The Best Lunch Places in Rome

An institution. Excellent purveyors of cured meats, cheeses and fine deli products. Also serves up killer pasta. Not to be confused with the bakery or caffe (both just a few doors down and also excellent!), Roscioli Salumeria is an icon in its own right. You’d be well to stick to the cured meats and cheeses here - some of the finest in the city - and the pastas are generally a delight. Don’t bother with secondi. Seating is also key to a great experience. Book the tables upstairs in the deli (some people hate the hecticness but I found it rather charming and fun) or on the bar. If you’re stuck downstairs it’s a bit of a dud vibe. The burrata is possibly the best I’ve ever had and the mortadella with Parmesan is an absolute must. Book well in advance.

My recommendation to anyone looking for a fine dining restaurant in Rome.Contemporary fine dining, perhaps one of the cleanest in Italy. I like their plating and the way chef Antonio sees fine dining, it's classy. The dishes are full of taste.

A Roman institution in the heart of TravestreTraditional Roman dishes including the egg yolk carbonara & artichoke in salsa - very casual dining with no reservations. Da Enzo does not mess about, small menu & incredible dishes. Moving away from the tourist traps - authentic home cooking in a busy alleyway.

Modern and creative italian cuisine, excellent ingredients, valorization of the vegetables Super lovely place in the heart od Rome, tiny modern space with a cool atmosphere and soft lights, final compositions of the plates in front of the shared tables, excellent raw materials, delicious flavors, vegetables are valorized in a creative way

A religious experienceLocated a short walk from the Vatican, Gabriele Bonci's Roman-style slice shop is where I found God in Rome. Incredible crispy based pizza al taglio topped with the freshest, highest quality products, some of which you may not have tried on pizza before (chicken comb?). Simply the best.

Fire and research Marzapane is the perfect place to satisfy your deeper culinary cravings! The dishes are created to enhance small farmers, authentic raw materials and the most important thing in a kitchen: Fire.You will have a true food experience, every course is a perfect mix and celebration of simplicity, technique and research.Front of house team is friendly and skilled, they will take care of you during your journey and don’t forget to ask about their wine list to try a nice pairing and enrich every dish, playing with saltiness, spiciness and acidity with the right bottle of wine!

Trattoria with seasonal vegetable produce from the Testaccio Market.Piatto Romano translates to "a Roman dish". Piatto Romano is a fresh and authentic trattoria in the city center, in Testaccio, that's one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in Rome and one of the most authentic. It's really close to one of the most important markets in Rome, the Testaccio Market. They have all these unique and very fresh vegetables that you can't find anywhere else in Rome and they also cook traditional food using them. The menu changes very often based on the season. A perfect place to go when in Rome.

Timeless Authenticity and mass tourism don’t often go together but over several visits this summer I have fallen in love with this restaurant all over again. Cucina Romana at its very best not tricked or enhanced just executed with a deft assured touch. The pasta dishes scream Rome and the antipasti are other worldly. Saltimbocca of your dreams is a must as is a deep exploration of the wine list guided by the restaurants exceptional wine team. Quite a gushing review yet I feel could be more so we ate the menu over our visits and can genuinely endorse the entire document !! A must visit for me when in the eternal city. Forza Romana.

An Italian DelightBistrot64 is a minimalist, modern Michelin star restaurant based in the beautiful city of Rome. The restaurant offers a variety of menu options designed to suit a range of hunger levels as well as budgets. The menu showcases modern Italian cuisine boasting the likes of superb pasta, scrambled egg with parmesan and black truffle, Iberian pork and desserts exhibiting white chocolate, passion fruit, coconut and almond. Bistro64 is certainly worth the visit.

Cool modern trattoria serving Roman food with a modern approach. A cool modern trattoria serving very good Roman food. Their sweetbread is probably one of the best I've ever had. They have a young staff serving mostly organic wines.

Awesome pastries A great place to relax your tired muscles in a hot Roman day or to have a great start of the day.Sandwiches, pastries and more delicacies to be paried with coffee or drinks.

Breakfast + lunch + dinner + wine = remarkableAn alternative impressive breakfast, one of the most impressive coffee rituals, a casual but high quality lunch and dinner menu, vegetable focused with a few daily proposals, a remarkable wine selection.Nothing more to add I guess.

Evolving the Italian cuisine. Fresh ingredients from the market in Rome and in good company. Two tattooed brothers show that it is possible to evolve the Italian cuisine without making it stupid. Ingredients are fresh from the market in good company.

Wonderful pasta & wine in an old school environmentWhat a wonderful place this is – truly an essential Rome experience with the best pasta of my life. Old world feeling that anything modern cannot touch. Great service with knowledge and personality and a wonderful list of wines from across Italy that brilliantly compliments the food. The highlight of my recent trip to Europe.

A wonderful and charming Italian traditional restaurant with authentic and delicious food. The wine list an ”Italian Bible” with all relevant and smaller regions. Steps down, there is a stunning wine cellar (with a beautiful private dining room that can be separately reserved). The owner is happy to show it to guests. The owner continues 3rd generation traditions since 1957. Book well in advance.

Just sit by the bar, sip cesanese, and munch a sandwich with tongue and salsa verde.Something between pizza, tramezzino sandwich, and stuffed pita – pizza pocket called trapizzino. It was born not so long ago in a kitchen of pizza maker Stefano Callegari. Today, it is present in Rome, Florence, Milan and New York. But this is not a chain as you know it. In Trastevere there’s a great wine selection. Just sit by the bar, sip cesanese, and munch a sandwich with tongue and salsa verde.

Garden based, fermenting and mainly vegetarian cuisine.I really like this place. They have a winter garden and a lot of herbs and small vegetables are grown over there. They are specialised in fermenting - they do kombucha and bio-fermented pickles - everything by themselves. It is mainly vegetarian cuisine, but they have some small amounts of fish and meats as well. The chef is one of my ex-cooks, so I'm very proud to say that he's been doing a great job.