The BEST foods to eat in Rome, Italy (with prices)

Hello from Rome. Welcome back, or welcome if you're new here. My name is Steph, and along with my husband Pete and our three-year-old son Hayes, we have been traveling full-time for 18 months, but we begin right here in Rome in September of 2021. Do you know where you are? Where are you? Now, we found ourselves back here, and if we're being totally honest, it's with one priority and one priority only, and that's to eat as much as we can. No, no, the mortadella. Mortadella. Yes, that's what I'm doing. And our first stop for today is at Antico Forno Roscioli for one of my favorite snacks. I don't know, in the world. It's called...well, it's basically pizza bianca, so like plain pizza dough with mortadella, which was a discovery for me last time because if you're American like me, it looks kind of like bologna, but it could not be further from bologna. It's so delicious, and it's a classic Roman snack here. They call it pizza e mortazza, or mortazza. I don't know. My Italian is atrocious. Another reason I love this place is because I don't love Italian breakfast. It's very simple and sweet and maybe not much at all. This bakery is open early, so you can come get this almost any time of the day. All right, I got something that we haven't gotten here before, and it was the porchetta sandwich, and it's got like thin slices of potato on top of it. The porchetta is unbelievable. It's got like the crispy skin inside. Seriously good. This porno in Campo di Fiore is also a really awesome place to get the pizza e mortazza. Yummy. So we have a next stop, but it's not yet open. We're just going for a walk, and we saw this espresso bar. And espresso is something you obviously have to have while in Italy, but we're also having a maritozzo, which is a very Roman thing. It's like a bread roll with cream. I don't think this is the best or the most famous, and I don't know the name of this place. You can get espresso anywhere. I mean, honestly, that's pretty good. I'm not sure you can go wrong. We went to a very famous place where they sell these last time, and this is just as good. How did I do that? One minute. Okay. I just want to say one more thing about that place. But what I love about those like nondescript place espresso bars is that they just say bar. And yeah, you can get espresso, which is what we did. But there was also a gentleman having a glass of red wine and a smoke it at 1130 in the morning on a Friday. Living. It's Friday. It's Friday. It's Friday. It's Friday. It's Friday. It's Friday. It's Friday. It's Friday. From the highest of heights to the depths of hell, ain't nothing gonna hit like fried spaghetti. I've never done this. Everybody's laughing at me. Okay. Next place we've come is Tublizio for supli, which is, if you know, arancini. I think those are from Sicily. Supli is a Rome's answer to that. So it's a fried rice ball. This is the classic version, which is rice with tomato and then there's a hunk of mozzarella inside and then they batter it and they fry it. Delicious, obviously. And then we got to catch out a pepe version. We haven't yet featured any pasta in this video, but we will. Pepe is a very famous Roman pasta and this is the supli version of that. You got, I guess, pecorino and pepper. There's still mozzarella in this with the rice. It's very good. Even better with beer. Those were so good. We've now crossed the Tiber River to come to Trastevere, which is the neighborhood we stayed in last time. Really, really charming. But we've come here for three reasons. For pizza, for gelato, and most importantly, for a playground, which might actually be our favorite playground we've seen in 18 months in 19 countries. Yeah. Hell, we're at that time. We came here after three months of traveling around India. I'll link some of those videos if you want to check them out. He's just walking around saying, every five seconds. It's really funny. He does miss the cows on the street though. I'm not going to film his in the playground because I don't film other kids, but right back there, that's the one next to this adorable neighborhood market. Okay. Now that we have been to like, I don't know, hundreds of playgrounds in dozens of countries, this one doesn't look as remarkable as I remember it, but Pete just reminded me of the reason we loved it. It has benches all the way around it, so you basically can just sit, chill out, and watch your kid play. Yeah. Benches everywhere, very close to the equipment, so you can be a responsible yet very lazy parent. It's nicer in the late summer when all the trees are like full of leaves and stuff. It's like pretty bare bones now because we're like coming out of the winter, but it's still a great place. Charming. We have mango today, but we have this one. There is chamomile, mango, and also, I don't know how to say it. Yeah. Do you want to try that? I think you'll like that. If you want to try it, I can give it to you. Is it okay? Sure. Thank you. You're welcome. So we have a few favorite gelato spots after staying here for one month, but this is one of our big-time favorites. It's called Oteleg. That's gelato backwards. I always get the pistachio and salted peanut. You need to get in here. Sorry. Must be really annoying living right there with all the tourists at this gelato spot. Anyway, it's delicious. What did you get? I got crema and a chocolate truffle. Let us know in the comments what's your favorite. Let me know in the comments. I got the big mango. Let me know in the comments. Let us know what's your favorite combination. I like the salty ones. There's also another really delicious one on the other side of the playground we were at called Fata Morgana. It's a toss-up. The thing about Rome, I think Europe in general, is that you need reservations, and we knew this. We booked this trip three weeks ago, and every night I thought, Steph, you should make reservations, and we didn't. We've just taken the tram here, 20 minutes to eat at this place we ate in 2015. It was so good, and the menu's on a chalkboard. Usually, last time we were here, we would just say, we'd come right when they open. We'd say, we have a three-year-old. We'd be really quick because Italians eat for hours and hours, and we're like, nope, just serve us. We'll be gone, and it didn't work, and they don't even have availability to borrow. If you take one thing away from this video, it's that if you're coming to Rome, make a reservation. We are in the suburbs. I don't know what this is, but this is 20 minutes from where we're staying, and where we're staying is on the edge, so make a reservation. You like Ethiopian food? Yeah, we love it. First class, okay? Yeah, we've been here in 2021. I remember you. We came here in 2021. Ah, okay. I think this one's going to work. Cheers. Cheers. Thank you so much. Do you know how to...carrot, cabbage, put it. Okay. All right. Thank you. Okay. I know that this is a must-eat in Rome video, so you're probably thinking, Ethiopian food? But the area that we're staying in and the surrounding kind of neighborhoods are super diverse and home to a lot of delicious non-Italian food. Ethiopian is one of our favorite cuisines, and we don't have a restaurant where we're from in Chattanooga, so we often eat it in every single city we visit. We have actually been to this restaurant. We love it. The guy is so friendly. The food is delicious. So, if you're here long enough to enjoy some non-Italian food, this is a great, great option. I highly recommend it, especially for you vegetarians out there. Yes. Morning. It's the next morning. It's Saturday morning, and today we've come to a farmer's market called Campagna Amica, which is pretty special and very Roman because nothing in here is made from more than 150 kilometers, I think, away. It's all in the Lazio region, which is the region around Rome, so it's super duper local. And we're going to check out a couple markets today. We haven't been to this one, and then we're going to go to one of our favorites, and then I think we'll go have a picnic. In addition to the picnic we're shopping for, we're also about to fly to the UK in a couple of days, and we want to make pasta alla gricia for Pete's parents, so we're looking for the ingredients for that as well. We haven't had that yet in this video, but stay tuned. We will be eating it. We smell fried artichokes, and we didn't get these last time we were here. They weren't in season, so very excited to try these. And then, obviously, they go really well with a beer, so I think you dip it in the beer, don't you? Nice, crispy batter, not too heavy, kind of salty as well, and delicious, those artichokes. What do you think? So Hayes has been obsessed with ambulances, like, for as long as we can remember, and we're pretty sure it started here because he was, like, just under two, and there seems to be a disproportionate number of ambulances in Rome. Like, we hear them, we've heard two in the last seven minutes. If anybody knows why, let us know. So the pizza place we talked about just over yesterday that's closed, their original location is here at Testaccio Market, and we've come to get some. Just been given a taste. I want the cheese one. You want to fill this with wine? Yes, yes, yes. Do you like the red one? No, I don't want the wine. Oh, well, it's a good job it's not for you. Is the white cold? No. Eh, no. No, so red. Red, please. These places, legendary. You can bring your own plastic jugs and get wine poured into them. We don't have a plastic jug because we've been traveling with this for 18 months. Now we're going to get it filled up with wine. What's your best? I have this region, Cesanese, San Giovese. Okay. Another region, Cabernet, Veneto, northeast Italy. And Iannico is Campania. What do you recommend? Do you like dry, meat dry? Yeah, not sweet. No, no, not sweet, don't tell me. Dry, very dry or meat dry? Medium dry. Okay, yeah, I like mellow. 1 euro 40. 1 euro 40? Yeah, yes, yes. 2 euro 18, quality. 1 euro 40. It's a bargain. Because it's free. In the bottle, it's different price. I mean, I wish we had... Stop laughing. I wish we had two bottles because, I mean... We didn't do that last time. We just, we just saw it. We never did it. What a moron! So we splurged and we took a like 10 to 12 euro taxi to Parco di Caffarello. I thought there was going to be sheep here. Apparently, there's sheep somewhere in this park. It's a beautiful day. It's lovely. And we've got our pizza. And you have to eat pizza while you're in Rome. And I must say, I used to not be a fan of Roman pizza. I love pizza from Naples. But it's grown on me. The thing about Roman pizza, it's like the pizza is like the base, the pizza bread. And then there's all different toppings on it. They like slice it up and you buy it based on the weight, I think. But we got... Spin you around. Also got to this lovely park with no sheep. But lots of sheep poop, right? Yes. So maybe they're around somewhere. Okay, we've got a beautiful sausage and mushroom. We got a potato and artichoke. We got a margarita for Hazy. And then we got this one, which is, I think, maybe my favorite. But it's got mango. It's got mozzarella. It's got... Daddy, daddy, I see more on my pizza. Which one, sorry? Stracciatella. Daddy, I see more on my pizza. Yeah, you got... And basil. Cheers. Good evening. This evening, we're staying local. We're in the area where our Airbnb is this time, which is Pignetto. And for, I guess, this is an aperitivo. We've come to a little bar restaurant called Rosti, which we have been to before. And we came back to it because there's a play area that we were hoping some kids would be at. And there are. So Haze is occupied. I was having a hard time deciding between... He's slapping at me. I was having a hard time deciding between an Aperol Spritz and a Negroni. And then I remembered what I saw on the menu, a Spagliato. A Negroni. I was gonna say the same thing. Spagliato. With Prosecco in it. So I'm gonna have my very first Spagliato. Sorry, I'm also making sure that Haze doesn't fly off the CSL because there's a bunch of big kids that are making me so nervous. That's so good. Oh, she was right. Pete got the classic Italian mojito. Okay, so I feel like I have to put this note in here because similarly to last night where we showed up at a restaurant that said it opened at 6.30, which we thought was weird. And they couldn't see just because they were fully booked, but also because they don't open till 8. We actually came physically to this place we're gonna eat and made a reservation today for 7. And we just showed up and they're like, no, we don't open till 8. And Pete asked her like three times. So just keep that in mind when dining out in Rome. It's 8 o'clock now. We got in. And this is Trattoria Pignetto, I think. We came here in 2015. It was called Il Borghettone or something. And we came here because Anthony Bourdain had been here. We're not sure if it's the same place, but the Borghettone is still delicious. And if you're watching all of our videos, you will have seen this in the one where we travel from India because we came here as our first stop. But we wanted to come back because we haven't yet had any of the Roman pastas. I'm excited. All right, I got a carbonara right here. Thank you. For you. All right, that is phenomenal. All right, and then we also got the gricia, right? Pasta alla gricia. Classic. No, it's cacio e pepe. Oh, sorry. Cacio e pepe. I also got tripe meatballs in tomato sauce. You wouldn't know it was tripe. I think tripe is a very Roman thing. They also had it on the menu as like a stew. I don't love that, but I do love this. Hello from Glasgow. Thanks for watching this video. If you've made it this far and you're coming to Rome, I have left Google pins for all of the places in this video in the description box. But I did just want to say, I also have recently launched our Rome map on Etsy. Anything to say? All right, take two. I did just want to say that I've recently launched our full entire Google map about Rome on Etsy. So if you are going to Rome or if you just want to support this channel in a very easy way, it has over a hundred pins of things to do, places to eat, places to drink, playgrounds, outdoor spaces, neighborhood information, all sorts of handy information. It's only, I think, $3.99. 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