Restaurants and Cafes in Rome, Italy

This guide to eating in Rome will help you learn about tradtional Roman food, restaurants, and books about where to eat in Rome.

In this guide you'll find my favorite Rome restaurants and recommendations for where to eat in Rome.

When in Rome, you should do as the Romans do by eating some of the city's typical dishes. Heavier on meat and butter and less focused on pasta with red sauce (as is the stereotypical Italian menu), Roman food la cucina romana may not be ideal for dieters or carnivores, but a taste of it will bring you and your palate a little closer to...

Antica Osteria da Giovanni in Rome is a restaurant serving simple well-prepared food at bargain basement prices.

Book review of Cafe Life Rome - A Guidebook to the Cafes and Bars of the Eternal City by Joe Wolff. The book has some good recommendations and great photographs by Roger Paperno.

Rome's Trattoria Checchino dal 1887 serves excellent traditional Roman food in a beautiful dining room in the Testaccio District of Rome.

Review of Eat Rome, a mobile app for restaurants, bars, and food shops in Rome, Italy. Eat your way through Rome with Eat Rome mobile app.

Review of the book, Flavors of Rome - How, What and Where to Eat in the Eternal City, by Carol Coviello-Malzone.

Review of David Downie's book, Food Wine Rome, a book that will help you discover what and where to eat on your vacation in Rome.

Everyone loves gelato, Italian ice cream. Here's where to get the best gelato in Rome.

Food in Rome is a site with good recommendations for Rome dining by a Roman woman who runs the Rome office of Context Travel.

Ristorante Camponeschi, on Piazza Farnese near Campo dei Fiori, is recommended by Dianne Hales, author of La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with the Italian Language.

Good restaurant on the old Appian Way. Dine on the patio in good weather for nice views.

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Top Ten in Rome recommends their favorite restaurants.