Enough is enough is just not enough

Imàgo is the kind of restaurant that has enough of everything except for one or two.

It has enough view, the grand, graceful and eternal face of Rome at your table window. Depending on your seats, sometimes you see the light blue dome of St Peter’s Basilica straight in front of you, sometimes the initial few steps of Trinità dei Monti or maybe the elegant curve of Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II. Such a view is the aperitif, the main course, the dessert and digestive.

It has enough taste. It’s 10- course ‘classic in evolution’ menu leads our palates through a journey of some quintessentially Italian classics (such as Cappelloti di Parmigiano, Risotto Cacio & Pepe) yet these dishes often lightly-tinted or occasionally deeply-influenced by other cultures (Chinese, Japanese, Indian among all) and to my delight three-times skewed towards the 5th taste of umami. To get a taste such closer to home in an environment that can’t be more Italian can be an emotional experience. Don’t they say ‘all roads lead to Rome’.

It has enough ambiance, bright enough to eat and dark enough to feel intimate; enough service, proper and efficient; enough amenity (not that these are so important for us).

Alas the only thing Imàgo has not enough is the Michelin stars. Yes it has one but wrongly so. Considering Michelin guide usually gives a lot of credit for anything not to do with food itself, just Imàgo’s breath-taking view over Rome should grant it at least one star and uncompromising taste for another.

And of course we cannot have enough Imàgo. Twice here, still to be returned.

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