A small room, taken seriously.
Osteria Lume lives in what used to be a cobbler's workshop behind the old clock tower — one long room, a copper pass, and a pasta bench that gets floured at three every afternoon. We kept the workbench. We kept the crooked doorway. We added candles, forty-one of them, lit in the same order every evening.
There is no second dining room and no plan for one. Twelve tables means the kitchen tastes everything that leaves it, and the menu — written by hand each morning after the market — stays exactly as long as the ingredients deserve it. Some dishes last a week. The tiramisu has survived six years of attempted retirement.