The 100 Best Places to Eat and Drink in Rome

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.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Stars
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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.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Stars
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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.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Stars
2. 50 Top Italy #10 · The Best Italian Restaurants - Luxury

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.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Stars
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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.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
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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.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
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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.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
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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.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
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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.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
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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.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
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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.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
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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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The grease pits are long gone, but Freni e Frizioni still has the bones of the auto workshop it used to be, reclaimed furniture and all. It's an aperitivo bar in Trastevere that pulls a crowd big enough to colonize the piazza outside most evenings. The cocktail list roams restlessly, taking inspiration from neighborhoods around the world. It holds a spot on Europe's 50 Best Bars, which the early-evening spillover crowd seems blissfully unaware of.

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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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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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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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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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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.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

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.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

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.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
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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.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

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.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

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.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

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.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

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.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

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 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.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

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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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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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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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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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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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 Roman trattoria steps from the Pantheon that has never once been tempted to put a Caesar salad on the menu. The Gargioli family has been feeding the neighborhood for generations with the unapologetic classics: oxtail braised in tomato and celery, fettuccine with chicken innards, artichokes in the cooler months. The wine list is a serious one, and the ricotta and strawberry jam pie is the kind of dessert that makes you forget you had a plan after lunch.

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A windowless room on Via del Moro in Trastevere, done up in dark wood and overhead luggage racks like a very stationary Orient Express car. Jerry Thomas is a classic cocktail bar with 90-minute reservations and bartenders dressed for a century ago, which suits the bottled classics and Champagne on offer. Outside, Trastevere does its rowdy thing; inside, you'd never know.

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Colorful Mexican-tile bar top, embroidered stools, and a wall of agave spirits that would embarrass most dedicated mezcalerias: La Punta is a tequila and mezcal bar tucked into Trastevere, run by the team behind Jerry Thomas Speakeasy. They traveled to Oaxaca to build the menu, and it shows. Downstairs, a smaller den packs in even more bottles and Mexican paraphernalia. Order slowly; the list rewards it.

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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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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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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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The pizza ebraica here is not pizza at all but a dense, sticky fruit cake built on almond flour with raisins, nuts, and candied fruit, and it will absolutely wreck your shirt. This old-school bakery in the former Jewish ghetto has been around forever, turning out that signature loaf alongside cinnamon-heavy biscotti and amaretti thick with whole almonds. Find a bench nearby before you start eating, or accept the consequences.

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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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L'Elementare is a casual Roman pizzeria, the thin, crackly-edged kind that arrives fast and costs less than the cocktail you'll have afterward. The crust splits the difference between airy and cracker, and the supplì include one stuffed with 'ndjua and fior di latte, which makes the fried starter the one you'll argue about. The Trastevere location sits next to a row of bars, so you can eat well and then watch everyone else try to.

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A neighborhood trattoria in Centocelle, the kind of eastern Rome district tourists rarely bother with, Menabò tours Italian regional cooking with a light, seasonal hand. Pasta alla gricia gets figs or grapes folded in; rigatoni arrives braised Neapolitan-style. The wine list leans natural and traditional, because the name is half promise. Locals who know their producers fill the room.

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Testaccio's covered market is the kind of place where serious Roman cooks still do their weekly shop, which is your best clue about the quality of what's on offer. Come morning to catch it in full swing before the 2 p.m. close. Standouts include Mordi e Vai for generational offal sandwiches, Da Artenio for pizza slices, and Da Corrado for natural wines and meatballs worth the detour.

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Piatto Romano is a Roman trattoria in Testaccio, the neighborhood that more or less invented the city's cooking, which is why the menu leans hard on offal and the daily specials rarely leave anyone guessing. It suits a slow weekday lunch or a quiet dinner in the freshly redone dining room. Yes, there's salad, and it's fine, but the bitter genziana digestivo at the end is the part that tells you where you are.

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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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The menu arrives spoken aloud, not handed over, and that tells you most of what you need to know about this old-school Roman trattoria tucked well away from the tourist circuit. The kitchen runs a straight lineup of Lazio classics, tripe, coratella, carciofi done both ways, with a handful of fish options alongside. Tiny dining rooms, a familial feel, a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and tables that fill fast. Book ahead.

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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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1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

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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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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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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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 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 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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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 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 proper sushi bar counter greets you at the door in the San Lorenzo neighborhood, the kind where the staff will walk you through the menu without making you feel like a tourist in your own dinner. The room keeps things spare, a nod to Japanese minimalism without the full performance of it. Fresh fish, simply handled, drives everything here, with salmon worth noting in particular. A small, considered wine list rounds things out.

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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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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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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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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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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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Roman-style pizza here means a rolling pin, not a toss, turning out thin, crisp rounds the way the neighborhood has always expected them. A Rota is a no-ceremony pizzeria in Tor Pignattara, sister spot to the trattoria next door, with a short menu of classic pies and a fried-foods list that reads like old Roman dialect. About fifteen pizzas, a seasonal special, and service that moves without making you feel rushed.

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Roman pizza gets very serious about its crust, and 180 Grammi is where that argument is made most crisply, in a renovated room in Centocelle that feels more like a restaurant than a slice shop. The thin, crackling edge is the whole point, and the menu shifts with the seasons so regulars have a reason to keep coming back. Ranked on both 50 Top Pizza Italy and 50 Top Pizza World, it also does fried starters and desserts that people actually finish.

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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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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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1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

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1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

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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1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

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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Five tables, no printed menu, and a Roman chef whose cooking wanders freely between Mexico City and Southeast Asia without stopping to explain itself. Ego is an intimate tasting-room experience in the Ostiense quarter where you pick your number of courses and hand the rest to the kitchen. The front-of-house doubles as sommelier, and the wine pairings by the glass are as considered as the food. Book well ahead.

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A wine shop steps from the Colosseum that quietly turns into a proper dinner spot once the sun goes down. Lunch is casual, guided by a blackboard and a daily special; evenings open into more intimate rooms behind the visible kitchen, where the chef works seasonal ingredients with real technique. The wine list splits its loyalty evenly between Italy and France, which feels like the right diplomatic move given the ownership.

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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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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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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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1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

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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1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant