ROME : THREE RESTAURANTS TO ADD TO YOUR LIST

PLUS THREE VERY GOOD SPOTS FOR GELATO AFTER

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I spent two days in Rome last week. It is a city that has always brought me joy to walk around, to people watch and to eat. Being seven months pregnant meant we did less walking than usual but we ate and we ate well!

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As a general rule, the food is very good in Rome. Even the restaurants that boast large plastic boards with colourful printed menus can surprise you, though you’d fare better at the smaller less assuming trattorias. Rome is also a glamorous city. As early as 7.30 in the morning its residents will be clad in well cut dresses, tailored suits and proper shoes on route to the pasticceria for a pastry filled croissant and espresso. You will not catch your neighbour dashing to the corner shop in grubby pyjamas and Birkenstoks in Rome.

There are many glamorous and wonderful restaurants in Rome. Restaurants with white tablecloths, long wine lists, and waiters in bow-ties. Places that seem to have stood still in time and make you feel as though you’ve stepped onto the set of a classic Hollywood film. Nino is perhaps my favourite where they even have a dress code for guests (no flip-flops or shorts).

But the best restaurants in Rome (in my opinion) tend to be the more relaxed trattorias. The ones with tired leather bound menus, half carafes of house wine and tables peppered with children who are talking and eating with as much gusto and volume as their parents. Restaurants that feel lively and not muted. These are the restaurants that show off Rome the best.

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