Seafood restaurants in Rome
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Hosteria del Pesce
One of the capital's hottest seafood restaurants, this place has filled the bellies of Francis Ford Coppola and Giorgio Armani among other megastars. It sports a studiously low-key look of hardwood floors and deep-blue walls, gets packed, and serves unforgettable, ultrafresh food. Squid is fried and served with creamy mash, risotto is dyed jet-black with octopus ink, while sea bream, snapper and turbot are grilled to crispy perfection, all accompanied by white wines only. Booking is advised.
Squid is fried and served with creamy mash, risotto is dyed jet-black with octopus ink, while sea bream, snapper and turbot are grilled to crispy perfection, all accompanied by white …
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La Rosetta
Some say this is Rome’s best fish restaurant; others say it’s the best in Italy. Whichever it is, if you dislike fish, look elsewhere, because vegetarians and carnivores are not catered for. Chef Massimo Riccioli’s dishes are often startlingly simple – there’s nothing complex about spaghetti con calamaretti (pasta with baby squid) – but they’re prepared with genius. Outside you glimpse the Pantheon but it’s better inside amid yellow hues and white tablecloths. Bookings are essential, and it’s more affordable at lunch.
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Ripa 12
Whether or not it's true that carpaccio di spigola (very fine slices of marinated raw sea bass) was first served at this graceful, wood-beamed Calabrian restaurant, the seafood here is top-notch. On the menu you'll find a mix of dishes playing on traditional themes - gnocchetti con fagioli e cozze (small gnocchi with beans and mussels), for example - as well as Calabrian specialities such as fiery-hot salami. There are some streetside tables but unless you want your fish smoked by traffic fumes you're better off inside.
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Alberto Ciarla
Alberto Ciarla's Trastevere fish restaurant is a historic landmark on Rome's gastronomic map. The décor is a time warp of 1970s glamour, and the food is spectacular in a more tasteful sense. There are three seafood tasting menus: grande cucina for lobsters, oysters and refined delicacies; cucina tirrenica for Mediterranean prawn salads and pasta with seafood; and crudo for marinated raw fish and marine molluscs.
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Riccioli Café
The brainchild of Rome’s sultan of seafood, La Rosetta’s Massimo Riccioli, this perennially chic oyster bar and restaurant specialises in seafood, mostly raw. There’s superfresh sushi and sashimi, oysters (from Brittany) and a range of Mediterranean shellfish. Eat on blue-velvet banquettes under twisted modernist chandeliers, or casually snack in the Pop Art bar.
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Il Bar Sotto il Mare
Only a few minutes' walk straight down the road from the Vatican entrance, this easygoing restaurant is nonetheless tucked away and feels like a find. It's a laid-back place with a funky vibe: blue arched rooms set the submarine theme and the menu is full of delicious, simply cooked seafood. Service can be a bit laid-back too.
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Crab
Set in a converted warehouse, just steps from the Colosseum, upmarket Crab serves obscenely good seafood with a distinctly Sardinian slant. Don't miss the filling taglioni al granchio porro (pasta with juicy tomatoes and wine-soaked crab claws) or the luxe house specialities - Brittany oysters and Catalonian lobster.
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Le Tamerici
Tucked-away Le Tamerici impresses with its wine list and range of digestifs, as well as with its classy food, including light-as-air homemade pasta. A great place to settle for an epicurean lunch, in two intimate rooms with bleached-wood beamed ceilings.
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Al Presidente
Al Presidente is a discreet, greenery-shrouded place that whispers class, under the walls of the presidential palace. Its sophisticated air is matched by the seafood-centred menu. Innovative dishes include baccalà whisked into polenta and grilled, and trippa di coda di rospo (tripe of angler-fish tail), but it also does a lipsmacking pasta all ’ amatriciana.
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