Osterium restaurants in Rome
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Rouge
Local artists, academics and labourers can't get enough of this place, with its kooky caged parrot, op-shop glassware, and soul-glow specials such as spicy lentil soup and pappardelle pasta with liver and truffle cream. It's like a communal retro living room, complete with Portishead tunes.
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Cantina Cantarini
Expect meat in the first half of the week and fish thereafter at this crowded, jovial, salt-of-the-earth centenarian. The plastic-covered menu focuses on the simple, robust flavours of Italy's Lazio and Le Marche regions, delivered by veteran staffer Mario Fattori (on the floor since 1946). Get in early or queue.
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Antica Hostaria Romanesca
If you want to sit and eat on the happening Campo, watching the flower market by day and the bar hoppers by night, this is a good choice. It's a simple, straightforward Roman eatery, with a cramped, TV-dominated interior and lots more seating outside on the square. Food is fine and good value, including bucatini all'amatriciana and meatballs.
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Osteria della Frezza
Della Frezza is trendy yet simple, with white-tiled, photo-covered walls and a monochrome look. It’s part osteria, part enoteca and part tapas bar. As well as selections of meat or cheese, you can order cichetti (mini-helpings) of pasta, meat and fish dishes on the menu, such as tortelli di baccalà (cod in pasta wraps) and fried ricotta.
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Osteria ar Galletto
You wouldn’t expect there to be anywhere reasonably priced on Piazza Farnese, one of Rome’s loveliest outdoor rooms, but this long-running osteria is the real thing, with good, honest Roman food, a warm local atmosphere and dazzlingly set exterior tables. Roasted chicken is the house speciality ( galletto means little rooster), but the roasted lamb is just as fine.
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Enoteca Corsi
Merrily worse for wear, family-run Corsi is a genuine old-style Roman eatery. The look is rustic – bare wooden tables, paper tablecloths, wine bottles – and the atmosphere one of controlled mayhem. The menu, chalked up on a blackboard, offers no surprises, just honest, homey fare like melanzane parmigiana or roast chicken with potatoes.
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Hostaria Isidoro
Convivial, no-fuss Isidoro has all the right ingredients: obliging waiters, lip-licking locals, and bountiful serves of soul food - golden roast chicken with soothing Gorgonzola and a delicate penne alle noci (pasta with walnut sauce).
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Hostaria Costanza
This is old-school Roman dining at its best. In the basement of Pompey's Theatre, Costanza serves up simple and wonderfully cooked food such as a creamy riso con fiori di zucca (risotto with courgette flowers), perfect ravioli di carciofi (ravioli with artichokes) and a simply delicious filetto di manzo al barolo (fillet of beef with barolo wine sauce). Bookings essential.
The waiters are friendly, the house wine is quaffable and the prices are remarkably reasonable.
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