Italy Trip - Rome, Ravello, Positano & Sorrento

Ristorante 'O Parrucchiano La Favorita in Sorrento is filled with lemon trees. Kind of a unique dining experience. Go to Capri for the day and try to see the Blue Grotto.

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Go to Capri for the day and try to see the Blue Grotto.

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Just walking around Capri is enough if the weather conditions aren't right for going into the grotto. We saw a lemon the size of a basketball. I'm still impressed.

Have you ever been to Italy before? Rome?

I almost feel like you have to walk around Rome.
Take a tour of old Rome (coliseum, etc), Spanish steps, trevi fountain, Pantheon.
And the Vatican/Sistine/st. peters tour is awesome.

Honestly, you really can't go wrong with anything you do in Amalfi.

We spent a week in Positano in 2014. The best restaurant we went to was La Sponda in La Sinurise Hotel. That is my recommendation for a big splurge dinner. The food is great and the setting is spectacular. The restaurant has class walls overlooking the Mediterranean and is lit with 400 candles. It was not cheap but not as expensive as some of the Michelin starred places in the big cities. Ristorante Max was very good. Chez Black on the beach was enjoyable. We went to some family run trattorias and pizza places further up the hill that were very good. Pizza was invented near here. Rome - I like Hosteria Constanza near Campo di Fiore and Cul du Sac near Piazza Navona. Costanza is built in part of the old Theatre of Pompey which is where Julius Caesar was assassinated. Cul du Sac is a wine bar but the food is delicious. Ravello is beautiful but the restaurant I remember near there is Baracca down the hill in the Town of Amalfi.

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Inn Bufalito and Bagni Delfino were probably the best meals we had in Sorrento.

Be sure to get gelato at Raki in Sorrento.

La Tagliata in Positano was hands down the worst meal we had in Italy. The view is breathtaking, but the food and story they feed you are horseshite.

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The wife and I are going to be in Positano and Sorrento in the beginning of June for our honeymoon. Thanks for the recs

I’ll take some Florence recs

My trip is in 2 weeks

2 days Milan
2 Florence
1 Siena
1 Orvieto
3 Rome
2 Athens

Siena has a restaurant that serves food down in the basement. It was cool.
Antica Osteria da Divo
Not sure if it's any better than any other restaurant, but I liked it.

Florence can be done in 2 days, but you have to kinda pick and choose what you want to do.
This list is what I feel is a requirement:
Piazza della Signoria/Palazzo Vecchio/Uffizi, Ponte Vecchio, Boboli gardens, Duomo, Baptistry, Giotto's tower, Basilica di Santa Croce, Academia
(At the Academia, get ticket to skip the lines and basically go just to see the David..... but the David is a must. Coolest thing I ever saw in person.)

There are a few other things you can do, but it'll depend on what fits your fancy.
San Lorenzo, Santa Maria Novella, San Marco, Santa Trinita, Santo Spirito, Dante's house.

Florence has some of the best craftsmen still practicing in the world.
Leather goods (shoes, jackets, journals)
Crafts (masks, stone mosaics, wood, iron, glass, etc)

Anyone have any recs for dinner in Trastevere neighborhood in Rome?

We will have 6 people and looking for a place to eat after spending the day in the Vatican. Doesn’t have to be fancy, but want a place that takes reservations and a relaxed, casual atmosphere. But not a street side cafe type place. TIA

LINK

good Rome link that someone posted awhile back

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I'll take some Florence recs

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I just got back last week. We spent 10 days in Tuscany. Our favorite restaurant in Florence on this trip was Natalino. A close second was Ristorante Sant Ambrogio where we had a very good dinner on Easter Sunday night. You also asked about Siena. Our favorite meal in Tuscany was at La Taverna di San Giuseppe, an old historic place about a 5 minute walk down a small alley off Il Campo. Someone mentioned Da Divo. We ate there last time and it was one of our favorites in Siena along with Le Logge. We ate at some other excellent restaurants in the small hill towns but I wont list those.