Lokale in Rome

Bottiglieria dal 1895, Monti's beating wine-bar heart

Bib Gourmand Roman cooking facing Teatro Palladium

Unassuming Monti enoteca for the serious-but-quiet glass

Garbatella's revived historic forno, lab and restaurant

Manuele Colonna's craft-beer temple with Trapizzino

Belle-Epoque enoteca and all-day wine room since 2011

Three-decade neighbourhood trattoria with day-specific menus

Checked-cloth family trattoria of pure Roman recipes

All-day Ostiense bakery-bistro known for its generous aperitivo

Aliena-roasted specialty coffee and brunch on leafy Viale Aventino

Textbook cucina romana cut into the amphora hill

The tiny pub that launched Italy's craft-beer movement

Rome's reference Indian kitchen, tucked into Monti

Zaha Hadid's national museum of 21st-century art and architecture

Artisan food hall in Termini's Cappa Mazzoniana

Pasolini's old haunt, Pigneto's all-day hub

Art-of-bread bakery and café on Via Merulana since 1929

Andrea De Bellis's modern, French-and-Spanish-trained pastry

Third-wave coffee at the edge of Prati, syphon to nitro

Mother-and-daughters kitchen lab for inventive panini, pasta and focaccia

Gabriele Bonci's landmark pizza al taglio

Industrial all-day food hall and bistro in a converted Ostiense warehouse

Garden cafe and all-day kitchen hidden in residential San Saba

Centenary chocolate factory with bar and kitchen in San Lorenzo

Wood-roasted espresso landmark since 1938

Pier Daniele Seu's contemporary-pizza laboratory on the Trastevere fringe

Boisterous San Lorenzo trattoria of Roman and Pugliese cooking

Bib Gourmand Roman trattoria anchoring the Ostiense food district

Cacio e pepe as liturgy since 1911

All-day Garbatella caffetteria, vineria and vinyl bar

Market-driven Roman cooking and natural wine, south of Ostiense

Chef-led Peruvian cooking by Piazza Dante in Esquilino

KM-0 Lazio terroir cooking in the heart of Monti

Chic post-industrial kitchen with a creative seasonal menu

Classical sculpture displayed against a 1900s power-station's turbines

San Lorenzo's no-frills seafood institution

Danish-Italian micro-bakery and seasonal bistro in Ostiense

Rome's best Ethiopian, on Pigneto's Via Prenestina edge