Originally Posted by
mromalley
We really need a bit more information to be able to give you appropriate recommendations. Budget? Food type? Traditional Roman?
Contemporary Roman (updates to classic recipes)? Cucina Povera - poor mans food - including offal? Roman Jewish Cuisine? We've established you are not interested in Michelin starred restaurants.
Do you want fish/seafood? Do you want a great carbonara? a fantastic wine list?
Check out these Rome based bloggers, all of them are highly regarded. I can personally attest to Katie Parla and Elizabeth Minchilli's recommendations.
http://www.parlafood.com
http://www.elizabethminchilliinrome.com
http://www.maureenbfant.com
You can also check out the Rome Digest
http://www.theromedigest.com - a joint effort between Katie Parla & Hande Leimer
http://www. vinoroma.com . It is not updated, but still has some great info.
Hotel Eden and Hotel Minerva are great suggestions for aperitivos. I've not yet been to the Hotel Forum. Perche also had some good suggestions for restaurants.
I think we are fortunate to have Perche here and willing to answer Rome/Italy based questions. It's always beneficial to have an answer from someone who is "on the ground" daily. And not just a response from someone who was in Rome for 3 days, 5 years ago.
The OP's first post was this:
Originally Posted by
pbiflyer
Mrs PBIFLYER and I will be in Rome on our anniversary. Need a great suggestion.
Long ago, we were in Rome and had a great dinner in a street side cafe in Trestavere. She loved that.
We aren't into stuffy, michellin rated restaurants that serve tiny fancy food.
Romantic, small, great view maybe? Outdoor, although sine it would be in July, maybe not.
All suggestions welcome.
And when he said "stuffy, michellin rated restaurants that serve tiny fancy food" I immediately thought of Metamorfosi.
By his other requisites it seems like they'd enjoy a Testaccio, Monti or Ghetto mainstay. I use the resources you do, as well as Chowhound since you can get the immediate feedback of the women you reference. I think the OP would definitely benefit from checking out the links you provided to get some specific recommendations.
- I first learned of the people you mentioned from this thread:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/italy...-eat-rome.html
I agree nothing beats advise from someone on the ground, and we use to have Rome based FTers here on this board but they've been absent for some time. It's my understanding that
Perche travels to Italy frequently, but that he's not a Roman. I imagine he'll correct me if my assumption is wrong.
And FTers that are tourists can definitely benefit from learning about cultural differences so as not to offend - or be offended.
But you get what you pay for as they say, and not to completely undermine your recommendation of fellow FTer
Perche, keep in mind that he's now broadened his advice from steering clear of TripAdvisor reviews (which I agree with), to now advising us to steer clear of all reviews on "the net". That means all the great resources you link above,
Perche is saying you should avoid. And I definitely disagree with that advice. (Not to mention his apparently limited vocabulary: if something's not tiny then to him that means that something has to be large!)