Plekken in Rome

Bib Gourmand Roman cooking facing Teatro Palladium

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

Garbatella's cooperative osteria and social garden

Speakeasy behind a Pigneto sandwich shop

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

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

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

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

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

Marco Radicioni's market-driven artisanal gelato in Trastevere

Restored palazzo hotel of warm woods and curated art near Trevi

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

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

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

Prati's 24-hour basement bakery beloved by Romans

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