The Best Places to Eat in Roma

A Monteverde pizzeria that has been around forever without feeling like a museum piece, La Gatta Mangiona sits outside the usual Roman pizza camps and does things its own way. The dough is light and handled well, holding up under toppings that lean into stronger ingredients without losing balance. Evenings only, reservations a good idea, and a room that fills with people who have clearly been coming for years.

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Roman-style pizza, done thin and crispy the way the city has always insisted it should be, anchors this relaxed pizza spot along the Tiber. The fried starters get as much attention as the pies, coming out fragrant and genuinely light, which is harder than it sounds. A solid list of sparkling wines makes the pairing case for itself. The room is informal and unhurried, the kind of place where the service moves fast enough that you never feel forgotten.

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Colorful pizza triangles cover the walls of this bright, modern Roman pizzeria, which is built around the scrocchiarella, the thin, aggressively crisp style native to the city. The dough is featherlight and the crunch is the whole point. The menu wanders past the usual fritti into a broader spread of Italian small plates, and the pizzas run from classic to a little unexpected. It landed on the 50 Top Pizza Italy list, which tracks.

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A Neapolitan-born pizzaiolo running a bright, renovated pizzeria on the Via Appia Nuova, with a summer veranda that fills up fast. The dough is the light, elastic kind that serious pizza people argue about, and alongside the classics, fried pizzas, and calzones, the kitchen slides in seasonal dishes and old Neapolitan recipes that have no business being this good this far from Naples.

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A Neapolitan-style pizzeria in the Esquilino neighborhood, Ardecore fills colorful, comfortable rooms with the kind of crowds who come for the fried starters as much as the pies. The dough follows a thin-base, soft-crust tradition, and the toppings lean hard on sourced Irpinian products, including soppressata, Carmasciano pecorino, and cave-aged Calitrano provolone. The menu runs red pizzas, white pizzas, and montanare, all landing light enough that a second round feels reasonable.

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A pizzeria steps from the Piramide metro stop, built around a dough that splits the difference between Roman and Neapolitan: thin and crispy through the middle, with a crust that actually has some height to it. The wooden-furnished room leans rustic and unhurried. The supplì and the house croutons with creative toppings are the kind of starters that make you forget a pizza is coming. Good beer list, friendly service.

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A thin, crispy Roman-style pizza is the whole point at this elegant pizzeria in the Prati neighborhood, a short walk from Lepanto metro. The menu leans into Roman tradition, with toppings like artichoke white pizza and a carbonara-inspired pie that somehow doesn't feel like a gimmick. A decent wine list and cocktail selection keep things interesting beyond the dough. The room is relaxed and the service moves quickly without feeling rushed.

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A Roman-style pizza spot in Talenti where the menu is organized by intensity levels, which is either very logical or a little extra depending on your mood. The crust is thin and crispy without turning to crackers under the toppings, and the fried starters come out properly dry and greaseless. A reimagined amatriciana sits alongside more elaborate combinations, with solid vegetarian options throughout. The room reads new-generation pizzeria in all the ways you'd expect.

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A pizza spot on the Nomentana that offers both Neapolitan and Roman styles under one roof, which sounds like hedging but here reads as genuine range. The dough is made using autolysis, a slow hydration technique that produces a crust light enough to keep the peace between the two camps. Start with the frittata, and leave room for the pistachio tiramisu, which earns its place at the end of the meal.

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A San Lorenzo pizza shop where the dough gets more attention than most people give their houseplants, fermented long enough that the menu leads with digestibility as a selling point. Three sizes run from a small aperitivo round up to a rolling-pin-pressed Spianata Romana, and the kitchen rotates a new pie each week. Craft beers and natural wines fill out the back half of the menu, and the room stays informal without getting sloppy.

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The pizza here is almost aggressively thin, a crisp, barely-there wafer with toppings kept minimal enough that nothing buckles it. It's a Roman-adjacent pizzeria in the Colli Albani neighborhood, done up in high ceilings and industrial bones that feel more like a design object than a neighborhood joint. The fried snacks are worth ordering alongside, and the wine list runs longer than you'd expect for a pizza dinner.

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A Roman pizzeria that splits its loyalties cleanly: thin and crispy Roman style on one side, high-crusted Neapolitan on the other, and no apparent anxiety about the contradiction. The dough is well matured and light, and the kitchen clearly thinks about what goes on top of it. The room is tidy and relaxed, the kind of place that works equally well for a quick weeknight dinner or a longer table with friends.

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A neighborhood pizzeria in the residential Trieste quarter, far enough from the tourist circuit that you'll hear mostly Italian at the tables around you. The dough is the story here, soft and slow-fermented in a way that means you won't feel weighed down afterward. The menu runs from straight-ahead classics to quieter original combinations that don't try too hard. Staff move fast without being brusque, which in Rome is its own achievement.

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A visible wood oven anchors the room at this Roman pizzeria, where the pizza a ruota di carro, stretched to cart-wheel proportions, is reason enough to visit. The fried pizza delivers on its promise of intensity, and the artisanal croquettes and small omelettes upstage most of the starters you'd find nearby. Craft beers, a spacious terrace, and a younger crowd keep the energy loose. The bill lands where it should.

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A cocktail bar greets you at the entrance before the pizza even enters the picture, which tells you something about KLU's ambitions. This contemporary Neapolitan pizza spot in Prati does thin bases with properly puffy, fragrant crusts, a short list of around twenty pies leaning on the classics with a few clever twists, and a wine list deep enough to order by the glass without embarrassment. The staff has that warm, lightly theatrical southern Italian energy.

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A neighborhood pizzeria in the Trieste quarter where the dough gets 72 hours to think things over before it meets the oven, and you can taste the difference. The crust stays low and light, letting the toppings carry the conversation. The room is small and carefully put together, the staff pay attention, and a little complimentary snack arrives before you've decided anything. The craft beer list runs deeper than you'd expect.

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Fried pizza is the opening argument here, and the kitchen in Rome's historic center makes a case for Neapolitan style that the city's own pizza partisans find hard to dismiss. Montanarine and pasta frittata do their work as starters before the wood-fired pies arrive. It's a quick, no-fuss pizzeria, the kind where the service moves faster than you expect and the menu does most of the talking.

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A pizza spot on Rome's eastern outskirts where the tasting format is the main event, built for a table of friends passing plates around. The crust is thin, well-leavened, and satisfyingly crunchy, and the combinations lean creative without losing their balance. Fried starters hold their own, and a short list of wines and beers keeps things moving. There's parking, which in Rome feels like its own kind of miracle.

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Three pizza styles, same weight, all made from a dough that ferments for 48 hours before it sees any heat. Spiazzo is a gourmet pizza spot near the Gasometer in Ostiense, offering the high-crusted Spiazzante, a pan-style padellino, and a Roman flat. The kitchen takes the format seriously enough that choosing between them feels like a small but genuine decision. Outdoor seating softens the industrial neighborhood nicely.

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Thin, light dough that practically disappears is the baseline at this modern Roman pizzeria, where the combinations lean sophisticated and occasionally tip into unexpected, almost exotic territory. The pizza shells served as appetizers, somewhere between tapas and leavened snack, are a fun detour before the main event. The room is colorful and energetic, with a communal counter up front that actually earns its keep. Cocktail pairings on the menu complete the picture.

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Wood-fired Neapolitan pizza is the draw at Tonda, a casual neighborhood pizzeria in the Montesacro quarter where the dough gets properly long-leavened before it ever sees the oven. The menu wanders beyond the classics into unexpected combinations, and the trapizzini make a strong case as a starter. Cold beer pairs well with all of it, and the staff have clearly been told that a relaxed table is a returning table.

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Frescoed vaults and Liberty wood paneling in a sixteenth-century palazzo: not the usual backdrop for a pizza dinner. This is a pizzeria on Piazza Rondanini, and the wine list skews Michelin-level, which tells you something about how seriously the team takes the whole operation. The room is genuinely grand, which makes the brevity of a pizza meal feel almost rude to the architecture.

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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 toppings change by the hour at Gabriele Bonci's pizza al taglio shop near the Vatican Museums, which means the regulars learn to read the trays fast and order without hesitating. Cold-fermented dough, biodynamic produce, and a rotating cast of what's good today; the potato-mozzarella is a near-constant if you need an anchor. There's some seating inside now after a renovation, though the built-in counters out front are still where the action is.

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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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You have to ring a doorbell to get in, which sets the tone nicely for this old-school Roman trattoria near Campo dei Fiori. The team behind Cesare al Casaletto took over after the beloved predecessor closed, keeping the tiled floors, midcentury furniture, and a tight menu that still features the previous owner's pan-fried meatballs. It's the kind of place that resists the urge to reinvent itself, which is exactly the point.

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A cheese and wine shop in Trastevere, a short walk from San Francesco a Ripa, where a former Salumeria Roscioli hand now runs a tight, personally curated selection of Italian cheese and cured meat. The big names are all here, Parmigiano, gorgonzola, mozzarella di bufala, but sourced from the smallest artisanal producers rather than the obvious ones. A few high-top tables mean you can open a natural wine and eat right where you're standing, which is the correct move.

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A natural wine bar on a cobbled Trastevere side street that quietly became something more interesting when a new chef arrived with training from France, Norway, and Scotland. The menu shifts constantly, landing somewhere between fermented vegetables, aged fish, and spices you wouldn't expect in Rome. The room stays unfussy; the cooking doesn't. Good luck getting a table without planning ahead.

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A craft beer bar so small it barely fits its own reputation, this Trastevere institution pours around a dozen rotating taps covering Italy, Belgium, Germany, the U.S., and the U.K., with a tight bottle selection behind the bar. The staff actually knows beer, which is rarer than it sounds in a neighborhood where tourists outnumber locals. Snag one of the few street tables if you can, and watch Trastevere do its thing around you.

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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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The cocoa perfume hits before the door does. This old-school chocolate shop near the Pantheon has been here since the Savoy court moved from Turin, and it moves at the same unhurried pace. Glass cases hold more than 80 handmade chocolates and bonbons; in autumn, locals come specifically for the marrons glacés, whole or as paste. A small box is a perfectly decent souvenir, though a kilo starts to feel like a personal tradition.

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A kiosk with an old "Cafè Du Parc" sign still tilting off the roof sits at the junction of three Rome neighborhoods, pulling triple duty as a specialty coffee stop in the morning, a place to idle through the afternoon, and a low-key bar by evening. Draft cocktails and natural wines bring in locals who don't mind trams rattling past on the cobblestones. Staff playlists give way to vinyl, and nothing about the pace ever tips into trying too hard.

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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 display cases at this old-school Roman pasticceria are packed with maritozzi, the whipped cream-filled buns that have been a local obsession forever. The family has been running the place for generations, and the seasonal rotation holds: bigne in spring, colombe at Easter, pandoro come Christmas. Order at the counter and take your pastries next door to Caffé Regoli, where the kitchen will bring everything to your table with coffee.

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Sacks of stone-milled flour from Le Marche, Campania, and Sicily crowd the entrance, which tells you something about how seriously this pizza al taglio shop takes its raw materials. Pizza Nader sits in the southern Roma 70 neighborhood, far from the tourist circuit, turning out deeply flavored slices and a dozen varieties of naturally leavened bread. The supplì alone can stop a conversation mid-sentence.

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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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A tiny pizza al taglio laboratorio a short walk from Circo Massimo, run by a Bonci protégé who names his pies with a straight face and a sense of humor. The long-fermented dough bakes into something audibly crunchy, and the toppings lean on small central Italian farms. The Ragùver, loaded with slow-cooked meat sauce and Parmigiano, tastes like someone's Sunday lunch decided to become a slice shop.

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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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A trattoria wedged into a medieval tower on Tiber Island, which is already a strong opening move. Sora Lella has been turning out cucina romana since forever, and the third generation has quietly sharpened things back up after a long, comfortable coasting phase. The wine list skips the obvious and leans into Lazio's overlooked labels. Wood-paneled rooms, cacio e pepe somewhere on the menu, and the kind of crowd that didn't need a reservation app to find this place.

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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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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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