re: Favorite Places to Eat in Italy? Back from Trip, Updated

Bologna is pound for pound the best food city in the world. Don't know if thats true, but the Viennese serious epicurean I hung out with in Europe told me that...my two meals there did not disappoint. He said restaurant-wise Bologna is the Italian equivalent of NOLA. Roma=NYC and Firenze=San Fran....just quoting what he said. I will take it further and say Sienna=Charleston.

Restaurant Zaza in Florence was my favorite restaurant of the weeks I spent all over Italy.

Sienna was a pleasant surprise as well.