Eating in Rome

Most of the typical and cheapest restaurants in Rome are concentrated in the areas called Trastevere andTestaccio (they are very famous there so you won't get lost, don't worry!).On the other hand, if you are looking for a higher category restaurant, you should focus on the historical center of Rome where you can find luxurious restaurants as Antica Pesa Restaurant in Trastevere or Piperno Restaurant in the ancient Jewish District. You have to know the Italian names of typical restaurants to catch your target restaurant more easily. For example, a pizza place is called pizzeria. Also there are trattorie andosterie. Italian restaurants are usually, if not always, home-run. This means that it's like the movies when the chef is the owner of the restaurants in Rome and his daughter is the accountant! This gives a very genuine touch to them, especially to know that the ingredients are also of their own production.

Trastevere

This itinerary includes most of Trastevere, once a working-class neighborhood that is undoubtedly the most picturesque testimony of Rome’s ancient tradition. Our tour begins with the Portico d’Ottavia because, although the river Trastevere, it features the same kind of dwellings and narrow streets. Missing are the conspicuous monuments and extravagant palaces so common in the rest of Rome; but every building is a lively witness to the city’s history. Almost any Baroqu e basilica here has been built atop a Medieval church, which in turn was mostly likely erected on the spot of an ancient Roman home.
You will find important churches, such as S. Maria in Trastevere, S. Crisogono or S. Cecilia, in the area. But most of Trastevere’s religious meeting places are tiny chapels originally built to house venerated holy images.
After a period of serious decline during Dark Ages, the neighborhood underwent a housing boom from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries.
But most of this was haphazard building until the seventeenth century, when Via della Lungara was laid down as a pilgrimage route to St. Peter.

Rome has always been considered the greatest open air museum in the world. It is the only city where it’s possible to see the traces of its long history in practically every corner while simply walking around the city. Rome is a city which continuously stimulates a myriad of emotions and awe because of its unique atmosphere.
Rome is the city which has always considered the preservation of its cultural assets as an extraordinary quantity of exhibits of great value.