The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Forma
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Rank 1. Forma
Modern Italian
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A Neapolitan pizza spot on the Civitavecchia waterfront, with harbor views that make waiting for a table feel like a reasonable life choice. The wood-fired oven is front and center, turning out soft, light pies with that tell-tale puffy crust. The lingotto cacio e pepe, fried to a crackly shell, takes a hard left from the pizza menu and lands well. Staff are the kind that notice when your glass is empty.
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Rank 3. Namo Ristobottega
Seasonal Italian
The menu opens with a page explaining the chef's green philosophy, which sets the tone for this seasonal Italian restaurant tucked into Tarquinia. Produce from the Viterbo region drives the kitchen, and the owner doubles as an enthusiastic guide through the food and wine list. Outdoor tables with views book up fast, so plan ahead. The Michelin Guide has awarded it a Bib Gourmand.
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Rank 4. Belle Helene
Italian
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An agri-pizzeria outside Cerveteri where the dining room is all heavy wood and the setting is countryside green in every direction. The pizza is Roman style, thin and crisp, and the menu leans into the classics, cacio e pepe, amatriciana, that territory. The house-made supplì come in rotating flavors and tend to disappear fast. It's the kind of place where the drive out feels like part of the point.
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Rank 6. N'uovo Vino e Cucina
Modern Italian
Large windows frame the Tuscia Viterbese woodland at this modern Italian restaurant tucked inside a country resort outside Sutri. The kitchen takes traditional Lazio recipes as a starting point and works them forward with contemporary technique, leaning on local produce. Fresh pasta and dry-aged wild boar show up regularly, and the room's soft lighting does the kind of heavy lifting that a good candlelit table should.
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Rank 7. Trattoria del Cimino dal 1895
Regional Italian
On the uphill road to the Palazzo Farnese, this old-school family trattoria in Caprarola has been turning out northern Lazio cooking for five generations, and the kitchen cooks like it plans to go five more. The food is rooted in Tuscia, with some Tuscan drift, and the wine list runs to around 900 labels, many available by the glass, managed by the cook's son after a stint in fancier rooms abroad.
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Rank 8. Pascucci al Porticciolo
Mediterranean Seafood
Gianfranco Pascucci's Michelin-starred seafood restaurant sits near the marina at Fiumicino, the kind of address that sounds like an afterthought until the food arrives. The menu language is understated, but the kitchen's precision with local catch is anything but, evoking the sea with an intensity that fills the simply elegant, aquatic-toned room. Vanessa Melis runs the floor with real warmth, making the whole thing feel less like a performance and more like a very good invitation.
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Rank 9. L'Osteria dell'Orologio
Creative Seafood
A seafood osteria just outside Rome where the kitchen leans hard on tradition but plates it with an elegance that would embarrass most trattorias. The cooking is rooted in classic coastal flavors, no reinvention for its own sake, just sharper execution year after year. The wine list skews generous on price, and the spirits selection runs to around eighty bottles if the night calls for it.
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Rank 10. Mogano
International New American
Five tables, soft light, and wood everywhere you look: Mogano is a small, intimate restaurant tucked beside the Ritual Lab brewery in Formello, built around the idea that craft beer belongs at a serious dinner table. The chef spent years cooking internationally before landing here, folding Italian instincts into something harder to pin down. Guests get an aperitif in the kitchen before they sit, which sets the tone nicely for an evening that never quite fits a category.
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Rank 11. Clementina
Wood-fired Pizza
A pizza restaurant in Fiumicino where the counter is the show, five different doughs rolled Roman-style and slid into a wood-fired oven while you watch. The chef Luca Pezzetta works with seafood pulled from nearby boats, and the fried starters are worth arriving hungry for. Thin, well-cooked pies with serious toppings, a wine list that rewards the curious, and a room lively enough that "pizza place" undersells it a little. It ranks on both 50 Top Pizza Italy and the World list.
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Rank 12. MARE Bistrot
Mediterranean Seafood
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Rank 13. Il Tino
Seafood Mediterranean
Tucked above a working shipyard with marina views, Il Tino is a Michelin-starred seafood restaurant where aromatic herbs do quietly serious work. The chef has an almost botanical command of them, including varieties most cooks have never heard of, and they show up threading through creative Mediterranean plates. You can order à la carte or choose between two tasting menus, one charting signature dishes by vintage, the other running his newest ideas.
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Rank 14. Pepe Nero
Modern Seafood
A small, modern seafood restaurant on the western shore of Lake Bolsena, where the terrace puts you close enough to the water to feel the logic of eating fish here. The menu leans almost entirely toward the sea, which takes a little faith this far inland, but the kitchen commits to it. You can follow a themed tasting menu or pick your way through the carte, choosing at least two dishes and letting the quiet, unhurried service do the rest.
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Rank 15. La Pergola
Contemporary Mediterranean
The terrace at this three-Michelin-star fine dining room atop Monte Mario is the kind of thing that makes you put your fork down: Rome at dusk, every dome and rooftop suspended in the haze below. Heinz Beck has been at the stoves here for decades, and the cooking is precise and quietly ambitious, many dishes finished tableside with enough ceremony to feel theatrical without tipping into absurd. Dress accordingly.
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Rank 16. QuarantunoDodici
Mediterranean Seafood
The name is the naval coordinates of the spot, which sits a few metres from the Tiber with moored boats in view and a shipyard for a neighbour. This is a casual, relaxed seafood trattoria where Lele Usai, the chef behind the Michelin-starred Il Tino upstairs, keeps things deliberately simple: spaghetti alle vongole lupini, grilled fish, whatever came off the best boats. The outdoor tables tip the whole thing into something close to a holiday.
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Rank 17. Enoteca La Torre
Contemporary Italian
A petit fours trolley rolled to the table inside a stucco-and-column dining room overlooking a private garden says a lot about where you've ended up. This is formal fine dining inside Villa Laetitia, and it holds two Michelin stars. The chef's Campanian roots surface throughout a creative menu that moves between classical touchstones and more personal territory. Service is the discreet, impeccable kind that anticipates without hovering, and the wine list is serious.
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A two-Michelin-starred fine dining room tucked into an old Roman street, where Anthony Genovese builds tasting menus that move between Japanese precision and Mediterranean instinct without announcing which one they're doing. The wine list runs to around 2,000 labels, curated with the kind of quiet authority that makes you feel the sommelier has already thought of everything. Dress well; the room expects it.
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Rank 19. Acquolina
Creative Mediterranean
A two-Michelin-starred dining room steps from Piazza del Popolo, where the chef Daniele Lippi treats the Mediterranean as a passport rather than a border. Two tasting menus anchor the experience, one devoted entirely to the sea, one that ventures onto land. The room is quietly elegant, service runs attentive without hovering, and the sommelier clearly considers the wine list a personal project. The dessert course alone arrives as something of a small event.
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Rank 20. Il Pellicano
Contemporary Italian
The terrace hangs over the Tyrrhenian with rosemary drifting up from the hillside, which sets an unfair standard before the food even arrives. This is fine dining inside a storied Tuscan resort, and it holds a Michelin star. The chef plays with contrasting textures in a single dish while keeping flavors precise, moving between land and sea with the kind of confidence that doesn't need to announce itself. The wine list is extensive, and the service is warm without being stiff.
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Rank 21. Pulejo
Contemporary Italian
A one-Michelin-star contemporary Italian restaurant in the Prati quarter, where dinner is served in romantically dim light and the service moves quietly, anticipating what you need before you think to ask. The kitchen stitches Lazio flavors together with ideas the chef carried back from a starred Milan career, so the cooking has roots in two places at once. Precise, personal, and a little more interesting than it lets on.
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Rank 22. Pipero Roma
Modern Italian
Across the street from the chiesa the Romans call Chiesa Nuova, this Michelin-starred dining room carries the energy of a chef who trained in Campania and clearly never stopped thinking about it. The cooking is modern and seasonal, with southern Italian ingredients quietly threading through the menu, and the front-of-house team runs the room the way you wish they all did: warmly, and with their full attention on you.
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Rank 23. Zia
Contemporary Italian
Tucked into a quiet Trastevere side street away from the selfie-stick circuit, this Michelin-starred creative Italian restaurant is the kind of place that makes you lower your voice without being asked. The chef builds dishes on classical technique and then quietly pushes past it, landing somewhere generous and precise at once. The wine list gets the same careful attention as the food, and the service knows things without performing knowledge.
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Rank 24. L'Arcangelo
Roman
An old-school trattoria in Prati where vintage toy cars line the shelves and white tablecloths share the room with a counter where you can eat and talk to the kitchen. The cooking runs deep into Roman tradition, offal and pasta and cod, all handled with the kind of quiet confidence that doesn't need to announce itself. The carbonara has its own reputation. The wine list rewards the curious.
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Rank 25. Idylio by Apreda
Contemporary Italian
Spices thread through Francesco Apreda's cooking the way they always have, though now with more restraint, coaxing flavor rather than announcing it. This is a Michelin-starred contemporary Italian restaurant where pasta made with Neapolitan instinct sits alongside sustainable fish and a wine list that leans natural and young. The room is polished without feeling stiff, and the staff are the kind who clearly chose this on purpose.
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Rank 26. All'Oro
Contemporary Italian
A tiramisù made with potatoes and salted cod sounds like a mistake until it isn't, which is a fair summary of what this Michelin-starred creative Italian restaurant is doing in the basement of a boutique hotel near the Tiber. The chef takes Roman classics, carbonara included, and pulls them apart with enough skill that the results feel surprising without feeling clever for its own sake. Tables move outside when the weather cooperates.
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Rank 27. Imàgo
Contemporary Italian
The lift opens onto a fine dining room where floor-to-ceiling windows frame the Spanish Steps and every rooftop in between, which is either the most Roman view you can have while eating or an argument for never looking at the menu. Perched atop the Hotel Hassler, Imàgo holds a Michelin star and runs creative Italian tasting menus that pair classical technique with genuinely unexpected combinations, all designed to look as good as the city outside.
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The shelves of cured meats and cheese behind the counter give away what this place used to be: a salumeria that quietly grew a kitchen around itself without moving anything out. Tables are small and close together in the Roman way, the bread basket comes from the family bakery down the street, and the carbonara is the version people mean when they argue about carbonara. Selected by the Michelin Guide.
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Rank 29. Per Me Giulio Terrinoni
Seafood
A Michelin-starred seafood restaurant tucked into a narrow lane just off Via Giulia, where the chef has spent years refining a style that trusts the fish rather than the flourish. The room is intimate and the cooking is classic, with a quiet confidence that doesn't need to announce itself. Two counter seats face the open kitchen if you want the chef's more improvisational menu and a front-row view of how it all comes together.
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Rank 30. Il Convivio Troiani
Italian
A fine dining room tucked into a quiet vicolo near Piazza Navona, where three brothers from the Marche have been cooking and running the floor together long enough that the rhythms show. The kitchen leans into Italian classical roots while pushing them somewhere more personal, with tasting menus that shift by season. The wine cellar runs to thousands of labels, with verticals going back decades, and a Coravin setup so the good stuff is pourable by the glass. One Michelin star.
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Roy Caceres, Colombian-born and Rome-based, pulls from Latin America, Asia, and the Mediterranean in ways that feel like they shouldn't work and then very much do. This is a Michelin-starred tasting-menu restaurant near the Veneto, running five or seven courses, with a shorter path available at lunch. Vegetables come partly from the team's own gardens outside the city, and Sardinian touches nod to the chef's wife's roots.
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The high ceilings give it away: this one-Michelin-star creative restaurant in Trastevere used to be a carriage workshop, and the bones still show. Chef Cristina Bowerman runs a menu that nods at Lazio tradition before wandering confidently toward Asia and Latin America, surrounded by trattorias doing something far more predictable. The wine list extends into an unusually strong spirits selection for anyone who wants to linger.
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Rank 33. Achilli al Parlamento
Creative Italian
Wine bottles still line the walls from the days when this was a shop, and you can pull your dinner's pairing straight off those same shelves. A Michelin-starred creative restaurant steps from the Parliament building, it runs two tasting menus, one classical and one adventurous, plus à la carte for the indecisive. The chef works plant-based ingredients with particular dexterity, coaxing textures that make you forget you're missing something.
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Rank 34. Luciano Cucina Italiana
Creative Italian
Carbonara is practically a religion in Rome, and Luciano Monosilio has built his restaurant around a version the city takes seriously. The menu reaches past that signature into creative Italian cooking with strong Lazio roots, the flavors direct and well-defined without the usual fuss. Downstairs, a pasta laboratory shares the basement with Veleno, a bar for aperitivo or cocktail pairings. A lounge upstairs rounds out what is quietly a full evening.
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Rank 35. Il Sanlorenzo
Mediterranean Seafood
A fish counter greets you at the door, which sets the tone for everything that follows at this polished seafood restaurant a short walk from Campo de' Fiori. The room is elegant, the service is quietly professional, and the wine list is enormous in a way that rewards browsing. The crowd trends toward Rome's discreet moneyed set, and the staff seems constitutionally allergic to fuss. Ranked fifth among Italy's fish restaurants by 50 Top Italy.
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Rank 36. La Terrazza
Modern Mediterranean
The rooftop dining room of the Eden Hotel frames a sweep from the Quirinale to St. Peter's, which is a lot to compete with, and the kitchen manages it. Chef Salvatore Bianco draws on his Campanian roots for a modern tasting menu that leans Mediterranean, bright with seasonal herbs and confident technique. A Michelin star. The sommelier navigates a deep international list with the ease of someone who has clearly done this a thousand times.
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A rooftop fine dining restaurant perched so close to the Colosseum that the arena fills the view like a painting someone forgot to hang straight. The terrace is glassed in for winter, so the panorama, which sweeps from the Domus Aurea to the dome of St Peter's, is always on the table. The kitchen, which holds a Michelin star, runs on Roman classics, Campanian notes, and quieter contemporary ideas across four tasting menus, with a vegetarian option.
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Rank 39. Romanè
Roman
Trippa alla romana and fried brain share the menu with carbonara and amatriciana at this no-frills trattoria near the Vatican, where the pasta comes in a notably generous pour and the kitchen doesn't stray far from Lazio tradition. The room is simple to the point of looking accidental, which is precisely the point. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, and locals who could walk here fill the seats alongside tourists who found it on purpose.
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Rank 41. La Ciambella
Roman
A large Travertine marble counter greets you at the door, and the dining room beyond sits beneath a skylight that turns midday into a minor event. This is a Roman trattoria with a serious focus on meat, particularly the offal cuts that the city has eaten forever: tripe, sweetbreads, oxtail in forms both traditional and quietly inventive. The chef's roots are in Testaccio, which is to Roman butchery what Bordeaux is to wine, and it shows.
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Rank 42. Caino
Tuscan
Bread stuffed with house ricotta and their own olive oil arrives before you've opened the menu, which tells you everything about how this two-Michelin-starred restaurant in a tiny stone village thinks about hospitality. The chef's cooking is rooted in Maremma, unsentimental and un-fussy, the kind that trusts a charcoal-grilled lamb or a bowl of gnudi to do the talking without any architectural assistance. The cellar runs to around 2,500 labels.
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White tablecloths and a bright room in the Trionfale neighborhood, where a trattoria built around Roman classics draws the kind of crowd that actually knows its guanciale. The team behind it includes a chef with serious fine-dining credentials, which explains why the cacio e pepe and amatriciana feel familiar and yet somehow sharper than you expected. The wine list rewards attention, and the service keeps a pace that doesn't make you feel processed.
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Rank 44. Marco Martini Restaurant
Contemporary Italian
A Michelin-starred creative restaurant on the Aventino, reached by climbing to the first floor of an old building where a winter-garden dining room fills with natural light and potted plants soften the good bones. The kitchen reinterprets Roman tradition through unexpected textures and pairings while keeping the flavors assertive enough to feel like Rome. Downstairs, the same team runs Mantis for something looser, but up here it's a proper occasion.
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The bread trolley arrives before anything else, five or six varieties wheeled to the table like a quiet overture. This is a fine dining room tucked into a hotel off Piazza della Repubblica, where the chef's years cooking in three-starred kitchens around the world show up in dishes that use heat and spice with unusual precision. It holds a Michelin star, and the soft-lit, travertine-framed setting makes sure you feel every bit of that.
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Rank 46. Avenida Calò
Neapolitan Pizza
The open oven is the first thing you clock at this enopizzeria in Parioli, where the chef returned from Vienna with strong opinions about dough. The Neapolitan tradition is the starting point, not the destination, and the result is a crust that manages to feel both serious and light. Reservations run by time slot with the precision of a rail timetable, and the room fills on weekdays without effort. Ranked sixth on 50 Top Pizza Italy.
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The menu calls it a "non-amatriciana," and that framing tells you everything about this Prati restaurant. Shallots cooked down to almost nothing and a touch of balsamic vinegar stand in for the usual guanciale swagger, and it works. The room runs Nordic-minimal, the team runs tight, and the cooking looks outward while keeping one foot in Rome. Fase lands at number eight on 50 Top Italy's Best Amatriciana list, which for a rule-breaking version is a pointed result.
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Rank 48. Il Matriciano
Italian
Bucatini all'amatriciana is the reason to come, and 50 Top Italy named theirs the finest in Rome. Il Matriciano is a proper trattoria in Prati, the kind where old regulars never open the menu and the waiters wear what appear to be period costumes. The room is dressed-up bourgeois, the service formal but warm, and the pasta arrives on fine porcelain exactly as it should, sauce clinging, guanciale doing the heavy lifting.
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A Roman trattoria where the menu follows the seasons and the old neighborhood habits, not the trends. The carbonara gets serious attention, thick-cut guanciale staying juicy, the egg cream resolutely unfussy, and it landed on 50 Top Italy's carbonara list. Fried bites, offal, braised things, and a wine list of small producers fill out the rest, which is more than most places in the capital bother with.
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Rank 50. Magnifica
Pizza
A neighborhood pizzeria in the Trieste quarter where the dough gets 72 hours to think things over before it meets the oven, and you can taste the difference. The crust stays low and light, letting the toppings carry the conversation. The room is small and carefully put together, the staff pay attention, and a little complimentary snack arrives before you've decided anything. The craft beer list runs deeper than you'd expect.
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A pastry shop in the Monteverde quarter where single-portion cakes have quietly become the whole point. The team turns out both old-school classics, like sacher and apricot tart, and contemporary creations that regulars now order without looking up. Breakfast pastries run from croissants to krapfen to pain au chocolat, and there's a savory counter and made-to-order cakes for good measure. It ranked seventh on 50 Top Italy's chocolate dessert list.
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Rank 54. Acciuga
Seafood
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A family osteria in Monteverde Vecchio whose roots trace back to Amatrice, which means the amatriciana here carries the weight of hometown pride. The Rocchi family sources from small regional producers they know personally, and the wine list moves. 50 Top Italy ranked their amatriciana second in all of Italy, which is the kind of credential that makes you order it before you've even sat down properly.
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Tucked into a piazza between Campo de' Fiori and Piazza Navona, this old-school Roman trattoria has been around forever and earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand doing it. The menu reads like a greatest-hits of the city: carbonara, cacio e pepe, amatriciana, meatballs. The room is rustic and always packed, because at this price and in this neighborhood, where else would you be.
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Rank 57. L'Osteria della Trippa
Lazio Italian
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The supplì here come filled with cacio e pepe, amatriciana, and carbonara, which tells you everything about the kitchen's loyalties. This is a casual Roman street food counter tucked into the old alleys between Regola and Ponte, with a Chesterfield sofa, walls covered in scrawl, and a couple of outdoor benches. The fried rice balls are the whole point, though the mozzarella in carrozza keeps people honest about ordering more than one thing.
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Rank 59. 53 Untitled
Contemporary Italian
A few steps from Piazza Navona, this small contemporary Italian restaurant holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and a menu that can't quite decide if it's in Rome or somewhere more adventurous, which turns out to be the point. Oxtail alla vaccinara shows up stuffed into dumplings; a yucca mooncake arrives shortly after. Seats are few, reservations are smart, and the small-plates section gives you an easy excuse to order more than you planned.
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Rank 60. Green T.
Chinese
A teapot collection that would embarrass most antique shops sets the tone at this Chinese restaurant tucked behind Piazza San Ignazio, a short walk from the Pantheon. The small dining rooms stack across different levels, and the menu moves from dim sum made fresh each day through classic stir-fries to street food and more contemporary dishes. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, which in this neighborhood feels like a minor miracle of value.
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Rank 61. Two Sizes
Dessert
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Via Margutta has been an artists' haunt since forever, and this vegetarian restaurant fits the neighborhood's slightly romantic self-image without being precious about it. The menu is wide enough that committed carnivores rarely feel ambushed, with tasting menus and à la carte options, and the desserts tend to be the thing people mention unprompted. Spagna metro is steps away, making it easier to justify the second glass from a genuinely considered wine list.
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Rank 63. La Carbonara
Roman
A Roman trattoria that has been holding down Campo de' Fiori since forever, right across from the statue of Giordano Bruno, while the tourist traps around it come and go. The menu runs through the Roman classics, and the carbonara is the reason to sit down, made with the kind of ingredient obsession that separates a real kitchen from a souvenir experience. A serious wine cellar rounds things out.
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Rank 64. La Filanda
Tuscan
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Rank 65. Seu Pizza Illuminati
Roman Pizza
A neon sign reading "In pizza we trust" greets you inside this Roman pizza restaurant tucked between Porta Portese and Trastevere. The airy, ethereal crust is the foundation everything else is built on, from precise fried starters through to the desserts, with a serious wine list running alongside. It holds a spot on 50 Top Pizza World and took the Pizza dell'Anno award for 2026.
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A Roman osteria a block from the Parliament building that somehow never became a tourist trap, even though it could have. The carbonara is famous enough to rank among Italy's top five, loaded with crispy guanciale, silky egg cream, and enough black pepper to mean business. Roman classics like saltimbocca and abbacchio fill out a menu that regulars navigate without looking. Eat outside in the little alley when the weather plays along.
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The tiramisù here, ranked among Italy's finest, is the obvious reason strangers stop mid-walk across Piazza Benedetto Cairoli. Roscioli Caffè is a Rome pastry bar where the classics are taken seriously: layered cornetti, ring cakes, raisin swirls, and a parade of petite pastries that regulars navigate without looking at the case. The whole operation reads as traditional Roman, just done with unusually good ingredients.
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Rank 68. KLU Pizza Club
Contemporary Neapolitan Pizza
A cocktail bar greets you at the entrance before the pizza even enters the picture, which tells you something about KLU's ambitions. This contemporary Neapolitan pizza spot in Prati does thin bases with properly puffy, fragrant crusts, a short list of around twenty pies leaning on the classics with a few clever twists, and a wine list deep enough to order by the glass without embarrassment. The staff has that warm, lightly theatrical southern Italian energy.
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Rank 69. Da Cesare
Italian
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Rank 70. Carter Oblio
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 71. Trattoria del Pesce
Italian
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The menu is printed fresh each day, which tells you everything about how this family-run Roman trattoria operates. Ingredients follow the market and the season; the rigatoni all'amatriciana, built on properly fatty guanciale, does not change at all. 50 Top Italy ranked it among the country's finest versions of that dish, which is a reasonable argument for ordering it first. The room runs warm, the owners mean it, and the whole thing feels reassuringly unchanged.
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Carbonara, cacio e pepe, amatriciana, gricia: the Roman canon, cooked straight, no editorializing. This Ostiense neighborhood trattoria has a Michelin Bib Gourmand and a reputation that now reaches well past its own streets, so book by phone or don't bother showing up. The room is simple and unhurried, the service genuinely warm in the way that can't be faked, and a handful of more creative dishes sit alongside the classics without disturbing them.
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A Monteverde pizzeria that has been around forever without feeling like a museum piece, La Gatta Mangiona sits outside the usual Roman pizza camps and does things its own way. The dough is light and handled well, holding up under toppings that lean into stronger ingredients without losing balance. Evenings only, reservations a good idea, and a room that fills with people who have clearly been coming for years.
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The trapizzino is a triangle cut from thick white pizza dough, pocketed and stuffed with Roman home cooking, and Stefano Callegari invented it at this Testaccio street food counter. Supplì and croquettes round out the menu, and the fillings run from meatball in tomato sauce to tongue in green sauce for anyone feeling confident. It has since spread to New York, which tells you something about how the city feels about a warm doughy pocket of braised things.
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Rank 76. Antica Pesa
Roman
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Rank 77. Il Ristorante Alain Ducasse Roma
Modern Mediterranean
Inside the Zaha Hadid-designed Romeo hotel, just off Piazza del Popolo, this fine dining room is ebony walls, marble open kitchen, and the quiet confidence of a place that knows exactly what it is. Alain Ducasse's name is on the door, and the team trained in his Monaco and Paris kitchens shows it, turning high-quality Mediterranean ingredients into compositions that stay elegant without becoming architectural puzzles.
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Rank 78. Brucio
Roman Pizza
A thin, crispy Roman-style pizza is the whole point at this elegant pizzeria in the Prati neighborhood, a short walk from Lepanto metro. The menu leans into Roman tradition, with toppings like artichoke white pizza and a carbonara-inspired pie that somehow doesn't feel like a gimmick. A decent wine list and cocktail selection keep things interesting beyond the dough. The room is relaxed and the service moves quickly without feeling rushed.
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Rank 79. San Baylon
Contemporary Italian
Inside Palazzo Ripetta, a short walk from Piazza del Popolo, San Baylon is a contemporary Italian restaurant that manages to feel relaxed and polished at the same time. When the weather cooperates, the internal garden does most of the heavy lifting, a tucked-away green pocket in the middle of Rome. The kitchen works with obvious seasonal restraint, letting good produce carry the argument rather than technique, which is present but never announced.
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Rank 80. Mater Terrae
Contemporary Vegetarian
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Rank 81. Il Ristorante - Niko Romito
Contemporary Italian
On the fifth floor of the Bulgari hotel, with a terrace overlooking the Mausoleum of Augustus, this fine dining room is where three-Michelin-star chef Niko Romito runs an outpost built around his signature idea: that classic Italian dishes get more interesting when you strip them back rather than build them up. Spaghetti al pomodoro, artichoke soup, saffron risotto, all treated with a kind of rigorous restraint. Stop at the bar on your way in and order something cold.
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Rank 82. Pirò
Seafood
A short walk from Piazza Navona in a city where proximity to a landmark usually means a tourist tax, this seafood restaurant holds its own with a menu built around crudo and whatever the day's catch makes possible. The room is modern and intimate, service reads your mood without hovering, and the team brings real experience to Rome's notoriously competitive dining scene. Go when the evening quiets the neighborhood down.
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Carved into the slope of Monte Testaccio, a hill built from ancient broken amphorae, this old-school Roman trattoria has been feeding the neighborhood on quinto quarto, the offal cuts that Testaccio made its own, for what feels like forever. The wine cellar runs deep and the service carries the quiet confidence of six generations. The bucatini all'amatriciana, ranked among Italy's finest, arrives with extra pecorino on the side, unprompted, as it should.
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Rank 84. Adelaide
Modern Italian
The courtyard, tucked behind Hotel Vilòn, is one of those spots that feels like it belongs to you personally. This is a contemporary Italian restaurant where the chef draws on Campanian roots to rework Mediterranean cooking into something polished without being stiff. The Roman classics, carbonara, cacio e pepe, amatriciana, are all here and handled seriously. The room inside is quietly beautiful, decorated with real care and none of the usual hotel-restaurant pomp.
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Rank 85. Shiroya
Japanese
A small Japanese restaurant on a narrow street in the historic centre, with just enough covers inside and on the terrace to make a reservation feel less optional than the menu suggests. The kitchen runs a classical lineup, hand-rolled gyoza, tempura, raw fish, ramen, and rice dishes executed without fanfare. The Japanese clientele filling most of the seats is its own quiet argument. Sake, shochu, and craft beer, plus wine for the unconvinced.
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Rank 86. CiPASSO
Roman
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Fifties trattoria bones with an open kitchen and reviews papering the walls, SantoPalato in San Giovanni is the kind of Roman trattoria that feels like it has been feeding the neighborhood forever. Sarah Cicolini leans hard into the fifth quarter, offal and all, with daily specials on a chalkboard filling out a tight menu. The carbonara ranks number one on 50 Top Italy's list, which tells you something about the egg-to-guanciale ratio.
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Rank 88. Casa Coppelle
Mediterranean
A series of intimate dining rooms near the Pantheon, each decorated differently, from a gallery of painted portraits to a library corner that feels lifted from a London club. Casa Coppelle is a sit-down restaurant where the kitchen fuses Italian and French cooking into something that reads as neither and both. The wine list is serious, the service is the kind that notices things without being asked.
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The Ravioli Mimosa, made from a recipe so closely guarded that not even the menu will tell you what's inside, has been on the list since anyone can remember. This is a proper Roman trattoria in Trastevere, the kind that still leads with cacio e pepe, carbonara, and tripe without a hint of apology. The room is rustic but pulled together, the service knows what it's doing, and the beef fillet finished over charcoal closes things out the way Rome intends.
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A contemporary osteria a short walk from Parliament, named for the owners' grandparents, who were in the trade long before it was fashionable. The menu stays close to Roman tradition but makes room for a Marsala Florio pairing that runs alongside each course, which is a more interesting idea than it sounds. Book ahead if you want a seat on the terrace, and book ahead anyway.
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Rank 92. Nomos Ante
Contemporary Italian
Charcoal-grilled lamb with rhubarb is the move to watch at this contemporary Italian restaurant inside a sleek new Rome hotel. The young chef spent serious time in France and Japan, and the cooking lands somewhere between classical precision and something fresher, with clean flavors that don't need much explaining. The room shares the hotel's polished lines, and the crowd skews international, which makes sense given the passport stamps behind the menu.
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Fried pizza is the opening argument here, and the kitchen in Rome's historic center makes a case for Neapolitan style that the city's own pizza partisans find hard to dismiss. Montanarine and pasta frittata do their work as starters before the wood-fired pies arrive. It's a quick, no-fuss pizzeria, the kind where the service moves faster than you expect and the menu does most of the talking.
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Rank 94. Campocori
Modern Italian
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A vegan trattoria a short walk from Termini that makes its name doing Roman classics without any animal products, cacio e pepe and amatriciana included. The room is casual and unpretentious, the portions are honest, and the menu runs from supplì to seitan mains, so there's no shortage of places to land. A good stop whether you're vegan or just curious what Roman comfort food looks like when the kitchen redraws the rules.
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Rank 98. Mirabelle
Modern Italian
The penthouse dining room of the Hotel Splendide Royal frames a panorama that takes in Villa Medici, Trinità dei Monti, and St. Peter's, which means the sunset does a lot of work before the food even arrives. This is a fine dining restaurant running on classical Italian technique with a modern sensibility, the menu moving between meat and seafood according to the season. Dress accordingly, and consider lingering.
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Rank 99. Il Tufo Allegro
Tuscan
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Rank 100. Trecca
Modern Italian
Dark wood furniture from the 1950s fills a small, packed dining room near Ostiense, where Trecca runs as a modern Roman trattoria with a serious obsession with offal. The menu pivots around fifth-quarter cuts, classic and gently updated, alongside a natural wine list that never gets preachy about it. Reservations are non-negotiable, and the amatriciana has landed in the top three on 50 Top Italy's ranking of the dish.
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