Updated 5:36pm 1 June 2012

Tourists complain over £600 meal

A TOP-RATED Rome restaurant may have its licence revoked after two tourists complained they were charged £600 for lunch.

They complained to police saying the Passetto, whose customers have included the Queen, Ava Gardner, Leonardo DiCaprio, Grace Kelly and Salvador Dali, had misled them.

The bill also included a £98 tip they say they did not agree to.

Police temporarily shut down the restaurant, but owner Franco Fioravanti said the Japanese couple looked satisfied when they left after a lavish meal that included oysters, lobsters, sea bass and porcini mushrooms.

“If one wants to spend money, with us one can,” he said. “What’s wrong with that?”

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