Mekane in Rome

Bib Gourmand Roman cooking facing Teatro Palladium

Unassuming Monti enoteca for the serious-but-quiet glass

Corner bakery and forno on Via dei Serpenti

Two-century Roman bakery near Campo de' Fiori

Family enoteca in Parioli, pouring since 1929

Color-rich 2024 boutique stay in Rome's oldest quarter

Garbatella's cooperative osteria and social garden

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

Prati's 24-hour basement bakery beloved by Romans

Patrick Pistolesi's Blade-Runner cocktail bar, World's 50 Best

Thirty-year sister-run enoteca and restaurant off Piazza Trilussa

The natural-wine bar that changed Flaminio, by MAXXI

Aliena-roasted specialty coffee and brunch on leafy Viale Aventino

Pigneto's specialty-coffee bar and cultural corner

Contemporary art in the stables of a 16th-century palazzo

The Roscioli family forno, Esquilino branch

Cristina Bowerman's Michelin-starred creative kitchen in a Trastevere backstreet

Rocco Forte's design-rich hotel atop the Spanish Steps

A true Japanese izakaya — sake-only list, no sushi-roll tourism

Rome's first traditional Japanese kaiseki and omakase counter

Danish-Italian micro-bakery and seasonal bistro in Ostiense

Live-fire contemporary bistrot at the edge of Parioli-Flaminio

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

Barreca and Baccanelli's cult micro-restaurant of new-wave cucina romana

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

Sergio Esposito's legendary Roman-classic panini in the market

Marco Radicioni's market-driven artisanal gelato in Trastevere

Restored palazzo hotel of warm woods and curated art near Trevi

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

Gabriele Bonci's bread-and-pastry temple in Prati

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

Testaccio's neighbourhood pastry bar since 1971

Esquilino's maritozzo temple since 1916

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

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

The benchmark thin-crust Roman pizza of Testaccio

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

Centenary chocolate factory with bar and kitchen in San Lorenzo

Historic Prati espresso bar famed for the chocolate-cup coffee

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

Listening-bar osteria from De Maio and Franciosi

Bib Gourmand Roman trattoria anchoring the Ostiense food district

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

Chef-led Peruvian cooking by Piazza Dante in Esquilino

Antonio Ziantoni's measured, classically-grounded one-star tucked behind Trastevere