Consider Trastavere

Our cab drivers in Rome haven't been particularly chatty, except for one today. He was talking a mile-a-minute, providing advice on everything from our upcoming drive to Naples to local coffee spots. And everything was prefaced with, "consider." Consider, for example, a GPS. Consider this coffee place. It was all such a polite suggestion to contemplate.

He told us to consider Trastavere, a locale neighborhood, for dinner. Which happened to be exactly what we were considering...