Plekken in Rome

Old-money Parioli dining with a Marche soul since 1968

Italo-French cooking in an intimate set of rooms off the Pantheon

The quinto-quarto cathedral carved into Monte Testaccio

Speakeasy behind a Pigneto sandwich shop

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

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

1936 osteria famed for tableside cacio e pepe

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

Europe's first amaro bar with a full Roman osteria

Arcangelo Dandini's elevated Roman bistrot

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

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

Contemporary osteria inside San Lorenzo's oldest pasta factory

Owner-chefs' minimalist lab a step from the Pantheon

Book-bar and cocktail salon facing the Temple of Hadrian

Deli, wine cellar and serious kitchen in one room near Campo de' Fiori

Sarah Cicolini's offal-forward Roman trattoria, nose-to-tail and serious

Listening-bar osteria from De Maio and Franciosi