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Veteran journalist Matthew Vadum edits Organization Trends and Foundation Watch. He previously worked in the Washington bureau of The Bond Buyer newspaper. While a reporter for the Central Penn Business Journal in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he won an award for outstanding legal journalism from the Pennsylvania Bar Association for an article that focused on employment law. He holds an M.A. in American Studies from Georgetown University. An expert on the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), Vadum's book, "Subversion Inc.: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers," was published by WND Books in May 2011.
Briefly Noted: May 2014
Cincinnati-area members of Al Sharpton's National Action Network (NAN) made headlines when they embraced one of their own: serial vote fraud felon Melowese Richardson. At a "voting rights" rally, Richardson was called to the stage and given a hero's welcome after NAN campaigned to free her less than a year into her five-year prison term. The group argued that she received an inappropriately harsh sentence because she is black. At the event Sharpton accused Republicans of trying to suppress the vote, saying it "is all a scheme to disempower and disenfranchise the vote in Ohio." The MSNBC bloviator said, "Nobody gave us the right to vote and nobody is going to give it to us now. We fought for it and we're going to fight for our right to keep it."
Sharpton himself was recently outed as an FBI informant (he claims his life was threatened by gangsters) by The Smoking Gun website. Sharpton was referred to in FBI documents as "C1-7"—short for confidential informant #7—in secret court filings. "In those documents, investigators vouched for him as a reliable, productive, and accurate source of information about underworld figures," the website reports.
Judicial Watch released internal IRS documents revealing that former IRS official Lois Lerner communicated with the Department of Justice (DoJ) about whether it was possible to criminally prosecute certain conservative and Tea Party tax-exempt entities. The documents were obtained as a result of an October 2013 Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that Judicial Watch filed against the IRS after the agency refused to respond to four FoIA requests dating back to May 2013.
Philanthropy Notes: May 2014
Under fire from left-wing activists who want the Washington Redskins football team to change its name, owner Dan Snyder has created the Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation in an attempt to deflect criticism. Although few Native American Indians are actually offended by the term redskins—in fact, the word Oklahoma is Choctaw Indian for red people—Snyder and his staff took a 20-state tour of Indian country and suddenly became interested in helping the nation's native peoples.
"The more I heard, the more I've learned, and the more I saw, the more resolved I became about helping to address the challenges that plague the Native American community," Snyder said. "In speaking face-to-face with Native American leaders and community members, it's plain to see they need action, not words." By making excuses, accepting false premises, and pandering to the Left, Snyder is repeating the same mistakes that corporate America has made for decades. The activists always come back for more.
Former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Margolies (D-Pa.), Chelsea Clinton's mother-in-law who now seeks to return to Congress, has doubled her salary as head of a small taxpayer-supported charity, the Washington Free Beacon reports. Margolies, who still runs Women's Campaign International, "used the charity in 2001 following then-husband Democratic Rep. Ed Mezvinsky's fraud indictment for a variety of self-serving purposes such as leasing and renovating a historic Philadelphia mansion for her to live in." When Margolies founded the charity in 1998, she paid herself $1,000 weekly, but increased her draw after scoring a $600,000 grant from the Clinton administration's U.S. Agency for International Development. When her husband's fraud came to light in 2001, the charity doubled her salary, placing it in the six figures. She also reportedly "attempted to have the charity renovate and lease a mansion in which she would live, billed the charity for her automobile lease and other expenses, and required charity staff to assist with her other responsibilities as a faculty member at a local university."
Philanthropy Notes: April 2014
Singer Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation is in the news because it blew big bucks on overhead expenses while devoting hardly any of its resources to actual charitable endeavors. The foundation of the New York-based entertainer, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, raked in $2.66 million in 2012, "but paid out just a single $5,000 grant, while spending $50,000 on social media," the Daily Mail reports. The philanthropy spent more than $500,000 on its 23-event "Born To Be Brave" bus tour, which supposedly sought to reach out to disillusioned young people. It also spent $406,552 on legal fees, $300,000 for "strategic development," and $150,000 for "philanthropic consulting."
First Lady Michelle Obama has thrown her lot in with the movement, started by Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and promoted by Girl Scouts USA, to ban the word "bossy." Mrs. Obama tweeted that she was "encouraging girls to lead #BanBossy." Sandberg, who wrote the book Lean In to push "women to pursue their ambitions," says that "leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression." But as TruthRevolt.org notes, "the bossy women now trying to boss everyone into not saying the word 'bossy' seem immune to the irony of their position. More and more, the left seems to equate the word 'leadership' with following the crowd and doing only what is prescribed as politically correct."
Briefly Noted: April 2014
Lois Lerner, the former head of the IRS's tax-exempt division, orchestrated a crackdown on Tea Party and conservative groups and then attempted to scapegoat those nonprofits during the 2010 and 2012 election cycles, blaming them for the harsh treatment they received at her instigation, according to an official report released last month by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. "Many questions remain, including the identities of others at the IRS and elsewhere who may have known about key events and decisions she undertook," the report stated. "Americans, and particularly those Americans who faced mistreatment at the hands of the IRS, deserve the full documented truth that both Lois Lerner and the IRS have withheld from them." President Obama has said that there was not even "a smidgen of corruption" in the IRS affair.
After Federal Communications Commission member Ajit Pai revealed that the Obama administration was planning to do a study and "send researchers to grill reporters, editors and station owners about how they decide which stories to run," People for the American Way's "Right Wing Watch" blog shrugged off civil libertarians' concerns about the disturbing plan. On Feb. 20, PfAW blogger Kyle Mantyla tried to spin the story by claiming that the FCC was "not going to be stationing agents in local news stations all over the country in order to monitor their reporting, as the Right has been frantically proclaiming." But after a fierce backlash, the very next day an FCC spokeswoman said the agency was withdrawing the plan after its chairman determined "that survey questions in the study directed toward media outlet managers, news directors, and reporters overstepped the bounds of what is required." She added, "Any subsequent market studies conducted by the FCC, if determined necessary, will not seek participation from or include questions for media owners, news directors or reporters."
In Memoriam: Noel Sheppard
Media critic and blogger extraordinaire Noel Sheppard lost his brief battle to cancer on March 28.
My friend was only 53.
An irrepressible, energetic blogger, Noel set the standard for media criticism at NewsBusters.
In short, he took no prisoners in his daily battles with left-wing journalists.
Sheppard was a one-time Capital Research Center contributor and he was cited in our work many times over the years. Sheppard co-authored "Inside the Disinformation Machine: A Look at the Left's New Media Operation," which appeared in the September 2008 issue of Foundation Watch.
Other tributes to Noel: Thomas Lifson at American Thinker; Matt Sheffield at NewsBusters; Brent Bozell at NewsBusters; and Debra Heine at Breitbart News.
Briefly Noted: March 2014
Lois Lerner, the former head of the IRS's tax-exempt division, orchestrated a crackdown on Tea Party and conservative groups and then attempted to scapegoat those nonprofits during the 2010 and 2012 election cycles, blaming them for the harsh treatment they received at her instigation, according to an official report released last month by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. "Many questions remain, including the identities of others at the IRS and elsewhere who may have known about key events and decisions she undertook," the report stated. "Americans, and particularly those Americans who faced mistreatment at the hands of the IRS, deserve the full documented truth that both Lois Lerner and the IRS have withheld from them." President Obama has said that there was not even "a smidgen of corruption" in the IRS affair.
After Federal Communications Commission member Ajit Pai revealed that the Obama administration was planning to do a study and "send researchers to grill reporters, editors and station owners about how they decide which stories to run," People for the American Way's "Right Wing Watch" blog shrugged off civil libertarians' concerns about the disturbing plan. On Feb. 20, PfAW blogger Kyle Mantyla tried to spin the story by claiming that the FCC was "not going to be stationing agents in local news stations all over the country in order to monitor their reporting, as the Right has been frantically proclaiming." But after a fierce backlash, the very next day an FCC spokeswoman said the agency was withdrawing the plan after its chairman determined "that survey questions in the study directed toward media outlet managers, news directors, and reporters overstepped the bounds of what is required." She added, "Any subsequent market studies conducted by the FCC, if determined necessary, will not seek participation from or include questions for media owners, news directors or reporters."
Briefly Noted: March 2014
Conservative grassroots groups FreedomWorks, Club for Growth Action Fund, Senate Conservatives Fund, and the Tea Party Patriots, raised $20 million last year, according to news reports. "This is by far the biggest nonelection year we've ever had," said Matt Hoskins, executive director of the Senate Conservatives Fund. "It shows how committed people are to electing true conservatives and to advancing conservative principles." The three groups run by GOP consultant Karl Rove — American Crossroads (super PAC), Crossroads GPS, Conservative Victory Project (super PAC) — took in a combined $6.1 million in 2013. In the 2012 election cycle, American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS together raised $325 million.
Republicans are fighting back against proposed new IRS rules that they say would make formal the tax agency's infamous crackdown on Tea Party groups that oppose the Obama agenda, stripping them of their free speech rights during election cycles. The new rules, first unveiled around Thanksgiving when no one was paying attention, would prevent so-called 501(c)(4) social welfare/advocacy groups from participating in certain kinds of political activity. Such nonprofit organizations would be prevented from communicating with voters about candidates or political parties within 60 days of a general election. "Every American needs to know about this abuse of power," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) said in a recent speech on the Senate floor. Although new IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said he did not participate in drafting the rules, he has refused demands to block their implementation. Senate Democrats such as Mark Begich (Alaska) and Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) are demanding that the IRS crack down further on right-leaning nonprofits like Americans for Prosperity.
Some groups on the left don't support the proposed IRS regulations. The American Civil Liberties Union said that "[s]ocial welfare organizations praise or criticize candidates for public office on the issues and they should be able to do so freely, without fear of losing or being denied tax-exempt status, even if doing so could influence a citizen's vote." Such advocacy is "the heart of our representative democracy" and if social welfare groups influence voting, they do so only by "promoting an informed citizenry."
Philanthropy Notes: March 2014
Activists marching in North Carolina last month were asked to bring valid photo identification in order to participate in an NAACP-hosted protest against voter ID laws in Raleigh. Although the NAACP and other left-of-center groups argue that voter ID laws are racist and discriminate against poor and minority voters, the ID the NAACP was insisting upon was exactly the kind of ID that they would be required to present at a polling place.
As Hillary Clinton seems to be gearing up for a 2016 presidential run, Bill Clinton's presidential foundation is clamping down on public access to papers from Mr. Clinton's term as Arkansas governor, Washington Free Beacon reports. The former president donated his gubernatorial papers to the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) in 2003, and they are located at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies in Little Rock. But the foundation, which owns the papers, is now denying all public access requests. "The documents could provide new insight into the early chapter of the Clintons' political careers, as reporters take a second look at Hillary Clinton's past in light of the information contained in the public materials of the Diane Blair collection. Hillary Clinton played a key role in her husband's health care and education initiatives during his time as governor, from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992."
Kriss Deiglmeier has become the San Francisco-based Tides network's fourth CEO in four years, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reports. She replaces Gary Schwartz, the interim president of Tides who will return to his previous post as senior vice president at Tides. Deiglmeier comes to the extreme-left philanthropic network after serving as executive director of Stanford University's Center for Social Innovation. She refused to disclose her salary but her predecessor in 2012 earned $634,434 in total compensation from Tides Foundation and Tides Center, according to publicly available tax filings. Tides founder Drummond Pike left the network in 2010.
Building a Radical Foundation: The Glaser Progress Foundation makes no bones about its focus on far-left activism
Building a Radical Foundation: The Glaser Progress Foundation makes no bones about its focus on far-left activism
By Matthew Vadum, Foundation Watch, March 2014 (PDF here)
Summary: Although the Glaser Progress Foundation was made possible by the great wealth its benefactor garnered from a mere decade's work at Microsoft, it aims to change the country radically. To that end, it works with left-wing agitators at such groups as the Democracy Alliance, Media Matters for America, and Demos.
Often when wealthy left-wingers endow an eponymous foundation, they fade into the woodwork, preferring to let their money do the talking. Not so with software magnate Rob Glaser, a well-connected high-dollar Democratic donor best known for founding RealNetworks, a prominent Internet company. Glaser has been a supporter of Barack Obama since Obama's 2004 U.S. Senate run, according to DiscoverTheNetworks. In 2010, Glaser and his wife hosted a $10,000-a-plate lunch event with President Obama at their Seattle home, the same year Glaser attended a White House forum on technology and government.
Glaser had previously donated $50,000 to Obama's 2009 inauguration fund. But Glaser did still more in the 2008 electoral cycle; he also helped Al Franken (D) procure his Minnesota U.S. Senate seat by first "maxing out" to the candidate with $4,600 for his regular campaign, and then contributing $12,300 after the election to the Franken Recount Fund. During the bitter recount battle for this Senate seat, Franken's team used means so outrageous that the Wall Street Journal declared that Franken's opponent, Norm Coleman "didn't lose the election. He lost the fight to stop the state canvassing board from changing the vote-counting rules after the fact."
In the 2004 electoral cycle, Glaser reportedly gave more than $1 million to defeat George W. Bush. So it's no surprise that Glaser is an ally of George Soros, who poured tens of millions of dollars into the fight against Bush in 2004. Nor is it surprising that Glaser is also a leading member of Soros's Democracy Alliance, an invitation-only donors' collaborative for rich left-wingers. Created in the aftermath of the 2004 elections, which brought stinging defeats to the Left in battles for the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives, the Alliance is a financial clearinghouse for those who want to move America farther to the left.
Clinton administration official Rob Stein founded the Democracy Alliance with the aim of creating a permanent political infrastructure of nonprofits, think tanks, media outlets, leadership schools, and activist groups—a kind of "vast left-wing conspiracy" to battle the conservative movement. The donors group has channeled its members' funds to fairly well-established pressure groups, watchdogs and think tanks, get-out-the-vote operations, and political action committees (PACs). It is intensely secretive. Members of the group meet twice a year to decide which causes to support with their checkbooks. (For more on the Alliance, see Foundation Watch, December 2008.)
Other ways that Glaser battled for the Left in the 2004 electoral cycle include his early support of America Coming Together (ACT), a large, ambitious Democratic get-out-the-vote operation created to affect the 2004 elections. Glaser donated $750,000 to ACT and talked his friends into donating as well. ACT folded in 2005 with little to show for the millions of dollars it raised and spent—with the exception of a $775,000 fine from the Federal Election Commission for illegally using unregulated "soft money" to support John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.
In the previous presidential election of 2000, Glaser donated both to Ralph Nader's Green Party campaign and also, less generously, to Al Gore's campaign on the Democratic ticket.
Early Years
When Glaser studied at Yale, graduating in 1983, his politics were "slightly to the left of Che Guevara," according to Bruce Jacobsen, a former RealNetworks executive who knew Glaser at the Ivy League school. Glaser once considered becoming a labor organizer, but instead he became a multi-millionaire thanks to his decade at Microsoft, where he worked on the Windows operating system and the word-processing program MS Word.
Briefly Noted: February 2014
Radical Bill de Blasio, New York City's newly sworn in 109th mayor, owes his political existence to Bertha Lewis, former chief organizer of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Lewis played a "critical behind-the-scenes" role in de Blasio's primary campaign, according to reports. New York ACORN's successor group, New York Communities for Change (NYCC), endorsed de Blasio early last year. NYCC field director Harold Miller, a Lewis protégé, helped run the mayor's field operation. Lewis stood behind de Blasio during his primary night victory address. De Blasio recognized the role that NYCC played in his campaign, tweeting, "Thanks to nychange members for coming out tonight!" Lewis gloated, "We're baacccck. The right wing will have to deal with it." Lewis is also a co-founder of the ACORN-affiliated Working Families Party and the ACORN spinoff group, the Black Institute.
The fact that in 2016 America's largest metropolis as well as the critical battleground state of Virginia will be under the control of longtime Clinton loyalists is bound to assist the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. De Blasio was campaign manager for Mrs. Clinton's successful U.S. Senate bid in New York State in 2000. Former Democratic National Committee chief and fundraiser extraordinaire Terry McAuliffe, a longtime Clinton crony, was sworn in as Virginia's 72nd governor on Jan. 11.


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11/28/2014 | Strop 'doing fine' after car accident in Dominican Republic
Cubs officials say reliever Pedro Strop is "doing fine" after being involved in a two-vehicle accident in the Dominican Republic on Thursday night.
11/26/2014 | Hoyer seeking improvements for Cubs' roster
The Cubs are among the teams waiting for free agent Jon Lester to decide where he'll pitch next season, but that isn't stopping general manager Jed Hoyer from trying to address other areas on the club that need improving.
11/26/2014 | Cubs' season of giving lasts all year long
In conjunction with Wrigley Field's 100th anniversary, Cubs Charities presented "100 Gifts of Service" in 2014, a year-long program that featured Cubs players, coaches and front office associates engaging in a variety of community service projects.
11/26/2014 | Cubs say bleachers may not be ready by opener
The Wrigley Field bleachers, currently undergoing a major renovation, may not be ready by Opening Night because of unseasonably cold weather and delays with related projects, but a contingency plan is in place for season-ticket holders, a Cubs spokesman said Wednesday.
11/24/2014 | Cubs Authentics unveil Wrigley Field Collection
The Cubs announced on Monday that Cubs Authentics, their official provider of game-used and authenticated memorabilia, has introduced the Wrigley Field Collection for fans looking to collect unique items from the historic ballpark.
11/24/2014 | After big dip in support, Smith hoping to close out Hall bid
Lee Smith fell from 50.6 percent in 2012 to 29.9 percent of the voting in last year's Hall of Fame balloting, but the former career saves leader has three years remaining to earn a spot in Cooperstown.
11/24/2014 | Sosa seeks turnaround in Hall of Fame balloting
Sammy Sosa's patience will be tested again this winter. After Sosa was denied entrance to the Hall of Fame in the first year he was on the ballot in 2013, he issued a statement, saying he was happy just to be included. Sosa, 46, will have more tough competition this year as the list of candidates includes first-timers John Smoltz, Randy Johnson, and Pedro Martinez. The Hall ballot was released Monday.
11/22/2014 | Cubs add Blanco to Maddon's coaching staff
Henry Blanco, who played for the Cubs from 2005-08, is back with the club, joining manager Joe Maddon's staff as a quality assurance coach.
11/21/2014 | Cubs, A's to play Spring Training games in Las Vegas
The Cubs are headed back to Las Vegas to play the Athletics in split-squad Spring Training games March 13-14.
11/21/2014 | Rizzo thanks Renteria, calls Maddon hiring 'exciting news'
Anthony Rizzo made a point of reaching out to Rick Renteria shortly after he was dismissed as the Cubs manager, but also has talked with new skipper Joe Maddon and can't wait to start working with him. Rizzo, who was in Chicago on Friday to promote his first "Laugh Off for Cancer" event Jan. 15, said the addition of Maddon was "exciting news."
11/20/2014 | Cubs add prospect Edwards to 40-man roster
The Cubs added pitcher C.J. Edwards to the 40-man roster Thursday, protecting the right-hander from being picked in the Rule 5 Draft.
11/20/2014 | Cubs prepare to protect prospects from Rule 5 Draft
Last December, Cubs pitcher Marcos Mateo was selected by the D-backs in the Rule 5 Draft, one of nine players picked in the Major League section. Mateo was reclaimed in March, but Chicago must protect its top prospects -- such as C.J. Edwards -- in order to keep them with the organization.
11/20/2014 | Ranking the top 25 prospects from the Arizona Fall League
The 23rd edition of the Arizona Fall League wrapped up with Salt River's win in the championship game over Peoria on Saturday. Once again, the AFL was jam packed with elite-level prospects. That made putting together a top prospects list fairly easy. There were so many good players, it was decided to expand the list to a Top 25, up from the typical 20.
11/19/2014 | NL Central projects to be most dominant division in 2015
As we speak, the most balanced, deepest and quite possibly toughest division in baseball is the National League Central. No other division can claim to have this much talent, established or youthful, spread throughout its five clubs.
11/19/2014 | MLB's last off-day in Japan loaded with culture, goodwill
Since they arrived in Japan 10 days ago, the squad of MLB All-Stars have been greeted warmly at every stop and they've embarked on a series of goodwill visits that have impacted them as much as the locals.
11/17/2014 | Cubs turn attention to Lester after losing out on Martin
The Cubs lost in their bid for catcher Russell Martin. Now, it's time to turn their attention to free-agent pitcher Jon Lester. Lester was expected to meet with the Cubs this week, according to reports, to consider whether to rejoin president of baseball operations Theo Epstein, who was the left-hander's general manager in Boston.
11/17/2014 | Pipeline Perspectives: Bryant, Lindor the next ROYs
Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant and shortstop Francisco Lindor of the Indians are projected to make big-time Major League contributions in 2015 that could land them Rookie of the Year Award hardware.
11/16/2014 | Cubs acquire infielder La Stella from Braves
The Cubs' middle infield just got a little more crowded. On Sunday, the Cubs acquired left-handed-hitting infielder Tommy La Stella from the Braves, as well as Atlanta's No. 4 international signing bonus slot, for pitcher Arodys Vizcaino and three international signing bonus slots.
11/16/2014 | Rizzo hosts third annual 'Walk-Off For Cancer' 5K
Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo blasted two walk-off home runs during his 2014 All-Star season. His latest came Sunday morning in his South Florida hometown for the third annual Walk-Off For Cancer at Pine Trails Park.
11/15/2014 | Top performances, prospects from 2014 Fall League
The Arizona Fall League is known as baseball's finishing school because it has graduated a ton of talent to the Major Leagues since it began play in 1992. Here are the development highlights from the AFL's 23rd season for all 30 big league organizations.
11/14/2014 | Rizzo being honored for charity work ahead of event
On Friday, Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo will be saluted for his charity work. On Sunday, he'll be busy raising money and awareness in the fight against cancer.
11/14/2014 | Opening Night rivalry: Cards-Cubs playing first in 2015
A new chapter in the classic Cardinals-Cubs rivalry will have a quick start, as those two teams are scheduled to meet April 5 at Wrigley Field in the Sunday Night Baseball opener on ESPN2 at 8 p.m. ET.
11/14/2014 | Respect trumps results for Iwakuma and Wada
Mariners righty Hisashi Iwakuma and Cubs lefty Tsuyoshi Wada were touched up for seven runs on Friday in their return to baseball in Japan, but they were nonetheless honored by the reception they received from their countrymen at the Tokyo Dome during Game 2 of the Japan All-Star Series.
11/12/2014 | Cubs trying to add pitching to solid base
The Cubs have a nice foundation in the rotation and their offseason search for a top-line starter and an innings-eater is crucial to their hopes of competing in the National League Central in 2015.
11/12/2014 | Cubs pick up right-hander Roach off waivers
The Cubs continued to stockpile pitchers, claiming right-hander Donn Roach off waivers from the Padres on Wednesday.
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Today Acron is a large holding producing over 40 chemical products, with an annual output exceeding 4.1 million tonnes. Acron owns and operates three agrochemical facilities: JSC Acron (Veliky Novgorod, Russia), JSC Dorogobuzh (Smolensk region, Russia) and Hongri Acron (Shandong province, People's Republic of China). The Holding also owns CJSC North-Western Phosphorous Company, with subsoil licenses to mine apatite-nepheline ore deposits, a sales arm called CJSC Agronova, the rail transportation operator CJSC Acron-Trans and two terminal complexes, LLC Andrex (Kaliningrad region, Russia) and AS BCT (Port of Sillamäe, Estonia).
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We'll be traveling all over Italy, so for our 3 days in Rome we want to focus mainly on typical Roman food but won't be slavishly devoted to it. Cost is no object, we're also not afraid of risky neighborhoods, but we easily get bored of what I'll call high end international with the same foie gras and lobster menus around the globe. We definitely want something that has a sense of being in Rome.
Al Bric, Sunday night, already have a reservation
Porto di Ripetta - fish - redundant if we're going to Sicily?
Checchino dal 1887 - excellent traditional Roman?
Trattoria Monti - more modern? Still good? Overrun by tourists?
Piperno? heard conflicting info about the menu aside from amazing artichokes...worth a dinner, or just go for lunch of artichokes and one or two other things?
Il Matriciano after Vatican
Paris, if Piperno doesn't work out
Sora Margherita - backup option
Cul de Sac - wine bar, snack or full meal
Tre Scalini, Alberto Pica, Gilitti, San Crispino
Bar Farnese
S Eustachio
---I need more espresso recommendations...I'm coming from a place with good espresso, so mainly I just need a quick fix once in a while and I'm not looking for a song and dance, just good beans and a well-pulled shot.
Special thanks to ejcSanFran for compiling a list that seemed to capture many of the Chowhound Rome favorits, quoted below:
"Thu, 10-09 - Checchino
Fri, 10-10 - Antico Arco
Sat, 10-11 - Paris (followed by late night clubbing
)Sun, 10-12 - Uno e Bino
Mon, 10-13 - Trattoria Monti
Tue, 10-14 - L'altro Mastai (is this a good romantic splurge choice?)
Wed, 10-15 - Da Felice
Thu, 10-16 - Lunch: Crudo or GiNa
Dinner: pizza (where?)
Fri, 10-17 - Agata e Romeo
Sat, 10-18 - La Piazzetta
Other places I've heard about:
Al Ceppo
Da Francesco – for pizza
Enoteca Ferrara
Est! Est! Est!
Giuda Ballerino
Il Fico
Osteria del Rione – Inexpensive prix-fixe; any good?
Ristorante da Ottavio
Vladimiro Ristorante"
The list from ejcSanFran listed Antico Arco. We were there a year ago October. Best meal in the 5 days we were in town. Great food, wine list, very reasonable for the quality and the staff could not have been nicer. Great space with wine bar when you walk in and 3 (?) more floors. We are going back in May and will there for sure. You won't be disappointed.
SteveG -- You have really researched this site ... I went to Rome twice last year on business/vacation and am going again in 2009. Let me give you some thoughts on some of the choices you note:
Trattoria Monti - more modern? Yes!!! Still good? YES!!! Overrun by tourists? Not totally overrun ... but then again, for great food, who cares if the people sitting nearby are tourists or not.
Il Matriciano after Vatican ---- Perfect choice in my view, or else on Sunday night -- the food was wonderful, but it is a bit of a walk from the Vatican
Paris -- I would choose Paris over Piperno, but that is me. The food is good, and I hear Piperno is also good, but I haven't been there.
Sora Margherita - backup option
Cul de Sac - wine bar, snack or full meal -- we went there late at night for a dinner and the food was kinda average, but the wine selection, you have to see
Tre Scalini, Alberto Pica, Gilitti, San Crispino -- you list several good spots, but San Crispino was our favorite
Bar Farnese
S Eustachio
---I need more espresso recommendations...I'm coming from a place with good espresso, so mainly I just need a quick fix once in a while and I'm not looking for a song and dance, just good beans and a well-pulled shot. -- We loved Tazo D'Oro (spelling??) and the best ... look up that one (we also brought the beans home!) and we liked a place called Cafe Pace -- great coffee, not as fancy.
Regarding your other ideas per another poster, let me mention a couple I would NOT MISS -- Antico Arco (super food -- and it is located on the Gianicolo Hill ... go check out the keyhole at the Knights of Malta door after dinner ... the view is amazing!!) We also loved La Piazzetta and will be going back there ... we did not try Agata e Romeo, but we will on our next trip, because it is reputed to be GREAT and is right down the street from our favorite hotel -- Mecenate Palace (near Santa Maria Maggiorre). For pizza, we went to BOTH Antico Forno and La Fiammetta (not far from Piazza Navona). You are well on your way to a WONDERFUL trip!!
Ciao ... PeggyD
re: PeggyD
Thanks a bunch to both of you...looks like Antica Arco, Trattoria Monti, and Paris over Piperno should fill in our blanks nicely.
For pizza, Antico Forno, Il Fornaio, and Baffeta (sp?) are on our radar, but our first stop after Rome is Naples so we won't really worry too much if we miss Rome's best pizza.
Al Bric, Sunday night, already have a reservation
I have still never been there so hope to hear a report.
Porto di Ripetta - fish - redundant if we're going to Sicily?
Never been here either, but don't worry about redundancy.
Checchino dal 1887 - excellent traditional Roman?
Yes, VERY traditional. Don't expect "interpretations." It's old-style home cooking with fine wines and cheeses.
Trattoria Monti - more modern? Still good? Overrun by tourists?
Yes, has some traditional dishes, some newer. It's very good. They are from the Marche. Tourists as Peggy says.
Piperno? heard conflicting info about the menu aside from amazing artichokes...worth a dinner, or just go for lunch of artichokes and one or two other things?
It's very good, classic, fairly formal. Paris more relaxed. I'd plan on a full meal at one or the other. Don't know what conflicts you're talking about.
Il Matriciano after Vatican
Was underwhelmed the couple of times I went, now many years ago.
Paris, if Piperno doesn't work out
I like it very much.
Sora Margherita - backup option
I hate it, but I am a minority.
Cul de Sac - wine bar, snack or full meal
very good but always crowded and uncomfortable in my experience and no reservations, I believe.
spelled gelati
Tre Scalini, Alberto Pica, Gilitti, San Crispino
spelled (and pronounced) Giolitti. I'd skip Tre Scalini. The others are great.
Bar Farnese
S Eustachio
---I need more espresso recommendations...I'm coming from a place with good espresso, so mainly I just need a quick fix once in a while and I'm not looking for a song and dance, just good beans and a well-pulled shot.
For a quick fix once in a while, you go to the nearest bar where you are when you need the fix. Only tourists and guidebook writers will carry a list. However, I like the coffee at Cafffè Camerino (three f's) at the beginning of Via Arenula (Largo Argentina).
Special thanks to ejcSanFran for compiling a list that seemed to capture many of the Chowhound Rome favorits, quoted below:
"Thu, 10-09 - Checchino
Fri, 10-10 - Antico Arco
yes, like it very much but find it's better to go early (8 pm) and avoid weekends, because they sort of lose it with crowds.
Sat, 10-11 - Paris (followed by late night clubbing
love Paris, dunno about the clubbing
)Sun, 10-12 - Uno e Bino
yes, like it very much. Also Vinarium in same nabe.
Mon, 10-13 - Trattoria Monti
Tue, 10-14 - L'altro Mastai (is this a good romantic splurge choice?
) yes, it's tops
Wed, 10-15 - Da Felice
haven't been since the makeover. Worth a try.
Thu, 10-16 - Lunch: Crudo or GiNa
never been to either but probably OK
Dinner: pizza (where?)
I only eat pizza near my house. But I also used to like Nuovo Mondo in Testaccio. Also Remo. And l'Obitorio (Marmi) in Trastevere.
Fri, 10-17 - Agata e Romeo
love it, also candidate for romantic splurge
Sat, 10-18 - La Piazzetta
love it, but just bear in mind it's a trattoria not a major restaurant
Other places I've heard about:
Al Ceppo
love it
it's very very good. also very upscale. another ro-splurge candidate
Da Francesco – for pizza
never been
Enoteca Ferrara
restaurant is awful and expensive
Est! Est! Est!
haven't been in years. The atmosphere is great but I'm not sure the pizza is really as good as I used to think.
Giuda Ballerino
very good, creative, pretty much of a bargain, great attention to wines
Il Fico
nice seafood-based trattoria. very friendly. open Sunday evening. a bargain. Not a destination, however. I think not for this trip.
Osteria del Rione – Inexpensive prix-fixe; any good?
I had terrible saltimbocca there, but everything else I've ever had there, on numerous visits, has been super, made with the best ingredients of the Lazio region. I go there for lunch with a friend every so often because you can have something yummy without spoiling your appetite for dinner. But dinner is also good -- e.g., great matriciana. In the evening, ask for upstairs dining room, which is noisy but has real chairs instead of the stupid stools they use downstairs with the design.
Ristorante da Ottavio
Vladimiro Ristorante"
The only mention of this I have ever seen is the repeated post on this board.
re: mbfant
Thanks for the thorough response and corrections! If you could only go one place for the soup with broccolo romanesco and skate (Brodo di Arzilla?), would it be any of the above places or someplace entirely different? I take it from your website that you like the version at Paris, but the version at Antico Arco looks like an interesting update, "Roman broccoli soup with small ravioli filled of sting ray."
A place with a name like "Baby" immediately rings my warning bells, but is a name in English not necessarily an awful sign for Rome?
I think everyone on Chowhound has warned against Ferrara...naturally, our concierge recommended it ;) At least he'll be useful getting reservations at places we specify.
re: SteveG
I don't see the point of an interesting update of brodo di arzilla, though it does sound good, if you've never had the original. If that is the case. At Paris you have to specify you want the broccoli, which you do.
An English name has to be taken in context, anywhere. This is fine dining for Italians. The name is because the chef is the son of Don Alfonso and the restaurant is considered an offshoot. I'm not sure whether the baby is the son, the place, or both.
And speaking of English, "filled of sting ray"? Honestly! I do not understand the psychology of restaurants that refuse to ask somebody competent to translate their menus, but I've stopped wondering. Yes, the Italian is brodo di arzilla, and the translation, as you say, is skate. Filled with.
re: mbfant
Is Baby good enough that we should go when we swing back through Rome in a few weeks? We were planning to do most of our high-end dining in Bologna, Florence, and possibly Palermo under the theory that like many major capitals, the undiscerning expense accounts and wealthy international tourists make it harder to find excellent food at the top level in Rome, but we're happy to be told otherwise too.
Since we'll be in Naples, is the original Don Alfonso better than Baby? Chowhound is somewhat lacking in detailed reports of Don Alfonso, aside from a few people who were put off by the price but didn't really mention the food.
re: SteveG
I dont really think you have to worry about the tourism/expense account issue in Rome - Romans are as fanatical as any other Italians in their food love. Id stay away from any restaurant with an "international" tilt, however.
Maybe you will get some responses on Don Alphonso - the whole area of Campania is a hotbed of wonderful food - there are more reviews on the site, but you need to use the main search box, which will pick up posts older than a year, including on the old international board to find them.
re: SteveG
Baby is good enough, but I wouldn't say that somebody who doesn't live here should go to a lot of extra trouble to go there. Florence is the place to skip high-end dining. Also why Bologna? We went to Sant'Andrea, in Palermo, when it was new and thought it was awful, but maybe that wasn't typical. I had lunch at the Charleston about a year ago with a local notable and thought it was good. Rome sort of has two top levels, one where it's important to eat and one where it's important to spend money (most of these are off my radar). At our Sunday lunch at Baby we saw a well-known jet-set-type ex-Socialist minister, suggesting it belonged to the second group, but the food was really good and the service superb.
I actually liked the food at Baby better than at Don Alfonso, but it's hardly fair to make a judgment on the basis of such limited exposure. Don is very good, but a bit self-conscious. The elegance seemed more natural at Baby. The food is great ata Don Alfonso, mainly interpretations of traditional but obscure dishes, and they grow practically everything themselves. Our fave on the Amalfi peninsula is Taverna del Capitano, but unfortunately we haven't been in quite a few years.
I think you have a lot of great replies - for me, if you are going to Sicily and, particularly, Naples on this trip, seafood would not be a priority in Rome. You know pizza is mostly not available at lunchtime in Rome, right? The "pizza bianco", more a focaccia, at Antico Forno is an exception, but thats a takeout snack, not a sit down place.
I think you are doing the right thing going for the Roman specialties
We are traveling in Italy right now so hopefully this will help-
Renato y Luisa- AMAZING- best food best service- very rustic food, hearty and great wine/bread.
Dal Cavalier Gino- Very good also, very much a locals place, make sure you know some Italian or you might meet with unfriendly service (my husband spoke English and we both could have sworn the waiter was seriously PO'd!)
Sicily- not sure where you are going but we have been following
Sant' Andrea- A MUSt- it was insanely good and wished we had eaten there every night- hearty, food for the soul, we had a beautiful Sicilian red with angler fish tortillini plus the most amazing seas bass rolled with creamed cauliflower. I'm a big bread person also, for some reason I've noticed that if the bread basket is good and fresh the food ends up being amazing, so hence this had some of the most amazing traditional rolls from Sicily with orange rinds.
Osteria dei Vespri - Was not a fan at all- way too pretentious , lots of foam and strange bread- but I am a big fan of local hearty rustic cuisine.
We also have visited the following cities so let me know if you need more recs (you can email me at email@example.com)
Vibo Marina (AMAZING food)
La Sila (AMAZING food)
re: annettegallo
Thanks a ton, especially for the Palermo comments...both places were on my radar but I hadn't tried to make any decisions yet.
We'll also be in Florence, so if you have any reporting to do on the rest of your trip I'm sure we'd all appreciate reading it ;-)
re: annettegallo
Happy to help SteveG! I am going to submit a full report when we are back but in Firenze I can tell you some of my favs:
Oliverio- Very classic- The books say Sophia Loren used to hang out there. For the money it worth every bite, the wine was fantastic and the food was really very good. A little bit of twist of traditional Tuscan cuisine, I liked it very very much (and the atmosphere is beautiful)- for 3 courses, dessert and a bottle of red was $140 euro
La Giostra- Please stay far far away from here, its like a wannabe Italian Waverly Inn with a TGIF undertone. So cheesy. The food was way overpriced, huge portions, service was rude, saw at least two strange 80 year old men with 20 year old Russian model-types (not sure what that means but it gave me the chills). Super tacky and our bill was 156 euros for less than great food.
Cafe Zero (I think this is the official name)- I never got the exact name but we happened upon the place for lunch and were so pleasently surprised. It is in the oltrarno district. We ate lunch here and and the most amazing view of Ponte Vecchio and the Uffizi. The place is huge and is partial stand-up cafe with great pastries and part sit down eatery. Try both, we did! Its on Via de Bardi, take a left when you get off the bridge and its on the river side of the street.
Also one other place in Palermo I forgot to mention-
Now lots of people on here love this place and rave about the Milza (a small "sandwich" with spleen and ricotta) and sounded to me about as rustic and traditional as you could get. We made reservations and dined upstairs. I have to sadly, I was so disappointed the food was really heavy and not in a good way. Not much flavor. We tried the Milza, which I think is an acquired taste but if you like organ meat then you will probably like it, but also ordered other traditional offerings like pasta with sardines and tropea red onions, have to say this was not so great. I would recommend going for lunch hour if you are interested in getting a taste of the miza and just ordering from downstairs. You are better off eating at Sant Andrea every night (I'm still dreaming of my semolina ravioli with sea jack sauce)
Have an amazing time!
Reporting back...the executive summary is that the food on this trip was extremely disappointing for me, since our produce in California seems to be significantly better and the restaurant scene in major US cities is so competitive that the overall lazy approach to food prep in Italy just doesn't hold up.
Lunch after Vatican, Il Matriciano: terrible pastas. One so al-dente as to be inedible, the other just pushing the limits of al-dente but noticeably different, so this wasn't any sort of consistent philosophy of the kitchen, just lazy execution. Sauce/toppings were OK. Traditional Roman salad of puntarelle was fine, but didn't hold up to comparisons with other restaurants later in the trip. I think I picked this place due to confusion on chowhound over this and a few other restaurants with similar names...I'm sure one of them is pretty good, but not this one.
First night in Rome, Al Bric:
Overall, a good meal. Nothing wowed, but it was solid food prepared correctly with good service and a very good wine list. Nero d'Avola Risotto very well prepared, but an excessively large portion which filled me up. Preparation was not better or different than I can do at home, so I didn't order risotto again for the rest of the trip. Prawns were of excellent quality and cooked to the point of perfection. Reimagined traditional Roman soup of skate, brocolo romanesco, and pasta with the pasta taking the form of fresh skate ravioli was excellent, and much better than the traditional version I had at Ristorante Paris, where the short pieces of 1/4" broken up noodles often stuck together, thus remaining uncooked when the pieces that weren't stuck together were perfectly cooked. Overall, a good meal that was satisfying and met but didn't exceed expectations.
Most of the lunch joints on our radar were closed, but we ended up with a snack of a pizza bianca from Il Fornaio if memory serves. Language barrier too great and menu too lacking to figure out how to order the version with cheese and mortadella, but the plain was very good. One of the only places on the entire trip where the staff didn't rewarm our purchase in a microwave, but rather in an oven.
Finally ended up at the wine bar Cul de Sac, which was a disaster. I found the wooden benches in the banquets plenty comfortable, if extremely plain, and the wine selection was very good. The trouble was the food, which ranged from utterly inedible to pretty tasty. The menu has a big selection of pates, which caused me to order the selection of 3. They were all awful, didn't taste of the source animal, and my partner's comment that they tasted like meow mix was spot on. Burrata was good, but no better than I can get in San Francisco when I make sure to buy it the day it flies in from Italy from any number of local markets. Pasta Amatriciana was pretty good, especially by local standards.
Dinner at Trattoria Monti: overall very good, with a few slip ups. My pasta in broth, a very loose large shape called something like passeti which is made with bread crumbs in the dough and seems to be pressed directly into the broth to cook was quite tasty, but the flavor was dominated by lemongrass or citron zest that would have made a wonderful back note but instead was an overwhelming forward note that hid the nuance of the broth. Roast squab had amazing flavor, but was severely overcooked, which seemed to be the rule with poultry in Italy everywhere we went. Had a number of other dishes which weren't memorable. They comped us a few glasses of excellent vermentino grappa.
Lunch, La Matricianella
This place has awards of all types on the door: slow food, gambero rosso, driving clubs, newspapers, etc. The food seemed like a very representative old-fashioned Roman trattoria, and much of it was good, but none of it was great. Fried jewish-style artichokes had lots of nice crispy leaves, and were lighter and significantly better than the version at Ristorante Paris later in the trip. Memory is hazy, since nothing else stands out, but I think my Roman-style tripe was OK but not great, and was crying out for flavor of any kind from herbs, garlic, pepper, or anything else to rescue it from the monodimensional tomato sauce. I think we had a pasta carbonara, which we were disappointed to find made with what looked an awful lot like pancetta and not guanciale. Wondered why this was a slow food favorite, and began to sense that Slow Food is heavily influenced by the presence of an owner in a restaurant, low prices, and and old-school ambiance and not terribly influenced by the quality of the food. Very slow and haphazard service. We probably didn't order the strengths of the restaurant, but it would be nice if they just shortened the menu to what they do well.
Last dinner in Rome was at a place whose name escapes me, with a gorgeous display of cheese in the front window and walls decorated with the wooden ends of wine cases, many of which were French. Overall, a good meal, but it leaned heavily on the cheese, with the only thing standing out in my mind being rigatoni swimming in melted taleggio. A careful inspection of the cheese only revealed a few that aren't imported in California, which was a bit of a surprise.
On the second leg of the trip through Rome, we ate at Ristorante Paris, Il Moro, and Taverna Flavia.
Ristorante Paris was good, but all the waiters had terrible BO, the fried artichokes were more compact and greasy than other versions we had in Rome, the traditional Roman soup with skate, pasta bits, and brocolo romanesco had perfect flavor but terrible texture due to some of the pasta bits sticking together and cooking unevenly, the puntarelle salad was the best we had in Rome. Can't remember what my partner had for dinner--his first and second were unmemorable.
Al Moro struck us as the Roman equivalent of Tadich Grill for San Francisco residents. A long menu, somewhat inconsistent, with a few real gems. Primarily playing host to power-lunchers in suits who never look at the menu and always order one of a few favorites. Conchigle pasta with sausage and porcini mushrooms was excellent, though the mushrooms had the texture of dried despite the waiter recommending this dish when I asked him which dishes would include the gorgeous fresh porcinis I saw in the produce display when we walked in. My partner's bollito misto had an excellent variety of tasty meats, but didn't come with any sauce, such as salsa verde which we thought was standard. Perhaps the waiter forgot, but the prices they were charging should have ensured perfect execution.
Dinner at Taverna Flavia was the best of the trip, and quite bittersweet because it was our last night. We definitely would have returned if we'd found it sooner. We found this place based on a recommendation from the owners of a nearby leathergoods store, when we asked them where they go to celebrate special occasions. When we first walked in, we were struck by two things: walls covered in photographs of every celebrity likely to have been through Rome in the last century, and the overpowering smell of white truffles. I have never encountered such a strong truffle aroma, even at dedicated truffle tasting nights in San Francisco restaurants, and it was so blissfully strong that it was almost revolting. My handmade egg fettuccine noodles in a simple eggy/creamy sauce were the perfect support for the entire small white truffle that was generously shaved over them; expensive at 45 euros, but a fair price for the quantity and quality of truffle used and the perfect execution. My partner's 10 euro pasta carbonara was the only one we had in Rome that was made correctly with guanciale, and was also the only one in Rome that was better than almost every version we've made in our own kitchen at home. My partner's chicken hitchcock, cooked in lemon juice and white wine, was the first poultry of the trip that was cooked perfectly without being overcooked, and was also deliciously flavored due to the use of fresh herbs. My steak strips were perfectly charred from the grill with great flavor development, and were extremely satisfying. All in all, the only restaurant of the entire trip that was "traditional" that also managed to execute on every dish ordered. A side order of cooked spinache was well-prepared, tasted good, and provided much needed roughage, which also earned them points considering the difficulties we had finding edible vegetable matter for the duration of the trip.
re: SteveG
Thanks for your report. I was in Rome Dec. 27-Jan. 4 and wanted to post my findings but couldn't remember my screen name/email/password, etc., from so long ago.
We had a perfectly acceptable lunch at Cul de Sac: soup, egglant Calabrese, a lasagna and all'amatriciana.
Our best meals by far were at Antico Arco and Checchino dal 1887.
We had several other places on our list but we never made it to them.
For us, this was a reminder of how much Roman dining takes a backseat to Roman sightseeing. As much as I would have loved to go big every dinner and/or lunch, I was spending far too much energy on museums, churches, piazze, fontane, etc.
A great trip, and maybe I'm not a committed chowhound. I live and dine well in SF, but on vacation--well, I want to eat well, but I'm on vacation.
re: SteveG
SteveG, in over nine years of following and contributing to Chowhound your's is the single most interesting, most intriguing post that I have seen. From the detailed inquisitiveness to the detailed frustration and criticism I, quite frankly, have never read anything else like this. There is not another person who has criticized Italy, its food and its restaurants along with Chowhound's recommendations for them quite so curiously. You were even successful in including Slow Food, the aroma of white truffles and risotto no better than your own in your comments.
My guess is that you would not care for Alba in October.
re: Joe H
I was also interested in this. I suspect that the bar for creativity, "freshness" and pristine, unusual and varied produce is a bit higher in San Francisco than Italy, where traditions and seasonality matter more, garnishing is rare and food may be cooked longer. I think maybe the EU is having an effect too - a lot of the products, like artichokes, tomatoes, etc are being produced for a larger market on larger farms and in greenhouses. And the little handpicked field greens I remember seeing 30 years ago (admittedly in warm weater, not winter) have been replaced by greenhouse grown uniform arugula selvatica, etc.
As for slowfood, we have had great experiences mostly but in some cases I think the cost parameters for listing are too restrictive - the focus is on good presentations of the traditional home-type dishes and, I feel, a welcoming environment. Usually it works but weve had a few duds over the years.
Wow Steve - great report!
I am researching my restaurants for Rome so your critique really was helpful.
As we only have 3 nights in Rome, I am starting to narrow down my choices.
I have Matricinella, Paris, and Pierluigi tied at this point, but want to eliminate two.
All along, leaning toward Matricinella and Paris.
From your description - it seems as though you were not really impressed by either of these!
Can you compare price and atmosphere for me, and which one you would rather go back to try again?
I'd appreciate your input, as I am driving myself a bit mad!
The only place that you gave a glowing review to was Taverna Flavia.
I googled it and came across several terrible reviews of it.
And they immediately put me off looking into it any further.
I have 14 places on my list of "must try's" as it is, so I really don't need anymore to look into anyway!! Unless of course you can sway me! :)
Thanks for anything you can offer!
re: NellyNel
I am curious about Pierluigi; this place seems to turn up on many visitor's lists here, and on other sites,
I would love to hear the straight up because i had never heard of it until recently..I hope MB Fant will comment here..
re: erica
Erica, if I remember correctly from another post - MBFant hasnt been there for years...she wasn't inspired by it enough to ever go back.
Have you checked out their web-site?
The menu doesnt thrill me, but the look of the place does...the atmosphere looks wonderful (to me anyway)
She also (I think!!) doesn't like my other choice of Matricinella - but I have read soooo many great reviews of the place. I really think I'm leaning toward this one
re: NellyNel
Eccomi. Yes, Pierluigi used to be sort of chi-chi and now I hear about it only from tourists. I have a vague memory of dragging Franco there some years ago and being underwhelmed. Choruses of tourists on this board assure me it isn't so, but if Franco and I want fish, we take a train to Anzio or Ostia or we go to Tuna on via Veneto. I have no reason to try Matricianella again after a bad experience, but someday might in the interest of research. I read the same reviews you did of Taverna Flavia and had the same reaction. I find Paris reliable, classic, and a fallback when we want to take a visitor out for a traditional meal, Checchino too, for a somewhat different traditional menu. Monti left us pretty cold last Friday. In general I find your list mysterious. Where on earth did you get those names?
re: mbfant
Many thanks for the responses! ( By the way, I had two good dinners at Matricianella in early 2007 but I am not sure that those dinners merit an"essential" on anyone's list) I did look at the Pierluigi website and something about the photos gave me the idea that it was oriented toward tourists. Maybe it was the neighborhood, too. Which does not mean the food is bad, by any means..
It is so hard to figure out these things. Alfredo is a nice homey trattoria near the Pantheon and all of a sudden it is turning up on all of these "must eat" lists. (Same thing with Sant' Andrea in Palermo, by the way)
The other place,which I have never tried and which seems to turn up on EVERY list of newcomers to Florence is La Giostra!
It is all so very difficult for those of us who basically travel to eat (and thank goodness I can write that on CH!) that is why contributors like MBFant are so valuable. Many thanks, Maureen!
re: erica
I think you mean Armando near the Pantheon. The proportion of tourists (yes, i know I am one of them) to locals *has* grown quite a bit in the last few years.
As for La Giostra, I've rarely if ever seen it recommended here or at the other food board. It's very often recommended on travel boards, because many tourists like the "free" (ha!) prosecco that many identify as champagne, the "free" antipasto plate and chatting with someone who calls himself a Habsburg prince.
re: zerlina
Good, Zerlina--you corrected me--I did mean Armando. And thank you so much for clearing up the mystery of La Giostra. Can this really be true that all of these people are drawn to the "free" prosecco and a few free antipasti? Over and over again I see this place mentioned on a travel site..it has always sounded so totally hokey to me. And from what I read, it is very expensive. Many thanks!
re: mbfant
Hi Maureen and thank you for your thoughts.
"In general I find your list mysterious. Where on earth did you get those names?"
Were you referring to my list?
I posted my list on a different blog elsewhere on the board..
If you were referring to my list - I got my list from all sorts of places - allot of travel web-sites, and then I further reseached on my own.
Allot of them were on Italian web-sites with Italian reviews.
re: NellyNel
I think the fundamental problem is most restaurants have a menu that is four times larger than it should be, and one person may order a real stinker when another orders something pretty good.
For example, our Cul de Sac experience involved a dish that was in the worst 10% of our trip (meow mix pates), and another that was maybe in the top 25% for our trip.
The reason we liked Taverna Flavia so much is that everything we ordered was appropriately cooked and seasoned. Pasta was fresh and neither undercooked nor overcooked. Poultry was succulent, rather than dry and stringy.
Frankly, we drove ourselves mad trying to find good places, and if I had it to do over again I would just eat paninis for most of my calories; we spent too much time eating gut busting mediocre meals trying to find greatness, when we could have been seeing the sites.
As for Matricianella vs. Paris, the artichokes were better and cheaper at Matricianella. Paris has a more upscale interior, much better service, but the absent-minded kid with the runny nose who bungled service at Matricianella was replaced by an uncommunicative old man with terrible BO at Ristorante Paris. Trattoria Monti was similar in price to Ristorante Paris, and left a much more positive impression in my mind, though the flavorful squab at Monti was terribly overcooked. Al Bric is much more modernized in style, and I liked it more than Paris too.
re: SteveG
Thanks so much!
You have really put thing into a different perspective for me.
True, loving food so much I am spending allot more time researching the restaurants than I am anything else!
And yes, i think it certainly depends on what you order.
Hmmm well I really appreciate your feedback. You.ve given me a bit to mull over.
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We are recently back from a week in Rome. We liked Antico Arco, but not as much as some who have posted above. Our best meal was at La Rosetta, but that is well known and expensive. Our big discovery was Le Mani in Pasta in Trastevere. Excellent food and not expensive. For a full report go to the Rome Category in The Wandering Epicures.
re: beaulieu
Thanks beaulieu - I'll check it out!
The espresso at St. Eustachio is reputed to be the best but, the old timey decor is worth a visit. The trattoria St. Eustachio next door is a good place for lunch. We found the dinner service lacking having went back after a delightful lunch. Sit outside if the weather permits.
Just a couple of little hints for ice cream and such things. Giolitti is indeed one of the best places in Rome for it. Anyway, my personal fav is a tiny place in front of the Vatican Walls (just around the corner from Piazza Risorgimento), no idea of the name but I've been there many times, not a huge place, nor 50 flavs, but ice cream is really good.
If u are a fan of sweet tastes, I have a couple of recommendations to add. First, I suggest that u take a walk into the ghetto (yes, there is a small ghetto in Rome), there are 2 or 3 jewish pastry shops that make delicious things (most Romans love it, even tho it's not really their own tradition) including a cake with "visciole" (a kind of cherry); I assume visitors never get a taste of such things, and I assure u it's worth it. Second rec, is a chance to get one of the most known "tiramisu" of the entire city, I have to say I don't agree with my Roman friends (they say this is the best tiramisu ever in the world), but still, it's good, and also, especially at nights and weekends, the place is crowded with people who just go there with that reason. The place (it's a bar, actually) is named "Pompi" and it's in Piazza Re di Roma (u can get there with the subway easily).
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WAIMEA, HAWAI'I - The island of Kaua'i, Hawai'i, has become Ground Zero in the intense political battle over genetically modified (GMO) crops in the United States. But the fight isn't just about the concerns over GMO technology. It's also about chemical pesticides.
The four transnational corporations that are experimenting with genetically engineered crops on Kaua'i have transformed part of the island into what could be one of the most toxic chemical environments in all of U.S. agriculture.
For the better part of two decades, Syngenta, BASF Plant Science, DuPont Pioneer and Dow AgroSciences have been drenching their test crops near this small town on the southwest coast of Kaua'i with some of the most dangerous synthetic pesticides in use in agriculture today, at an intensity that far surpasses the norm at most other American farms, an analysis of government pesticide databases shows. Residents of "Poison Valley"
Perhaps no one personifies the battle better than Klayton Kubo, who lives at the east end of Waimea, at the heart of what he calls "poison valley." He showed this reporter a brief video of himself cleaning the screen covering the window on the street side of his house. Clogged with reddish dirt similar in appearance to volcanic soils found throughout the island, the screen is his house's last line of defense against the dust. However, it blocks only the biggest chunks, and can do nothing to stop smaller pieces of grit, toxic vapors and chemical odors that appear to be emanating from test fields located just beyond the street and the Waimea River in front of his house.
Kubo began looking for answers to his questions about what's in the air some 15 years ago. More than once, he says, a DuPont representative came to his house only to lower his head and mutter that it's "against company policy" to reveal any information about activities on the test fields.
Kubo is among 150 of his neighbors who have joined a class action lawsuit against DuPont Pioneer, a subsidiary of DuPont that leases several thousand acres on Kaua'i. They are seeking an injunction against the use of chemicals that are suspected to be toxic. At the other end of town, the Waimea Canyon Middle School, a health clinic, and a veterans' hospital line up in front of another GMO test field operated by Syngenta.
Steady northeasterly trade winds averaging between 8 and 9 mph blow daily across the test fields and into town.
In two incidents in 2006 and 2008, students at the Waimea school were evacuated and about 60 were hospitalized with flu-like symptoms such as dizziness, headaches, and nausea. Many people in town blamed the outbreak on blowing dust from the GMO test fields. The companies blamed nearby fields of stinkweed.
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