Melograno - Gelato, Pizza e Caffè a Fontana di Trevi — Restaurant in Rome

La Pinsa arrived in front of the Trevi Fountain, crumbly and tasty not to be missed, fantastic staff who receive you with a fantastic smile, and then if you want to feel the magical world of “Popolo” you will see what happens when you leave a tip to this family of young guys who work in this little coffee pinseria. The place were taste the Pinsa, certificates for Pinsa Cooks, Typical of Roman cuisine, it was already known in ancient Rome and was, as still, a very popular dish even in modern times in Roman trattorias, often used to accompany cold cuts and cheeses instead of bread. In recent years the oven pizza variant has been much more widespread, often used Roman white pizza, seasoned on the surface simply with oil and for sale or with the addition of ingredients such as typical salami, cheeses, vegetables. The focaccia used prepared by the ancient Lazio populations with a mixture of different cereals mixed with water and sold, then stretched, stretched, stretched (pinsere) and cooked on stone over hot coals. In Virgil's VII book of the Aeneid (1st century BC) he observes some of the first references to this type of food that Aeneas, together with his son and his commanders, ate as soon as he arrived in the rural areas of the Lazio countryside, welcomed by the Latin and his daughter Lavinia. The name pinsa derives from "pinsare" (from the Latin "pinsere", to lengthen), a verb that also explains the shape of this Roman product, which has an oval shape with a thickness of about two centimeters, very rich in cavity inside the pasta , which make it light and crisp on the outside and soft on the inside. For the type of dough, with a mix of flours (millet, barley and spelled) and addition of salt and aromatic herbs, the use of sourdough yeast and the high water content (75/80%), turns out to be very digestible; this is also due to the long leavening (well beyond 24 hours, up to 150). The specialty of the house of the Pomegranate Caffe, consists of a bubble of walnut ice cream with cream, caccao and a crunchy biscuit plus the delicious coffee spresso. Or you can choose from the exquisite flavors of gellato...

I asked 2Gelato, and they charged us 36 euros for small cup gelato. That’s a scam! I ordered gelato at another place, and the same amount cost only 4 euros!

I specifically asked for a small cup...so why were we charged as if it was a big one? And when we questioned the price, they suddenly acted like they didn’t understand English even though they understood perfectly when I was ordering the flavors!

Total scam!

+HA???? Are you serious???? Omg, excuse me??? I’m not delusional, I know where I went. I can’t believe you’re trying to throw your shop’s problem onto another shop. I REMEMBER you sell pizza!!! That’s just gross. And it wasn’t 3 euros, SIR. The little girl with dark brown hair served us! We went there with a package travel group, and everyone on the bus was talking about your shop’s prices.

So, well, I’m not going to visit here ever again....

Rude employee. I ordered mango and lemon, and I was given mango and banana. When I went back up to tell the lady she gave me the wrong flavor, she started arguing with me that I had in fact actually ordered banana. After back and forth, she took my cone back, scooped the banana gelato (that I had already tasted to notice it was not lemon), and put it back into the container of banana gelato for the next customer. There was still banana gelato she hadn’t gotten completely off, but I did finally get my lemon. My father also mentioned that the lady serving him coughed all over her hands before serving him his cone. Wasn’t even good...