Στέκια 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

Corner bakery and forno on Via dei Serpenti

Two-century Roman bakery near Campo de' Fiori

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

Family enoteca in Parioli, pouring since 1929

Esquilino natural-wine bar of small artisanal labels

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

Garbatella's cooperative osteria and social garden

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

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

Aliena-roasted specialty coffee and brunch on leafy Viale Aventino

Artisanal, additive-free gelato in Prati

Maria Agnese Spagnuolo's natural-ingredient gelato atelier

Maria Agnese Spagnuolo's natural, gluten-free creative gelato

Pigneto's specialty-coffee bar and cultural corner

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

The Roscioli family forno, Esquilino branch

Artisanal gelato made in view, off Via dei Coronari

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

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

Europe's first amaro bar with a full Roman osteria

All-day Prati canteen, wine bar and gastroteca

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

Rome's reference Indian kitchen, tucked into Monti

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

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

Artisan food hall in Termini's Cappa Mazzoniana

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

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

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

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

Renaissance-piazza seafood institution since 1938

Gabriele Bonci's landmark pizza al taglio

The benchmark thin-crust Roman pizza of Testaccio

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

Owner-chefs' minimalist lab a step from the Pantheon

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

Book-bar and cocktail salon facing the Temple of Hadrian

Wood-roasted espresso landmark since 1938

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

Restored tram kiosk for specialty coffee and dusk aperitivo

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

KM-0 Lazio terroir cooking in the heart of Monti

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

Gourmet rosetta sandwiches, KM-0 sourced, in Monti

Prati's 24-hour basement bakery beloved by Romans

Danish-Italian micro-bakery and seasonal bistro in Ostiense

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