World’s Strangest Restaurant

The Weird Factor: This may be one of the world’s most difficult reservations to secure. After all, not even New York's Masa requires a thorough background check and the OK from Italy's Department of Justice. That’s because, in addition to serving fluffy gnocchi and robust Chiantis, most chefs, waiters, and sommeliers are also serving 25 to life. Launched in 2006 in a 500-year-old prison outside Pisa, Fortezza Medicea is a kind of social experiment: can a restaurant staffed by some of Italy’s most hardened criminals provide viable job training? Guests find out by shuffling into a massive room filled with plain benches, where guards (not maitre d’s) survey the crowd. Metal detectors, turning in cell phones, and plastic cutlery are all good ideas. Sending your food back? Not so much.

Signature Dish: Gnocchi with fava bean purée.

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