Lokale in Rome

Rome's veteran Eritrean-Ethiopian table since 1977

Bottiglieria dal 1895, Monti's beating wine-bar heart

Old-money Parioli dining with a Marche soul since 1968

Bib Gourmand Roman cooking facing Teatro Palladium

Unassuming Monti enoteca for the serious-but-quiet glass

Corner bakery and forno on Via dei Serpenti

Two-century Roman bakery near Campo de' Fiori

Third-generation Roman trattoria a few metres from the Pantheon

Garbatella's revived historic forno, lab and restaurant

Manuele Colonna's craft-beer temple with Trapizzino

Belle-Epoque enoteca and all-day wine room since 2011

Family enoteca in Parioli, pouring since 1929

Italo-French cooking in an intimate set of rooms off the Pantheon

Color-rich 2024 boutique stay in Rome's oldest quarter

Garbatella's cooperative osteria and social garden

The quinto-quarto cathedral carved into Monte Testaccio

Three-decade neighbourhood trattoria with day-specific menus

Tiny family trattoria doing Roman classics exactly right

Checked-cloth family trattoria of pure Roman recipes

All-day Ostiense bakery-bistro known for its generous aperitivo

Thirty-year sister-run enoteca and restaurant off Piazza Trilussa

Aliena-roasted specialty coffee and brunch on leafy Viale Aventino

Artisanal, additive-free gelato in Prati

Maria Agnese Spagnuolo's natural-ingredient gelato atelier

Maria Agnese Spagnuolo's natural, gluten-free creative gelato

Pigneto's specialty-coffee bar and cultural corner

1936 osteria famed for tableside cacio e pepe

Textbook cucina romana cut into the amphora hill

Contemporary art in the stables of a 16th-century palazzo

The Roscioli family forno, Esquilino branch

The global gallery's Rome space in a 1920s rotunda

Pioneering contemporary gallery in 17th-century palazzo stables

Artisanal gelato made in view, off Via dei Coronari

Rocco Forte's design-rich hotel atop the Spanish Steps

Discreet design hotel in Palazzo Borghese with a Michelin-Guide kitchen

A true Japanese izakaya, sake-only list, no sushi-roll tourism

Europe's first amaro bar with a full Roman osteria

All-day Prati canteen, wine bar and gastroteca

Rome's first traditional Japanese kaiseki and omakase counter

Arcangelo Dandini's elevated Roman bistrot

Graffiti-walled Roman osteria on Via Panisperna since 1906

The tiny pub that launched Italy's craft-beer movement

Rome's reference Indian kitchen, tucked into Monti

Live-fire contemporary bistrot at the edge of Parioli-Flaminio

Zaha Hadid's national museum of 21st-century art and architecture

Barreca and Baccanelli's cult micro-restaurant of new-wave cucina romana

Artisan food hall in Termini's Cappa Mazzoniana

Sergio Esposito's legendary Roman-classic panini in the market

Marco Radicioni's market-driven artisanal gelato in Trastevere

Rome's grand 1880 ice-cream palace in Esquilino

Restored palazzo hotel of warm woods and curated art near Trevi

Art-of-bread bakery and café on Via Merulana since 1929

Andrea De Bellis's modern, French-and-Spanish-trained pastry

Testaccio's neighbourhood pastry bar since 1971

Esquilino's maritozzo temple since 1916

Contemporary osteria inside San Lorenzo's oldest pasta factory

One-star seafood from chef Giulio Terrinoni

Third-wave coffee at the edge of Prati, syphon to nitro

Mother-and-daughters kitchen lab for inventive panini, pasta and focaccia

Renaissance-piazza seafood institution since 1938

Gabriele Bonci's landmark pizza al taglio

The benchmark thin-crust Roman pizza of Testaccio

San Lorenzo's Pasolini-era trattoria, family-run since 1890

Industrial all-day food hall and bistro in a converted Ostiense warehouse

Owner-chefs' minimalist lab a step from the Pantheon

Garden cafe and all-day kitchen hidden in residential San Saba

Centenary chocolate factory with bar and kitchen in San Lorenzo

Book-bar and cocktail salon facing the Temple of Hadrian

Deli, wine cellar and serious kitchen in one room near Campo de' Fiori

Wood-roasted espresso landmark since 1938

Sarah Cicolini's offal-forward Roman trattoria, nose-to-tail and serious

Historic Prati espresso bar famed for the chocolate-cup coffee

Pier Daniele Seu's contemporary-pizza laboratory on the Trastevere fringe

Catalani family taberna reviving ancient Roman recipes in old Trastevere

Listening-bar osteria from De Maio and Franciosi

Rome's most serious haute Japanese, off Piazza Cavour

Restored tram kiosk for specialty coffee and dusk aperitivo

Boisterous San Lorenzo trattoria of Roman and Pugliese cooking

The original home of Rome's pizza-pocket of cucina romana

Bib Gourmand Roman trattoria anchoring the Ostiense food district

Cacio e pepe as liturgy since 1911

All-day Garbatella caffetteria, vineria and vinyl bar

Market-driven Roman cooking and natural wine, south of Ostiense

Chef-led Peruvian cooking by Piazza Dante in Esquilino

KM-0 Lazio terroir cooking in the heart of Monti

Chic post-industrial kitchen with a creative seasonal menu

Antonio Ziantoni's measured, classically-grounded one-star tucked behind Trastevere

Classical sculpture displayed against a 1900s power-station's turbines

San Lorenzo's no-frills seafood institution

Prati's 24-hour basement bakery beloved by Romans

Rome's best Ethiopian, on Pigneto's Via Prenestina edge

Family-run Marche kitchen, a Monti institution since the 1970s