Chapter 443: Simply Tempting Crime and Dark Cuisine?

After a thorough lovemaking in the hotel bathtub, on the floor, on the bed...,

In the evening, Tang Xinyi took Li Xiaofan to Pinchiorri, one of the few high-end Michelin restaurants in Florence.

The benefit of becoming a rich man and achieving financial freedom is that you can walk into any of the most high-end restaurants, hotels, jewelry stores, and luxury car stores with your eyes closed, without having to care about the price at all.

Of course, there are also many troubles in being reborn as a rich man. Li Xiaofan feels that he has too many things and too many plans in his mind...

Especially for boys like him who grew up under the red flag, they always want to do something meaningful for the country. Even if they can't be remembered forever, they want to leave something for the world and future generations before they close their doors, so that God will not let him be reborn again...

Taking a vacation with Tang Xinyi in Florence is a rare time to relax, and temporarily forget the investment plans that are full of his mind.

Pinchiorri is located in a luxurious palace-style building from the 16th century. The overall decoration is very gorgeous and retro, and the tableware is made of exquisite porcelain, crystal and silver.

Tang Xinyi introduced this restaurant to Li Xiaofan. It mainly serves traditional Tuscan dishes and is a classic Italian food feast. It is said that there are more than 100,000 bottles of fine wine from all over the world hidden under the huge cellar of the restaurant.

And you must wear formal clothes to eat in this restaurant. This is the requirement of the restaurant owner.

Li Xiaofan estimated that the owner of this restaurant might be the descendant of a ruined noble.

It's so troublesome to pretend to be cool when eating a meal!

The most common dishes in ordinary restaurants in Italy are pizza, pasta, steak and desserts such as tiramisu. Li Xiaofan wanted to find a roadside restaurant to solve it, but later he heard Tang Xinyi introduce that there are more than 100,000 bottles of fine wine in the underground wine cellar of this restaurant, which immediately aroused his curiosity and desire.

Fortunately, the temperature in August in Italy is not very hot. The night in Florence is only a pleasant ten degrees. Li Xiaofan reluctantly took out his suit from the box and put it on.

But then, Li Xiaofan found that the trip was worthwhile.

Knowing that Li Xiaofan smoked, Li Xiaofan and Tang Xinyi were invited by the waiter to wait in a special room as soon as they entered this luxurious palace-style restaurant. They were told that this was a smoking room with a fresh air system and open windows, so they could smoke freely.

This was the most luxurious smoking room Li Xiaofan had ever seen in his life. There were a room full of art collections and classical and exquisite furniture covered with high-end fabrics in this smoking room.

On the coffee table were seasonal fruits such as local grapes, figs, plums and strawberries, and the surroundings were decorated with freshly picked flowers and unknown red fruits. The air was filled with fragrant fruit and flower aromas.

After Li Xiaofan sat on the sofa and lit a handmade cigar, he looked up and saw an oil painting of a beautiful woman with a bare back on the opposite wall. The beautiful and plump body that had just been bathed was lifelike...

Oh, damn, this is simply tempting to commit a crime!

Wine, food and beauty, life is perfect.

Li Xiaofan picked up the menu on the coffee table.

Oscar Wilde, the greatest British writer and poet in the 19th century, has a famous quote from his famous work "The Picture of Dorian Gray" printed on the first page of the menu of this Italian restaurant:

"... All art is quite useless."--Oscar Wilde

"Art does not affect behavior, it eliminates the desire to act. Art is extremely useless..."

Li Xiaofan thought to himself that this restaurant was really pretentious to the extreme, even printing these controversial celebrity quotes on the menu.

"Xinyi, Wilde is an aestheticist, and art is an expression of his yearning for beauty, so why is it useless?" Li Xiaofan asked.

Tang Xinyi has studied British literary history and read many of Wilde's works. She knows Wilde quite well. She explained with a smile:

"My dear, Wilde's own speech style is radical and emotional, such as 'the public has no aesthetic ability'. In his novels, generalization and exaggeration are his usual methods. Don't take it too seriously. In addition, Wilde's aestheticism advocates 'art for art's sake', which is opposite to pragmatism... So, his words can also be understood as follows: art is the most useless of all industries, but it is still worth exhausting your efforts to pursue..."

Just when Li Xiaofan and Tang Xinyi were discussing Wilde,

"Good evening, sir and madam! I'm Lucas, the reception manager of this Pinchiorri restaurant. It's an honor to receive you two distinguished guests from afar..."

A middle-aged Italian man in an elegant evening gown came in to greet them and began to introduce the history of this restaurant.

Tang Xinyi made a reservation for this Michelin restaurant in Florence in advance after booking the flight to Italy. Because this restaurant is doing very well, and it only accepts reservations from guests who have been evaluated and confirmed by the restaurant, the requirements for guests are almost harsh. And when making a reservation, Tang Xinyi was informed that they must dress formally when dining, otherwise the restaurant has the right to refuse entry.

"I have been working here for 23 years since the restaurant opened..." Lucas proudly introduced himself.

"Wow, 23 years, it seems that your restaurant has a very long history!" Tang Xinyi praised.

What surprised Li Xiaofan next was that this Pinchiorri restaurant was actually an outdoor restaurant. There were about 7 tables in the outdoor garden similar to a patio, and the space seemed a bit small.

Compared with the spacious and luxurious smoking room just now, this small outdoor space really made Li Xiaofan laugh and cry.

If it were in China, this outdoor garden would definitely become a smoking space, and the smoking room full of artworks would become a luxurious high-end dining box!

The traditional idea of ​​the Chinese is that guests must enter the main hall and sit in the main hall, and there is also a seating order. The Chinese people's social skills seem to be "eaten" at the table in the box. Not entering the box to eat seems to be low-class and seems to be the kind that cannot be seen in the light...

Foreigners are not so particular. They all like to dine and drink coffee outdoors, enjoy the sun and moonlight, and enjoy the freedom and comfort.

In the cool midsummer, it is indeed a pleasure to dine in the outdoor garden of the luxury house in Florence.

The welcome snacks served by the waiter started the feast tonight.

What caught Li Xiaofan's eye was the exquisite Pinocchio family custom-made porcelain, which was warm, flawless and thin. The first dish on the delicate bone porcelain plate was beautifully presented, which seemed to interpret Wilde's "art is useless" appearance.

The first welcome snack was the famous Italian ham, with golden and crispy French fries and classic Beatrix butter, which whet your appetite.

The next appetizer came, which made Li Xiaofan a little unbelievable: it was black, like a big cuttlefish egg.

There is a traditional custom of cooking cuttlefish with cuttlefish juice in my hometown of Minnesota. Do Italians also eat cuttlefish in this way? Is this their dark cuisine in Florence?