[Article] Where Not To Eat in Siena

Take a walk around Siena and you will be amazed at every grocery store's insistence on displaying prosciutto (jambon), wheels of cheese, and many other buon di dio (as the senese say), meaning "everything good there is". Naturally, you'll get all euphoric and hungry.

The next logical stop for you will be a restaurant. Unless you're accompanied by someone who knows the town a little, however, I'd be very careful about where to go. Of course, since you're in Siena, surrounded by Medieval Tuscan ambiance, everything will taste good, and nothing particularly bad will happen to you if you choose to eat any-old-where, but wouldn't you rather avoid the possibility of ending up unsatisfied, torpid, and irritated with a uselessly inflated check to boot? Wouldn't you rather have a good experience, leaving the restaurant well-fed and invigorated? (I hope this is a hypothetical question for you.)

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To be honest, I am perplexed by the last picture. Is that something that can be consumed during the course of a meal????

glasses, trucker hat, and all.
the best prosciutto ever.

A funny story .When I was in Siena every year I had to undergo a procedure of paperwork to renew my permit of study .You have wake up around 5 in the morning to get a number which also means the place you get in a long line of moody people.Anyway ,I got up around 7 and hoped for a number but I didn't succeed so I thought of just staying in line and maybe they'll let me in . While standing I see this long line of tourists ,for the Questura which is the place where you get legal (or illegal) is located where the Cathedral of Siena (Il Duomo ) is . All the tourists atracted by this UWL ( unidentified waiting line ) of people thought that this must be something really important place since already crowded at this early hour .So, they all got in line .The cop who usually comes out calling the numbers was stupefied. It took us a good 10 minutes to make them realise that that was not a tourist atraction but just a filthy corner of another reality .