Inmates prepare criminally tasty meals for charity

IN WHAT might be Italy’s most exclusive restaurant, security is understandably tight.

On reservation, guests are subjected to a background check. They are admitted in groups, their mobile phones and bags confiscated, and they then submit to metal detector tests.

At the candlelit tables inside a deconsecrated chapel of what was originally a 14th-15th century castle, the meal itself is eaten with plastic cutlery.