Plekken in Rome

Bib Gourmand Roman cooking facing Teatro Palladium

Unassuming Monti enoteca for the serious-but-quiet glass

Aliena-roasted specialty coffee and brunch on leafy Viale Aventino

Artisan food hall in Termini's Cappa Mazzoniana

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

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

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

Bib Gourmand Roman trattoria anchoring the Ostiense food district

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

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

Danish-Italian micro-bakery and seasonal bistro in Ostiense

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