Restaurant/Food blogs

Here's one that looks promising:
http://www.elizabethminchilliinrome.com/apps-rome-venice-florence/

I have been following Elizabeth Minchilli for a while and enjoy her blog. Too bad that her app is just for iOS and not for android. I have also enjoyed http://www.annesitaly.com. Not a food blog per se, but a good one if traveling to Umbria.

Yelp is available to use, good to the see pics and commentary. I use the bookmark feature quite a bit, using the GPS on your smartphone, you can see where everything is in relation to your location.

Eater occasionally has info on international cities.

Katie Parla, along with Minchelli are the noted (American) authorities on Italian food. Her recently released history/cookbook is amongst the best sellers in cooking and she contributes quite a few articles to a variety of publications.

Food & Wine magazine is also a good resource to get ideas. This is an article that guided me to a couple of outstanding restaurants in Bologna.

puntarellarossa.it is in Italian, but it also features an English section on Rome, in particular. You could also google translate their reviews for places on other cities, though - they're not completely impossible to understand! :)

Thanks, all. I had started following Elizabeth Minchilli a while back and she is great but now I have other rabbit holes to go down! Love all the photos on these sites.

Another useful trick on TripAdvisor is to pull up the map associated with your hotel or other destination, then click "Also show restaurants." The map will populate all the nearby restaurants which are then clickable.

You've gotten the ones on my list already - Minchilli and Parla. I also have several of their books and their apps. I used Elizabeth Minchilli's recommendations in Florence, Umbria, Turin and Rome last summer and she never let me down. Renato e Luisa was my favorite in Rome. It was so good we went twice.

As a side note, Katie Parla wrote National Geographic's Walking In Rome guidebook, which is an excellent guide and also includes some unique food and restaurant tips.

Just for the records: while Minchilli is well known, Parla is often ridiculed in Italy's food scene; out of Rome none of those working in the sector has ever heard about that blog.

I also use the slow food app, Osterie d'Italia 2017 - la Guida di Slow Food

I don't know, Katie Parla did pretty well by me on our trip last month.

Since we were arriving on a Sunday, I was looking for an article on Rome restaurants open that day--I guess many are closed. So one of her pieces turned me on to Emma Pizzeria, not far from Campo de' Fiori. Emma is part of the Roscioli stable, from Forno bakery to their signature salumeria, all within a couple blocks of each other.

Standouts at Emma were the puntarelle salad--leaves and stems from the chicory plant with anchovy oil and pepper, only served in this part of Rome--and the spaghetti alla Carbonara, which was mind-bending. Best I've ever had.

Thank you Jay, for the heads up on Emma. We are staying near Campo de' Fiori in June. From the pictures on their website, it looks fantastic. Oh, and Elizabeth Minchilli did a nice review of it also.

Just for the records: while Minchilli is well known, Parla is often ridiculed in Italy's food scene; out of Rome none of those working in the sector has ever heard about that blog.

Is this the same 'food scene' that ridiculed Osteria Francescana's owner Massimo Bottura because his food creations were ...not traditional?

Following are the Best Restaurants in Italy. So, that you can eat a lot... :D
1. Da Vittorio (Brusaporto)
2. Dal Pescatore (Runate)
3. Enoteca Pinchiorri (Florence)
4. Il Desco (Verona)
5. Il Palagio (Florence)
6. Il Pellicano (Porto Ercole)
7. L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele (Naples)

I hope you will enjoy it.

Puntarellarossa is decent

Is this the same 'food scene' that ridiculed Osteria Francescana's owner Massimo Bottura because his food creations were ...not traditional

No it isn't.
Except for a couple of trendy places in gentrified roman districts nobody has ever heard about Parla's blog. She doesn't tell her readers to eat at obvious tourist traps like "da Alfredo", that's all.

Incidentally, nobody out of Modena has ever ridiculed Massimo Bottura and his long apprentice period made absolutely "by the book".

Bottura arrived on the scene years after Scabin and (her gracious majesty), mrs Feolde from Florence. He was really nothing new and nothing particularly shocking out of nonna's kitchens in Modena and silly local newspapers who had to sell.

They are all heirs of Gualtiero Marchesi who dared to change the traditional risotto recipe in the 80s. The 80s!

Do not believe drama-docs made to make everything seem like an eroic struggle, real life is boring.
Bottura has always been a revered golden boy on the contemporary italian food scene.

The real problem is that the majority of these starred restaurants doesn't make money selling food and Bottura was a big bet. In Modena if you don't change the local recipes you play safe and break-even is easier, that's all.

Do you want to know the next italian number one in the world? Crippa, from Piedmont.