Rome Guide - Eating Out

Rome is a great place for eating out, it has plenty of places to refuel during a long days sightseeing.

The trattoria is usually a family-run concern serving home-cooking. A ristorante is more formal, with a wider selection of dishes. Pizzerias can serve antipasto, pasta, meat and vegetable dishes as well as pizza.

Traditional Roman cuisine is far from glamorous. Paupers and princes alike dine on slaughterhouse offcuts! The pasta and wine are well worth a visit in themselves. Most eateries stick to rigid opening times of 12.30-3pm lunch, 7.30-11pm dinner.

You don't have to look far to be entertained in Rome. Opera or soccer, dance or drinking - the Eternal City has it all. Romans don't drink a lot, usually non-alcoholic cocktails, so the bar and club scene is not the most active, but there's still a bunch of bars in the historic centre, catering mainly to travellers.

Whether it's designer clothing, jewellery, books, homewares or antiques, chances are you'll find something that just has to be bought.

Rome's activities (apart from the mandatory sightseeing) usually involve nothing more strenuous than eating, drinking and listening to good music.

 

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