The 38 Essential Restaurants in Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Italy
Roman cuisine is defined by a unique set of ingredients, techniques, and dishes that set it apart from the food of all...
Trecca - Roma
Via Alessandro Severo, 220, 00145 Roma RM, Italy
Trecca is, for lack of a better term, a neo-trattoria. It delivers everything a Roman trattoria should: an informal setting, rigorously seasonal...
Sinosteria
Viale Guglielmo Marconi, 586, 00146 Roma RM, Italy
After nearly 30 years at the helm of Rome’s first Thai restaurant, Beijing-born chef Ge Jing Hua opened Sinosteria in 2020 to serve a blend of Chinese...
Triticum Micropanificio Agricolo
Via Giuseppe Peano, 10, 00146 Roma RM, Italy
The spartan decor of Triticum, an artisanal bakery in Rome’s Marconi district, focuses visitors’ attention immediately on the counter, which displays...
Latta - Fermenti e Miscele
Via Antonio Pacinotti, 83, 00146 Roma RM, Italy
To get to Latta Fermenti e Miscele, descend the steep ramp from street level to the ground floor of a former industrial complex, which has been...
Marigold Roma
Via Giovanni da Empoli, 37, 00154 Roma RM, Italy
After years of pop-ups in their apartment, baker Sofie Wochner and chef Domenico Cortese inaugurated Marigold. The operation is part bakery, focused...
Ristorante La Tavernaccia Da Bruno
Via Giovanni da Castel Bolognese, 63, 00153 Roma RM, Italy
Bruno Persiani, an Umbrian transplant to the Italian capital, opened this homey trattoria in southern Trastevere in 1968 to serve a mix of dishes from...
C'è pasta... E pasta!
Via Ettore Rolli, 29/35, 00153 Roma RM, Italy
Located a short distance from Stazione Trastevere, C’è Pasta… e Pasta (translation: “There’s pasta… and pasta”) serves delicious kosher meals to eat...
Pizzeria I Quintili Furio Camillo
Via Eurialo, 7c, 00181 Roma RM, Italy
Pizza maestro Marco Quintili opened his second location in Rome in July 2020, where he marries thick-rimmed Neapolitan pies with Roman flavors....
DOGMA Ristorante
Piazza Zama, 34, 00183 Roma RM, Italy
On paper, Dogma’s house-milled flour, farm-to-table sensibility, and self-described ethical approach to sourcing could play like a trinity of cliches....
Himalaya Palace
Circonvallazione Gianicolense, 277, 00152 Roma RM, Italy
In 1993, the Gupta family opened Himalaya Palace, one of the first restaurants to introduce tandoor cooking to Italy. Their longevity in the...
Trattoria Da Cesare al Casaletto
Via del Casaletto, 45, 00151 Roma RM, Italy
Following careers in fine dining in Italy and abroad, Leonardo Vignoli and Maria Pia Cicconi went back to basics with Cesare al Casaletto, a...
Testaccio market
Via Aldo Manuzio, 66b, 00153 Roma RM, Italy
The Testaccio neighborhood market is the best place in central Rome to shop for seasonal produce, meat, fish, and baked goods all in one place. Get...
Piatto Romano
Via Giovanni Battista Bodoni, 62, 00153 Roma RM, Italy
Located in Testaccio, Rome’s undisputed offal capital, Piatto Romano focuses on classics like rigatoni con la pajata (pasta with milk-fed veal...
Casa Manfredi
Viale Aventino, 91/93, 00153 Roma RM, Italy
Casa Manfredi opened in 2015 on a shady stretch of Viale Aventino, a tree-lined residential avenue between Circo Massimo and Testaccio. Like many...
SantoPalato
Piazza Tarquinia, 4 a/b, 00183 Roma RM, Italy
Chef Sarah Cicolini started in fine dining kitchens, but her forte is expertly executed trattoria fare that channels the soulful simplicity of Rome’s...
Otaleg
Via di S. Cosimato, 14a, 00153 Roma RM, Italy
Marco Radicioni trained with Rome’s gelato maestro Claudio Torcè, embracing his sensibility of all-natural flavors, meticulous sourcing, and...
FORME - Dispensa a Ripa
Via di S. Francesco a Ripa, 71, 00153 Roma RM, Italy
After a career working in Roman gourmet temples like Salumeria Roscioli, Pasquale Borriello struck out on his own in 2022. His small shop in...
La Punta Expendio de Agave
Via Santa Cecilia, 8, 00153 Roma RM, Italy
You probably don’t associate Rome with mezcal, but it would be a mistake to forgo Italy’s premier bar celebrating agave-based spirits of Mexico. The...
Circoletto - Circo Massimo
Via dei Cerchi, 55, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
At the edge of the Circus Maximus, basically sitting on top of the ruins, Circoletto is a natural wine bar and craft beer pub that serves small plates...
Ristorante Il Tempio di Iside
Via Pietro Verri, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy
A short walk from the Colosseum, Tempio di Iside is an elegant fish restaurant known for its crudi (raw dishes) like fish carpaccio, sea urchin roe,...
Latteria Trastevere
Vicolo della Scala, 1, 00153 Roma RM, Italy
Latteria Trastevere is a wine bar and bistro in Rome’s nightlife epicenter focused on natural vino, cheeses, and cured meats culled from tiny,...
Trapizzino | Mercato Centrale Roma
Via Giovanni Giolitti, 36, 00185 Roma BA, Italy
Trapizzino is a small street food chain with locations throughout Italy (and an outpost in New York). The concept is based on the trapizzino, a...
Ma Che Siete Venuti A Fà
Via Benedetta, 25, 00153 Roma RM, Italy
outinely named among the best places to drink in Europe, this long-established craft beer pub in Trastevere pours around a dozen draft beers from...
Forno del Ghetto
Piazza Costaguti, 30, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
For more than three centuries, Rome’s Jewish community was confined to a walled ghetto along the Tiber River. The squalid buildings are long gone, but...
Casalino Osteria Kosher
Via del Portico d'Ottavia, 1e, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
The dishes at Casalino, a kosher restaurant on the main street in Rome’s Jewish quarter, are inspired by traditions of the historic ghetto, which tend...
Beppe and His Cheeses
Via di S. Maria del Pianto, 9A, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
After more than a decade of selling Italian and French cheeses and wine at the edge of the historic Ghetto of Rome, Beppe e I Suoi Formaggi renovated...
Roscioli Salumeria con Cucina
Via dei Giubbonari, 21, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
ounded in the Historic Center in 2004 by Rome’s premier baking family, Salumeria Roscioli does triple duty as a deli, wine bar, and restaurant. Though...
Ristorante Africano Enqutatash
Viale della Stazione Prenestina, 55, 00177 Roma RM, Italy
Fasika and Giovanni Ghirlanda run this historic Ethiopian and Eritrean restaurant just off the ancient Via Prenestina, not far from the Villa Gordiani...
Regoli Pasticceria
Via dello Statuto, 60, 00185 Roma RM, Italy
The Regoli family were originally charcoal makers from Tuscany, but when they came to Rome they opened Pasticceria Regoli in 1916. Since then the...
Forno Campo de 'Fiori
Campo de' Fiori, 22, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
In the southwest corner of one of Rome’s most touristy squares, Forno Campo de’ Fiori bakes sweet and savory Roman specialties like jam tarts and...
Cesare al Pellegrino
Via del Pellegrino, 117, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
After Settimio al Pellegrino, a cult favorite featured on Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown, shuttered in 2022, Leonardo Vignoli and Maria Pia Cicconi...
Supplizio
Via dei Banchi Vecchi, 143, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
Chef Arcangelo Dandini, known for his formal ristorante L’Arcangelo in Prati, opened this casual street food-inspired spot on the ground floor of a...
Armando al Pantheon
Salita de' Crescenzi, 31, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
Just 100 feet from Rome’s most intact ancient monument, Armando al Pantheon champions local food traditions. For more than five decades, the Gargioli...
Colline Emiliane
Via degli Avignonesi, 22, 00187 Roma RM, Italy
A short walk from the Trevi Fountain, this friendly trattoria has been serving satisfying dishes from Emilia-Romagna, a region in northeastern Italy,...
Romanè
Via Cipro, 106, 00137 Roma RM, Italy
Rome’s premier pizza innovator and Trapizzino inventor Stefano Callegari opened his first trattoria in late 2021 just north of the Vatican Museums....
Giano Restaurant
Via Liguria, 28, 00187 Roma RM, Italy
In early 2022, acclaimed Sicilian chef Ciccio Sultano opened Giano in the W Hotel, where the warm spaces are replete with plush velvet couches and...
Bonci Pizzarium
Via della Meloria, 43, 00136 Roma RM, Italy
Gabriele Bonci’s landmark pizza al taglio (pizza by the slice) shop near the Vatican Museums has become a globally acclaimed landmark where...
Pulejo ristorante
Via dei Gracchi, 31, 00192 Roma RM, Italy
Chef Davide Puleio began his career in fine dining in Rome before racking up an impressive pedigree abroad at Noma in Copenhagen and L’Alchimia in...