Comments on: Tartufo at Piazza Navona

By: Joanna

Joanna — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:11:47 +0000

Best tartufo which ruin any others was in Pizzo Italia. This is a very small town near Tropea in southern Italy. It is said that this dessert originated from there. It cost us $4.00 Euro each during Spring 2008, my husband thought it was expensive until he tried it.

By: mayo

mayo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:34:58 +0000

For your information, there’re two Tre Scalini places in Piazza Navona: one is a restaurant, the other a cafe.It appears you spent 15mts. in the restaurant.
By the way, Marketman, Mila got it right; the idiom spells “to fly off the handle.”

By: matthew freedman

matthew freedman — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:57:08 +0000

Just got back from a visit to Rome myself. The tartufos at Tre Scalini were 9 euros…if you ate them at a table. If you order them at the counter, they are 4 euros apiece.

By: jencc

jencc — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 01:54:40 +0000

Gee, we never thought about tartufo when we were there…good thing too, I guess, because we would have ran out of money! We *did* get gelato at EVERY town we would stop in! It’s a wonder that both my husband and I didn’t balloon during our honeymoon!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 01:40:28 +0000

Mila, I just love that phrase “flying of the handle” and it is an accurate way to describe me on more than one occasion… does it stem from flying pland without holding the handles? Or referring to a pan that one throws in a fit and it flies off the handle? …hmmm, I wonder now. :) lee, are you an English major by chance? You should invent a new Lee-language! Marilou, they weren’t rude, they were rich as a result of the order… stef, it’s actually hard to find a recipe for tartufo that isn’t way different from the next recie you find…not even sure if it is gelato or ice cream within… And yes, I disliked the bloody cobblestones bigtime!

By: stef

stef — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:43:35 +0000

tartufo is on my list of things that i’d like to recreate, from scratch, *one day*…..

and no, Europe is not toddler-friendly. we went when our youngest was 2. ARGH. our aching backs, feet and arms! add to that our 5-year old who was walking on his own of course, but just found it to be too much. it’s the cobblestones that really got us. and it was ESPECIALLY hard with a stroller. all this and the crowd too! yikes! so now we’re waiting until all the kids are older and won’t ask to be carried, before we go again.

By: Marilou

Marilou — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:56:01 +0000

At least they were nice to you. When my husband, son and I went there they were kinda rude to us. Maybe it’s because we couldn’t make our selection fast enough. My favorite gelateria is Vivoli in Florence.

By: lee

lee — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:45:19 +0000

hahahahaharrr…. they tartufooled you.

By: Mila

Mila — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:34:33 +0000

Headachini… lol, goodness, sounds like you were ready to fly off the handle by the time you hit Rome.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:11:07 +0000

Sylvia, I found all those centuries old cobblestones to be a royal pain in the feet…not stroller friendly at all…so much better to travel in North America with a stroller…I’m with you, wait till the little one can motor around on his/her own gas… we took our daughter to Paris for the first time when she was 6/7 years of age…it was a perfect timing…