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I would have wolfed everything down that you just showed!! what a great foodie adventure. Oh, and I understand how you feel about whipping out your camera...though I am getting good with my little point and shoot--do it before anyone notices...
Oh, I love Gubbio, we went there to stay with some friends on our honeymoon and it was so beautiful. Did you go up in the cable car to the monastery? Years later and we are now living in Umbria and I can't wait to visit Gubbio again. I will make sure to check out that restaurant the food looks great. Thank you 
omg everything looks so good! I of course have no compunctions with whipping out my camera, which is thankfully low profile and small. I think that given the hundreds of food bloggers in San Francisco, that the restaurants are very tolerant and even encouraging for the most part! wow but those truffle dishes are killing me, and the cheese plate. Looks like a wonderful feast.
Everything looks so good! Am very jealous right now.
Wow, truffle and saffron cheeses! And that pizza...I think I need some Italian food tonight!
What is this thing on the 15th? I've never heard of it. We are less than an hours drive from Gubbio so we could go if it's something interesting. Is it when they run around with the wine?
Foodhoe - I will have to admit that I'm losing my edge...maybe even getting a little soft. But -- I did have good reason to be a little self-conscious this time. The table next to us were obvious friends of the chef, and with the stream of sampler plates flying out of the kitchen to their table, I was afraid that the chef himself would spring out of the kitchen and catch me in mid-composure of a shot. Gack! I'm such a chicken... 
Michelle - that is the exact same thing I said when I saw sampler plates flying out of the kitchen to the table next to us. Obviously friends of the chef, they were like "No, no, we can't eat anymore!" WHAT? Are you kidding buddy? You just pass that poached egg with complimentary truffle shavings over to this table. And tell your chef friend that he is the "bomb"!
OMG, how many people die every year from having a 900lb. candle fall on them?! What an insane event!
And don't talk to me about poi muffins when you've spent a week having truffle dreams (and we're not talking Lindt here)!! And that pizza, even without the truffles it looks so-o-o good. Great surreptitious camera work! ; )
That candle race is CRAZY! Talk about a wild event. And the food, of course looks absolutely fabulous.
manju - same question that I ask myself, but moreover, if people have been fatally wounded, why is such an event still organized? I'm thinking that like the Running of the Bulls, no matter what the price to human life, old traditions just can not, will not, die. Odd though that froggie liberationists are free to hassle the Frog Race in Fermignano. Kinda makes me scratch my head and go "Huh?" 
A food lovers dream! Everything looks soooo good!
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