It's quite difficult to read an Italian restaurant menu, there are lots of sections, few pictures (at least in the good restaurants) and a lot of mistakes you may make. Of course, you can eat whatever you want, but Italians tend to be very uncompromising when it comes to their food, and even waiters may complain about poor food choices.

Once I was in a good restaurant outside Venice, one of my favourites. I brought with me my Lebanese cousins and they ordered frittura (mixed fried fish dish). They asked lemon to the waitress, as there wasn't any in the plates, but she didn't want to bring it because she said that "you don't need it because the fish is very fresh".

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano