My friend Irina is a very efficient scout and big souce of information and new discoveries for this blog. The other evening we met up to catch up after the holidays and she had a new address for dinner – once again: Bibliothé.
This very nice and welcoming place is right behind where I live but I never noticed it as it is in a narrow street. It is a cultural center, bibliotheque and restaurant all in one. And the peculiarity is that it is fully dedicated to Ayurveda, one of my favourites!
The restaurant area is really nice, not big but designed to be the perfect frame for the food they serve. Two different menus, one simpler for lunch and one more complete for dinner.
We had a wonderful dhal soup (lentils), samosas, pappadam with yaourt sauce and vegetable balls, drinking a really tasty ginger lemon tea. The service is very kind and the bill cheap.
No need to say that the catch up lasted much longer than the food, which being very good, disappeared quickly.
If you love ethnic food as much as I do, you shouldn’t miss this place.
Bibliothé – Via Celsa 4/4 (Piazza del Gesù) – 00186 Rome – Tel. 0039.06.6781427
www.bibliothe.net