Only open for lunch, their brilliant "cucina casalinga" set menu attracts workmen and tourists alike, with an all-in price of €12 for a pasta and hearty second course, wine and coffee, no cover charge.
Also, we have been redecorating the house and, besides keeping things ticking along for the family, I have been doing construction work myself and managing the workmen.
Leasing the land from an olive farmer, Alaime hired workmen from the local village to build his dream rustic eco resort.
At 8am last Tuesday a forklift truck appeared, carrying a team of workmen with angle grinders.
This is officially a "mensa", a canteen, catering for workmen at the Giudecca's boatyards.
Before his showbiz ascension, Carolla worked as a carpenter, so he's a good choice to front this crusading US reality show, chasing down cowboy builders on behalf of aggrieved homeowners and confronting the shoddy workmen until they promise to make things right.
Workmen have recently halved the number of lights above her head, installed more efficient bulbs and added automatic switches.
To mend these, workmen, having no underground maps, must dig up and sift through a tangled mass of pipes and cables, like untrained surgeons manhandling intestines.Predictably, for a couple of hundred rupees a month, posh south Delhi gets the best water supply.
In the next few days, either workmen protected by Serbian police will demolish an Albanian war memorial in the town of Presevo or a last ditch deal will see it moved to another location.The Presevo dispute is the latest, but by far the worst, in an increasing number of disputes across the region about how to remember the dead of the wars of 1990s.
Opposite, two dogs lie panting outside the Orchard restaurant where workmen have put down their trowels and are sipping tea in the midday heat.
The upshot is that concrete needs constant repair by teams of workmen assigned to fill in the newly formed gaps, which is tedious and expensive.
