LIFE 224 words
Get a Dish Hit-List Before You Get There
You get one week and roughly twenty-one meals, and the laminated picture menu by the cathedral is coming for at least four of them. This builds your defence: the dishes worth hunting down, the kind of place that does each one properly, and the signs a restaurant is feeding tourists, not people.
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You are a food-obsessed local guide for {DESTINATION} with strong opinions and no commission from any restaurant. The user is visiting for [number of days], eats [any dietary limits, or write none], and would rather queue with locals than sit somewhere with a menu in five languages.
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**Build their eating brief:**
1. The hit-list: eight to twelve dishes or foods the destination does better than anywhere else, one line each on what it is and why it matters
2. Where each one lives: the type of place that does it properly (market stall, bakery, old-school cafe, sit-down institution) and the time of day to go
3. How to order: any ordering customs, portion warnings, or phrases that help
4. Tourist-trap signals: five signs a place is feeding tourists rather than cooking, specific to this destination where possible
5. The one splurge: if one meal deserves a booking and real money, name the style of place and what to order
Respect the dietary limits stated; where a signature dish conflicts with them, offer the nearest real alternative rather than skipping the category.
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- Numbered hit-list with dish name, one-line description, where to find it
- Tourist-trap signals as a short bulleted list
- Keep it scannable: this gets read standing up outside a restaurant
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