Italians are quite elitist in their food. It seems like every Italian's live purpose is proving to everyone how good they are at cooking. Spain/Portuguese food

Italians are quite elitist in their food. It seems like every Italian's live purpose is proving to everyone how good they are at cooking. Spain/Portuguese food isn't snobbish or fancy, but it's generally good. As a matter of fact I find that the baseline for what is bad in these places is actually quite high. That is not the case for your average Italian restaurant around the world. Most of them are not that great.