ITALY Readers's Tips - You may want to give specific information with regard to where you are going.That would be helpful. I have been to italy four times but have never ordered a caffe latte.appuccino is less than 2 euro, though, as far as I remember. You will definitely be able to find price ranges in guidebooks and may be able to find some websites with prices if you google the place(s you are going to visit.Generally, the portions are smaller in Italy (and the rest of the world, I imagine than they are in the US.

Sitdown restaurants with waiter service can add up quickly and there is the cover charge that many tourists have to get used to (but it's always been there, it's just a custom. Check your local library and read up on Italian food culture know the terms and customs for the order of the courses (antipasto before pasta, pasta dish as an intermediate between antipasto and the meat dish, the meat ordered separately from veggies 'contorni' etc.tc.then you won't be surprised by what's different. Most places refuse to serve just an order of soup and salad, and sharing a dish is not common and may be refused, except for a dessert. Then there are more casual restaurants of all kinds, with plates of the day and fixedprice dishes, etc.ecause Italians have learned that Americans like to stuff themselves full of pasta (with the predictable results in evidence everywhere there are Americans., many places now serve pasta dishes as what Americans call the 'entree' (which, of course, is the wrong term anyway, an entree being a enteringthemeal dish, an appetizer, but never mind. So if you get a main course of pasta, that's unusual for Italy but you get it because you're a tourist, and it probably won't be as huge as if you were in the wasteful ol' USA. The Brek chain restaurants are reasonably priced, it's cafeteriastyle, selfserve, you take as much or as little as you want, and the meat dishes etc.re cooked to order while you wait and watch.ind the list of restaurants (about one in every major city in Rome and the North on (click it this site, you may grow to like them if you are not big eaters, because you can definitely just have soup or salad or both, you get charged by the item. I only know the Brek in Padua and the one in Venice liked them both very much. Hope this helps. We (4 were in Italy this April visiting Florence , Siena, and Rome. found restaurant prices to be fairly similar in all 3 cities. I expected to pay 100 per person on food per day,but ended paying about 6075. You should have read on this site or in a Cheap Hotel Guide Guidebook that you will pay an extra charge if you sit down to eat at a cafe or sandwich type eatery, rather than order it to go. You can get a sandwich or large slice of pizza for 35 euro,to go or 57euro if you sit. We mostly did sit, rest and people watch. It was worth the extra few dollars. On average we paid about 30 40euro for the 4 of us for lunch , including drinks, with my son having a beer or tw

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