Hello! For my birthday dinner the other night, four friends and I traveled to the neighborhood of Trastevere. One of our SLA's, Jim, gave us some advice about where to go in search of a good carpaccio. Carpaccio is my favorite dish at Francesca's back home, so I figured it would be easy to find around here. However, it is not. Jim told us about a good place for aperativo (appetizers and drinks, usually purchased by glass of wine with accompanying all-you-can-eat appetizers and fingerfood) in Trastevere. It took us a while to get to our destination. We took the 990 bus to Piazza Cavour and then got on the 280. When we were waiting for the 280 we met a very nice German girl named Anna. She is living in Rome and happens to be fluent in 5 or 6 languages, including English. She helped us by telling us what stop to exit from and how far to walk. Since we arrived about 2 hours after we had left the JFRC, we had missed the prime time for appetizers, and the aperativo had long passed. So we found a restaurant to eat at instead. Trastevere is a very active neighborhood, so it was very easy to pick and choose what restaurant to go to. Our dinner was wonderful for the most part. I wasn't pleased with my prosciutto bruschette, which I expected to come with tomato and various other seasonings in addition to the prosciutto. Unfortunately, I received a very hard piece of toast with a piece of prosciutto layed on top. At least our other food was delicious! We ordered a few pizzas which were very different from American pizza for about €5-7. There was much less cheese and much more flavor. The best thing that we ordered was carciofi all romana for €2. This was a huge artichoke with the top cut off sitting on the plate up-side-down (see picture to left). It was sumptuous. Completely heavenly. I cannot wait to order it again the next time I see it on the menu.
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