Yummmm!!! The best!!
My family is from Arpino!! The most amazing town you've never heard of or been to in Italy :) Mainly because we'd know about it If any English speaking tourists ever come through here! Most people can't speak it! And we know every single person in town!!
So this!!! This restaurant!! It's been there!! Probably for all my every year visit for a good 12 years now! I only rave out it so much!! Built before Rome was built! 4000 years old castle! Cobble stone roads! One bar, one butcher shop, agriturissimos, best produce, magical place of everyone know when I visit town! :)
I've never been out to a restaurant when I visit because we have families and they pretty much feed you 2 hours long breakfast, 4 hours lunches and 4 hours dinners!! It's a feast marathon!! And if we do go out, we go out to one place that grow everything on the property for my favorite: lamb!! Gnocchi! Etc!! It's a lavish 12-14 course meals!!
Came here because we had that lavish lunch for 4 hours! And Italy was playing that night! Everyone wanted to go to a bar and eat sandwiches, salami! Of course! I need a pasta! So viola!! Made it to the only pizzeria in town!!! Almost didn't get to eat it since they were so busy!!!
But wow!! The menu!! I love how small it was but also how big!! 6-8 types of pizza, one pasta!! One!! One steak, one something else. And a lot of fun desserts!! One very frustrated waitress!! 2 rooms full of customers!!
It was perfect!!! Nobody ate pasta since we were all eating light!! Well except me! My pasta was AHMAZING!! It's just a tomato pasta!!! Plain and simple!! No nothing else!! And I actually finished my food for once!!! The house made peppers were the best part!!! I've never been so happy to not eat at home before!! Crazy!!
And crazier thing!! I really don't have a clue how much anything cost here ever!! I can't buy or pay for a single thing whenever I'm here!! Not even a cup of coffee!! I'm never allowed!! My family takes care of everything. This one being a restaurant! I saw the prices!!
It was a €6 pasta!!! €6!! I always come for a month here. I spent a whole month in Europe: from Paris to San Sebastián to Capri to all over Italy!! And this! €6 pasta was the most memorable pasta pomodoro in entire month!!!!! Best in all of May! June! And even now!! Shame I won't be able to go back! I mean! Homefood!! It was the best!! Oh and wine pour right out of their barrels!! Wine by weight!!!! €4 get you a goblet!!!!! :) read more