Dream Italian Villas & Tours

11/04/2024

https://dreamitalianvillastours.com/

10/24/2024

So Proud of Chef Katie, Cameron and all of their hard working & very dedicated team at il nido

The definitive list of the best restaurants in Seattle.

10/20/2024

Goodnight Moon! Bedroom Balcony.

09/09/2024

Positano, Your View During Dinner.
Sunset, afternoon aperitivo,
or do you prefer lunch in the shade?

08/15/2024

The cutest & most talented chef duo in Seattle at Il Nido; Katie & Matt. Flowers for Katie’s birthday yesterday & a huge thank you to all the years Matt has been at Katie’s side before he rides into the sunset to take his talent to teaching aspiring chefs instead of cooking for the lucky patrons of Il Nido. Luckily their kitchen is filled with all the other talented chefs & team members who will continue to deliver amazing experiences to their diners.

08/03/2024

07/12/2024

Under the Tuscan Stars! Choose from many amazing venues this summer for outdoor movie goers. Ridley Scoot’s A Good Year, while sipping and savouring glasses of Chianti Classico or a gin-based cocktail crafted by the makers. Popcorn, of course, completes the scene, with the gorgeous vineyard view as a backdrop.

05/20/2024

List includes where to eat them.

And my 10 most memorable pasta dishes

04/24/2024

Clients celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary dinner here. I am so happy for them🍾🍾🎉

04/19/2024

$1200 USD per person for a week. Is it time to give yourself the gift of travel? This beauty is half way between Rome and Tuscany. Tuscany is calling… will you answer?

04/18/2024

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04/17/2024

Join us for a virtual tour of this beautiful villa. Watch this space, or DM for a link.

04/11/2024

When in Venice, Eat Like a Venetian
Each year, 20 million tourists visit Venice. The vast majority will pay too much for indifferent food eaten mostly in the company of other tourists.

But there’s one way to eat great Venetian food that’s thrilling, filling and authentic. You’ll find it at a place where you’re almost certain to rub and bend elbows with locals. Visit a bacaro.

Like Spain’s tapas bars, the bacaro serves infinitely varied, kaleidoscopically colorful small plates at prices even a budget traveler can afford. What makes the Venetian version unique is that the menu changes not only seasonally (you’re in Italy after all), but day by day and hour by hour.

Venetians call these small plates cicchetti (pronounced “chi-KET-tee”) — said to derive from the Latin “ciccus,” meaning “little” or “nothing.” The term embraces a broad range of dishes: polpette (fried meatballs), crostini (small open-faced sandwiches), panini (small sandwiches on crusty rolls), tramezzini (triangular white bread sandwiches) — and a scintillating array of pickled, baked, stuffed or sauced seafoods and vegetables.

You find cicchetti at a bacaro(wine bar), but also at a botegòn, cantina, cicchetteria, enotecaand osteria — confused yet? And likely at your neighborhood bar. Depending on whom you ask, bacaro comes from the Venetian word for “wine” or “a good bar,” or even from the ancient Roman god of wine, Bacchus.

Giorgia who I met many years ago offers such a walking tour and will take you away from the tourists into the many tiny alleyways that make up Venice to really taste Venetian food. Sadly it’s true.. finding authentic food away from the tourists is a challenge.
DM and I will hook you up!

02/26/2024

Need an escape plan to the Amalfi Coast? Gather your friends & family or your girlfriends and let me help you plan 2025… and 2024 it’s not too late but this destination sells out early as does this villa.

02/23/2024

https://youtu.be/RSK4zOxGPgk?si=bsnc0CrSoIsp_690

March straight to the sofa and join Maya Jama, Lawrence Dallaglio and I as we experience the sights, sounds and flavours of Italy in the new Tv Series Live I...