Best Restaurants in Rome

The quinto-quarto cathedral carved into Monte Testaccio

Textbook cucina romana cut into the amphora hill

Cacio e pepe as liturgy since 1911

1936 osteria famed for tableside cacio e pepe

Three-decade neighbourhood trattoria with day-specific menus

The benchmark thin-crust Roman pizza of Testaccio

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

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

Checked-cloth family trattoria of pure Roman recipes

One-star winter-garden cooking on the Aventino edge

Davide Puleio's intimate one-star in residential Prati

Arcangelo Dandini's elevated Roman bistrot

Rome's most serious haute Japanese, off Piazza Cavour

Gabriele Bonci's landmark pizza al taglio

All-day Prati canteen, wine bar and gastroteca

Chic post-industrial kitchen with a creative seasonal menu

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

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

Catalani family taberna reviving ancient Roman recipes in old Trastevere

Cristina Bowerman's Michelin-starred creative kitchen in a Trastevere backstreet

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

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

Tiny family trattoria doing Roman classics exactly right

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

Bib Gourmand Roman trattoria anchoring the Ostiense food district

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

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

Graffiti-walled Roman osteria on Via Panisperna since 1906

KM-0 Lazio terroir cooking in the heart of Monti

Rome's reference Indian kitchen, tucked into Monti

Garbatella's cooperative osteria and social garden

Bib Gourmand Roman cooking facing Teatro Palladium

Listening-bar osteria from De Maio and Franciosi

Esquilino stronghold of Roman cucina, carbonara that ranks

Rome's veteran Eritrean-Ethiopian table since 1977

Third-generation Roman trattoria a few metres from the Pantheon

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

Owner-chefs' minimalist lab a step from the Pantheon

Anthony Genovese's two-star Italo-Asian fine dining

One-star seafood from chef Giulio Terrinoni

Renaissance-piazza seafood institution since 1938

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

One-star fine dining from the Troiani brothers, behind Piazza Navona

Boisterous San Lorenzo trattoria of Roman and Pugliese cooking

Contemporary osteria inside San Lorenzo's oldest pasta factory

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

San Lorenzo's no-frills seafood institution

The archetypal San Lorenzo Roman-pizza institution

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

Old-money Parioli dining with a Marche soul since 1968

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

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

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

Rome's first traditional Japanese kaiseki and omakase counter

Chef-led Peruvian cooking by Piazza Dante in Esquilino