Originally Posted by
Kacee
Great to hear!
If you're still there, try Rinaldi around the corner for dinner. Family owned, fantastic seafood and pasta, very warm service. My favorite meal in Rome last trip.
Hah, we went there last night! I wasn't feeling like going to such a white-jacket-waitered place, but convenience won out and it was indeed excellent. Artichoke salad, pasta carbonara, and salt-crusted whole snapper were all winners, as was the service. Food price was on the high side (really just for the fish, not the other stuff), but the wine list was surprisingly reasonable (2008 vintage Laurent-Perrier millesime was 100 euro).
Currently sitting in this lounge at the hotel, under a 16th century Flemish tapistry, drinking another complimentary negroni:
