After booking our air tickets, the next obvious thing to do for us was work out where to eat. So after lots of googling and scouring through various reviews, blogs and chowhound, we decided that our very first meal after touching down at Fiumicino would be at Trattoria Monti, 4 stops by subway from where we were staying. We landed at 8pm, cleared immigration, checked in and made it to Monti in good time for our 10pm dinner reservation - thankfully the Italians eat late. And every review said to book, so just as well we did, since the couple that came after us had to wait about half an hour for their table.
A lot of stickers on the door was a pretty good sign. According to various reviews, the food is from Le Marche on the Adriatic Coast.
We were seriously exhausted after the 7hr SIN-DXB redeye + 9hrs in Dubai + 6 hrs DXB-FCO, so sitting down at dinner more than 24 hours after leaving Changi, we were more than ready to start our Italian holiday proper.
As good Asians, we shared everything. This was supposed to be stuffed and fried olives with artichokes, fried vanilla cream and ciauscolo sausages, but there were also fried zucchini flowers.
The fried olives were great with wine
We had the rigatoni with pecorino, sausage and pepper. This was a super simple dish, with the flavours of the pepper, cheese and sausage coming through very nicely. The pasta was done al dente, perhaps a little harder than we would have liked.
A close-up of the rigatoni
The Tortello was descrived as a large ravioli with fresh egg yolk inside with tomato sauce
Very simple again - it appeared to have ricotta cheese and a few other herbs like basil. This was pleasant as well.
I was pretty stuffed up at this point, but the husband still had enough in him to go for the roasted veal with tuna sauce. This was not bad either, although it wouldn't have been my first choice.
All in, a decent although not mind-blowing meal. Much to our pleasure a few days later, we saw that Tan Hsueh Yun was also in Italy that week, and Monti was her first Roman post. It was good to feel validated :)
Via di San Vito, 13 00185 Rome, Italy
Tel: 06 4466573
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