The Top 88 Restaurants Near Nascostoposto

A trattoria tucked in the Umbrian countryside where the staff has apparently been warm since before you even arrived, the courtesy starting at the reservation. The menu runs seasonal and regional, traditional dishes nudged just slightly without making a fuss about it. Summer meals spill onto a terrace surrounded by greenery; winter pulls everything inside to something genuinely cozy. The portions are generous and the presentation unfussy, which makes the depth of the wine list a pleasant surprise.

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Stone walls and a terrace at the foot of a medieval church set the scene at this country restaurant in a hilltop village on the Lazio-Umbria border. The cooking leans into local ingredients without fussing over them, which turns out to be harder than it sounds. Small-producer Lazio wines round out a meal that reads like the region explaining itself quietly. The kind of place you find by accident and then tell everyone about.

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The olive oil on the table comes straight from the estate, which tells you something about how seriously this Umbrian restaurant takes its pantry. It sits in an elegant villa above Todi, with views that make lingering over a long lunch feel obligatory rather than indulgent. The menu stays rooted in regional tradition while nudging things into modern territory, and the wine list throws in a surprisingly serious champagne selection for a hilltop in Umbria.

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Guests are handed off to an aperitif in a cave-like rock room before the meal proper begins in dining rooms where open kitchens are framed like gallery paintings. This is a serious Umbrian fine-dining destination, set above a lake with a lawn that earns a moment before you go in. The menu hinges on a choice between lighter and longer tasting formats, or a structured à la carte pulled from two distinct sections of the kitchen's creative and classic repertoire.

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The open barbecue grill is the focal point of this cozy trattoria in a medieval hilltop village between Foligno and Perugia. Umbrian truffles and hyper-local produce run through the menu, with meat doing most of the talking, cooked over live fire in full view of the room. Guests staying the night in one of the comfortable rooms wake up to the same unhurried pace the valley has apparently maintained for centuries.

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The route to the table winds through a sequence of small rooms before opening into the Sala del Vespasia, the fine dining room inside Palazzo Seneca. A Michelin-starred kitchen run by a Japanese chef, her cooking draws on Umbrian staples like black truffle, Sibillini lamb, and local cured hams, shaped by years working across southern Italy. The Bianconi family has been hosting in Norcia forever, and the warmth at the front of house shows it.

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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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One dining room still has the frescoes from when the building served as the town granary, which sets the tone nicely. This trattoria inside a small hotel on Norcia's main street leans hard into the region's cured-meat traditions, with a 24-month prosciutto that needs no introduction and pasta dishes that update old recipes without apologizing for them. The grill runs constantly. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the prices won't cause a scene.

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A garden terrace with a front-row view of Orvieto's Duomo sets the scene at this modern Italian restaurant tucked into the old city. The chef works a seasonal menu built around regional ingredients, and the wine list leans into local Umbrian bottles with the kind of care that makes you order a second glass before you've decided on dessert. Unhurried and unshowy, it's a good argument for lingering over lunch.

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A centuries-old stone complex on the road to Rome, now home to a quietly serious Umbrian restaurant run by three brothers, two in the kitchen and one steering the wine in the dining room. The cooking draws on local traditions with a Venetian thread woven through, the result of the family's roots. Herbs come from the garden out back, and the portions are the kind that make you revise your dessert plans.

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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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A seventeenth-century grain and olive oil mill in a hamlet so small and spring-fed that the old Umbrian word for water became the restaurant's name. This is a tasting-menu destination, one Michelin star, where the chef works almost entirely with produce grown within about twenty kilometers, then applies enough technique to make you stop mid-bite. The wine list leans natural, biodynamic, and small-production, which fits the room's unhurried, rural romance perfectly.

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Perched on the hills between Perugia and Torgiano, this Michelin-starred restaurant inside Borgo Brufa works through a tight network of small Umbrian producers rather than showmanship. The chef builds menus that shift with the season and harvest, so what arrives at the table reads less like a greatest-hits tour of the region and more like a quiet argument about what it actually tastes like right now.

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The dining room sits over the excavated remains of a Roman villa, which makes the bread service feel appropriately humble by comparison. This is a sit-down restaurant in central Assisi, split between straightforward Umbrian cooking and more considered modern plates. The wine cellar is serious enough to be a destination on its own, and the setting, ancient stone and all, does most of the interior decorating.

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Two brothers named their restaurant after their mother, which sets the tone before you've even sat down. Olimpia is a modern trattoria in a renovated old building in the hamlet of Brufa, where one brother runs the kitchen with a sure hand on Umbrian ingredients and the other manages the room with the kind of warmth that actually feels earned. The menu leans into vegetables in a region better known for meat, which is its own quiet statement.

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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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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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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 spiral staircase inside a medieval palazzo carries you up to a Michelin-starred dining room where Liberty-style tiles meet chestnut tables and the kitchen calls its project "new rural cuisine." The chef's tasting menus reach back into Lazio's pastoral pantry with a modern hand, the kind of place where lamb shows up twice on the same menu and somehow neither feels redundant. Tivoli, for once, is the destination rather than the day trip.

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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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The Sibillini mountains take some getting to, and Il Tiglio is another half-hour past anywhere you'd call convenient. It's a contemporary restaurant where chef Enrico Mazzaroni draws almost entirely from his own agriturismo for ingredients, trout and venison and mushrooms finding their way into dishes that are far more technically ambitious than the surroundings suggest. A Michelin star, earned in a place this remote, tells its own story.

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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 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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A Michelin-starred restaurant tucked into a residential corner of a tiny hilltop village, with a terrace that looks out over a valley so pastoral it barely seems real. The cooking is rooted in this particular patch of Lazio, country flavors sharpened by a light technical hand. The wine cellar runs deep, with bottles that have had time to think. Pigeon, when it appears on the menu, tends to be the thing people are still talking about on the drive home.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Picture windows framing the Umbrian hills flood the dining room with the kind of light that makes you want to linger. This is the restaurant inside Borghi dell'Eremo resort, where the kitchen leans into traditional Umbrian cooking and the estate raises its own rabbits, which end up in a ragù over saffron tagliatelle. Unhurried, landscape-forward, and probably not where you're going if you're in a rush to get somewhere else.

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A sign on the wall reads "sacristy," which does lead to the wine cellar, so pack your patience. This old-school Abruzzese trattoria has been run by the same family forever, and the menu goes nowhere near the sea: cured meats, hand-cut chitarra pasta, porcini in season, and mutton stew are the point. The crème caramel gets a hit of local Navelli saffron, which is the kind of regional pride that actually makes you pay attention.

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The pan of chicken giblets is on the menu, and the regulars know to order it. This is a straightforward, old-school trattoria on the edge of Tivoli's historic center, with a kitchen that takes Lazio's meat-heavy canon seriously, offal very much included. Grilled marrow, beef tartare, truffled potatoes: the chef Adriano Baldassarre runs through the cuts most places quietly skip. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the fish dishes feel almost beside the point.

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Tucked into a quiet residential corner of L'Aquila's historic centre, FØRMA is an intimate contemporary restaurant with a minimalist room that means the food does all the talking. The chef keeps his dishes to three core ingredients, leaning on local Abruzzo produce and the occasional fermented note. A dessert that disguises white-chocolate mousse as meringue with a dusting of liquorice gives you the general idea: restrained until it isn't.

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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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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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A terrace on a medieval piazza in a hilltop hamlet that barely registers on most maps, Lillotatini is a family-run trattoria serving Umbrian classics, freshwater fish, and truffles when the season allows. The family also runs a wine boutique steps away on the same square, and those bottles migrate onto the restaurant list, which gives the wine conversation a certain built-in authority.

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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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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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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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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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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 daily menu goes up on a blackboard, the appetizers come from a buffet, and the family running the place has been doing it this way for generations. La Piccola Amatrice is an old-school Roman trattoria where the owners actually hail from Amatrice, which means the spaghetti all'amatriciana is taken personally. Portions are generous, prices are low, and nobody is performing anything for anyone.

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Stone walls and a terrace looking out over the Tuscan hills make Daniela the natural endpoint of a wander through San Casciano's cobblestone lanes. It's a cozy trattoria on the main square, the kind that keeps things rooted in local tradition, with handmade pastas, wild boar pappardelle, and roasted rabbit alongside a wine list that stays mostly in Tuscany.

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A cozy trattoria in the Nomentano quarter, a student neighborhood northeast of the center where no tour bus has ever made a wrong turn. The kitchen works its way through regional Italian traditions and then quietly does something odd and right: a classic Mantuan pumpkin tortello becomes roasted squash with curry and amaretti. The room is small, vintage in feel, and the cooking lands somewhere between a Sunday lunch and a genuinely curious mind.

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A kaiseki restaurant tucked just off Via Veneto, where the fish arrives so fresh the raw preparations almost make the case on their own. Kohaku brings Japanese haute cuisine to Rome with precise knife work and composed presentations, running from gyoza and tempura through to charcoal-grilled meats. An eight-course kaiseki menu is available at dinner for anyone who wants to hand the evening over entirely.

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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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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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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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The spaghetti with tuna and bottarga has a name, taratatà, which tells you something about how seriously Sicily is taken here. Giano is a hotel restaurant inside the W near Via Veneto that shifts register through the day, casual at lunch and more considered at dinner, with a kitchen shaped by the influence of Ciccio Sultano of the two-starred Duomo in Ragusa. Cannolo gets a prickly pear consommé; caponata stays caponata.

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Korean cooking that has anchored this corner of Rome for a long time, with a menu built around rice, restorative soups, and shared plates meant to crowd the middle of the table. It reads as a casual, convivial Korean restaurant, generous in portions and calibrated in the push-pull between sweet-sour and heat. One dessert closes the menu, a detail worth knowing before you arrive hoping for options.

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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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Fresh pasta rolls out of a tiny kitchen visible right by the door, which sets the tone at this old-school Roman trattoria devoted entirely to the cooking of Emilia-Romagna. Salumi, tagliatelle with ragù, and a refrigerated case of desserts at the back make the menu feel like a polite argument for why you should have stayed north. Been around forever, and the regulars eat like they know it.

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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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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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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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