Dinner at the Red Shrimp

Recently I was on travel for the umpteenth time in Rome. On this particular occasion I decided to check out a culinary institution with the most improbable name of Gambero Rosso (Italian for Red Shrimp). This place is a mélange of activity that includes a  cooking school, a rooftop restaurant and venue for all sorts of wine festivals, cultural and political events. It is somewhat surprising since the place is located in the most inaccessible part of town one can imagine.  The place must have been designed by Franz Kafka in a drunken stupor. Somehow the architect succeeded in taking the concept of external fire escapes to a whole new level!