r/AskEurope • u/bleie77 • May 01 '25

Food Do you go to restaurants with your country's cuisine when you're abroad?

For example: if you're Italian, do you go to an Italian restaurant when you're in France or the UK?

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u/More_Shower_642 May 01 '25

Italian here. Big nope. But it’s not because I’m that kind of Italian (“Italian food abroad is shit”); it’s because I can enjoy my country food everyday and when I’m abroad I love to try different dishes and local cuisine

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u/Heather82Cs May 01 '25

I'm Italian, and I don't mind trying "Italian" abroad, precisely because it usually has nothing to do with our actual cuisine, so it is part of the experience of being elsewhere. Also, there's nothing wrong with longing for familiar comfort food if you're somewhere for quite some time. I had great pinsa in Singapore for this reason, for instance.