Curious where to find real handmade pasta in Taipei? We put AI to the test — and the results were... interesting. Here's what the robots got wrong, and where our team actually eats.
One September afternoon in 2023, a close Italian friend of mine—a restaurateur—invited me for a casual lunch at his apartment. He had gathered a few chef friends as well, the kind of people who live and breathe food and wine.
Led by Divino and Focoso, the Trattoria Moderna movement is an effort to move beyond "tourist trap" Italian dining by combining the warmth of a classic trattoria with modern technical precision and obsessive sourcing.
They say that in the restaurant world, time moves differently. If you survive the first year, you are lucky. If you make it to five, you are a rarity. But reaching ten years? That puts you in a selected group of survivors.
