After a couple of hours spent in Restaurant Maria, with 1960s’ lounge music in the background, Mediterranean cuisine in the foreground and rough-rendered walls reminiscent of an Italian villa, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton circa 1962 tumble through the door, trying to escape the paparazzi that had been hounding them while they filmed Cleopatra and embarked on a torrid affair.
They do not make an appearance but Maria’s air of…
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