thermopolium

Above A typical fast food shop at Pompeii with four food containers placed in an L shaped counter. Note that to the left there is an entrance way into a fairly grand house: even the poshest residences would have space either side of the gate for commercial purposes. Of course, it would be convenient

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Let’s go on a pub crawl around Pompeii!

Join Andrew Selkirk for a trip around the bars in Pompeii and find out where to go with your loved one for a slap-up meal.

LEFT A pair of dead ducks and a rooster painted on the counter of the recently uncovered thermopolium in Pompeii.

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Frescoed food-shop unearthed at Pompeii

Recent excavations in the Regio V district of Pompeii have unearthed a well-preserved Roman thermopolium – a hot-food shop – in its entirety. The counter, with a painting of a Nereid (a sea nymph) riding on a seahorse was partially…