This is a conglomerate of the last 5 or 6 visit...
This is a conglomerate of the last 5 or 6 visits I've made. It's in an uninspiring location tucked in the corner of a kind of mall with a large car park outside and weirdly, an all night poker club. Food can be better than average with a good menu. The ambiance is nice, whether inside the building or in the little olive tree lined terrazzo. But the prices are much higher than nearby restaurants and the food isn't 50% better as the prices are. It depends on what you order. A hamburger here for example is not as good as in Fattoria a mile up the Cassia and the pasta is not better than restaurants in Formello but there are some dishes that are exceptional e.g. the Melanzane and some of the fish. They are also less laid back with children than other places, and turned away a group of us recently when we wanted to have a table of adults and for a birthday treat a table of 4 beautifully behaved 10 year old girls, dressed for a special dinner who wanted to sit at an adjacent table. It was apparently 'policy.' After 18 months of living in Italy it's the only kind of policy for anything seen in action, and strange it was levelled at children. But maybe they had bad experiences in the past, which I can imagine. So it's a mixed score card. The atmosphere is good and the design concept taken seriously if that's what you like. It's always full of stylish locals and tables of teenagers so it must count as trendy for this part of the North Cassia. Depends on what you're looking for.
