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- Hey what's up you guys?
Right now we are in Florence, Italy.
We're about to go on a walking food tour,
try some authentic Italian food.
We've actually been
here for a couple days.
We're filming all over Italy,
but that's another
video coming after this.
So I wanted to get this
video out right now
so we can show you the food of Italy,
which is some of my favorite.
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So we came out to get drinks
before we go out to eat.
This is kinda like the
Italian tradition, here.
So I got this thing
called an Aperol spritz
and what's in it is Aperol,
prosecco, and soda water.
And it's a lot of alcohol,
so it is extremely strong
but it's really good and it's one of
the Italian drinks here.
Charlie got one as well.
This guy's kind of like
a sommelier of alcohol
and he recommended this one.
He says this was the best one that
we could get here.
- It is.
Definitely is, yeah, big time.
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- So we've come out to the next place,
which is called All'antico Vinaio
and this is where we're gonna get
our kind of appetizers, where we get bread
and cheese and the meats
and it's very common
in Italian culture,
especially here in Florence,
where you go from one place
to one place to one place
throughout the night as you're eating
because dinner is kind
of a very long process.
- I have Charlie, he's
gonna explain the different
types of meat that we got here
because we got a large plate of meat.
So what do we got?
- [Charlie] Easy, so it's the florentine.
- [Cody] Salami?
- Yeah, it's a bit more of a local one
with fennel seeds and pepper.
You've got your imported salami
so ones that would be more processed
with a bit more of a lard base,
bit more of a fat-based salami
and then you've got prosciutto,
you've also then got ham.
And then accompanying by that
you've got some aged cheese.
They tend to range in from about a month,
which is younger ones
until about six months,
which is the older ones.
And then of course, last but not least,
freshly made bread.
You cannot go wrong.
- With a glass of wine.
- With a glass of red, life is great.
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- So, the first one is
the florentine salami,
which is, you know, it
smells really amazing.
Mm, man.
That has to be some of the
best salami I have ever had.
It is so perfect.
And then we have some florentine cheese,
which I'm gonna put on some bread here.
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Which one's been your favorite?
- Definitely the salami.
- Florentine salami.
- It is just ridiculous.
It doesn't taste processed,
it's like super fresh.
Got a great amount of
fennel running through on it
like you can smell it straight away.
It is genuinely amazing.
- Yeah it is.
I agree.
Just having like a great
meat and cheese and bread
little appetizer plate is one
of my favorite things here
in Italy and they do it all over Europe
but the florentine salami
is one of my favorites.
So the restaurant that we're at right now
is called All'antico Vinaio
and it's pretty popular.
It's pretty packed right
now with other people
as you can probably hear.
And it was so popular that
all the businesses around it
went out of business.
And they bought the different places.
So they own four restaurants
all right here in the same area.
One, two, three, and the
fourth one is right here.
All four right next to each other.
You know how balling you gotta be
to have four restaurants all
right next to each other?
So we're here at this one tonight.
I'm glad we were able
to actually get in here
but it is packed as you can probably hear
and there's usually a
line down the street.
It's rated number one on
TripAdvisor and other food places
so it's pretty cool that we're here.
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So we've now made it out to the place
where we're gonna be
having our main course.
It's called Osteria dei Baroncelli.
Now Baroncelli is the
name of the restaurant.
It's actually not a restaurant.
An osteria is different from a ristorante
in so that it's like, family owned
so it's typically like they
have their own family recipes.
Sometimes they're known to be better food
because it's kind of a family-owned thing
and so that's where we're at tonight.
It's usually a little smaller
than a restaurant, as well.
They're a little more intimate
and they're not like a
restaurant level chain size
so we're gonna be here trying out some,
I think we're gonna try
out some beef tonight,
this really nice tender
cow, which they're known for
and we're gonna see if this
osteria lives up to it.
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- [Woman] You were
making fun of me for it.
(laughing)
- Oh, hi.
- [Cody] How is it?
- Really good.
Very raw, like look how pink it is.
But it's very tasty.
- So we have gotten the meat here.
It is like, for some reason in Florence,
it has to be basically
bloody and it's kind of like,
it's kind of a sin to ask
them to make it well done.
That's what we were told.
So we have our very rare steak, here
as well as potatoes and
salad which is just standard.
But we're gonna see, I don't think
I've ever had a steak
or just any kind of meat
that has been this rare.
Let's see.
I mean, it cuts really easy.
- [Woman] We're waiting
for you to swallow.
- It's actually--
I thought it was gonna be
much like, harder to chew.
It took only a second but it is really,
really good and like, tender.
I think it's the perfect--
I mean they have it down to a science here
at this family restaurant,
so I highly recommend this meat
even though it kind of looks strange
like the redness, it doesn't look right.
But I highly recommend it.
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So we came out to this
restaurant called Grom,
a gelato here in Rome.
I got myself a strawberry.
What'd you get?
- I got salted caramel.
- Salted caramel to end the night.
This is kind of how many Italians
may end the night after all the eating.
I got a small one because honestly,
we ate a lot of food tonight
and I don't usually eat
this much or for this long.
Italians tend to eat for
a long period of time.
We've been eating for
now about three hours
going from restaurant to restaurant
so it's taken a while but here we are
about to have the rest of our gelato
which is amazing, by the way.
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Thank you for the close-up.
Anyways, so we're gonna end it here.
Thank you guys for watching
this little food video.
It's a little different
than my normal one.
It was like a food tour walking around,
a little different than a normal
food trying out video,
but this is kind of what you can expect
when you go to Italy and this is kind of
the traditional, Italian way.
So thank you guys so much for watching.
If you've not checked out
Charlie, check him out.
It'll be in a link down below.
And until next time, I
will see you guys later.
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