Until a few years ago, when we were doing a
full-day tour, and we had to stop for lunch somewhere, one of our favored stops was a place on the
Old Appian Way, run by a very nice old lady who cooked very
traditional Roman food.
No extensive menu, the dishes of the day were just written on a blackboard, you had two or three choices and that was it, but everything was fantastic!
Her name was Franca and she treated us like
we were her nephews.
The place she ran had been a restaurant of sort since the 1500’s and it still had the original doors! Nonetheless, the building that housed it had been originally the tomb of a Roman noble.