Eating in Rome

Rome is, in our opinion, the best gastronomic capital of Europe. Since pizzas, pastas, lasagnas, you can eat all this in lower prices that you've ever dreamed of.

Definitly the cheapest zone in Rome to eat is Trastevere (a quiet area, with almost no traffic as the streets are too small for cars and the tourists don't usually go there, as is not on the books). In this place the most difficult part is to pick the restaurant as the prices are all alike between them.
Our suggestion is to stay in the first one that you find a free table (wich can be more complicated between 12.30am/ 2pm and 7.30pm/10pm).



The restaurants in Rome are just like the movies show, and this zone is not an exception.
Square tables for 2, chess like towels, candles and flowers and if you're lucky you may find an acordeon or violin player to set the mood.
The prices are very cheap.

You can have lunch with an entry (salad, soup or garlic bread), first plate (lasagnas, pizzas, pastas, cannelonni, ...), second plate (chicken, fish or meat) and a dessert at your choice, for just about 8€.
This restaurants also have this option for dinner but the price is about 10€.
Don't forget that, if you eat outside you have to pay 1,5€ for the service, but it's a simbolic fee as you've just had a great meal with an excelent service.


If during the day you prefer not to stop for lunch, then eat something in any roman corner.
It's very easy to find a trattoria where you can buy squares of pizza (in Italy the pizza slices are not triangles but squares and are paied by it's weight).
After being cut, the slices are wormed and believe us, that you won't tell they're not fresh out of the hoven.
Go inside and if you don't like any (wich is very hard) don't worry that 100m ahead you'll find another trattoria.
Try not to go into foreign trattorias (specially the chinese ones, and yes they now make pizzas) because the ingredients are not that good and the prices are absurd for their low quality.


Besides the famous food, the italians make great desserts.
The tiramisu lovers won't find it hard to delight themselves and the icecreams are one of the best italian temptations.
Buy one as they have an outstanding taste, from the best that you'll ever try in your life.

Any icecream store is excelent, even those who are in turistic spots like Piazza di Spagna where you can eat a giant 6 flavour icecream for just 6€.

Rome has lot's of piazzas full of animation, things to buy and where to eat. However they usually have over the top prices.
We suggest that you buy an icecream and sit on the pavement and watch the street actors show.

But if you want to eat something else or just relax a little bit please stay away from the Ai Tre Tartufi cafe in Piazza Navona.
The bathroom's are the filthiest that you've ever seen in your life, they make prices based on the appearance of the tourist (even thought the prices are listed on the menu) and the waiters are extrely unpolite. Go to the one in front of these restaurant.


Of course there's fast food in Rome, but the famous McDonnals and houses alike aren't just around the corner like in London, for example. If you're missing that burguer then look very well as you're not going to find that easy (there are only about 20 McDonnalds restaurants in all Rome).



In the Vatican, opposite to what says in the books, you may also make menu meals just like in Trastevere for less then 10€.
So if you took the morning to stay in line to the Vatican Museum, don't worry, on your way out you'll find good restaurants with good prices.

If you're staying at Plus Camping Rome you'll find in front of it the Panorama Supermarket and a few meters ahead you'll find a McDonnalds and a Pans and Company restaurants.
The supermarket prices are low, and they too make home made pizzas, but nothing alike the ones made in the old part of the city.

If you usually loose weight when you go on vacations, forget it because in Rome certainly you will gain some weight as is almost impossible to stop eating.