IL Drappo

Frommer's Review

A favorite of the local artsy crowd, Il Drappo lies on a narrow street near the Tiber and is run by a woman known to regulars only as "Valentina." You have your choice of two tastefully decorated dining rooms festooned with patterned cotton draped from the ceiling. Flowers and candles are everywhere. Fixed-price dinners reflecting diverse choices might begin with wafer-thin carte di musica (literally, "sheet-music paper"), a flat, layered bread topped with tomatoes, green peppers, parsley, and olive oil, and then followed with fresh spring lamb in season or fish stew made with tuna caviar. For dessert, try the seadas (cheese-stuffed fried cake in special dark honey). Valentina's cuisine is a marvelous change of pace from the typical Roman diet, with an inventiveness that keeps us coming back.

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