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They laugh and laugh. The two at La 

Tervernetta 48. One is the owner Federico who 

is happy inside and out. Always happy. The other 

is his waiter, Allesandro! Federico came from Brazil 

where along with his wife, Denise, they bought La 

Tavernetta 48 in 2010. "It took til 2012 to say I am real 

happy and successful with the guests coming. I changed 

the menu 8 times in 5 years. I didn't like the old 

menu and I didn't like the old food. So I kept 

adding and subtracting and finally it is almost 

perfect." says Federico. "Yes the chef before the one 

we have now used to be my father. I am a little sad and it 

took me about 2 weeks to actually get over the fact that he 

is a chef somewhere else, yet now I am used to it. 

Seriously Federico has taught me much with his kindness 

and gentleness. He has taught me how since I am shy to 

try to be more outgoing and talk to the guests. Since I am 

http://www.latavernetta48.com/ 

Via Degli Spagnoli, 48 Tel. +39 06 6 8 1925 91 

"Federico says that he is very proud of his restaurant and he is 

very happy with his life. He is now a Italian Citizen and has 

dual passports. His ex-wife is his best friend, he says, and he 

loves to greet the guests and she loves to decorate the 

restaurant so he says that they are perfect business partners!" 

translates Allesandro since Federico speaks only Italian! 

They yummy dessert of La Tavernetta 48...Ciao! 


the person who greets the guests that is important yet I 

am only 22." says Federico's teammate. "The wine is from 

everywhere in Italy where he loves to visit vineyards and 

invites you to try his favorites!" says Allesandro...And of 

course one day I shall! 


The Casa Mia in Trastevere is real gorgeous. Truly. The Hotel is sleek and modern as you 

can see from the picture below and has 12 very cool rooms. Each one is streamlined and chic and has a lovely piece of 

special original artwork. "My favorite is small compared to most of the rooms, yet it is cozy." Says Fabio 

as he shows me the different styles. "Since it is connected to the gourmet restaurant we love when the guests 

come to dine with us, however, sometimes it is funny since they come to the concierge at the front desk and ask him 

if he knows of any good restaurants and of course he says you can eat here! And if they say okay is there anything 

else we recommend other places. The breakfast is served to the guests from 7:30am to 10:30 am and the restaurant 

opens at 11:00am. Sometimes people come to eat here and they ask about the hotel since they never knew we had a 

boutique hotel connected and they'll walk to the front desk and make reservations. I want for people to know 

the restaurant as something that serves special dishes and real Italian food. All homemade. All 

fresh. Everyday. And the hotel is along that theme of something that is above the ordinary." says 

Fabio. "The music is blues and jazz and the feeling is comfortable and warm." 

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"It is a traditional family restaurant and I wanted to keep making Gnocchis on Thursday and Friday and Trippe on 

Saturdays. People can feel like at home and come here for the traditional dishes. Plus we have a exotic menu such as 

Lamb Chops and Wine Browned Rabbit and Coda Alla Vaccinara which is Oxtail or the tail of a cow. I 

have never eaten the tail of a cow but George has." says Fabio and points to a jolly young man at the 

front desk of the Hotel section. "I eat anything." says George. "It doesn't taste like the steak part of a 

Cow though." he says. "Let's see. The wines? We only have Italian ones. Great wines. My uncle Luciano and 

Sandro choose the wines. Of course Italian. That is why I keep saying the family involvement is important." Fabio keeps 

reminding me. The restaurant is super yuppie yet totally homegrown if that makes sense. When you're in it you do feel all 

warm yet it is chic and cool enough that you want to be seen at it! 


i Do you know the name Trattoria comes from when 

they used to drive the tractor and they would feed 

people out of the tractor. And now a Trattoria is a 

restauarant." Fabio says. I do not know if he is joking 


Above is the Chef serving his homemade famous 

gnocchis on Thursdays..."the day he makes gnocchis he 

sits at the table out here and hand prepares these. 

Diego is a wonderful chef and Sandro at first is the cook 

since last year when we opened in December. We are a 

one year old restaurant. Then Sandro wanted to run 

the restaurant and he hired Diego who is great." Says 

Fabio who is a little shy of interviews. Along with 

Sandro and Luciano, the three own the boutique hotel 

and restaurant since one year. At the top is the garden 

patio where guests can dine and to the left is the hotel 

which opens to the garden. The hotel is beautiful and 

when Fabio showed me the rooms they're expensive 

yet simplistic. "Stefano is the interior designer 

who is responsible for all the style of the hotel. 

I am the public relations person and I love to

or if he is serious! Yet it makes a good story! When I 

say that I love the music since I love Jazz and they 

have two lovely art pieces representing the greats he 

says, " Yes it must be Blues and Jazz because that is 

the feeling of the place. It adds to the comfort of the 

Trattoria." 

talk and to greet the guests, but Sandro and 

Luciano order the wine and do the menu with 

Diego. We are all learning but Luciano is my uncle and 

it is very important to say that the restaurant is a 

family restaurant. That is very important." When I ask 

if his mom and dad come to eat everyday? Fabio 

says,"Yes well okay not everyday!" 

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"My favorite food is the Carbonara which all Romans 

love" says George, "Since it is centuries old. Maybe 

200 years old." He laughs and Fabio says, "Hmm mine 

is the Gricia which is basically the Carbonara but 

without egg since I like the bacon." I must do research 

to find why the only place on earth everybody loves 

Carbonara that is a true Roman! 

La Nuova Capannina 

Piazza delle Coppelle, 8, 00186 Roma 

Telefono:06 6 880 3921 


Ciao again my favorite real italians come onto the website with the La Nuova Capannina right near the Panthenon 

and Coppelle Piazza tucked down a little alley. https://www.facebook.com/la.n.capannina Piazza delle Coppelle, 8, 00186 Roma 

Telefono:06 6880 3921 

Tucked down a little alley is the real traditional 

Trattoria. The couple have been here many years and 

have seen the little next door Trattorias and fancy 

Mex-Tex commercial bars spring up everywhere 

around them! Yet they remain a real traditional family 

entity. While I sat in the personal kitchen, which is 


open to the restaurant, and chatted with Rita, her 

nephew sat eating spaghetti after the long lunch run. 

When I say chatted it is difficult since she only speaks 

Italain, from the old school. Today she was skinning 

artichokes and showed me how she takes the purple 

flowers off and throws them in the garbage and keeps 

the good stuff inside. Enrico comes from upstairs and in 

Italian asks if I would love to try the Bolognese and I 

ask for it with Fettucini. Of course I think he says! and 

goes about making it fresh in the kitchen. He says to 

make sure that I say that they have the best 

traditional Carbarnara in Rome. With the original and 

true recipes from Rita! I ask if the pictures of the 

famous Alberto Sordi and woman eating spaghetti on 

the wall is him and Rita when they are young and he 

laughs and says that they are famous actors! To the 

right, Enrico and a famous jeweler and his brother. 

Ciao! 

Only Italian...Enrico speaks...and when I say that I mean he only speaks Italian...Enrico was the owner of the 

restaurant of La Nuova Capannina, which is difficult for an American to say. Enrico was old-school and when I first 

met he and his wife the restaurant was closed from 3 to 7 then I knocked on the door and he let me in. Rita who is 

Enrico's wife was yelling back and forth in Italian for me to enter but I kept answering in English since I didn't 

know what she was saying! I dared venture into the dark restaurant(no pun intended as Ventura is Enrico's last 

name!). The rest of the story is cool. With him pointing to the famous wooden sculptures art exhibitions on the 

walls to the famous and real people and pictures he shows everywhere...some brand new and some weathered with 

age: 60+ years of pictures and memories. https://www.facebook.com/la.n.capannina/... 

Now at lunch Rita, Enrico's wife is busy with artichokes! and Enrico has me try the Fettucine Bolognese which is 

wonderful. I loved it. And he says make sure that you tell everybody to come and try the Carbonara which is Rome 

famous and especially here. They've been here forever and as I sit people walk near and smile and wave. 

Everybody knows him! It is akin to love eating at the restaurant. ciao 

"Here we always smile," is the Philosophy of Ristaurante and Vineria in Roma located at 


Via Tomacelli 24, Reservations: 06 45 427 760

GROUND ZERO at Ristoriante and Vineria Roma, The famous sculpture memorial wall has a nail 

from ground zero along with a tribute of always remember(I asked to touch the nail and cried! It is pretty emotional.) 

"The room is a sculpture of Enrico Dico, a famous Italian artist and along with the architect, my partner Federico and me 

we designed the huge 3 story Glass, Metal and Wood Sculptured Bar and Restaurant on many emotional levels. Here at 

the Ground Zero room is a room of Memories and New. The ceiling is from the 1700s paintings and the lighting from the 

modern age. I love New York and although every artistic piece changes every month, the Ground Zero Sculpture 


emains." says the fun and intelligent Luigi. "It is of the morning and the night. To remember the south of Italy since we 

come from Naples and the North. Two philosophies remain of NAPLES... the sun and the sea." he says. 

"Right outside the room is the huge garden terrace which holds about 100 seats. It is open everyday with views of the city 

yet most people love to sit here and socialize with cocktails during the summer. It is a great place for tourists, students, 

friends, and financial yuppies, politicals, doctors or lawyers." he says. 


"We have the reading rooms where people take the 

cocktails and the brunches if they want. It is 

whereever they feel comfortable." 

"The 3 levels have emotional levels of remembering 

too. We change as the day changes. For instance from 

6:30pm to 9:30 pm we have Aperitivos that the 

Italians are famous for and from 4:30 to 5:30 we do 

the High Tea English formalities. It is a mixture of 

culture and of esthetics." Says Luigi as he 

takes me on the tour of the Design Restaurant. 

You almost feel as if you are on a Museum 

Tour. 

"The lighting is changed from day and night. It 

gives a dfferent mood to the people. At the Monday to 

Friday we have normal lunches buffet and during the 

Saturday and Sundays is Brunches. Americans and 

Internationals love brunch and we do that and 

we try to mix the Italian and the American 

with the Lasagna and Pancakes." says Luigi. 

"The basement section(which is beautiful) is 

made of love. The mixology concept instead of a 

bartending is to give all handmade cocktails and love 

made. Yes it is beautiful yet the cocktails are the best 

and the guests can come here til 2:00am partying." 

Luigi says. 


"I have 24 employees who works with us. They're all 

care about the La Vi plus they're all young." 

The cozy comfy chic atmosphere of the Luxurious Restaurant here at Roma. 


"Every level has partners from 007 vodka in the basement Mixology room, to the fashion partner of artist Enrico Dico. 

Here every chair is heavy metal and I incorporated from my years in Milan working at cool funky places, the philosophy 

of my brain formation of mental formation of the look and the feel and the attitude that I wanted to showcase here. Every 

chair and the metal stairs and the lighting and all is from the many years that me and Federico traveled around the world. 

Each piece is a memory of Paris and Italy and the slated Industrial floors keep that haunting memories for us. The Design 

Restaurant holds 300 people seating and it is a philosophy that we want to show. The philosophy of that." he says. 

The cool thing about La Soffitta Renovatio in Roma near the Vaticano is that it competes 

against the big giants with a wonderful Gluten-free menu available for all of its guests. And the two brothers 

that own Renovatio La Soffitta are most proud of that saying, "Here that is tiramisu gluten-free, here 


that is Mary's desserts of the day all gluten-free...gnocchis available gluten-free," Says Massimo as he 

continues his list of saying that every item on his menu can be made with gluten-free products. His brother 

Stefano smiles and nods being the chef he is the one who makes all of these great creations everyday. The 

brothers come from a 3rd Generation family of Italian owned restaurants in Rome. "We were little 

babys at the restaurants when our grandfather owned them. We were born in the 

restaurants. We would go to school and come home to the restaurants everyday." he says. 

"It is life here. Every item on the menu is available the normal way or the gluten-free way. 

That is very important for you to write," instructs Massimo who speaks great English. 

Stefano speaks very little and Mary a little more! She is the baker of the family. "Stefano is 

smart like a fox!" Massimo says when I say that it is cool the chef of the Roman Italian 

cuisine married a baker so he didn't have to hire one! Below Massimo with one of his 

famous guests. 


Here is the famous Chef Stefano showing off 

his pizza recipes! They seem like such a familytype 

group when you interview these wonderful 

people than you see that they're famous and you go 

like wow! 

http://www.lasoffittarenovatio.it 


Piazza del Risorgimento, 46/a, Phone: 06 6889 

2977 

On the wall behind where Stefano and Mary, and 

Massimo sits is wooden pizza trays with famous 

signatures..."Here is my favorite, it is Roberto 

Benigni from It's a Beautiful LIfe." says 

Massimo and shows me the pizzas. "The 

pizzas can be gluten-free too." he says.When 

I ask the three of these owners if they eat glutenfree 

at the restaurant or at home? "No no , we eat 

Normal food but we respect the people that need 

the gluten-free and we are proud to offer it to 

them. It is pretty good although it does taste a little 

different. For instance let me show you the dessert 

tray," says Massimo and trolleys all these 

wonderful tasty desserts to me. "See that one is 

the normal tiramisu and this one is the 

gluten-free tiramisu." They offer me a 

choice and I choose a cannoli! Hey I love 

the Sicilians what can I say! And yes it is 

totally of the normal choice, not glutenfree! 

And for Stefano and Massimo is it fun being 

the Capos and coming from such a long 

history(1900s) of Roman Traditional 

Restaurant owners? "Yes it is fun. And It is 


"We have big fresh Sea Bass that me and 

Stefano go to the Mercatos to buy. Last 

night we had 10 people here and they at the 

entire huge Sea Bass. Now it is all gone!" 

Massimo laughs when he says that. "Each of 

the little Mercatos in Rome we find the 

fresh fish and the fresh meat and we use the 

big Mercatos outside of the city too. The big 

Fish Mercatos are outside the city really. It is a 

enjoyable time to go with Stefano to the Mercatos 

we have fun." And on his day off what does 

Massimo do? "I stay at home!" he says. Mary 

hands me her daughter's card and asks me 

if I could mention that her daughter is a 

great guide of Rome. If you would love to do 

a tour of Rome contact Ms.Di Michele 

at La Soffitta and arrange a private

stressful but you know when you're born 

into it we love the stress now! Seriously we 

grew up with it. The most important everyday is 

the guests. We love the Americans and the Italians 

and the Japanese and the French. Everybody 

makes the day happy." 

tour...we hope you include the restaurant in 

the day! 

Martina Di Michele Guida Turistica on 

Facebook and her mobile is 328 13 136 65...the 

daughter of the owners of La Soffitta! 


Piazza Delle Coppelle 8 Roma near the Panthenon...Reservations Recommended 06 6 8803 9 21 

It has excellent trip advisors and is tucked in a square of cobblestones in the Piazza Coppelle. Find the green 

foilage and the Capannina which Enrico draws me pictures and says, "it is a casa, a house and a tent 

combined, that is what a capannina is." I guess and finally after 600 pictures on his phone we figure out how 

to do google translate back and forth. He opens the glass case and shows me the anti-pasta and the 

vegatables and the fresh pasta then waiting for the dinner...I keep saying wow and yum and that is 

wonderful here yet he should of taken the hint and invited me to dinner. ha ha ha. The food on his website 

and in person is something you would eat at your Italian Grandmother and Grandfather's all fattening and 

scrumptious house! 


Only Italian...Enrico speaks...and when I say that I mean he only speaks Italian...Enrico was the owner of 

the restaurant of La Nuova Capannina, which is difficult for an American to say. Enrico was old-school and 

when I first met he and his wife the restaurant was closed from 3 to 7 then I knocked on the door and he let 

me in. Rita who is Enrico's wife was yelling back and forth in Italian for me to enter but I kept answering in 

English since I didn't know what she was saying! I dared venture into the dark restaurant(no pun intended 

as Ventura is Enrico's last name!). The rest of the story is cool. With him pointing to the famous wooden 

sculptures art exhibitions on the walls to the famous and real people and pictures he shows 

everywhere...some brand new and some weathered with age: 60+ years of pictures and memories. 

https://www.facebook.com/la.n.capannina/... 


Bottega Italia located at the section of Rome Via Venuto 15-24 ...Telephone 003 9 06 423 907 52 

Salvatore Monteforte 

http://www.bottegaitaliaroma.it/ 


"Everyday I came to the fountain my first 10 years in 

Rome and I loved that fountain." says Salvatore 

Monteforte, the owner of Bottega Italia near the 

famous fountain on Via Veneto. "Since I am from 

Sicily everyday I would see that fountain and 

drink the cold water. We did everyday but 

didn't have drinking water in Sicily. I remember 

the fountain from the 32 years of owning some of the 

most prestigious restaurants in Rome and said now I 

can open my restaurant on Via Veneto. I have lived my 

dream. My life now? It could be better it could 

be better now I could I am improving 

everyday." says the Grandfatherly kindly 

owner of Bottega Italian, La Dolce Vita Piazza 

Navona, MONs , and Cremerie Monteforte on 

the Panthenon. The Man has accomplished in one 

lifetime having a famous presence at all of these 

prestigious places...you must come to have a chat with 

him. He is adorable. 

Via Veneto is acclaimed as one of the most expensive 

streets in the world to live on or own a business on! 

The grilling station. Each kitchen is special 

and has its own cooks. "Each one is a culmination of 

my life in Rome and the restaurants that I started 

with. The grills, the desserts, the salads, the cafe, the 

bar, the first course kitchens and cooks, the second 

course kitchens and cooks. Each one represents a 

place that I owned and when I made the 

restaurant here I wanted to show my life. Tell 

my story. I lived my dream." Salvatore 

Monteforte says. 

Near Via Veneto 


Abov e the frontside of Bottega Italia and below the funny cooks. Each one is friendly and has their own station to work in. 


Salvatore Monteforte owns Cremeria Monteforte near the Panthenon, "About 36 years now it is my most 

famous Gelati in Rome and La Dolce Vita since everybody around the world knows that movie. I 

thought...let me name it something that everybody can associate with and that is on the Piazza Navona...it 

has purple colors and umbrellas and it is famous 32 years now." he says happily. 


https://www.facebook.com/dolcevitapiazzanavona The La Dolce Vita on the Piazza Navona... 

06 6 880 6 221 

To my lovely American and International Students that visited Siena here is a great 


estaurant...old school since 1948...Ristorante da Giovanni...and the young(52) year old son invites 

everybody at 10:00am to mosey down the stairs and watch or help him and his "old School Team" to 

prepare the fresh veggies of the day! Cool relaxed atmosphere and real experience. Come to Via 

Antonio Salandra 1 0039 06 48 59 50 

"Ciao", I say as I enter the restaurant hesitantly down the stairs. "Ciao come on in...speak English?" says 

Fabrizio pictured on the bottom left. I say that I am a writer and would love to add his cool 

restaurant to my guide. "Alright" he says after a little deliberation and the next hr. is spent 

watching Fabrizio(a Sincere honest person) and his team of Luciano and Andrea. "He is 


Lucky Luciano from New York..."They laugh as they cut Artichokes fresh and "Rub these with lemon. The 

lemon stops them from getting dar,. Everyday we do that." he says. As they start to prepare the 

mushrooms Fabrizio is slicing slicing slicing with a very big knife! And he looks at me as he talks...I ask if he 

isn't a ltitle bit nervous with that knife? He laughs. "No I'VE BEEN DOING THAT FOR THE LAST 40 

YEARS...SINCE i AM 12 YEARS OLD. SINCE A BABY I CAN DO THAT." AND CONTINUES TO PREPARE 

THE VEGATABLES. HAS HE PREPARED ABOUT 20 MILLION MUSHROOMS? I ask. He laughs again, 

"probably yes!". I ask if American students can come in and watch him in the morning...he 

hesitates than says, "Okay yes why not let them come!" 

b 

Alright Fabrizio if your best friend came 

here today what would you give him to 

eat? "Today Polenta...it is the special, 

tomorrow Gnocchis, the next day cacio 

pepe roma, everyday the special. When I 

am younger I used to go out to dinner at 

different restaurants yet now I eat here 

all the time. We have the best 

homemade. It is always made everyday. It is 

never frozen. You know that makes a 

difference. If I want to try something new I 

make it." he says. His favorite is the cacio pepe 


"We have only real traditional food recipes from 

my mother and father. My father's name was 

Tullio. My mother is Rema."He says as he 

introduces me to a tiny lovely white haired lady 

who starts to help prepare the vegatables. IS 

she the Capo? "Yes" Fabrizio says. Does 

everybody have to have white hair to work 

here? Fabrizio laughs and says, "We're getting 

old. All of us have earned it." You might

oma and Luciano says his too!. Luciano 

speaks only Italian and when I say that 

their restaurant reminds me of the 

Godfather in the scene in New York when 

Michael is eating the with cop...you know 

before he "pops" him of course. I say. 

Fabrizio laughs and says "yes let's hope 

before." 

And the funnest thing for Fabrizio? When a 

foreign person tries a special and loves it. 

think that the students and the young 

backpacker's couldn't afford it? Special 

lunch menus of all-inclusive with 

drinks...10Es. Wow and seriously the 

pasta is 6.Es to 8Es...Now that is cool. 

"Mostly we have familys. People are 

people...some gentle some rude. You 

know it depends on the person not 

cultures though. I would love to see the 

young people find us." 

Alright now that is a fun cool night. Can you imagine eating great pasta home-made from 1948 Italian 

recipes and drinking great wine(they have a good wine list) and asking the guy to play the guitar! 


Is it more and more competitive these days? "Yes," he says. "You know we are old-school traditional and 

the foreign and American people seem to love that. Yet the Italians can find that in their mom's kitchens. So 

they like the new Italian restaurants. The good thing is if you have been in business since 1948 you have the 

best connections to the best mercatos the best butchers etc. That is competitive amongst us and the 

newbys. Yet we have loyal mercato suppliers and we choose the best." 

Paolo, his friend at the restaurant says "I am a 

agent of wine. A wine agent. I have known Khaled 


15 years and my father was a wine agent the last 

38 years. He is a special person. I deliver wine to 10 

restaurants in Rome and his is super special. We go 

to vineyards to drink wine with each other. Here 

try the wine from Camigliano ...it is from my 

agency,"his friend says. I drink the wine and we 

chat about life. When I try to describe Khaled, 

Paolo says, "He is a simple person. He is here 20 

hrs. per day. He sleeps up in the loft!" he jokes. 

Khaled brings a picture of his 3 children, who are 

beautiful and shows me the picture and the 3 of us 

walk around the corner to his wife's wine store. 

"Here is some chocolates and wine." and we talk 

about how lucky both of these people are to have 

such lives of drinking the best wine of Italy 

everyday and eating the best food of Rome 

everyday. Wow. 

Pasta! Love from Tunisia... via Palermo 

63...Rome Italy... 

https://www.facebook.com/pastaloveroma/info/? 

tab=overview 

0039 06 474 017 1 

http://www.pasta-love.com/ 


Khaled speaks little english, is originally 

from Tunisia,is married to a Italian girl, and 

owns a Italian chic elegant wine bar 

restaurant, but don't let that fool you. The 

minute you walk into the exquisite, 

beautiful, unbelievable work of art that is his 

restaurant remember you are in Rome! It is 

simply beautiful. It has "All the corks on 

the wall, ya ya is from us the team 

drinking the wine every night from 10 

years. We gave Khaled the corks and 

he build the wall," says his waiter 

When I ask Khaled why he came to Rome? 

He leans to me and laughs, "For my wife! 

Ha! Love!" he gushes when he talks of his 

life in Italy. Does he miss Tunisia? "No. I am 

Italian." he says. "I love Italy. I love my 

bambinos. I made the wonderful restaurant 

and wine bar with my own ideas. No 

architect. Only me. I have it now 10 years. 

Badru has been with me 9 years. My chef 

makes the recipes that I choose from 

everywhere in Italy. I love when my 

children come here to eat. A couple of 

times a week." I say that they should 

come everyday! The menu is a little 

expensive but check out the decor! 

And the wine. Yum! And the food... 

Salmon,ostriche, pignatello di 

polipetti, fettuccine funghi porcini, 

gnocchi vongole e porcini, lambatina 

dei colli senesi,filetto di bufalo ai 

ferri... 


from Bangledesh, Badru. Is anybody 

real Italian in the restaurant? I ask 

Khaled. "No!" he laughs and humbly 

shakes his head. The word for the simple 

man who owns the empire of Pasta Love! is 

humble. 

"he is born a chef. He loves his job, his work, 

his life. He is in the kitchen and out saying hi 

to guests. He is everywhere and you never 

even notice him!" says Paolo of Khaled. 

True. When we went to his wife's wine 

Enoteca I admired a porcellin woman 

with spices inside her...Soon without 

me knowing how he got it is wrapped 

up and gifted to me! Amazing. 



When I came to Italy my first day of my journey of the international newspaper on cultural activities 


and fun things to do around the world I had a lot of people asking me about types and the reason that 

stereotypes is existing is that most of these ring true. The Specialty Boutique named I Vicini Bistrot 

is one such place. It is as Italian countryside real Vineyard as you can get! "My family owns a 

vineyard and a farm in Tuscany and the year of 2013 the Cabernet we produce won as the best in 

the world in New York..." says Andrea along with his totally charming wife Luisa. "Here you must 

try," she says...which is her favorite saying as she says that a lot! find these cool young people at ... 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Vicini-Bistrot/718652791555574?ref=bookmarks 

"I love New York," Luisa says many times when I ask her about her travels...she has gone to 

America! Andreas says that yes he loves that too. "I lived in California," he says. "Here try it, " says 

Luisa as Andrea hands me a little spoon of "Red and Blue Fruit Cheese from France. It is from a tiny 

farmer provincial and it is only available from such as we. You can not buy it never in any store: only 

here it is." and when I try I say O my Love that is wonderful. Let me see I need to try it one more 

time! Yum it is the best in the world. It truly is. 

"We only have 5 tables and it is open from 12 to 

3:45 and closed at 4. reopen at 6:30pm. We do 

it everyday only the two of us. It is our business 

and we love to talk and meet the people yet we 

know that we're responsible for the business 

and we must work it ourselves, not hire people. 

I design the lights. That and the tables. Me and 

Luisa spent one month doing it all. Now in 3 

months we open the new site which is 300 

square meters and one section m the tiny bistro 


Luisa gives me a glass of the famous wine and a 

little taste of the salami as she prepares the 

house specialty of meats and cheese for a 

couple."Here you must try," she smiles happily 

and I taste the delicate salami with a little olive 

oil dripped on the bread. Um Yum.

of specialty hand chosen meats and cheeses and 

the other gallery showcasing my lighting 

designs," says Andrea. Think Runaway Bride 

Industrial lighting and you have the cool 

lightings that he does... 

The entire atmosphere is French swinging 20s 

cozy classy chic boutique set in a real Provincial 

Italian room and makes one want to linger all 

day talking about the literary works one is 

writing, directing, acting famous in...ciao. 

As I drink the little wine and taste the delicacies 

Luisa says, "We drove for 7 months everywhere 

from Italy to farmers to the countrysides to 

Vineyards. Then Spain, Then France. We stayed 

3 days with people that owned the farms where 

we buy meats and cheeses and the specialty 

products. We have a guest book here that we 

had the people write a special thankyou very 

much. Everyday the meat and cheeses vary 

since we have many different types brought to 

us new each day. We love it. Truly love it." 

http://www.ristoranteargallettoroma.com/ 


Aaa the wonderful world of google translations... "the owner of the restaurant is here since the 1600s ...right 

next ot us in that little Trattoria and in here they only had the Italian food...now since the 37 years ago we 

have a mix of Naples and Roman Italian dishes and of course there is the French," he says. Angelo is his 

name! He is pictured here with his favorite actress, Ziva, who happens to play a character that is my 

favorite! I ask if his food is French since the French embassy is here and that is why they made a French 

restaurant. "O yes the French come here they love the food. The French ambassador comes here 

everyday." And she eats the French food here? I happen to know the ambassador is a lady. "Why would she 

eat French food at a Italian restaurant? She loves Italian Food." says Angelo. But I thought you said your 

food is French? "No no not French. The French embassy is across the piazza, the food we have is Italian." O 

finally now I understand:) 




Located across from the FrenchEmbassy in Rome, 

at RISTORANTE AR GALLETTO | 104, Piazza 

Farnese - 00186 Roma | Tel. 06 6861714 | 


The staff is very funny, too, Allessandro and "his 

sister fight all the time", says Allessandro.... "I live 

with my sister, I work with my sister, It is too 

much time to spend with her! I need to have a life 

away from family!" he says. His sister is smiling at 

him and goes into the kitchen to help cook while 

Allesandro laughs and jokes with just about

everybody, especially his father, Angelo, who is a 

very nice guy. Every person that owns a business 

at Rome knows him and says that. 

Collezione JU'STO Autunno Inverno 2015/16 

Emanuele Magenta, the cool genius who thought of 

the concept of Justo Bags...mix and match and 

make your own...a store is at Rome...visit the Main 

website to find it from Milan...have fun. 

That's Just 

Via del Progresso, 12 

Peraga di Vigonza (PD) 

3500 Milan ITALY 

Tel. +3 9049 8095 499 

Trattoria DER PALLARO | 15, Largo Del Pallaro - 00186 Roma (RM) | P.I. 00764390589 | Tel.06 68801488 | info@trattoriaderpallaro.com | 


http://www.trattoriaderpallaro.com/ 

The most prestigious award the city of 

Rome gives to any restaurant in the 

city...must have been in existence at 

least 50 years continually...only a 

handful have ever received it. 

One of the most beautiful ladys that I 

have ever met both inside and outside is 

of the lady! She has the most beautiful 

skin of a woman that is 72 years old. 

Wow. While waiting in the enclosed garden one 

night to taste her famous prefixed dinner(along 

with about 125 guests) a immigration lady 

named Agnetta who handles the Rome sector 

came and sat at my table. We laughed all night 

long as Lady kept coming to my table kissing 

my cheek. "Check out the skin," says 

Agnetta,"I asked her one time...how does 

the skin stay such lovely and without 

wrinkles? and she says, that is since I am 

cooking all day and night for 53 years. 


Lady says to me that she loves to cook. 

That when she is at home during the day 

to rest she is sad. So sad. She comes back 

to work and waits for her people. She has 

never taken a vacation one day! In the 

53 years of her life. And check out her 

building where everyday tour groups 

come to see the basement of the theater 

house...inside the restaurant below is 

where the real Julius Ceasar had a stone 

room and carved markings on the wall 

with a knife! Talk about that being cool! 

this is history. 

The steam from my pots keep my skin 

fresh." It is true. People pay millions at spas! 

every year around the world to receive skin 

that beautiful... 

Angelo and Umbria is all they will tell me when I ask their 

names and they laugh hysterically when I repeat it and 

ask if that is right...is that they're names? I guess they 

care about their food, not what it is named! 

Hostaria 31 Via delle Carrozze, 31(Piazza di Spagna) 

http://www.hostariaal31.com/ 


The two characters here are a couple of things to 

say...1 they are cousines, 2 they only speak Italian, 3 

they have a wonderful sense of humor, 4 they have 

been working about 45 and 43 years at the 

restaurant and they love what they do. The food is 

real Italian Old School right near the Spanish steps. 

They have secrets the old Italian way and it is a good 

thing I dont know Italian! Loved both of em. Ciao. 

From googling translating a couple of guests I 

gather that they use the Mercato for all of the items 

everyday. When I say that I saw Cows hanging at 

the Mercato with peoples names on them they start 

laughing again! And add a few of their own! 

"If I didn't love being a cook I wouldn't be a cook," is all 

that Umbria will tell me with the help of google translate! 


Ristorante Arco di San Calisto 

Via Arco di San Calisto 45 

0039 06 581 8323 

The papa is below a 

gentleman that speaks 

Italian only and gives 

great kisses on my 

cheeks when he tells me 

all about the restaurant 

in...Italian! 

It is a wonderful restaurant 

howev er if y ou plan on eating 

later than 1 9:00 y ou m ight 

hav e to wait 

awhile...although it has the 

indoor dining that y ou see on 

the right it has additional 

outside seatings in two alley s 

with lov ely v iews. Cool 

http://www.teampenninglazio.it/ 

am biance funny guests... 

http://www.ustpa.com/?cat=about 

Below is Andreas on the phone chatting while his wife takes care of 

their 4th bambino. A family atmospher Andreas says, "I really love 

the cowboys. I am the leader in Lazio of the International Rodeo 

here and win every year. Soon I am going to Fort Worth to compete 

with the American Cowboys! " His walls and shelves are adorned 

with trophies and pictures... They herd cows in the ring inside the 

rodeo! (USTPA was form ed in 1 993 and now proudly represents 

Team Penners and Ranch Sorters from around the world) "The 

restaurant is busy all the tim e. Me and m y brother Marcelo run it 

ev ery day . And m y papa and m am a. We hav e 3 of us brothers and 

one sister." When I ask how m any of the fam ily is here ev ery day . 

Trust m e as y ou see from abov e it is crazy all the tim e. As I try to 

find a standing place, "O it is calm here now. You should see it 

when it is really crazy !" The waiter say s as he and about 5 staff 

people zoom in and out carry ing tray s. Fast fast fast. 


"My mother makes the pasta fresh everyday. It isn't 

bought in a store and she comes here everyday. 

We've been at the location since the 1950's and since 

1959 it has been the restaurant that it is today. " 

When I ask the mama her favorite food here? She says "The 

steaks!" 

Questa foto di Ristorante Arco di S. Calisto è offerta da TripAdvisor. 


http://www.tavernatrilussa.it/ 

"Everybody knows the restaurant," says the owner 

Massimo, his brother Maurizio is a personal friend of 

Roger Federer the tennis star. His tennis rackets 

adorn the walls! "Last night we had Sarah Jessica 

Parker as a guest. And of course a Saudi Arabian 

Princess. We always catering to Princes and 

Princesses, "he says. Yet the funny thing is as we talk 

in walks two people from Minnesota, America. A 

mother and daughter and they make reservations to 

dine at 8pm that night. "We're always doing 

reservations. Every night it is busy." he says as he 

shows me the restaurant and laughing I stop him. 

Wait a minute I say. Here is Roger Federer's(my 

favorite tennis player) tennis rackets, Sarah Jessica 

Parker is in here last night plus a couple of Saudi 

Arabian princesses thrown in and he stops his 

conversations casually writes down the normal 

people's reservations and carrys on showing me the 

GORGEOUS RESTAURANT.! How do you treat 

everybody the same°? I ask. 

The maestro at work readying his restaurant to 

greet the evening's guests... "We're famous for 

our pasta and the steaks of course. But most 

people love the pasta here. " 

He is down to earth and informal in the beautiful 

formal environment. IT is such an elegant place 

seriously. Yet something about it is unique and 

special. It seems like coming home to Christmas and 

everybody just grabs a table and a bottle of wine and 


"O y es ev ery body is the sam e," 

he say s. Ev ery body is as 

im portant as the next person." 

That is his philosophy ... 

sits and chats...intimate. "Yes of course 

internationals come here everyday everyday 

it is someone new! The Airline the Emirates 

styles the Italian cuisine from my 

restaurant" he says. Now that is an honor! 

I say. 

http://www.casacoppelle.com/ 

When the owner showed me around the 

restaurant all that I could say is wow wow 


"It is definitely a place that one comes to 

have a elegant dinner. If you like to dress

wow. It is stunnigly beautiful set amongst the 

Square Coppelle...she along with her Italian 

husband had zero capital when they started 

the restaurant some years ago and it just 

shows what hard work and entreprenurial 

skills can give you! They hired last year 

the famous designer(who until he had a 

free hand with her restaurant had only 

designed hotels such as the Ritz Carlton 

4 star.) "Garcia is amazing and when we 

hired him we told him do whatever 

magic it is that you do! It took him one 

year of planning and one month to 

implement since I told him all I could 

afford to close my restaurant is one 

month!" she says laughing. The owners 

of the cool restaurant are Omar and Rachelle 

Capparuccini. Rachelle said that they fell in 

love with Garcia's style and had to have him! 

in Gucci and Yves St. Laurent you can fit 

right in. Or a couple on a once in a 

lifetime excursion to Rome, a romantic 

interlude, a private business dinner. IT is 

that beautiful and exclusive." she says. 

And it is. The staff and team are super 

nice although they dress formally they 

make you feel comfortable. And the food 

amazing! 

RISTORANTE CASA COPPELLE 

PIAZZA DELLE COPPELLE, 49 - 00186 ROMA - 

ITALY 

TEL. +39 06 68.89.17.07 


"I used to be a rickshaw driver two years and worked my butt off, then me and my young 

girlfriend started the rental bike company with 10 bikes and now one year later from 

working really long hrs. and trying our best we have Vespas and bikes and carriages. It is 

soooo cool to be my own owner," he says. Fun and Honest...call and reserve 

today...Francesco Lapenna via de San Paolo alla Regola 33 

call 003 906 88 9 22 365 



http://www.romarentbike.com/ "In addition if a family wants to rent a 

stroller it is 48E for 3 days and we deliver 

the baby carriage to the hotel. I thought that 

is a cool thing to do to." says the happy young 

owner.

is the sillys on the bikes... 

Here 

LEFT YOUR BAGS TO US! 


STOP THE STRESS! Francesco says he now has baggage storage and I am 

100% sure the minute people read my website and know they can leave 

their bags with him they-ll have to buy a new storeroom! 

http://www.saporedimarearoma.it Via del Pie di Mare 06 67 80968 

https://www.facebook.com/Ristorante-Sapore-di.../timeline 


"Richard with Virgin Airlines is a great guy. 

Honestly most of the stars are the best. They 

are usually super nice and love to have fun. 

Meryle Streepe is my ultimate favorite and she 

loves to have a good time. Drinks a lot of wine," 

he says. "I loved her so much I named a 

menu item for 1,000Euros after her. It 

has every sea food item of ours on it and 

can feed about 10 people. It is named 

the Merlye Streepe!" and I start 

laughing and say that he should throw 

Merlye Streepe in for 1,000euros. 

The coolness of Simone who along with 

his partners(3 total) own Sapore di 

Mare is that he is such a teddy bear 

compared to his huge size. "I did a series 

on television that is famous in Italy named 

Romanzo Criminale because the director used 

to come in here and thought I looked like a 

tough guy. We have tons of stars and politicians 

mostly since it is a very good fish restaurant." 

he says, pictured here with one of the biggies. 

Meanwhile on the other side of town away from the Panthenon where Sapore di Mare is located is 

another very famous fish restaurant named Pierluigi. It is elegant and political and has its fair 

share of movie stars including Mark Zuckerberg and Matthew McConaughey. If you are into 

people watching and come to dinner without reservations be prepared to wait but you can enjoy 

the continual television of famous guests at the classy brass bar while you sip great cocktails and 

wait for that once in a lifetime catch of the day! Located at Piazza de Ricci 144 Roma. 003 

9 06 68 61 302 

And of course Quintin Tarantino! 

of course my favorite Hillary Clinton 



Piazza Navona 94/10 

06 686 1547 

The gorgeous view of Piazza Navona! 

http://www.ristorantetucciroma.it/ 

Pietro Tucci in his domain. He,along with his family, own 3 of 

the most famous restaurants on the Piazza Navona. 


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