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Fonduteria Lucifero
Via dei Capellari, 28
00186 Rome - Italy
Telephone: 0668805536
Price range: less than 30 ?

Lucifero Fonduteria??This tavern-like restaurant offers every type of fondue
imaginable, from swiss, to chocolate, via bourguignonne, including the
mouth-watering Piemontese special: A Tomino cheese fondue laced with the
highly prized White truffle of Alba, which, in the week we dined there, was
checking in at a cool 6 euros per gram. ?This is not a place to bring even
open minded vegetarian friends, unless they want to be stuck munching on the
delicious but limited range of vegetable appetizers as you wrap your teeth
around any one of the delectable cuts of beef on the menu, all of which can
also come sprinkled with a few shavings of said truffle. This is a strictly
meat and cheese parlour.?We started with a generous antipasto of less common
and therefore more interesting salamis, good quality mozzarella (both
unusual for a relatively cheap Roman eatery) and a full platter of grilled,
roasted, fired and stuffed fresh veggies all of which are laid out nicely on
the bar as you walk into the joint. ?The portion was just right to leave
room to actually finish the main course rather than feel guilty over leaving
half of it.?Despite the host not showing us the wine list, claiming it was
as long as the Bible and he could offer us the Reader's Digest format from
memory, we didn't get rumbled on the wine and enjoyed an excellent Nero D'Avola
which conformed exactly to the type of wine we had asked to drink and at E
17.50, knocked the socks off value-wise of the usually acidic house wines
most other places offer at around 11 euros a pop.?We were surprised to find
half a floating potato in our fondue bowl, but it was revealed that not only
is it put there for children to enjoy at the end of the meal when it has
roasted to perfection, but it prevents the oil from smoking and keeps the
temperature in the bowl even. These guys clearly know what they're talking
about. And yes, the roasted tatty to finish the meal off was like a fond
childhood memory, sweet, crispy skinned, golden brown and almost creamy
inside.?The only black note was the music, there's enough good ambiance in
the place to be able to do without any at all, or at least something
befitting the simple whitewashed cavernous walls and checkered tablecloths,
rather than the commercial radio pap, however, we were at the only table in
the vicinity of the speakers and would've been quite undisturbed in any
other part of the restaurant. I finished full, content, merry and not in the
least bit stuffed or under the impression of having filled my gullet my face
with ten tons of cow. All in all, a jolly night out!

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