d'Alba and had two great visits to local wineries, arranged by the owner of the great B&B that we stayed at. Caveat: our trip to this region was in 2007, so restaurants may have changed since then.
General comment on your itinerary is that if you're anything like me, you'll be frustrated that you don't have enough time for all the restaurants that sound wonderful in the places that you'll be. So if you can bear to give up a location, then you'll have more time (more meals) for the remaining destinations.
We've always had fine food in Venice, though I don't know that I can give recommendations, as we focus on seafood places (and some of those are less traditional). No, it's not the best cuisine of Italy, but Venice itself, IMHO, is very difficult to beat. Il Ridotto gets great writeups, but it's a pizzeria, and if you're trying to sample great regional cuisine, pizzeria is not Venice's forte.
Lastly, as you plan, think of your itinerary in terms of nights, not days. For example, one day in a location might be two nights or one. Especially helpful when planning dinners.
re: Lexma90
In Venice, I think you are confusing Il Ridotto with Il Refolo which is more or less a pizzeria. Il Ridotto is a fine dining restaurant serving 'creative' Venetian cooking.
re: Lexma90
@ Lexma90
Interesting comment on the service at Da Renzo. We've always thought the service was just as friendly and professional (in a casual way) as could be. Recently, we've been there twice in the last two months and that has continued to be the case as I indicated in my posts.
We've enjoyed Trattoria della Posta but for food, and particularly the wine list, IMO, it is very far beneath other trattorie in the area in terms of what it offers.
re: allende
Yes, yes, of course you're right - sorry for the error!
re: Lexma90
Il Ridotto is not a pizzeria.
re: Lexma90
Skip Turin? I'll admit most of the things I've found for the city aren't food related (Cinema Museum, Egyptian Museum, Borgo Medievale) I've read nothing but rave reviews of the chocolate scene in Turin. It's a tempting thought for sure.
Another thing I should mention is we spent our last anniversary in SF and then Napa Valley so we've definitely done the wine country thing, although I'm sure the Langhe is much different than Napa/Sonoma.
re: sixteenbiticon
If you're not so interested in the Langhe wine scene (yes different than Napa - you pretty much don't just wander into wineries in the Langhe, and visiting them in general is not so much of a commerical proposition; and I think it's much more beautiful too), then Turin may a better choice for your interests. It's funny, I had heard so many wonderful things about Turin, and felt it was the kind of place we'd like, a smaller city that's less touristy. But it just didn't click with either me or my husband. The only reason I could come up with is that the city is so grand, with lots of big, impressive buildings, that the piazzes and other public spaces were too big, and not intimate enough for my tastes. Not much of a reason, I know. Obviously, I'm in the minority on Turin!
re: Lexma90
"Obviously, I'm in the minority on Turin!" - Not necessarily. There are many of us who prefer the slower-paced, rural areas and small towns. Also, there are so many wonderful, little restaurants to discover in the countryside of Italy.
re: BN1
No doubt about it that Torino is an Italian city palpably oriented toward "the future" and as the one-time home of Fiat and the birthplace of not only unification but the Italian movie industry and other tech-y things, it is a city that celebrates speed and fast-forward even as it simultaneously plays a leadership role in promoting "Slow Food" (but mainly as hip and unifiying, not because it loves "slow".)
I feel Torino embodies an extremely important aspect of Italian culture, its capacity for renewal and re-invention. But I agree that other destinations in italy are more preferred by a majority of visitors. Almost all Italian destinations are controversial to some extent, but if there is one group of people consistently in the minority, it's those who prefer not to spend any more time in Venice than absolutely necessary (although the bald numbers are larger than some people realize).
If you go to Venice, you must go to Il Ridotto! It's amazing, very tiny and intimate. We were there about 2 years ago with our 2 yr old and the chef makes a point of talking to every table. I would go back to Venice (and fight the tourists!) just to go to Il Ridotto. his other restaurant nearby is also not bad.
Although most of the good food in Venice comes from the sea (as does most of the bad food, only less directly), many restaurants do serve meat and not just as a last resort to satisfy non-fish eaters. Fegato alla veneziana is traditional enough, and there are very good vegetables. Al Covo always has some excellent meat dishes (they nearly seduced me with their description of the duck last time I went, but in the end I stuck with seafood). I saw some gondoliers at Al Fontego tucking into some serious beef. I've eaten meat at Da Sandro. Venice has a lot of bad food, but it has a lot of very good food too. The scene is not nearly so grim as guidebooks often describe, and not grim at all -- quite the reverse -- for anyone who does some research and makes some reservations. October should be nice in Venice. Of course it should be fabulous in the Langhe. Just don't write Venice off because you think the food is uniformly awful.
re: mbfant
This is exactly the type of information I was struggling to find. Thank you for your post (although you're only making this decision harder for me... haha).
Just to add to my initial response to Venice and the advise to skip it because you are not big seafood eaters, it is primary due to the fact that your itinerary is already so packed for remaining 6 to 7 days (aside from Garda), covering a wide distance from Venice to ER to Langhe and Turin. It comes down to choices and what to give up. From the initial reading of your post, I came away with the impression that food is the primary focus of your trip and seeing Venice is not a priority. And spending such a short time (1 to 2 days) in a city like Venice to me is more or less a 'postcard' visit. Constantly watching the day trippers walking from San Marco to Railto to Frari to Academia, body to body through the narrow calles with their heads down looking at a map or glancing the store shop windows, my thought always comes back to 'what do visitors get from all this' when there is so much more to Venice. Personally, I wouldn't not bypass Venice for anything because we spend 2 months in Venice every year for the past 15 years. My advice to spend a little extra time in Venice or visit it on a another trip as it is a city not to be miss. And add to mbfant's post, there is good non-seafood in Venice, but if it is just base on food alone (dining out), I would go to ER and Langhe.
re: PBSF
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re: pikawicca
Glad to see this recommendation for this Slowfood choice in Brescia, also a very interesting town to visit..
Allende has many times recommended Miramonte l'Altro, in a northern suburb of Brescia. I hope to someday give it a visit when we return to this region.
Just answering your question - I would say the answer is NO. As a matter of fact, amongst the most memorable Dinners ever in my life was a fish dinner we had in a restaurant somewhere in Venice (can't remember the name) some years ago. It was actually so bad I quit eating half way through, even though I was very hungry!
I remember well the breaded, fried assortment of different "seafood". My thoughts ran to "breaded Guppies" and similar.
I could only imagine that they cleaned out an old freezer and just quickly dumped that stuff into a fryer. That bad!! We were a group of skiers, taking the day off from skiing to tour Venice, we were hungry tourists.
At my second time in Venice I simply split from my group at lunchtime and had a sandwich somewhere, which was fine since I really enjoyed walking through the city on my own and didn't feel like wasting my time sitting in a restaurant for an hour for more crummy food.
Having said that, with good prior research you will surely pick up a decent meal here and there, as has been suggested. And Venice is certainly a wonderful city to do some serious sightseeing on foot.
re: Tuscanlover
We were just in Venice in January and we had a wonderful time. The City was crowded but once you leave San Marco you can walk for hours without crowds. Venice is a magical city and one of a small group of cities that we would go back to again happily. Wandering around and getting lost is spectacular. We enjoyed very good food in small, lesser traveled restaurants and we didn't have pizza or sandwiches once during our 4 days. You can look up my report by searching for "First Stop Venice" or PBSF can kindly link it for me again, since I'm not technically savvy enough to figure it out myself!
re: tlubow
I couldn't agree more! I was in Venice at the end of March - glorious weather, fabulous visit - and had no problem finding good food. I have already posted a trip report. The only sandwich I ate was at Florian.
re: tlubow
Below is the link to report by tlubow
After much consideration and talking with my wife we've decided to omit Venice from our trip. This won't be the last time we'll be in Italy I'm sure, so it'll be high on the list for subsequent trips.
Our itinerary is now looking like this (changing from days to nights for easier tracking):
3 Nights Desenzano del Garda
1 Night Modena
1 Night Parma
Here is where we've come across three options:
2 Nights in Cinque Terrre
3 Nights in Langhe
1 Night in Cinque Terre
3 Nights in Langhe
1 Night in Turin
3 Nights in Langhe
2 Nights in Turin
Or would you recommend another option in the vicinity? Assuming food is a high priority (other things are obviously being considered. For one, I'm hugely into castles and will be trying to see as many as I can while visiting.)
Thanks for all of the great feedback. As always, the information on these boards has proven invaluable. I just wish there were other travel sites that had as many knowledgable contributors as CH.
re: sixteenbiticon
Certainly for food and wine, le Cinque Terre should be off your list, although other parts of the beautiful and charming Italian Riviera can be worth your while.
Your trip is in October, and it is hard to thread the needle of a one-night stay on the Riviera when it comes to weather. You are unlikely to enjoy being on the Riviera if it is pouring rain, so it's not a good idea to lock yourselves into going.
Instead, what I would suggest is that you give all those nights to the Piemonte in October, but if you get a sunny day, go to a great place for lunch on the Riviera from Piemonte. I believe that regular poster Allende has a favorite restaurant you could consider (I'm sorry I've forgotten the name). - although, if you are not willing to eat fish or seafood, you should make an effort before you go to track down a great place to sample farinata or foccacia col formaggio, and a pesto pasta. In October, there are wonderful mushrooms and ravioli stuffed with greens served with a sauce of pounded walnuts.
While in you are in and around Parma, be sure to see the castle at Torrechiara. As I'm sure you already know, Piemonte is loaded with castles, most of them quite convenient to the best food and wine.
If you do searches on this board for Emilia-Romagna, you will see some passionate posts (again from Allende but also others) about places to eat near Modena and Parma that are also places you can sleep. While you are around Parma, be sure to see the castle at Torrechiara (close Monday).
re: barberinibee
The place is Muraglia Conchiglia D'Oro in Varigotti, an easy drive from the Langhe.
For us, the best seafood restaurant in Liguria by far. http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/768884
re: allende
The travelers are not big seafood lovers. Are you aware of any place on the Ponente side of the Riviera that stands out for non-seafood dishes? La Cucina di Nonna Nina in Camogli is one of the few coastal restaurants I can think of that reliably has rabbit on the menu, and Luchin in Chiavari is great for both vegetarians and meat-eaters (lots of choices) but both are more than a 2 hour drive from the Langhe.
re: barberinibee
when I was compiling the database, it was my strong impression that the Ligurian cuisine switched to land-based when one went even a few miles inland. So perhaps, the OP should be looking at eating off the coast and up in the hills rather than in a coastal resort in this area.
re: jen kalb
Going "a few miles inland" is more easily said than done in mountainous Liguria, and very quickly eliminates sea views entirely. Plus, the roads are usually only for the brave! Not only do I not have a inland restaurant I can recommend, it is hard to fashion an enjoyable day on the Riviera coming from Piemonte if you try to include the extra time it takes to get into the hills in search of meat. And there is little point to the long drive if you don't spend the bulk of your time admiring the coastline.
Given that there is good Genovese salami, lots of vegetarian pasta, farinata and foccaccie plus porcini mushrooms in October along the coast -- a non-fish eater can still have a tasty meal on the scenic coastline, even though the most-recommended destination restaurants do focus on fish for secondi.
re: barberinibee
Last October we had a delicious dinner at Il Ciliegio up on the hill overlooking Monterosso in Cinque Terre. Simple, moderately-priced food made with quality ingredients and good technique.
Alright, I've flip-flopped on this issue yet again, hopefully for the last time. I took into consideration the beauty and the overall experience of visiting Venice and I've decided it's something we simply can't omit. The comments here made me realize that even though there may be a lot of not so great places to eat in Venice, with enough searching there's bound to be some gems (Il Ridotto for one.) So I'm thinking this will be the final version of our itinerary (although I really will miss not seeing Turin.)
Flight Arrives in Milan Wednesday afternoon
Wed-Fri Night in Desenzano del Garda
Sat morning we hop a train to Venice
Mon morning we hop a train (or pick up a rental car, need to research this) to Modena. If we rent a car I'll definitely consider stopping in Ferrara to see Castello Estense.
Tues morning head over to Parma.
Wed morning head out to the Langhe region.
Sat morning back to Milan for our flight home.
If we come across a particularly nice day while in Piemonte I will definitely look into taking a trip down to Liguria. My wife expressed interest in seeing the Italian riviera in some fashion or another so this would be a great opportunity to do so.
Aside from not seeing Turin, another major disappointment is not being able to visit Hosteria Giusti as they're closed.
re: sixteenbiticon
On my way from Florence to Venice, via train, we stopped by accident in Bologna. I thought the food was amazing there, including all the little meat shops. The food in Florence really stood out too - we were visiting friends, so they knew some amazing places.
re: sixteenbiticon
FWIW don't bother to drive down to see the Italian Riviera from Piemonte. The Ponente side of Genova is really nothing special (ugly towns and rocky beaches) and there are no really good restaurants inland that don't serve primarily seafood. The best place to see the Italian Riviera is south of Genova into Tuscany and that's too far. Stay in Piemonte and have another good lunch at a great trattoria.
re: allende
Thank you for the advice allende.
We're considering staying at a place in Canale (Villa Tiboldi.) How is that area in terms of access to restaurants and wineries? It looks like they have a pretty great restaurant on site as well. I'm very close to booking as we both love the look of the place. We were also looking at a place in Monforte d'Alba (La Toricella) which, according to my research is a more favorable area for restaurants/wineries. Thoughts?
re: sixteenbiticon
Canale is a little off the beaten track (but not much) a bit north of Alba. Very near Priocca and not that far from Alba (20 minutes) and La Morra (half an hour). Easy drive to Da Bardon. Very near Cascinale. It is about 40 minutes from Borgo Antico and Cervere. I'm just thinking in terms of restaurants that I've mentioned. Monforte is a nice town, south of Alba and also good in terms of proximity to the great restaurants and trattorie. Much closer to Cervere, Borgo Antico, Cherasco and La Mora, but less so to Priocca, Da Bardon etc. Six of one, half dozen.... Can't go wrong with either town, just travel a little bit farther depending on where you stay. You can go to all the restaurants from either place as well you should. If you are really interested in food, not just saying you are, there is no finer place in Italy that I'm aware of that has as many places so close together that are really very very good (ristorante and trattorie both)
re: allende
Thank you very much. We've gotten responses from both places and I'm thinking we're going to stay in Monforte because the spot in Canale only had a suite available (which is over double the price of the room in Monforte) and a lot of the wineries I've been interested in visiting are much closer to Monforte.
I read about Castello di Grinzane Cavour in another thread here on CH and I really love the place. As of right now I also have Azienda Agricola Vigna Rionda (Massolino) Winery, Aurelio Settimo, and La Spinette winery although I haven't looked into visiting/tours.
Right now I'm liking the idea of hitting a few of the above mentioned wineries and capping off the day with dinner at Borgo Antico. I'm also toying with the idea of heading into Cherasco to check out the chocolate and hazelnut concoctions at Confetteria Barbero Di Torta Giancarlo before dining at Osteria La Torre.
I've also read good things about the Travel Langhe wine tour service based out of Neive, but haven't looked into it other than visiting their website. 150 euro per person for a day seems reasonable, but it also seems a tad expensive.
re: sixteenbiticon
We have twice stayed in Alba at the Hotel Langhe, a great hotel at a bargain price and a very central location for touring Piemonte, and ate at some great restaurants. Here are links to my reports from 2011 and 2009:
re: sixteenbiticon
In October, you should not have a problem with weather, but I am only able to visit Italy in the winter months. The weather in the Piemonte and Liguria can vary drastically from one to the other. In the first picture below from Villa Beccaris in Monforte d'Alba looking towards Barolo, the Langhe is covered with snow in December. At the same time in the second picture, the deck furniture is still out for swimmers in the Mediterranean at the Metropole Hotel in Santa Margherita Ligure. I love the Piemonte in the snow, but I enjoy the sunshine in Liguria also. I especially enjoy the hiking trails in Liguria. I'm into my sixties with a bad back, but I love to hike the trails in the Parco di Portofino between Santa Margherita Ligure and Portofino. In bright, winter sunshine, I found the drive along the coast from Genova to Monte Carlo beautiful. It is easy to drive over the hill from the Piemonte to Liguria on the Autostrade, although I prefer the secondary roads. In Liguria, fish is pretty much the specialty, but I've also enjoyed Cima alla Genovese, classic Ligurian stuffed breast of veal. In Genova, the onions are unbelievably good. The scent on the street drew us to the Focaccia bakery. The Amatriciana I had in Genova has never been matched because of the home canned tomato sauce and those onions.
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re: sixteenbiticon
Good decision! In fact, the right decision.
re: sixteenbiticon
If your wife is interested in seeing the Italian Riviera "in some fashion or another," one thing you can consider is stopping for lunch in the Riviera on your way from Parma, taking the coastal road.
Some places that are 3 hours from Parma that have non-meat dishes that I would recommend are:
Luchin in Chiavari (for farinata, minestrone and roasted meats)
La Marinella in Nervi for foccacia col formaggio
Both of these places serve food in an extremely informal setting, and are atmospheric in different ways (La Marinella has a lovely sea view).
The coastal road from Chiavari to Recco is highly scenic, and you can rejoin the autostrada in Recco to continue on to Canale (2 hours).
If you'd rather eat lunch in Nervi, I would recommend getting off the autostrade in Rapallo and taking the scenic road to Nervi. After lunch, you can rejoin the autostrade in Nervi.
These roads take you along the villa-and-bouganvilla loaded cliffs above the sea, and you need to be comfortable driving hairpin roads at high elevations, and I would recommend a GPS if you follow these routes to help you locate the restaurants.
I will also point out that if you plan to sleep and eat in Modena, and sleep and eat in Parma, you really don't need a car until you leave Parma (which you can rent at the airport). It's also less than a 4 hour train trip from Parma to Alba, if you prefer trains to cars. You can pack a picnic lunch from Parma (try Salumeria Garibaldi).
In contrast to Allende, I don't think the Riviera Levante (south of Genova) is too far to go if you would very, very much like a day trip to the Riviera for lunch. Camogli, which is quite beautiful and small, is two hours driving from Canale. Were it me, I would head to Camogli, park the car, and take the short train ride to Chiavari or Nervi for lunch. Before or after lunch, you'd have plenty of time to see all of Camogli and enjoy its views. If you'd rather remain in Camogli, then La Cucina di Nonna Nina up the hill (take your car) can give you a lunch without fish (usually rabbit but also pastas and vegetarian appetizers) and so can Rosa's, which has lovely pastas.
re: barberinibee
I'm actually struggling with what we should do in E-R right now. We arrive Monday morning and head out to the Langhe on Wednesday morning so two full days and I'm not sure how to spend them. I found an excellent B&B in Nonantola outside of Modena so I was thinking maybe we should use that as a spring board to check out Modena, Parma, and/or Bologna.
Aged balsamic, cheeses, and cured meats of all kinds are things both my wife and I really love, that coupled with some bad reviews about Bologna and traffic horror stories lead me to focus my attention on Modena and Parma, but now I just don't know. I also think I want to have a car after Venice because I've read numerous threads here saying that the best spots are the rural countryside gems.
I've got a fairly decent grasp on the Langhe, but I'm just sinking my teeth into E-R. This is something I'll be researching heavily in the coming days.
In terms of the trip down to Liguria I just don't know if we'll have the time to fit it all in. It's great to have all of this in-depth info to consider, especially for other readers who may be interested in the region. Thanks for all of the input!
re: sixteenbiticon
I certainly wouldn't push the Riviera thing. The whole point of bothering with the Riviera is the relaxation it offers. It's fun if you are going to toodle in for a lazy lookabout or a simple hike. No fun to jam it into a busy schedule.
In contrast to Ligiruia, the Emilia-Romagna tends to be a very simple place to drive around, with the usual caveat about the more populous cities (where you don't seem to be headed anyway). If you end up driving a car there, I repeat my advice to include the castle Torrechiara outside of Parma before you leave the area (closed Mondays).
re: sixteenbiticon
If you stay in Nonantola, you might want to visit the Ostaria di Rubbiara there if it fits into your schedule. It has an acetaia and makes traditional liqueurs as well as offering the traditional cuisine .. Slowfood recommendation with the snail designation. - note closed Tues and open for dinner on Fri and Sat only definitely differing views on this place with its eccentric customs.
Weve read that there has been a lot of disruption of local business in the area due to the earthquakes, including at acetaias. .
In case you didnt do a search there are also some recommendations on this Board for Desenzano and the surrounding area
Its a fairly quick trainride to Mantova and Verona from there (not to mention Brescia) and the lake and the little lakeside towns are also lovely.
I've been doing some digging on Venice and I found a great place to stay in S. Croce Est. The restaurants on my radar so far are:
Il Ridotto (no-brainer)
Anice Stellato
Ai Promessi Sposi
and finally La Zucca
I've read great things about La Zucca, but there've definitely been some negative reviews as well. Does anyone have any recent opinions on this place? Bonus that it's right down the street from where we'll probably be staying.
As far as the ER leg of the trip we're definitely staying near Nonantola. As of now I'm looking at taking an early train from Venice to Modena then picking up our car and checking in. Afterwards I want to try to squeeze in a tour of Villa San Donnino then head south to check out the Ferrari Museum and the Rocca di Vignola. I found a great place to eat in Spilamberto, but unfortunately it's closed on Mondays. I will look into Ostaria di Rubbiara for a Monday dinner option.
I've already booked a Tuesday lunch at Hosteria Giusti. Pretty excited about that.
EDIT: One more thing I forgot. I've read there're a lot of pizzerias in Venice, but I regularly travel to NYC to eat pizza so my standards are pretty high. Should I go out of my way to sample Venetian pizza?
re: sixteenbiticon
I wouldn't worry about a few negative reports on La Zucca. That is par for just about any restaurant in Venice. It is the same as always. Aside from the bonus of proximity, go if it fits what you are looking for.
If your standards for pizza are pretty high, skip it. There are a few good pizzerias in Venice but none with wood burning ovens. I think they are good if families are looking for something fast, picky eaters, hungry for a change, etc. Why, if one is there for a short stay.
re: sixteenbiticon
In reading recent negative food reports of La Zucca, check to see whether the disappointment was about La Zucca no longer being a mainly vegetarian restaurant, or also whether the disappointment was that La Zucca is not what many people consider a Venetian restaurant (it's not focusing on Venetian classics). People often said the food was perfectly fine, it just wasn't what they were looking for, and had they known, they would have gone elsewhere. In your case, since you don't like seafood, you might not have their problems.
On the other hand, if the recent reviews are from people who say they though the food was poorly prepared, period, that's a different story. Sorry I can't give you a recent experience of my onw.
As for pizza, many NY'ers don't like pizza in Italy period. It's a different animal, even the high-end stuff in NY that swears to you its pizza makers are from Rome, Naples. Add to that the fact there are some truly dreadful pizzzerie in Venice, go at your own risk or do a heck of a lot of research if you think you'll want to try it. But I'd generally avoid in Venice.
re: barberinibee
certainly La Zucca has not been a veg restaurant in the dozen years since the first time we went. It has always served meat in addition to veg dishes. what sets it apart is that they prepare SUBSTANTIAL vegetable based dishes that could serve as a main course vs. many places where the contorni are very light and just that, side dishes. But unless the vegetarian also can eat dairly products La Zucca is not so good since their dishes can be very rich. PS Ive only been in winter, so maybe the summer menu is lighter. Its one of those places where I remember seeing italians sitting down to platters of prosciutto with prosecco, not that common in Venice,
My family has enjoyed pizza in Venice since our very first visit, when we at at a little place on Salizxada San Lio (I think) Venice pizza is nothing special, at its best what I think of as average acceptable italian pizza, certainly not worth seeking out if you are a pizza head, but the places recommended on this board can be satisfying if you are tired of lengthier restaurant meals. stay away from the ones on the main tourist drags tho, for heaven sake.
re: jen kalb
Recommendations for La Zucca for vegetarians headed to Venice are quite frequently found on the internet, if not here. It is about the first place recommended to vegetarians, despite recent history. I think there is a recent trip report here where diners expressed disappointment that the vegetarian offerings were not as substantial as they had expected.
I think New Yorkers who declare themselves to have high standards for pizza might as well skip it in Venice, and most anywhere north of Rome, in fact, without stellar recommendations for a specific and freakishly good place.
re: barberinibee
BB I read the recent observations which were not that the vegetarian dishes were insubstantial (they are very hearty) but subtantively that the restaurant really isnt mainly a vegetariarian restaurant - which is true. They offer, however, several non-meat non-fish dishes suitable for vegetarians at all times and the ones we had (including with my veg daughter on one occasion) were really good. Since I have found that what vegetarians often yearn for are substantial filling dishes and not always the same grilled vegetable platters, simple contorni and pasta with tomato sauce, this restaurant can fill that particular bill, as well as the tastes of non-fish eaters, quite well..
re: jen kalb
Yes, I agree -- my bad writing. Substantively, not substantial. We're saying the same thing about that. I'm really not arguing anything about the reality of La Zucca. I'm trying to point out something about the reality of its reputation on the internet, divorced from reality, where wrongs ideas and information never die -- which leads to some false expectations of La Zucca, and hence, in some cases, negative comments about eating there that have nothing to do with how good the food is. Just expressions of disappointment that La Zucca isn't solely vegetarian or classically Venetian, because that's what some misinformed people were thinking they would get when La Zucca was recommended to them on message boards other than Chowhound.
So when the OP said he/she worried about heading to La Zucca because of recent negative reviews, I was trying to provide some context. If the bellyaching was about the cooking, that's something to consider. If the disappointment was not getting an all-veg menu or classically Venetian menu, then that seems irrelevant to the OP's needs.
Hope that's clear!
re: sixteenbiticon
I've been doing some more Venice research and am liking the idea of hitting Il Ridotto for lunch on Saturday after we check into our B&B. Hopefully we can get an early train from Verona. After that I imagine we'll check out San Marco then have dinner at Ai Promessi Sposi.
For Sunday I think we'll hop a boat out to Burano and check out Verisssa for lunch (that place looks amazing) then maybe walk around the main island for a bit. I'm looking at either Bancogiro or Anice Stellato for dinner. I like the idea of eating on the water at Bancogiro (not to mention that their menu and pictures of their food I found on flickr had my mouth watering) but I'm not sure how the weather will be in October.
Chime in if you have any notes about my plans. Thanks :)
re: sixteenbiticon
I have not been to Il Ridotto or Venissa.
Ai Promessi, Anice Stellato and Bancogiro are good choices. As for eating outside in October, good chance early October and much less so later in the month.
With only two days in Venice, it comes down to what to see and finding a right balance between eating and sightseeing. That all depends on individual interest, stamina, food preference, etc. October is a while away, therefore, you have plenty of time to research, decide and re-decide.
So here's a question: Since they're both closed on Mondays and I seriously doubt I can do both in one day--can I do both in one day?--would you rather have lunch at Hosteria Giusti or tour and taste and/or have dinner at Antica Cote Pallavicina? While quite a drive from where we're staying, that place looks like what I would imagine heaven must be like...
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the latter is much closer to Parma than to Modena - it would make more sense as a follow on to your Parma visit (nice to visit the home of culatello). I dont think Osteria di Rubbiara is open for dinner on Mondays its lunch only I believe except for Fri and Sat. Havent eaten at Antica Corte, but enjoyed lunch at the same owner's next door Cavallino Bianco. Im sure if you look at Allende's posts he would recommend a couple of alternative places (ex La Buca) in that general area.
To me, unless you are staying at the Antica Corte Pallavicina, which could be a nice followup to your visit to parma, lunch rather than dinner at it or one of the other country places makes much more sense - given the driving involved. Its not very enjoyable driving on the bustling main roads of this region.
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That's actually exactly what we decided to do. After looking at their website and realizing tours start at 9am, we decided to schedule a tour for Wednesday morning after we leave ER on our way to the Langhe. I might email them and ask if I can do a tour and lunch as opposed to a tasting. I want the full experience, and a few reviews on TripAdvisor said the tasting paled in comparison to the meals served at their restaurant.
I thought I'd post an update since our trip is just a few short weeks away. Most of the (food-related) research for our trip has come from this board, so for that both my wife and I are eternally grateful.
We arrive in Milan on a Wednesday afternoon. My friend will be picking us up and we'll be staying with him in Desenzano del Garda. I'm letting him take the reins for the part of the trip we'll be staying with him. When I asked him if I should at least look into places to eat, he assured me that hes never had a bad meal in Italy. Honestly, I'm just looking forward to spending some time with a childhood friend in a gorgeous country.
Our train arrives in Venice Saturday morning. We check into our hotel and have a lunch reservation at Il Ridotto at noon. Afterwards we plan on doing some touristy stuff around Piazza San Marco. Dinner will be at L'anice Stellato.
Sunday we're taking the vaporetto out to Burano to have lunch at Venissa at 12:30. Afterwards we might check out Burano for a while and eventually amke our way back to Venice. We plan on seeing a show at Teatro La Fenice (still waiting for tickets to go on sale) and afterwards having dinner at Bancogiro (outside, weather permitting.)
Monday we take a train to Bologna and pick up our rental there (unfortunately there weren't any automatics available in Modena) and drive to check into our B&B in Nonantola before a short tour and lunch at Osteria di Rubbiara. After lunch we have yet another tour at Villa San Donnino in Modena. After this I'm not entirely sure what time it will be or how hungry so we haven't planned anything. A lot of potential spots turned out to be closed on Monday, and, if anything, I figured we could just get a dinner recommendation from a local.
Tuesday is a day I'm really looking forward to. We start by checking out Mercato Albinelli followed by Ghirlandina Tower and Modena Cathedral. Then we have a 12:30 lunch reservation at Hosteria Giusti. Afterwards we plan on heading south to visit Rocca di Vignola and finally capping off the day with dinner at Da Amerigo in Savigno.
Wednesday we leave early to head out to Antica Corte Pallavicina for a large tour of their grounds and lunch. Afterwards we may check out Asti and have dinner at Il Cascinalenuovo, otherwise we'll head straight to our hotel in Monforte D'alba and have dinner at possibly Locanda nel Borgo Antico or Trattoria Della Posta.
Thursday and Friday are our most unplanned days of the trip. We have ideas in mind, but don't necessarily want to commit to too much. I definitely want to check out the tasting room at Castello di Grinzane Cavour to get a feel of the various wineries of the region, and a day-trip to Cherasco is something I've been considering as I've read there's a fantastic confetteria there and dinner at Osteria la Torre sounds great (although I am a little intimidated by the spoken-only menu.)
So that's it. If you have any comments, please don't hesitate to share, but I'm pretty confident in our current itinerary. Maybe a little more help for the Langhe region, which I'll be sure to research just a bit more in the coming weeks, because one can never have too many options. Thanks again for all of your wonderful input, you've been a great help.
re: sixteenbiticon
a lot of good eating. you'd better take it easy at Giusti and Antico Corte Pallavicina though if you want to enjoy your dinners! salumi at both places is great, dont skip. desserts are skippable, pretty much everywhere.
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just one more thing on the salumi -at Il Cavallino Bianco (sister place of Antico Corte Pallavicino) we ordered their assorted salumi for 2. the platter was huge and we had to reduce the rest of our order. So Id just get it for 1 wherever you are - it will be sufficient for both to try everything. Also, dont skip the pastas for the secondi in Emilia - you will be missing what they are best at. if you try to go low carb
re: sixteenbiticon
Do not be intimidated by the spoken menu at Cherasco. Just ask the brother in the dining room to take his time. As you've seen from the board, a number of people, who don't speak Italian, have gone there and had no problem. It is a great trattoria meal with a wonderful wine list.
Hands down, Borgo Antico rather than Trattoria Della Posta. Just no comparison. Although if you're going to eat a big lunch at Pallavicina and then drive to Monforte, I might eat at Posta as a throwaway, and eat at Borgo Antico and Torre the other two nights.
I'll be interested to what you say about Osteria di Rubiara. We've gone there three times. The last time, several years ago, Pedroni was strange. We understand that he is more so and among other things, blows a whistle when he wants everyone to leave, whether you are finished or not. In any event, you'll get a decent trattoria meal as well be able to buy some very good aceto balsamico.
Have a good trip.
re: allende
Jen is right. Desserts are mostly skippable. Borgo Antico is an exception.
re: sixteenbiticon
It seems our last major decision is dinner Thursday and Friday. Thursday it's between la Torre in Cherasco and da Renzo in Cervere. Friday dinner is between Il Centro, Il Cascinalenuovo, and Del Belbo-da Bardon. I'll do more searching as I'm sure I'll probably have to make reservations soon. It's very exciting that we're leaving in two short weeks.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I have secured a reservation for a late dinner at Borgo Antico for Wednesday.
re: sixteenbiticon
Are you going to Barbero in Cherasco? I'd love to hear about it after you're back if you are doing any hazelnut pilgrimages.
re: barberinibee
Yes I was referring to Barbero. Do you have any idea what their hours of operation might be? I didn't see any listed on their site. It looks like we might be doing a wine tour that day and I want to make sure we have time to go. Thank you!
Edit: And don't you worry I definitely plan on doing a full trip report :)
re: sixteenbiticon
I found this website which lists their closure days. I would assume they are open from around 9am-1pm/4pm-7pm
But you should call them directly, I think, to confirm that info, or e-mail or fax them. Those contacts are on their website and the other link that I gave you.
re: sixteenbiticon
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La Torre and Da Renzo are very different, with Torre being a great trattoria and Renzo a great ristorante. Same thing among Centro and Cascinalenuovo (restaurants) and Da Bardon (trattoria). All great.
It looks as if you're using my list of favorite restaurants around the Alba area (including Borgo Antico). Look at my extensive notes on all of these, decide what type of food preparation and atmosphere you'd like and then come back with more specific questions which I, and am sure others, will be happy to answer.
These are really all great places, each in their own way, but they are very different.
re: allende
Thank you allende. I'll probably end up choosing La Torre since we definitely want to visit Barbero as well. I'd probably prefer a ristorante for our other dinner choice, especially since it'll be our last night in Italy so I will look more into Il Centro and Cascinalenuovo.
re: sixteenbiticon
La Torre sounds right re Barbero.
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Sounds like you have nearly nailed your itinerary! I hope you find Il Ridotto as culineraliy mesmerizing as we (my wife and I) did. Given that you have your meals nearly lined up – I'll submit to you a couple of Venice finds I posted on this earlier this year – do take note specifically to the bacari (wine bars that serve single portion (cicheti) locally prepared specialties for a couple bucks each) – if that interests you. I found it to present a gastronomic adventure to all things "Venice" – even if you don't think you're a big seafood fan. The complete post (go to bottom of post for Venice) is at http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/837865.
As well, note there is a wine bar immediately across from Il Ridotto called Aciugheta. It features one of the more memorable wine by the glass selections I encountered. I only sampled selections of the cicheti on several occasions and found the wine and bites of food just fabulous. And, it was closer to our hotel then the bacari over by the Railto Fish Market (my favorite area for these). Service is definitely a bit brusque so be sure and throw 'em a big smile and you'll get the attention you deserve.
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Thank you for the suggestion. I put Aciugheta on our map. I figure it'd be a great way to take a breather before heading out to see the sights. Thanks again.
Your restaurant list is impressive and good luck with such impressive lunch and dinner loactions in succession. Don't be afraid to cancel if you feel you can't possibly eat another meal that day. Take it from me, you can fast arrive at the phrase "if I eat another bite I'm going to explode." In Venice do not miss the Scuola de San Rocco - the Tintoretto ceiling is amazing and my experience is that the place is far far less crowded than the Doge's Palace, Academia, etc. I've often had the place to myself. Don't miss the Customs House at the end of the point for the space if not the art. And a drink at the top of the Hilton on the Guidecca may not be the most expensive you've ever had but it will be close - the view however is fabulous. We are off to Sicily the same time you will be up north.
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Thank you for the tips. I hadn't heard of the Scuola de San Rocco, but after one look on google I added it to my itinerary. And yes, I realize we might not be able to eat this much, but I plan on skipping breakfast and dining with the constant reminder to take it easy because I have quite a few great meals planned. Thanks again!
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Don't skip breakfast. Just go to the nearest standup bar/cafe, order a pastry and a coffee and enjoy the comings and goings. It might be your only chance to mingle with the locals in Venice.
I was in Venice several years ago and while wandering the streets we popped into this place http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant.... Let me tell you that that I am still dreaming about my meal there. I can't remember exactly what we had but it was all fantastic and in fact we ordered additional courses and left stuffed and rolling out the door. I would highly recommend it if you are in the area.


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Chris Brown is fighting back at the city of Los Angeles and its effort to force him to take down the graffiti art on the front of his Hollywood home.
His justification: It's protected by the 1st Amendment. Naturally!
Brown just filed an appeal with the city, which informed him he would be fined for the "unpermitted mural" on the front wall of his house. He disagrees.
He claims the city cannot assess fines or force the removal of art which "[enhances] the architectural and aesthetic features of the residential property."
It's an interesting argument. And then comes the kicker:
"The murals are a reflection of [my] aesthetic taste and a reflection of free speech and expression protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."
Translation: It's my damn house, I can decorate it to my liking, and just because you aren't fans of my art doesn't make it unlawful, so step off.
Brown's appeal rests with the Dept. of Building and Safety's board of appeals. If they deny it, he can bring the fight to L.A. County Superior Court.
It's actually interesting ... depending on how passionately he wants to dispute the constitutional right, he could make a state or even federal case out of it.
And as we know from the Drake-Chris Brown feud, or his affection for Karrueche Tran and Rihanna simultaenously, he doesn't let things go easily.
shit he buy a house, but he can't do anything he wants with it!? and the taxes!fuck what's the point of paying all that taxes if he can't paint on his house.and this neighbor saying that graffiti scare his kid! Really? Really? U liar.its his house! HIS HOUSE!
Goes to show what a low class hood rat he is.
for this kind of trash celebritiea please visit america!!
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I have a home, or, I at least have a house. And within the house I have parents and a sister that love me. But somehow I do not feel like I have a "home". I feel alone. I also have a "home" in my college dorms. I mean, I live there with my friends, but I still feel alone. Is there any explanation for this? Does anyone else feel this way?
Casidelle 18-21, F 5 Answers 1 Aug 30, 2012 in Loneliness
Im literally homeless... i spend the night at different houses every few weeks. I dont have a house or apartment or studio. No job or income.. i been sleeping on floors, couches, my car.. etc. and yes even spending the night at my moms house doesnt feel like home but its the closest thing to a home for now so im thankful
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It's called clinical depression. Find a good therapist. I did. It helps sometimes.
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are you guys close to eachother? maybe it's just you, sounds like antisocial behavior,or feelings of being disconnected, not saying you are but just providing an answer
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Go home!! just kidding, socializing would help.
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