Mekane in Rome

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

Bib Gourmand Roman cooking facing Teatro Palladium

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

Esquilino natural-wine bar of small artisanal labels

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

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

The natural-wine bar that changed Flaminio, by MAXXI

Aliena-roasted specialty coffee and brunch on leafy Viale Aventino

All-day Prati canteen, wine bar and gastroteca

Below-street industrial bar for fermented sodas, natural wine and canned cocktails

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

Danish-Italian micro-bakery and seasonal bistro in Ostiense

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

Artisan food hall in Termini's Cappa Mazzoniana

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

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

Bib Gourmand Roman trattoria anchoring the Ostiense food district

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