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Da Meo Patacca is a restaurant, a night club, a carefree beer parlor or an old Roman rendez-vous, depending upon the mood and inclination of the visitor. It is housed in an ancient stable in heart of Trastevere , the left-bank section of Rome and it sprawls out into the entire piazza De’ Mercanti, glittering with lanterns hung from the stately old trees that provide an enormous umbrella for entire square. Yet Remington Olmsted, former University of California , Los Angeles football star, dancer and student of opera, did not start his restaurant because of a longing for 18th Century rome, but rather out of nostalgia for old California. After leaving UCLA, Olmsted followed his star to New York and London, ending up Milan, Italy, as a dancer. When he arrived in Rome, it was, as it is to Californians, like coming home. Rome, and many little seaside towns to the south, had the same stone and adobe architecture that remembered ; the beaches were the same as those from Santa barbara to La Jolla, and gntle latin people were like those he had grown up among. He married an italian girl, Diana, daugheter of Daniele Varè, former ambassador and author of "The Laughing Diplomat" and settled down in Rome. Friends, Armando Fontana, Renato Renzi , Romolo Lombardo .. Trasteverini doc, encoureged him to start a restaurant Da meo patacca. His choice of the name explains much of the flavor and spirited abtivity of continuing fiesta and song that floats out on the night breezes from the Piazza mercanti. Olmsted added several troupes of troubadours in the ol Italian style who sing everything from naughty Trastevere songs to the romantic melodies of naple and from grand opera to American songs. In 2002 about two centuries after , thanks to "SOR REMY" Meo Patacca’s gran fiesta in the heart of Trastevere, It is still going strong..!! |
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