The Vatican Has a New Neighbor

More often than not, tourists along on our group and private Vatican tours ask us where to go and have something to eat near the Vatican. While finding top quality restaurants in Italy isn't hard to do, finding a restaurant near the Vatican with good price/quality ratio is actually not easy. Many of the restaurants near the Vatican will serve you frozen pasta or pizza and overcharge you for mediocre/poor food.

Just the other day I had finished signing in a private Vatican tour when on my way home I hadn't gone more than two blocks when I saw that there is a "new kid in town". On Via Leone IV just two blocks from the Vatican Museum entry, there is a brand new Burger King.

While I normally find the spreading of fast food chains in Italy to be offensive, something about getting a whopper and a tour of the Vatican within a two block radius just seems, well, perfetto. And I love how in Italy, naturally even this American fast food chain is transformed into pure Italian chaos. Look how they line up! And they hug and salute one another while waiting for whoppers. So Italian!

Too give it the added Roman touch, they have a Roman panino called the Bacon Caesar Steakhouse, which apparently Julius Caesar himself goes wild over. 

If there are any doubts in your head about eating at Burger King while in Rome, see the Grana Padano seal of approval over in the left corner. Your way, subito?