The 73 Best Restaurants in Roma

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
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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.

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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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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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 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 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.

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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

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.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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A single communal table split between an interior dining room and a panoramic terrace facing the Palatine Hill is the whole concept here, and it commits to it completely. The contemporary Italian cooking leans Mediterranean, with handmade pasta as the clear through-line. The tortelli with pork ribs and cacao mass is the kind of dish people mention unprompted. Come at sunset and the terrace doubles as a cocktail bar with a view that makes the real estate feel almost embarrassing.

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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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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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The conveyor belt runs on one side; a hushed omakase room sits on the other. This Japanese restaurant in Rome splits its personality cleanly between Sushisen Kaitenzushi's counter energy and the more formal Experience side, where the chef's tasting sequence takes its time. Both menus share a kitchen, and the all-female service team holds everything together with quiet precision. Sake and wine pour by the glass throughout.

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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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Three chefs share the kitchen at this contemporary tasting-menu restaurant in Rome, running two parallel menus, one plant-based, one not, built around a single ingredient explored front to back through changing techniques. Most tables face the open kitchen, so you watch the work as it happens. The room is calm and pared back, which lets the cooking do the talking. For a tasting menu in Rome, the pricing won't keep you up at night.

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The sandwiches here are named for members of the family, and the bread comes from Roscioli, which tells you almost everything about how seriously this small Yemeni-Ethiopian street food spot takes the details. A mother and her daughters run it out of a quiet Monteverde side street, and the cooking goes exactly as it would at home: sambusas, spiced rice with beef stew, and savory mutabbaq pastry folded with egg and coriander.

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The name translates to "there's pasta, and pasta," which tells you exactly where the menu's priorities lie. This kosher counter spot near Stazione Trastevere does Roman Jewish cooking: fried artichokes, battered cod, that quietly brilliant anchovy and frisée casserole. You order at the counter, eat in or take away, and can pick up fresh pasta to finish at home. It's a neighborhood joint that happens to hold a whole culinary tradition.

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A porthole-sized window into the kitchen is your first clue that Mazzo takes cooking seriously while keeping things loose. This San Lorenzo trattoria-leaning restaurant built its reputation on Roman nostalgia done with a sharp eye, leaning into offal and old-school pasta forms without winking too hard. The fried tripe with pecorino and tomato is the kind of dish that makes you wonder why anyone ever tried to modernize Roman food in the first place.

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A gelateria in Monteverde Vecchio where the flavors lean restrained rather than sugar-forward, which is either a revelation or a disappointment depending on what you came for. Marco Radicioni trained under one of Rome's gelato legends and the house sensibility shows in the sourcing. Specialty coffee and pastries have since turned it into a full third-wave stop, so you can reasonably linger without just holding a cone.

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The Beijing-born chef behind Sinosteria spent decades running Rome's first Thai restaurant before opening this place to cook the Chinese food she wanted to cook. A casual neighborhood restaurant, it moves between regional Chinese traditions without apology, and the sommelier son running the front of house keeps a natural wine list that has no business being this interesting. The room draws locals from the surrounding residential stretch of Marconi who seem blissfully unbothered by the category confusion.

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The naturally leavened bread arrives before you've decided anything, which tells you something about how this restaurant thinks. In a low-lit Garbatella room with Nordic bones and Roman soul, the kitchen brings Abruzzo's mountain larder into conversation with the capital, via a menu that shifts constantly but keeps landing somewhere comforting. Chickpea soup with chestnuts and dried figs, lamb with puntarelle, the kind of wine list that stays stubbornly central Italian.

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