It's extremely annoying when you go somewhere on a holiday and the locals rip you off. That's just what happened to an old Japanese couple in Rome. They were charged $980 for a seafood lunch. They were served with a bill of $810 plus $160 in tip for ordering pasta and lobster with wine and gelato at the Il Passetto restaurant near the Piazza Navona square. They filed a fraud complaint with the police. This 149 year old restaurant was shut within days by health inspectors due to hygiene reasons. "As far as I'm concerned, this restaurant should never reopen again and operating licenses should be revoked for things of this nature," Mayor Gianni Alemanno said. This kind of thing happens in Italy all the time. The restaurants owner in his defense said, "They ordered 12 oysters, two kilos of lobsters, wine, 1.5 kg of seabass and even took photos with the waiters before leaving."

[Reuters]