Pop-up dining in Rome, as in many other capitals around the world, is now officially a thing. While the social dining movement started – like so many disruptive trends – with informal, unmanaged and unlicensed home restaurants, it has quickly evolved into a two-speed race featuring the amateurs and the professionals. Not that amateur is…
It’s been quite a year for Eataly in Rome. Oscar Farinetti’s rather magical emporium of food celebrated its fifth birthday on June 21st 2017 with one hell of a cake (comprising over 1000 profiteroles) plus a grand party underlining just how far the Rome flagship has come. The same night, Eataly Rome’s debut Festa delle…
Babingtons Tea Rooms in Rome is an extraordinary institution in a city which knows a thing or two about ancient history. Coming up to its 125th anniversary in 2018, the original Babingtons Tea Rooms was opened in 1893 in Via Due Macelli by two enterprising young women who wanted to make a respectable living in…
Rome’s newest Calabrian restaurant and food laboratory, Forte, is a welcome game changer for the Roman dining scene. While it’s perhaps common knowledge that the range of ethnic restaurants in Rome is patchy at best, you might imagine that the Italian regions would be comprehensively represented. That’s not entirely the case, especially if we look…
Altrove Restaurant is a new restaurant in the Garbatella district of Rome with an extraordinary plan. In a city like this, it’s hard enough to come up with a new food concept to draw a regular clientele which lasts longer than the latest summer fad. Well, Altrove is a restaurant which has launched with a…
Officina – pizza and burger is a recently refurbished pizzeria and craft-beer bar in Rome which is laying claim to serving one of the best pizzas in the capital. I’m guessing I don’t need to tell you how hardly contested that particularly crown is – it makes that Brutus-Julius Caesar spat in the capital look…
Eating Italy’s Rome Evening Wine & Food Stroll is a relatively new addition to Eating Europe Food Tours’ collection of food tours in Rome. Comprising a stroll through Rome’s Jewish Ghetto, a charming walk across Campo de’ Fiori and Piazza Farnese, the tour then crosses the river for dinner in Trastevere, closing with a gelato…
Queen Bee Roma is a new restaurant with a huge menu which manages to achieve a truly difficult task: offering vast choice, without skimping on the quality of the ingredients and the finished product. The sign over the door sets up its ambitions. Queen Bee Roma specialises in pizza, burgers and lobsters, and as soon…
Rome has a great craft beer scene and I was spoilt for choice selecting the 8 best craft beer bars in Rome for this article. From essential ‘hole in the wall’ dive bars in the city centre, to laid back drinking lounges and beer gardens a little further out, Rome has a great range of pubs focusing on…
Kisaki Ramen & Sushi is the latest Japanese restaurant in Rome meeting the demand for high quality ramen, sushi, sashimi and tempura in the Eternal City. With an emphasis on specialising in ramen, one of the latest trends to hit the capital, Kisaki Ramen & Sushi picks up the gauntlet with an all-Japanese staff, refined…
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