Cosy Italian restaurant
Tables close together
Maitre D’ heart-warming man
Come in out of the weather
Outside cold London pavement
Cloudy skies and rain
Inside warm Italian smile
All Mediterranean
My first taste of Italy
In those younger days
Pasta pizza vino
All things to amaze
One day I’d go to Italy
Live there in the sun
Two whole years a Roma
Studying can be fun
That restaurant in London
Still is going strong
A cosy little alcove
Where trains and buses run
It used to be a winner
I hope the same is true
A warm and sunny welcome
Is waiting there for you
Brian Fahy
2 January 2022
+ Now called Il Posto, at 316a Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, Il Portico was a favourite bolt hole of mine in the 1970s. Happy memories deserve to be recorded.
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