the.com/trattoria
A restaurant that stopped trying to impress you and started feeding you instead.
means An Italian eatery, simpler and more casual than a formal ristorante, serving hearty home-style food.
from From Italian trattoria, built on trattore, an old word for an innkeeper or cook — itself tied to trattare, 'to treat, handle, deal with,' from Latin tractare. The same root that gives us 'treat' and 'tractor' once meant hauling and handling things; somewhere along the way it came to mean handling guests at the table, and the place where that happened took the name.
- vs ristorante
- simpler menu, cheaper wine, fewer airs
- origin
- from trattore, one who treats or entertains guests
- menu style
- often no menu, just what is fresh
- tablecloths
- paper, so the wine stains dont matter