Come, Eat Here!

Like many of the piazzas found throughout Rome, Piazza Navona is encircled by ristorantes and shops. When one walks by, most times there will be servers trying to get you to sit outdoors and try their food. My classmates and I got lured into one such eatery when starving after class one day. It happened to be the first place we looked at and decided to just sit down.

Lunch was good, but the waiter was probably better, seeing as he continuously put on a show for us. He joked around with us, referring to my roommate Jackie as "Blondie" and exclaiming how everyone spoke Italian that day after we had ordered our meals. He looked at the bottom of the wine bottle when it was empty, insinuatind there was a hole in it because we had finished. The whole thing probably happens dozens of times in a day, and we were just a few out of his audience.

This type of thing happens daily in Rome, where a worker tries to lure you in with their menu, but not all the time do the servers play so much to their diners. When I first thought of him calling Jackie "Blondie" I thought it was kind of rude, but now that I think about it, people in the United States do that all the time and it makes for a better dining experience. So even if the food may have been over priced because of the touristy Piazza Navona, this Italian kept us entertained and having fun throughout our lunch in the hot sun, and I would go back, if only to see if he pulls the same tricks again.