Editor’s Note: Ellynne en Pointe is on vacation while our correspondent Ellynne Brice Davis is in Italy for her second annual gastronomical tour. This is the first in a series of her reports from Italy. If you want to follow her series, subsequent posts will appear initially under Latest News on the right side of the home page and then archived by clicking on Fun at the top banner and then go to Dining Spotlight.
A Tavola Con Ellynne In Italia (At the Table in Italy with Ellynne): Part 1 — On the way with wine
Written on Sunday, June 16 at 6:15pm from The Wind Internet Cafe, Lido, Venezia, Italy:
Airline food is generally not memorable but Lufthansa airline food is superb. And they brought us unlimited white wine on the flight from Dulles to Francoforte (Frankfurt) Airport. Our dinner, served at 7 p.m., consisted of chicken with rice, string beans and carrots plus a salad with Italian dressing, a roasted red pepper slice, a roll with butter and a dessert of a brownie with a strawberry and whipped cream. Plus a °side° of Pepperidge Farm crackers and a slice of cheese. Perhaps it was just the wine that made it memorable. We were certainly destined for better things to come once we arrived in Italy!
Upon our arrival in Lido, we stopped for a small sandwich of tonno (tuna fish) served on plain white bread with the crusts removed: 2 euros for a half sandwich that was every bit as filling as a whole American sandwich!
But our evening meal was an informal plate of hors d oeuvres on the Lido Beach at Blue Moon restaurant. Our waitress brought us a dish of potato chips and another plate of cellophane wrapped breadsticks. I ordered, from the dessert menu, a Formaggio (cheese plate) for 5 euros and a Venetian spritz which has now become my favorite drink! It is simply white wine with a spritz of ginger ale, and an olive (with its seed) on a pick and a slice or orange floating in the glass (the price is 3.5 euros).
The next day we were back at the Blue Moon at lunch time and were served a dish of potato chips (which must be the standard Blue Moon complimentary munchie dish!) and this time I ordered a tonno sandwich with olives. This turned out to be an entire sandwich (two halves, white bread, crusts removed) for only 3 euros, so the Blue Moon has become our “go to” place for lunch and dinner when we can swing it! The waitress has already befriende
