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Living in a major tourist city allows you to develop an internal radar that helps you differentiate tourist trap restaurants from “the good ones” in any city. The following are some tips based on our experience. This is not to say that you won’t get a decent meal at some of the more touristy places, but you might eat something tastier, more “typical”, or less expensive if you follow these simple guidelines.

What to avoid:

1) Any restaurant with a giant plastic chef outside holding up a menu.
2) said menu especially if in four or more languages.
3) suspiciously long menus with tons of variety, ranging from pizza and pasta to fish and meat. As a general rule, it is more likely that a restaurant tends to do one thing really well than everything well.
4) bars with sandwiches displayed in a window facing outside, especially late in the afternoon or evening. If you pass by a closed bar with sandwiches in the window at night, don’t even think of going there the next day. Read more…