Italian Food Decoder

The words used to describe different Italian dishes vary by region, and can baffle even people who speak the language fairly fluently. This app will help you decipher the most confusing Italian menus. With helpful pictures and a good search function, it provides context for what’s on offer, which will help you avoid unwelcome surprises .

Love that I can search any word on a menu & have it translated for me!!!

I’m getting hungry and feeling such a longing for travel from looking through the seafood section!!

My wife and I rely on this app. It is a lifesaver and has led to so many extraordinary meals from rumb to Venice.

I appreciate this app. A lot effort went into it and it’s not only a good language tool, but also a compact culinary reference! I should add that the support team is amazing and quick response to questions! Thank you!

Absolutely the best Italian food app I have found it covers everything , history, culture , regions , anything else you need to know about Italian food. Great app!

The App is extremely well-organized. The “search” function is great for both food shopping and in restaurants.

Love the update. If only I had the benefit of this app when I was in Siena back in 1986. Then, my future wife ordered us mortadella sandwiches for a picnic lunch, perhaps the worst dining experience of my life, at least in Italy. With Italian Menu Decoder I would have avoided that catastrophic meal and the courtship may have run its course more smoothly. Truth be told, I have dined with the authors of this app on several occasions, both in the states some 30 years ago, and abroad. I knew them when they could barely cook a kielbasa and did not have great sense of finer cuisine. But now that they have lived in Italy and France since 1985, and traveled extensively writing over 40 Cadogan tour guides and numerous newspaper and magazine articles on Italy, France, Greece and Spain, things have changed dramatically. To be invited to dine at chez Pauls and Facaros is a culinary delight. The starters themselves are worth the trip. Michael makes a mean aranchini and Dana’s exotic pizzas are beyond compare. Italian Menu Decoder has strong merits. The recent update makes it even better. It deciphers not only the language and dialects that you’ll find on any Italian restaurant menu, but will also explain the cutlery, meats, pastas, ingredients and sauces that bring life to Italian cuisine. If you dine Italiano frequently, or if you jut wish to learn more about Italian cuisine, this app is for you.

If one is going to visit Italy, and plans to eat ANYTHING during that time, be sure to get this app. My visit is for three months, and this guide has been invaluable. If you like to cook, as I do, this is an absolute necessity. Whether you are buying food or going to restaurants, this is essential beyond helpful. Do yourself a big favor and download it.

I am living in Florence for two months. I am not fluent in Italian and this app has been a great help, I bring it with me on my iPad when I go grocery shopping at the local Coop grocery store which is huge with an endless variety of food some of which I have never seen. Now if only they would make an app to decipher menus!