Various mushroom tagliatelle

The Various Mushroom Tagliatelle concocted by the excellent fellow in the Italian restaurant on Svetog Save, near to Hotel Slavija in Belgrade, was intensely substantial. The food was stodgy, but extremely welcome, even if the novelty of trying to make it disappear soon wore off. I felt bad nodding assent but not taking up and having no intention to take up the elaborately expressed invitation to dine again the following night, given the restaurateur's pride in giving me food which, as he boasted, “didn’t have killing”. The combination of dining alone and feeling like a saturated puffball weren’t entirely unpleasant, but dissuaded me from returning.