If you want a pizza, then tell it!

I’m pretty excited about enjoying excellent food while in Italy so I recently asked my friend, who once lived in Rome for several months, for some restaurant recommendations. He sent me several and while googling them to scope out locations, I stumbled upon this inviting description, written by the proprietors of La Montecarlo. The entire thing is hilarious, but I have excerpted it below and bolded my very favorite parts. You can bet that La Montecarlo is on our ‘go-to’ list!

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Welcome to the reign of pizza: "La Montecarlo".

Few minutes will be enough for you to understand in what an extraordinary place you are.
You entered in a true cross-section of Rome, where to taste is allowed, to enjoy is a duty.
The magic of pizza, its sweet smell, its aroma, its unique taste will pervade your body.

Don’t be shy: “if you want a pizza, then tell it!”

Don’t never frighten for the line. If you think you’ll have to wait for hours, perhaps you’re thinking to change place, overcome your shyness and ask for a seat: just few minutes and you’ll be pleased.

Pizza is good, it enchants; pasta is good, it surprises. Service is quick, it stupefies.

You are in “La Montecarlo”, which made to bow Prince Ranieri, who thought to own also something unique out of the  the Principality.  But La Montecarlo is not the Principality. It is something different.
It is poetry, energy, Roman spirit, it is theatre!  Yes, just theatre. Every evening. And also at midday.

Dishes are the protagonist; but also men, who exalt taste. 

Carlo, the Boss, if you know him, you’ll avoid him. Rhythm and fantasy are his best weapons.
When he directs the traffic, free seats spring up like mushrooms, when you least expect them.
If to please guests is an art, Carlo is an absolute master. His way.

Mariuccio, er Barnaba, is the true Roman essence of “La Montecarlo”.

Little Mariuccio is a surprise. He looks gruff, but in reality he is true and sanguine; with him, you discover a world of Roman wisecracks, gloss and verses, that synthesize perfectly literary concepts, even complex. A true satirical poet.

If the Boss is the master, Carletto is the careful performer of the miracle of “La Montecarlo”.
His best virtue is patience. He never raise the voice and he often smiles, even when he wouldn’t.
He looks slow and abstracted. But in reality he is a panzer... that never stops!

And with all three, an unbelievable group of "theatrical character actors", who are really waiters and pizza makers.

They all together give smiles, irony and sarcasm.

In short, “La Montecarlo” is theater!

“If you want a pizza, then tell it!”