Tonight I went to pick up Massi and the wine he had ordered from his company. It took almost an hour and a half to reach him on the other side of the city from Sesto - a journey that Google Maps said should take 24 minutes. The traffic was even more unbelievable than normal! Once I was finally made it, I had no desire to rush back into the traffic again, so we went to Il Battibecco, a restaurant that we had been recommended before, that we had tried to go to on our last trip to Chiantishire - only to find it closed.
The place is beautiful,flaming torches, flowers and terracotta statues on the lawn. To make a change, it was steak for dinner - its becoming a Florentine staple for us - maybe because, as Massi said, we haven't eaten steak for 7 months of student life!
But with the steak came salad.
And in addition to the grated carrot, valeriana (for which I don't know the name in English - its mache in French...) and cucumber, there were nectarines, grapes, raspberries, blackberries, oranges... it was a little strange. Somehow it seemed to be like the kind of salad that you would find in an English fusion restaurant - or in Hong Kong. But out in the Tuscan countryside, it was a little at odds - more confusion than fusion.
The only thing more colourful than the salad was the owner's trousers - post-box red jeans with Swarovski-esque diamante, not for the faint-hearted!
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