Didn’t mean to sound ageist. I met a few very decent pension grabbers in Stresa and exchanged amusing tales. If I have a pension left when I retire (not looking likely right now) I will be off to Stresa again forthwith.
Since you ask, I was a train traveller and therefore in a different class (second) to the guys I met staying in some of the posh hotels.
The point I was trying to make is that many of the restos were catering for what they thought the coach travelling tourists wanted and this is generally not good enough these days.

The other Brits in Stresa were all ‘down-beat tourists’ and worst than that they were elderly ‘pension-grabbing coach travellers’, while of course you were a … well, what — what were you? Just another Brit in Stresa. Do you think the locals could spot that you were somehow special and different from all the other Brit tourists??

When you reach pensionable age do you intend never travelling abroad again in case your age upsets people like you are now?