painterdave Says: After you pay the 3 euros for parking you walk for 5 minutes and cross over the canal where you will see a bustling fish shop. Featured during this time is eel, but they have other types of fish. If you view the foto below you will see some of what they offer. After this...
Trattoria del Borgo: Eel and Other Fish Dinners
painterdave Says: We found it difficult to find seating anywhere in the Festival spending too much time walking around and not planning ahead. This Trattoria gave us a reservation with a wait of 45 minutes, in which we used this waiting time to visit and taste some wines of the area.Service...
Eel's festival - Sagra dell'Anguilla
oriettaIT Says: At the begining of October Comacchio have a big festival to celebrate its most known product, the eel (Anguilla). The lagoon near Comacchio have always been used to breed eels and every restaurant in town serve BARBECUE EEL as main specialty.During the festival you can...
painterdave Says: If you plan to eat eel at this festival I would suggest eating a bit earlier than normal because after 1:30 the restaurants and festival food area fills up. Seating is difficult and you may have to wait as I did for over an hour.If you go to a restaurant do not expect the...
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Here is a photo description of the preperation and cooking of the eel.You can buy it on the pedestrian walkway, from the many restaurants and bars or from the...
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During the first two weekends of October Comacchio, the small village near Ferrara, hosts a grand festival to the eel. Thousands of people attend this festival, if the weather is good, and you will......
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Comacchio is a town of Emilia Romagna, in the centre of the lagoon of Valli di Comacchio.
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My next move, to Italy in the spring of 2000, came about largely because the Schraders, both by then in their early seventies, decided that it was high time they sold up the Gasthof and retired in the...
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