tom
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I am currently in Italy and was at a loose end yesterday while my girlfriend was doing some WFH so I drove the 3hrs to Maranello for lunch :laugh:
First thing I saw pulling off the main road towards the town? A heavily camouflaged SUV which followed me to the factory where it disappeared... :thumbsdow
I had a mooch around the museum, sat at a nearby cafe drinking coffee and watching some fellow tourists having fun with the various 'test drive' places, then had lunch at the recently revitalised Cavallino to see what Massimo Bottura has done with the place. It's largely the same as it was structurally but quite a bit smarter inside, and as you'd expect the food is much fancier than it was. Based on previous experiences of both I'd have always told a visitor asking for tips to eat at the Montana, over the Cavallino, but the lunch yesterday was really good. Eat at both in future!
Side comments:
1) I always forget how little there is to do in Maranello without taking up residence in a bar
2) petrol is almost 2EUR/litre at the Eni by the factory :shocked:
3) the area around the factory has changed so much since the infamous forum factory tour in 2005(?); even since I was last there a couple of years ago there seems to have been more expansion of the factory and museum.
First thing I saw pulling off the main road towards the town? A heavily camouflaged SUV which followed me to the factory where it disappeared... :thumbsdow
I had a mooch around the museum, sat at a nearby cafe drinking coffee and watching some fellow tourists having fun with the various 'test drive' places, then had lunch at the recently revitalised Cavallino to see what Massimo Bottura has done with the place. It's largely the same as it was structurally but quite a bit smarter inside, and as you'd expect the food is much fancier than it was. Based on previous experiences of both I'd have always told a visitor asking for tips to eat at the Montana, over the Cavallino, but the lunch yesterday was really good. Eat at both in future!
Side comments:
1) I always forget how little there is to do in Maranello without taking up residence in a bar
2) petrol is almost 2EUR/litre at the Eni by the factory :shocked:
3) the area around the factory has changed so much since the infamous forum factory tour in 2005(?); even since I was last there a couple of years ago there seems to have been more expansion of the factory and museum.
