The Best Seafood in Rome

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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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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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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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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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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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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Charcoal smoke threads through almost every course here, including dessert, which tells you immediately what kind of cooks run this small seafood restaurant near piazza Zama. A husband-and-wife team, him cooking and her running the room, they bring real technique and the occasional Basque detour to Rome. Tables fill fast on evenings, so book ahead.

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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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The catch comes from Fiumicino and Anzio, and the cellar runs to older European whites most restaurants wouldn't bother with. Da Michele is a seafood and wine restaurant in the residential San Paolo district, the kind of place that looks like nothing from outside and runs like a tight ship within. Regulars have been filing back for years, and the wine list alone pulls people in from across the city.

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An elegant seafood restaurant a short walk from the Colosseum, Tempio di Iside leans hard into crudi: fish carpaccio, sea urchin roe, langoustines, oysters. Pasta with sweet red shrimp and fresh pecorino quietly dismantles the no-cheese-with-seafood rule, and the spaghetti with clams holds its own. Book ahead if you want one of the outdoor tables in summer, and come prepared: the fish is fresh and the bill reflects that.

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