Eating in the oldest butcher shop in Tuscany

Lunch at the Antica Macelleria Falorni was a new eating experience for us.  The butcher shop is reputedly the oldest in Tuscany and still run by the 8th generation of the same family since it was founded in 1729.  It was one of the main reasons why we visited Greve in Chianti.  For more pictures of the shop and the town, please visit Travels with rarecat.

We sat down at the picnic tables outside the shop, looked at the neatly folded one page menu (perfect for taking away as a souvenir) and waited for the waiter.  After a while, one of us finally read the front page of the menu that outlined "how it works" - order at the till;  hand the orders in at the counter; help yourself from the take-away fridge; take the food to your table and enjoy your meal!  There was even a microwave that you could use to heat up your food but most unique for us - a self-dispensing wine tasting machine for which you could purchase a card at the counter.

Lunch turned out to be a picnic...

We had the prosciutto, salami and pecorino with fig jam - all tasted good (especially the pecorino) but not distinctive - I wondered if it had anything to do with the paper napkins we were eating out of...

Notice how fatty the meat was 

Ham, ham and more ham... 

Many customers hovering around the wine-dispensing machine