You can find us eating completely alone in every restaurant 1 minute after opening.
(Context: Typical Italian dinner time is 8pm-9:30pm- depending on the area of course)
Eating dinner in Italy with little kids plan:
Step 1: Google locate the very few restaurants that open before 8:00 p.m.
Step 2: Fill the children with snacks to hold them over
Step 3: Show up to the restaurant right at opening
Step 4: End up eating dinner in a completely empty restaurant
Step 5: Eventually adjust the kids’ eating times by the end of the week, celebrate 🎉, and have to fly back home.
Our pre-kids Italy trip, we could roll with the late (by American standards) kitchen opening times but…kids. We adjusted by the end of the week and finally had dinner at the same time as the locals and felt so proud!
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😂 Great service though, I'll bet!
do italians eat at a different time or something ? 😭 kinda lost
Let me guess, y'all are eating dinner at like 5:30 lol
I don't get it :c
Americans are unique in eating dinner around 4:30 pm, waking up at 4, and lunch before noon. I think it's a holdout from the time when USA was a mostly agrarian society or something.
Most people eat dinner around 7, I'm pretty sure.
Is that a asian restaurant?
Yeah Europeans eat dinner like a normal people at 8-9pm 😂 Americans still eat dinner like everyone is a farmer and coming in from the fields at 4:30–5:30 😂
My wife grew up in a dinner at 5 family, I’m American but don’t eat until like 8 or 9 . 5 is the afternoon