Plekken in Rome

Bottiglieria dal 1895, Monti's beating wine-bar heart

Bib Gourmand Roman cooking facing Teatro Palladium

Garbatella's revived historic forno, lab and restaurant

Manuele Colonna's craft-beer temple with Trapizzino

Pigneto's deep-rotation craft beer bar and bottle shop

Belle-Epoque enoteca and all-day wine room since 2011

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

Garbatella's cooperative osteria and social garden

Speakeasy behind a Pigneto sandwich shop

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

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

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

Natural-wine enoteca and bistrot by Teatro Palladium

The natural-wine bar that changed Flaminio, by MAXXI

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

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

Pioneering Trastevere cocktail bar in a former mechanic's garage

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

Below-street industrial bar for fermented sodas, natural wine and canned cocktails

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

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

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

Artisan food hall in Termini's Cappa Mazzoniana

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

Marco Radicioni's market-driven artisanal gelato in Trastevere

Rome's grand 1880 ice-cream palace in Esquilino

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

Contemporary osteria inside San Lorenzo's oldest pasta factory

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

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

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

Centenary chocolate factory with bar and kitchen in San Lorenzo

Book-bar and cocktail salon facing the Temple of Hadrian

Wood-roasted espresso landmark since 1938

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

The original home of Rome's pizza-pocket of cucina romana

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

Chef-led Peruvian cooking by Piazza Dante in Esquilino

KM-0 Lazio terroir cooking in the heart of Monti

Chic post-industrial kitchen with a creative seasonal menu

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

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

The Pigneto cocktail lab behind the Carbonara Sour

Prati's 24-hour basement bakery beloved by Romans

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