Review at a glance: ★★★★★
Not, as I initially thought, a form of guerrilla marketing for a banking app — that’s Monzo, it turns out — Cafe Mondo might be named for Mondo Cane, a piece of Sixties Italian filmmaking so madcap (sharks killed with sea urchins; snakes butchered for supper; an excess of breasts) that “mondo” became pseudo-Italian American slang, with a meaning that lands somewhere between extremely and huge, very and big. As in: that’s a mondo crap Monzo gag, but all things considered, hardly a mondo problem.
