https://www.novagourmeat.it/
A American-Italian Fusion Restaurant that combines two Cultures together
is the better way to describe the amazingly innovative restaurant named: NOVA_GOURMEAT located
at Via Piave 70, Roma. The brother sister team of FABIO & GIORGIA is a fun & funky mixture of playfulness & curiosity.
Via Piave, 70 – Roma 039 06 8708 5510 
"We have been to America a couple of times & everybody has grills in their backyards or if they own townhouses on their decks or patios. In Italy everybody has a pasta maker, but very rare will you see a grill. Americans love their steakhouses & burger houses & so we combined the very real culture of grilling meats with Italy's love of sauces to add onto pastas!" says Fabio when he explainsabout the combination of the cultures.
"Our Grandmother was born in Chicago & so we are of American & Italian origin," says Fabio & Giorgia, Fabio of who speaks Italian & English. Yet his sister Giorgia only Italian. "We wanted to incorporate the two cultures & during the pandemic we formed the collaboration of Americans love of Steak & Burgers with the recipes of traditional Rome such as Amatriciana & Carbonara which is on top of the gourmet burger presented elegantly & beautifully." 
I have the winner of the bosses that laugh the most & it is these two. 
"We have two big lifesize teddy bears that we sit on the chairs to the tables outside & that shows that we are fun, casual & friendly to our guests. Plus, Giorgia has two daughters & she loves children." Fabio laughingly tells me when I ask about the teddy bears at the entrance.
And our own famous Marcella Bianchi's Veggie Burgers at the Rome Mercato: 
Marcella Bianchi's VegNVeg
https://www.mercatocentrale.com/rome/artisans/marcella-bianchi/
In Ms. Bianchi;s words: Fruits and vegetables that are seasonal, grown through environmentally friendly means, guaranteeing organically-produced fresh products, and selected with a preference for small farms. Via Giovanni Giolitti, 36
Rome Termini Train Station Mercato
And come on it's Rome! 
The Rome Mercato in The Train Termini station is absolutely gorgeous. As is the Florence Mercato of the same developers, apparently. “After a couple of years at the Florence location in the Mercato, the owners approached several of the food merchants & invited us to open in the Rome Termini station. I thought it a great opportunity, having seen what it takes to make a Bistro such as mine successful & after having worked almost 3 years straight everyday at my Veggie location In Florence I thought that I was ready to open my second VegNVeg!” said Ms. Bianchi. “My brother-in-law was my marketing partner & he & I had created the signs & the plans for the first one in Florence, so we already had our mission, so to say, & our designs that we wanted to represent my company, so that is very easy to open the second one.”
The years of Casa Bleve have spoiled me, I must confess, the way that the luxurious Palace awaits silent & regal exquisitely beautiful for the guests to arrive in the 3 story ceilings. It's beauty is ethereal & when you dine here you imagine it must be the feel of a aristocratic family at their morning table. I am so blessed to know the Bleve family almost 12 years & first at their former kitchen where Tina Bleve reigned as cook since 1970 & now at the famous Theaterical Palace opposite the National Theater building where in the Golden Years they performed.
I have interviewed Antonio sporadically because my Italian is very bad, Gino smiles & place flowers on the tables near me, but who could blame him, & of course but the favorite is Allessandro. Of the three brothers mostly because he ALWAYS shows attention to me & gives me his time to interview about his lovely family. He has told me the year now after the Covid years that the CASE BLEVE they have scaled down the massive wine collection in the stone cellars of the historical Case Bleve & the wine store as you enter & have focused only on the kitchen. The food is excellent & always prepared with Mama Tina's loving hands. It is very rare for a Michelin Restaurant to have a REAL Italian Grandmother in the kitchen: think the TV personalities of Gordan Ramsey, yet here we have it! Tina Bleve with her son Antonio.
The elder son is Gino 55, Antonio 52 & Allessandro 50. And here is Tina with her important guest. 
My lovely & very fresh, healthy & perfectly prepared salad of Octopus...it is Sooo tasty. I LOVED it.
I wish the Theater is present so that the Sophia Lorens & Gregory Peck & Audrey Hepburn & Alberto Sordi's of today could walk from their performances at 11:00 pm to dinner & the papparazzi & us could capture them, yet today's stars just walk in here; so therefore just walk in. (Reservations requested though).
Dessert is my favorite along with Red Castle wine both of which is forbidden to me: however here I am with all.
Bronte pistachio nuts parfait with gianduja sauce or Cottage cheese and sour cherry cake or Mrs. Tina's custard with Sorrento lemons & we wonder at how many of Mrs. Tina's custards that um Gino has ate since we can't ask him since he isn't present today. Yet the pistachio of Italy is always my favorite with pink whipcreme balls on top, yet which I don't know if they serve the pink whipcreme here since my communication skills are not so good.
Tel: 06 686 5970
Nicola & his team have survived Covid & Fire destroying his beautiful historical restaurant at
Ristorante AL34 & I have been honored to have been with the team since 2017.
Located at: VIA MARIO de' FIORI 34, opposite the Spanish Steps.
below: Guglielmo, me, & Nicola
Tel. +39 06 6795091
O & if any of you girls are available the two grandchildren, Guglielmo and Gabriele are
absolutely gorgeous, just saying you might want to make dinner reservations tonight. They all wander back & forth between tables, which are very close & intimate yet with VERY lively emotions & chatter. I actually had about 5 people at my table bringing me fresh vegetables & the famous grilled lettuce with pinenuts "34" style which I ordered because Gabriele is so charming & funny & stylish! So I though I would honor him & try the stylish entry. It is very healthy & tastes amazing. Its very casual & you just grab any person & they help. The aunt Roberta is brought every hand written note to check tabs before they're presented to you. https://www.facebook.com/AL34ROMA/?ref=page_internal
absolutely gorgeous, just saying you might want to make dinner reservations tonight. They all wander back & forth between tables, which are very close & intimate yet with VERY lively emotions & chatter. I actually had about 5 people at my table bringing me fresh vegetables & the famous grilled lettuce with pinenuts "34" style which I ordered because Gabriele is so charming & funny & stylish! So I though I would honor him & try the stylish entry. It is very healthy & tastes amazing. Its very casual & you just grab any person & they help. The aunt Roberta is brought every hand written note to check tabs before they're presented to you. https://www.facebook.com/AL34ROMA/?ref=page_internal I love Rome & I love the Italians.
We're dedicating Rome to Nicola's nephew:
BERNI
Maria Luisa & Walter Casalini
Their food is sooo good. I had the best dessert that I have EVER HAD IN MY LIFE: a hazelnut frozen icecream with chocolate covering it. O MY GOD beautiful music to my ears. So amazingly lovely. I want to do dinner tonight & order 3 desserts...
My Capo at LA Tavernetta 48 is from Another country
Yet loves Italy and has brought Amazing food to it's guests many years.
located at: Via degli Spagnoli, 48
He has been the Boss of the Ristorante for 12 years. 
reservations (or walkins): 06 6819 2591Federico says that if you need to discover the true soul of Rome that La Travernetta 48 is the place For you.
The La Tavernetta 48 is open from 12 to 3; 7 to 10:30pm & after dinner try walking along the river starting at Campo Fiori to see all the Cinema presented. It is a very nice evening. The September weather is perfect in Rome.
website link:
He says that he has typical traditional dishes that are original & authentic to Historical Rome, yet he has some pretty amazing ways of presenting these "traditional" dishes. I took the Liberty of photographing some spontaneously in the lantern light of the night & as you see the simple traditional becomes something ethereal! EVERYBODY loves homecooking Italian Food!
The team is very tiny-two capable cooks in the kitchen & two smiling laughing exotic girls serving on handwritten notes that are tucked into wooden slots hanging decoratively on the walls, then read to Federico who types these into a very cool small techy machine & the little bill is presented. The Capo Federico smiles & controls his Tavernetta as guests wait respectively outside the alley waiting for him to see them. They all love sitting in the romantic quiet alley tucked around the corner of ristorante coppelle roma-if you can easily find Piazza delle Coppelle 54/55/56, just keep walking straight to the alley behind it to the left & you will find the umbrella lantern lit romantic ristorante.
Federico & his lovely Russian girl Veronika
As many people came to sit outside, the wine is presented simply & with knowledge along the Italian dishes & while I saw many exotically imaged appetizers being tried, the main dishes seemed to all be the traditional ones which I guess is why people come to Rome from everywhere in the world. 
With the passing of time the restaurant grows up & improves the vision of the Osteria Via Mantova. For the guests it is possible to serve lunch, cocktails & dinner on the outside verana. American guests love to sit outside & the Russian culture love the style of the Restaurant. The guests that come choose something from the menu & the next day come to try something new. They write to Angelo & tell him that my friends are coming to the Osteria Via Mantova.
Every person is a special guest yet they keep the service elegant & formal & professional.
Every plate is special & that is why it is on the menu.
Red Tunafish with a zucchini flower
for instance is a dish of the day today & perhaps tomorrow a new dish. 
Every month you do a special tasting for a specific region
of Italy for instance next month is let's say in October is Lazio & for each region you bring in a special Sommelier & Remigio brings his culinary skills to that region for up to 25 guests.
And it is 50 euros to about 60 per person.
You can reserve at the restaurant with the number of : +39 06 854 8999
or the email of:
INFO@OSTERIAVIAMANTOVA.IT
All in all, Osteria Via Mantova is a elegant restaurant with formal tuxedo service & funny casual down to earth people. Does that make sense? They give you the freshest seafood with a Michelin Certified Chef in a white linen table-clothed setting where their fishermen from Sicily bring their catch each day, then the Capos laughingly bring each item that you choose to your table introducing your lobster to you! So it is a very entertaining evening with the local Rome TV crew stopping in for a 5 course degustation dinner along traditional neighorhood VIPs & curious tourists from America, Australia & Canada all in one sitting. The food is top notch yet the atmosphere is your quirky wealthy eccentric cousin! Loved loved loved them.
O! and the Oscar goes to ...hint read right to left!
https://www.beefbazaar.it/
"It is Massimiliano's passion. He worked in the building development and maintenance business many years, of which he still has a security company and building company and yet he loves his restaurant. It is him," says Fathem when she introduces me to her boss adding, "You are VERY lucky that he has 15 minutes for you; he is so busy that he is always everywhere!"
Massimiliano says, "I met Fathem riding horses. She was riding her's, at the stables where mine is kept and we met. I loved her energy immediately," he laughs and Fathem laughs too saying, "Yes he is very fast and I am slow with the forests,when we ride. Yet we became such friends and I loved his restaurant the minute I entered and it is very much his passion."
Massimiliano says, "My passion is the culture of beef. We have beef from about 30 countries and I want my life and restaurant to be accessible to everybody. You can have a burger and beer for 18 euros or you can have the Japanese Matsusaka Wagyu for 500 euros. The choice is yours. The reason we have the 25 euro wine taste event on Tuesdays is that I want people to come here and experience my restaurant that I have put my heart into the last 2 and 1/2 years. To introduce it. I hope they experience something they haven't before and that they come back."
PS he is super nice and super sincere! I believe that when you read the menu you see it new!
And yes Cooking CLASSES and a room for children...a huge room on another level where the children can play while you have a romantic dinner. Good for the children who are bored with sitting at a table, good for the adults who want to laugh and smile and not have to tell their children to behave in public! https://www.instagram.com/p/B5N_T9yoe4E/
"I have very talented artists,too, which as I see you laughing, yes that is a totally opposite side of the brain. Accounting isn't creative passionate cooking and art. Yet here is my passions!" says the friendly and very happy and talented accountant turned chef!
Il Porto di Ripetta and Anna are two of the most elegant and charming combinations that you shall find in Roma. The menu's pictures of the innovated exotic selections are literally some of the most beautiful I have ever ever seen. Anna is the epitome of charm and grace, kissing each and every guest, that is if they don't kiss her first. She greets and knows everybody in her 70 plus seated linen covered restaurant and if you are new, soon you shall know her as a host in her home. She loves her guests. Totally. She pays little attention to me, only when her guests are completely satisifed and turns constantly to their side waiting to be of service. "I know, am I being rude?" she asks as she turns to me for the 10th time. I tell her that I am actually very impressed and can see why her guests come again and again to the restaurant that has been in existence the last 60 years and in the hands of the competent young owner, Andrea and his director of choice, Anna, the last 6. https://ilportodiripetta.it/
Located at: via di Ripetta 250 
"Would you love to try Sashimi di salmone con olio carbonato e verdure croccanti, or perhaps Polpo caramellato in salsa di ostriche or Capesante scottate e fiori di zucca ripieni di ostriche? Some of these are my suggestions, too. We, me and Andrea and our 40 year old amazing cook, sit down and try new local ingredients with twists, and we always try to be innovative." she says.
Located at Via dei Ripetta 250
"I've had the Maranega, which is a personal name for me since it is the letters of my family that make up the name," laughs Majd, who by the way is one of the funniest people I have ever met and had me laughing way too much during the interview! "We try to give the people the best we can, of the ingredients, the wine, the tastes of Rome. I am a very honest person and a very caring one. I am very conscientious person. I care about my image, my presentation of my restaurants and my Rome." he says. He is serious, too. Although his stories made me laugh so much! They have families, they have friends and they want you to enjoy Rome and to have a great experience that you bring home and tell many friends...Come to Rome and especially come to Campo de Fiori, which is fast becoming the better Piazza than Piazza Navona! 
The kind sweet Director of Majd's, Mimmo!
YOU SEE HIS YOUTUBE VIDEO OF CHEF MIMMO ROMA...11,000,000 VISITORS ON HIS YOUTUBE WORLD WIDE! 
The Maestro's of Virginiae, the famous Roman Culinary kitchen of Piazza Navona's hidden alleys, Daniel and Bernardo De Luca. They are both entertaining and charming and masters of what they present. Located at: Via di Parione 41, 00186 Roma.
And while the presentations are creative everyday since the chef has a fish special that changes daily, they have very traditional recipes of Roman and Italian cuisine. I just love the team and the capo. They are ALWAYS LAUGHING, ALWAYS. 
The seafood is the specialty
of Tavernetta 48.
The restaurant, La Tavernetta 48, is a jewel. Full every night and although freezing in the winter months, the people are very willing to sit outside with the heat lamps if they must. The reason is a couple, really. Federico, the Capo is as kind and friendly as you shall ever find, his right hand person, Allesandro the funniest and friendliest, and the rest of the team super nice. The food is the best with such a elegant understated formality that you are at once elevated to sophistication and at ease as if with family. The laughter and conversation always VERY lively! Soon, Luca Brasi approaches my table and invites me kindly to sit with him. WOW! an honor invitation from Ancona, Italy. I jump up, grab my coat and run to his table where I am happily entertained from a very kind person about Italy. Now, I must go. I accept his invitation to visit Ancona some day and wave.
The restaurant, La Tavernetta 48, is a jewel. Full every night and although freezing in the winter months, the people are very willing to sit outside with the heat lamps if they must. The reason is a couple, really. Federico, the Capo is as kind and friendly as you shall ever find, his right hand person, Allesandro the funniest and friendliest, and the rest of the team super nice. The food is the best with such a elegant understated formality that you are at once elevated to sophistication and at ease as if with family. The laughter and conversation always VERY lively! Soon, Luca Brasi approaches my table and invites me kindly to sit with him. WOW! an honor invitation from Ancona, Italy. I jump up, grab my coat and run to his table where I am happily entertained from a very kind person about Italy. Now, I must go. I accept his invitation to visit Ancona some day and wave. I kiss Federico who now is my friend from the last almost 5 years and ciao ciao to my team.
A lovely lunch in the eternal city of Rome where I have ventured 8 years. 
"The chefs that I had is when you first came, Allesandro's father, yet I wanted a new fresh creation on the lunch menu everyday. That needed a new chef, and hence another Allesandro. Now the last 1 year and 5 months, Ahmed has been my head chef and I really enjoy working with him. He knows my vision yet he has a creative mind of his own and everyday he does a new menu for lunch of 3 course with 1/4 wine, water, dessert for only 15euros. Of course at dinner it is a little more," laughs Federico. ps i am coming to lunch.
Every year I have eaten here. I love the team which is very funny every time, they care about the guests, especially Federico, who could care less about bullys! He has succeeded with care and with hard work and appreciates every person who comes to eat! Love him. He is a very kind person. 
I must confess that my favorite appetizer in the entire world is had here. It is cheeses of Italy with honey drizzled on and pears. Exotic and seductive with especially the very sinful red Chianti wine!!!!! Okay, you say what happened at lunch? Well, I came, sat in a tiny two person seat, waiting for my friend Alberto. About 5 minutes into the service, Allesandro turns my table and a table of 5 come. Lively family, yet they wait. Another 12 minutes and they are joined by the father of the table's mom and dad. Okay. Now my mussles come. Um Yum. They are the most scrumptious and I eat these very slowly since they make me full.
Wine comes, a priest from the Vatican and another very charming fellow that reminds me of Luca Brasi sit at adjoining tables, together yet separate. About 5 minutes later, the Grandfather at my table aside asks if I would love to share the wine they have on their table. I laugh a little since my wine jar is empty(I love wine and already drank my little decanter!), yet the table grabs my wine glass and FILLS IT FULL! O o..okay, thankyou very much, and I drink the white wine, the house wine, which is some of the best cheap wine I have ever had. Now, the table orders the mussles with linguine, which I had had, and they order 6 of the same for each of the 6 family members! Hmm...now comes my second course which is Sea Bass and fresh vegatables in season. I must tell you, that I LOVE Sea Bass, having discovered it while at Italy a couple of years now. I had always loved swordfish from Key West, yet I ate Sea Bass and now that is my favorite.
As I am eating my Sea Bass, the table of 6 receive their second course, which is of course?:that is right, Sea Bass...6 of these. Well, at least we have the same taste.
...serious...look at that gorgeous food! https://www.torasushiroma.it/
Located at Corso del Rinascimento, 71
OSTERIA Enoteca Cul de Sac in Rome's Piazza Navona section 
located at: Via Del Governo Vecchio 73
Special since you can call for a QUE TIME ONLY! 0039 06 68 80 1094
It is such a treat to spend a afternoon sitting with a Capo, in the restaurant here named Enoteca Cul de Sac, for instance, Renato, chatting about life... 
"It is very rare that you shall find a Osteria that has 7 socials for such a long length such as we do. The two families, me and my brother, Guido, and my wife Silva and the other family of brothers and sisters and wives, have been friends and partners about 41 years now. That is a very rare find," says Renato who says I can call him Rene if Renato is too difficult!
Along with the meat and cheese plates you can create, they have fresh homemade pasta dishes with a couple of different touches such as Pheasant pate with truffles, Venus black rice and mussels, Guinea fowl and wheat, Tagliatelle with hare ragu...some very special treats! 
"When we add and decide the menu about 3 times per year, we all talk about it. Maybe I say that I could add that dish, etc. It is literally impossible for each of us 7 to have a pasta dish, a meat dish, a fish dish, yet we try the best!" 
Okay, famous for Meats and Cheeses
40 plus cheeses and 25 specialty meat platters! plus make my own platter!
"The specialty graduated from meats and cheese platters, of which we have many high quality selections from farmers, to each of our 7 member social's recipes, such as my brother's duck raviolis, or my onion soup, and just so you know every pasta is made homemade. Every day. What else makes us different? Well, we have collected, and I tried until a couple of years ago, to drink every wine that we carry which today is about 1,000 plus labels in the restaurant," says Renato.
What shall you find at Enoteca Cul de Sac?
Warmth, both in person and comfort, and traditional marble bar with heavy wooden furnishings and a great outdoor terrace.
Great wine 1,000 plus bottles.
Homemade pasta, wild game dishes, and about 41 cheese and meats platters to create a great romantic lunch or dinner! 
"Sometime a little different that we have at the Osteria, since many people come, yet we want it to be informal, is the Que time. We have reservations only in the sense you can tell us what time you want to Que in line! That way if you come at 8:00pm and there is a full room, have a glass of wine, stand outside and talk and as soon as we find a table we sit you. Yet at least you can be first in the que at 8:00pm!" hmm...me thinks it is very busy here! 
What a Life Tours 
Met Andrea today, the other partner of Simone who I interviewed a couple of years since, and he is just as nice as Simone! "I started the restaurant 9 years now and it's concept has always been to use the local producers of Lazio and the best products of Italy. In addition to the wine, which is selected on the same theory as the Slow Food concept. I am the person who usually chooses the wine, yet my team and Simone's team and Antonello's team, since the 3 of us own the restaurant, all go to visit the vineyards and to learn about the wine. I believe that it is important for everybody to know the product and that way we can educate the guests better. Plus it is fun for all of us to have a day at the vineyards trying the wines and getting to know each other. Sometimes they bring about 10 wines here and we all try these to. I believe that some of the best wine that we have is not necessarily the most expensive. The vineyards that we choose have the specialty of using only their own grape in the wine. One grape can make the best wine, you don't need to buy grapes from other people." he says. 
"You know it is always difficult when you start a new project. People have to know about you and tell each other how good of a experience it is and the reputation becomes good. That is how you build a great restaurant. Yes, it helps that people find us on the websites; however, it is most important the service and the food and wine that we serve once they come here. We have great food. From the bread that we hand bake with only local and pure ingredients to the pasta our cook hand makes fresh everyday. People love our food. When the original owner of the Slow Food came 4 years since, he wrote about us and added us to his guide two months later as it is published. Then my director at the restaurant calls me and tells me that there is a line of 100 people outside the restaurant and asks if I forgot a group for that day! I couldn't remember any group. Then she said they said they all saw the restaurant in the published editon of Slow Food! So, I totally believe in that publication!" he says. 
Me? I love to eat the food at the Osteria!
The lovely charming ring of the family that owns Casa Mia in Trastevere, a 3 star elegant hotel and wine bar restaurant with the happiest Cuoco aka Chef that makes fresh gnocchis in front of the wine bar entrance every Thursday night. Donatella, Luciano's wife, pictured sitting with Fabio standing, tells me her favorite food on the menu? "EVERYTHING. I LOVE IT ALL. ESPECIALLY THE CARBONARA!"
Diego laughs and I tell him that I am happy he remembered me from 3 years since and I am happy that his English as improved since before Diego only spoke Italian. Now he says, "Hi" in English and makes a quaint little plate of my favorite food in the world, gnocchis, to try!
Casa Mia Trastevere Restaurant and Hotel located at Via Della Renella 89/90
http://www.casamiaintrastevere.com/ "I find it fun, I guess we do, right?" answers Fabio as he asks his uncle Luciano the same question. "Yes it is fun. We have a lot of fun with the guests in the hotel and the guests in the restaurant. Sometimes it is known for a restaurant that is a quiet place to come for a romantic dinner, especially the garden. Of course on Friday and Saturday it isn't so quiet. Okay and on Sunday." says Luciano and me and Fabio start laughing and say, "and on Monday and Tuesday and o yes maybe on Wednesday and on Thursdays, " and Luciano nods his head as he drinks the great white wine Vermentino, "Yes sometimes it is fun and yet sometimes...." he trails off as he gestures toward his nephew.
http://www.casamiaintrastevere.com/ "I find it fun, I guess we do, right?" answers Fabio as he asks his uncle Luciano the same question. "Yes it is fun. We have a lot of fun with the guests in the hotel and the guests in the restaurant. Sometimes it is known for a restaurant that is a quiet place to come for a romantic dinner, especially the garden. Of course on Friday and Saturday it isn't so quiet. Okay and on Sunday." says Luciano and me and Fabio start laughing and say, "and on Monday and Tuesday and o yes maybe on Wednesday and on Thursdays, " and Luciano nods his head as he drinks the great white wine Vermentino, "Yes sometimes it is fun and yet sometimes...." he trails off as he gestures toward his nephew.
"Yes we forget that it is a business and let me tell you running a restaurant and wine bar and a kitchen with fresh products everyday and a elegant hotel that the guests must be happy with, all of that reminds us if we do happen to forget" says Fabio. 
On the one side of the hidden in plain site sophisticated Casa Mia Trastevere is the quality of a 3 star hotel, with Giorgio and Fabio at the helm! 
DEL FRATE 
"Alright we are the 4th generation and the family started in 1922 with a wine store where the people of the neighborhood could come and fill up the wine bottles," starts the funny afternoon of talking to Enrico and Giorgia who are the children of the 3rd generation of Del Frates, Fabio and Dina.
The first being Umberto Del Frate who opened the neighborhood Wine and Oils(big vats of olive oil) and although it soon became very popular, it was the first ever to open in Rome, Italy. And the family carried on the tradition when, in 1994, the father converted the wine store holding the vats of olive oil and wine into the store that it is now with over 3,000 wines and a chic restaurant to match. "Of which our cousin, Fabrizzio is the head chef." laughs the two grown children as they explain the way that the family helps each other to grow. Today at the Del Frate Wine Shop work grandma Elda, Fabio and his wife Dina and daughter Giorgia and Fabio’s son Enrico, the youngest of the family at the age of 24. 
"The menu is sophisticated and the happy hour from 18:00pm to 20:00pm has such varied tapas as meat tartar and tuna tartar, Very special are the supplì alla puttanesca with creamed codfish, or supplì cacio e pepe but also supplì all’amatriciana. And the rich menu of dinner is creations from our cousin and star chef, who does fusion with traditional, such as Calamaro scottato, patate aff�micate e cime di rapa
€ 18,00
Trancio di spigola, finferli, carote e amaranto
€ 20,00. We invite the public to come and taste the tradition of the wine. We started as a family of wine and now with over 3,000 to choose from, I am sure you can find something you love. We know wine. We compliment the wine with the food. Not vice versa." says the two very cool and fun kids of Fabio and Dina. Hope you enjoy dinner. 
"We have aperitivos at night outside and you can have a little something to eat and a glass of wine or spritz."
reservations:
0039 063 2 36 437
via degli Scipioni 118
https://www.facebook.com/AL34ROMA/Located near Spanish Steps, the famous picture spot of Rome, at Via Mario de' Fiori, 34.
Tel. +3906 6795 091
reservations requested.
"Everytime I go away I try to learn new cooking recipes from famous Italian schools, yet to be honest, I love the recipes from the little grandmother who makes tortellinis her own special way. That to me is very special and only a couple can do that. You know when I went to Chicago I thought of taking some Italian cooking classes too, since they do fusion and us Italians are so focused on Italian Italian Italian our way!" he admits. "I enjoy learning new techniques and bringing these techniques to my guests, yet my mother is the taster since her and my father started the restaurant and she always says, it has too much salt, change it! And of course the saying having too many cooks in the kitchen is challenging sometimes. As with all Italian families that work with each other, we clash at times!" says Nicola as he laughs. 
"Why do the guests keep coming back? They love the food guess, although I wouldn't say that we are the best in Rome or Michelin. We're a traditional family restaurant where every plate my mother checks before and after from the kitchen to the table and lets me know about it if someone isn't happy. I am daily trying new recipes and my menu is very big since I love to play with food, and some people say that I am famous since I have written cookbooks that people actually use!" he says.
Whenever I approach a restaurant that has Michelin stickers on the door and window I am a little intimidated since I always expect the Capo and the Chef, especially, to be real snotty! Yet, although Arcangelo(his real name and the name of the restaurant) is totally serious, he isn't snotty. He is very intense about his food and his craft , yet he is approachable and interested in what you have to say and in what he has to tell you. His restaurant is one of these before and after theater, you know, the kind that is a little dark and mysterious and you are awaiting that great production, such as his famous recipes that he says he likes to be a little creative with. His walls are adorned with relatives from the "old country", and the real old photographs are so cool to browse that you don't mind waiting for dinner. I would say that reservations a must. 
When I entered the restaurant L'Arcangelo today only Nicola, Arcangelo's wife, and his assistant, Hoxha were laughing at the counter. I said hello and we chatted about Nicola's famous husband who now has 3 restaurants, the famous Michelin named L'Arcangelo, the streetfood for young people named Supplizio at Via Dei Baqnchi Vecchi 143, and Ora da Re Bottega di Cibo Di Strada at Via Dei Coronari 25.
At least we can celebrate in style at the L'Arcangelo in Rome! Just sprinkle a little bit of Arcangelo's magic recipes in the plate and a freedom of relief beyond belief from the reality of everyday stress! It even has little cars you can play with if you get bored waiting for Arcangelo's creations! 
"The food is a lovely experience and the cars is about the memories," he says. That is the reason for the cars on the table, not necessarily that he played with cars as a child, yet the memories of childhood. That is why each of his creations has a touch of memory to it, maybe not exactly the way that your Italian grandmother, or your best friend's Italian grandmother, or you're next door neighbor's Italian grandmother made it, yet the memory of a little touch of something in it, is what makes it special. 
Trattoria Pallaro located at Largo Del Pallaro 15 reservations highly recommended: 3906 6 8801488 
It is VERY OLD FASHIONED TRADITIONAL TRATTORIA located in between all the fancy modern hotels and restaurants in the trendy Campo Fiore and Lady Paolio has been the Top chef and Cuoco the last 56 years.
You know from the Community of Rome, she has received 1 of 3 awards ever given to chefs in Rome that have been at the establishment 50 plus years without changing restaurants, named the famed and prestitious, Bottega Storica. The restaurant has a cool VERY LOUD outdoor cobblestoned terrace and cozy heavy wooden rooms inside.
Lady Paolio only speaks pure Italian and understands Italian, so you better either brush up on the Italian or bring a translator, and the waiters are about the same. The good thing is that the menu is the same with a degustation friendly taste of Italy and many courses for only 25.00 euros per guest. It was 25.00 euros 10 years since and it is 25.00 euros today! 
If you ask the Lady Paolio to take a ancient walk down the stairs below the restaurant where a historical protected room and caverns of Julius Caesar is undisturbed except from the tour groups that walk through the restaurant, push back the table and chairs against the closed glossy wooden doors and venture downstairs. I took a group of 5 20year olds from a college group of 30 yesterday and they loved the fact that Julius Caesar actually worked and lectured to his fellows down there! It is dusty, musty and authentic, the room below and very contrasted to the modern life of the busy restaurant above!
Just a great family feeling of eating with Lady Paolio's team from 57 years and today...
Chiara's father helps in the morning to prepare the food for the day yet she says, "When I am on the day it is a lot of responsibility or if I am sick the restaurant doesn't open. I am responsible for my Cuoco in the kitchen and I must try to come here everyday. I close the month of August the entire month and in August we go on vacation." she says. "Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand is cool to go on vacation to and actually my favorite. In addition I loved Mexico, and thankyou very much the Mexican people that visit here always invite me to vacation with them!" she says. 06 687 8842 is the number to call for directions, yet reservations? Chiara laughs, "Are you kidding me! In my little place! And on Sundays and Mondays I have personal days."
I say that is music to hear she has fun.
"Yes I used to go out on Fridays and Saturdays to have a glass of wine with friends, yet I work such long days, from 12.00lunch to 22.00pm is the kitchen open. Now I am thinking that maybe I can have a person help on a Friday and Saturday and go see a concert or something fun to do." 
The charming totally authentic traditional Italian kitchen and Osteria is located at Via dei Banchi Nuovi, 14 and how lovely it is. From the only person that you shall see and talk to, aka the Capo Chiara above, to the cuoco in the kitchen, it is a real Italian home that you come to eat at. "My grandfather and grandmother bought the restaurant in 1946, yet it started maybe in 1930s I suppose since they bought the already existing wine service from a farmer that had the vineyards. The vineyards are small and about 50 minutes from Rome. They would bring the barrels in everyday and they would resell wine. At that day in 1946, my grandmother and grandfather only sold wine, yet a couple of years since the theater around the alley opened and they started running food back and forth to the actors. That is when they started having Italian cooking here since they already cooked for the actors they decided to cook for their guests!" says the very beautiful and totally charming Chiara who I interviewed from 22.50ish pm to 1.00am at the little Osteria. 
The very fun cold Bar named the ICE CLUB of ROME And for fun while you are starting out your Eternal City Night of going out to dinner or drinks, a must is a once in a lifetime 25 minutes of 5degrees in the famous Rome ICE PUB that has ice sculptures of the eternal city! "I was thinking of doing a Vatican Ice Pub since I have been here over 17 years now," says Agostino who is the very nice and friendly owner, "yet the Vatican is so small I don't know where I would put the Ice Pub!" When I laugh and ask if he can do Vatican Statues of Ice in his Rome Ice Pub he looks at me as if that is a sacreligious question! "They are two very different cities and if you are a Roman native you must remember that!" Ok!
O hey when you are cold, you must drink a lot of alcohol and for 15.00 euros you enter with that cool space age thermal suit and drink up, making tons of cool, no pun intended, friends along the way. It is way too cold not to talk about the cold and after you chat about how cold it is, you can all go out to dinner or drinks! Close to the 100 Montaditos near Collsseum, down a little alley in the section the Romans call MONTI!
Via Della Madonna Dei Monti 18/19
The cool suits keep you warm, yet the record is a couple of hours inside the Ice Pub, while about 25 minutes is perfect. I believe that the bartender is either from Alaska or Siberia! They have premium vodka, of course and lots of cool ice sculptures to take photos with, too!
The Capos and the team and as you can see the beauty of the Taverna Angelica 
"The food is Roman yet we have a little different presentation with the wine and the food. The wine is chosen from me and I try to visit as many small wineries as I can, in addition, I have many who come here and invite me to the vineyards. All of the wine is found in Italy and I am usually the one who finds it!" she laughs. "The wine usually can not be found in the super markets ever. If you love the wine here you should either buy another bottle, since the vineyards rarely make more than 300,000 bottles that I chose per year, or ask me for the contact of the vineyard and I can give that to you." says Mariella. 
"What I really enjoy is when I present a wine to the table that I have suggested would be good for their dinner entry and they love it. They always compliment me and sometimes email me when they are back in the United States and want me to ship them wine! That is when I give the vineyards email. They do that, I am a restaurant!" she laughs. A very elegant restaurant and a very nice team. "Yes my entire team is great and my partner is lovely and Francesco, who you said Hi to, is wonderful. The chef is from Rome, of course, and we work with him on the selections of the menu. He does 4 different ones, one for each season. We show you the menu on the website, too." she says. They use products from some of the best farms around the world and it is arguably the best restaurant near the Vaticano so please be prepared to make reservations and here is how!
06 68 74 514
"The Il Falchetto has a long tradition from the late 1800s when the family of Falchetto originally owned the restaurant. At these days it is a famous wine, spirits place that people from everywhere in Rome associated with high quality. 
The food here is excellent especially when my father bought the restaurant about 8 years now and we changed the interior to the elegance that it is today, keeping with the important tradition of the Il Falchetto. The famous poet Trulussa used to come in here after the family after the Falchettos bought it and changed its name. He ignored the name change and kept writing his poems under Falchetto, and since he is famous, people kept asking for "where is the Falchetto?" and finally the other family changed the name back to Falchetto! The restaurant along with, Francesco who has been with my father from place to place in Rome, and my father have great stories. The important Cardinals with the ear to the Pope Francesco comes and dines in here. My father is a great man and he has been awarded the prestigious "Cavalier del Lavoro" 
which is to give service to the people in his lifetime job, a man of great importance." says Jerry proudly. Jerry is Antonio Donato's, the Capo, son and he says, "Every dolce you see I make myself." 
And of course I have to try a chocolate mound of yumminess which is lovely to say the least, and fattening! http://www.ristoranteilfalchetto.it/
The food here is excellent especially when my father bought the restaurant about 8 years now and we changed the interior to the elegance that it is today, keeping with the important tradition of the Il Falchetto. The famous poet Trulussa used to come in here after the family after the Falchettos bought it and changed its name. He ignored the name change and kept writing his poems under Falchetto, and since he is famous, people kept asking for "where is the Falchetto?" and finally the other family changed the name back to Falchetto! The restaurant along with, Francesco who has been with my father from place to place in Rome, and my father have great stories. The important Cardinals with the ear to the Pope Francesco comes and dines in here. My father is a great man and he has been awarded the prestigious "Cavalier del Lavoro" which is to give service to the people in his lifetime job, a man of great importance." says Jerry proudly. Jerry is Antonio Donato's, the Capo, son and he says, "Every dolce you see I make myself." And of course I have to try a chocolate mound of yumminess which is lovely to say the least, and fattening! http://www.ristoranteilfalchetto.it/ "The Il Falchetto literally means "little Falcon."" says Jerry and then he shows me a photo of his father as a young man talking and greeting the President of Italy, Sandro Pertini. "My father has known many important people of the political world." he says and I say that I love the name as long as it isn't "the falcon and the snowman" and then say "woops" as I see Mr. Donato with his white hair now enter from the kitchen. We all laugh at his white hair. "That is me as a young man." he says as he points to two pictures on the wall of him and Mr. Pertini.
"We have the lovely elegant deck outside which is the favorite of the people to sit and observe the city and the three rooms inside which are really quite elegant. The one room you love is in the middle with the Godfather chair, as you say. And next to it is a private room, although it does look out to the garden. Behind my father's desk is the wallpaper that we made especially that has all of the reviews on it of important newspapers around the world. They are real articles that we had replicated to show to the guests. That is my idea and everybody loves it. And it is a family. My mom, Gina, goes to the Mercato every morning to buy fresh food and bring it back to the cooks. She really enjoys that much to do it. She just loves going to the Mercato every morning. And my wife is my right hand. She helps me with essentially everything and of course my father is the big Boss.!" says Jerry as he introduces me to his beautiful wife, Tiziana, who says she loves the beef at Il Falchetto and the Risotto with fish on the menu the most. 
They give me a plate of Tonnarelli aglio and olio and peperoncino garlic, which is very spicy and very tasty and I would recommend it along with the house white wine, which is a very high quality to choose for the "house wine." The restaurant is elegance with a capitol E and I would make reservations soon before it receives the Michelin award and reservatons will become impossible!
They give me a plate of Tonnarelli aglio and olio and peperoncino garlic, which is very spicy and very tasty and I would recommend it along with the house white wine, which is a very high quality to choose for the "house wine." The restaurant is elegance with a capitol E and I would make reservations soon before it receives the Michelin award and reservatons will become impossible! The location of the restaurant is in a hidden alley at: Via Dei Montecatini, 12 and for reservations please visit the website
and call: 0039 06 6791 160
The 3 Amici of the Posh Sapore di Mare, Rome,
06 678 0968, Via del Piè di Marmo,36
http://www.saporedimare.it/ Alright and the description would end there, however, after the GREAT FISH I had of SEA BASS and Pici, yum yum lovely, and the nice white wine, I went to find Simone from the Garden to the Stone Cave and now it is really booming! About 23.15pm. 17 waiters and team, including the chefs, are waltzing in and out of a light elegant chatter, dimly lit atmosphere of mazes inside the cave, and the CAPOS! Now I understand Giovannis statement! It is a bundle of energy. At the entry desk is about 6 waiters all talkking emphatically in Italian, like a scene with Sonny out of the Godfather. You can not get a word in edgewise, trust me! And Giovanni is on the phone, dealing with the team, saying Goodnight to the Guests, Simone is kissing the friends, kissing the friends bambinos, everybody is hugging and kissing as they leave, and the entry hall is meant for maybe 4 people and has 12 in it at all times! The food is highest standard, the atmosphere priceless.
As I am wandering the cobblestoned alleys of Roma near the busy Piazza Navona, I stumble upon a little side street that is totally autentically local Rome, very charming and busy with deliveries. A tiny boutique bistro has it's door open and a couple is engaged in a lively conversation at the glass case displaying a variety of Italian cheeses and meats...as I approach to say Hi I notice about "150" bottles of beer on the wall. "O hi, I am Madeleine from England, " is the first surprise when I try my very bad Italian skills at the beautiful language, "you can speak English if you want and I can translate to Marco. He owns the Bistro," she graciously says and I am happy to have her help me.
Thus starts a 1-1/2 hr. conversation of how Marco came to be the Capo (italian for Boss) of the Baguetteria del Fico tucked quietly hidden near the famous Piazzo yet "crazily busy at lunch and dinner hours. The people line up for the great authentic sandwiches and a bottle of craft beer and good luck trying to get a quick lunch here. It isn't happening. You have to learn to wait for that special sandwich that Marco makes for each and every guest." says Madeleine who says she "lives just around the corner here and come here everyday. Since I am gluten free I usually ask Marco to make me a salad yet I eat the sandwiches a couple of times a week they are that good."
"Here is the three types, " says Marco as he holds up the special bread, the whole grain bread and the long Italian bread. Each one is available for the sandwiches which range from Wild Boar Meat, to Deer to Salmon to Cheese and Meat Platters that the Americans love. "Yes the Americans are always most excited about sharing the platters and they sit and have to know what each meat is and which region from Italy it comes from and they love to sit and sip a beer and choose from the platters. The Japanese always order sandwiches yet mostly the fish selections and the Chinese the bruschetti."
"The cultures are very different in what awes them here. The Italians?! ALL of it. They love it all." says Marcos as he shows me the menu laughing all the time. To find:
Via della Fossa, 12
Call 06 9604 5541
And most importantly Marcos says is, "Fresh and tasty healthy products for lovers of good flavors and beers of choice and always many novelties to intrigue and satisfy every request of our customers immediately!" 
