You will have to forgive me for not remembering the name of the place, despite hours of searching the Internet and still not coming up with it but after you eat there it will be easy for you to do.   You may have heard of Cinque Terre Italy. Travel writer Rick Steves has almost single handedly popularized the five fishing villages along the Mediterranean coast of Italy.  It is in the western most village of Monterosso that I have had the best meal of my life, twice.

  The first time I just happened across the restaurant by asking the guy at the local Internet cafe where to eat cheaply and well. So, I joined some people I met on the train into town and we made our way to the quaint little restaurant under the train tracks.  I ordered the seafood spaghetti and from that day forward was hooked; I don’t even like seafood.  The second time I enjoyed the food here I forced my travel partner to take 8 hours of trains out of our way to get to Montorosso just to have the spaghetti, then turn around and leave for Florence the next day; there was no complaining after we ate.

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