The Places · Italy
Rome
Made By profiles 41 places in Rome, spanning modern italian fine dining, modern roman fine dining, bar — each tied to the people and producers behind it.
01.Modern Italian Fine Dining
La Pergola
Rome, Italy
Rome's only three-Michelin-star restaurant, La Pergola sits atop the Roma Cavalieri hotel on Monte Mario hill, where chef Heinz Beck has held the kitchen since 1994 and sommelier Marco Reitano commands one of Italy's most decorated wine programs. Recognised by La Liste (96.5 points in 2025) and Les Grandes Tables du Monde, it occupies a tier of its own in the Italian capital's fine dining hierarchy.
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02.Modern Italian-Japanese Fusion Fine Dining
Il Pagliaccio
Rome, Italy
On Via dei Banchi Vecchi, Il Pagliaccio holds two Michelin stars and a place in the La Liste global top tier, where Anthony Genovese's tasting menus move fluidly between Italian regional technique and Japanese reference points. The wine list runs to approximately 1,750 selections with a cellar of around 10,000 bottles. Dinner runs Tuesday through Friday, with Saturday lunch and dinner service available.
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03.Modern Italian Fine Dining
Imàgo
Rome, Italy
Perched atop the Spanish Steps inside the Hassler Hotel, Imàgo holds a Michelin star, a World's Best Wine Lists 3-Star Accreditation, and a La Liste score of 86.5 points. Chef Andrea Antonini runs two tasting menus across a dining room where floor-to-ceiling windows frame Rome's skyline from Trinità dei Monti to the Capitol. The wine list spans 1,450 selections across 22,000 bottles, with particular depth in Piedmont, Tuscany, and Burgundy.
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04.Bar
Drink Kong
Rome, Italy
Drink Kong has held a position on the World's 50 Best Bars list every year since 2020, placing it in the top tier of Rome's bar scene and among Italy's most globally recognized cocktail programs. Set across multiple rooms in Celio, the bar runs nightly from 18:30 with a menu format that guides guests by sensation rather than category. A serious destination for those who treat cocktails as a discipline.
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05.Modern Italian Fine Dining
Enoteca La Torre
Rome, Italy
Enoteca La Torre pairs Modern Italian Fine Dining with a formal, leisurely dinner in a historic building, plus a sommelier-led wine list and Michelin 2 Stars in 2025.
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06.Modern Mediterranean-Asian Fusion
Idylio by Apreda
Rome, Italy
Michelin-starred Idylio by Apreda elevates Rome fine dining through Chef Francesco Apreda's sophisticated fusion of Neapolitan tradition and global influences. Located steps from the Pantheon, this intimate 25-seat restaurant showcases three innovative tasting menus within an elegant dining room of black marble and crystal chandeliers.
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07.Modern Mediterranean Seafood Fine Dining
Acquolina
Rome, Italy
Inside The First Roma Arte hotel near Piazza del Popolo, Acquolina holds two Michelin stars and an 85-point La Liste score for 2026, placing it among Rome's most recognised creative tables. Chef Daniele Lippi runs two tasting menus built around seafood and selective meat courses, backed by a wine list that runs to roughly a thousand labels. This is where serious Roman fine dining meets genuine generosity of portion and spirit.
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08.Modern Roman Fine Dining
Pipero Roma
Rome, Italy
Ranked #197 among Classical European restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in 2025 and holding a Michelin star, Pipero Roma operates at the sharper end of Rome's creative fine dining tier. Chef Ciro Scamardella's seasonal menu draws on Campanian roots and Mediterranean technique, while front-of-house precision under Achille Sardiello places it among the city's most composed dining rooms on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II.
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09.Pizza
Seu Pizza Illuminati
Rome, Italy
Between Porta Portese and Trastevere, Seu Pizza Illuminati has become one of the sharpest addresses in Rome's contemporary pizza conversation. Ranked #29 in Europe by Opinionated About Dining in 2023 before climbing to #65 in 2025 with a wider field, Pier Daniele Seu and Valeria Zuppardo run an operation that treats dough, dessert, and wine list with equal seriousness. Open every evening from 7pm to midnight.
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10.Modern Italian Fine Dining
Zia
Rome, Italy
On a quiet street behind Trastevere's tourist corridor, Zia holds a Michelin star and a place in Opinionated About Dining's top 100 European restaurants for 2025. Chef Antonio Ziantoni's cooking is creative but measured, grounded in classical technique and built around full, rounded flavours. At a €€€ price point, it sits a tier below Rome's grand dining rooms while matching them in precision.
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11.Modern Italian Fine Dining
Glass Hostaria
Rome, Italy
A Michelin-starred creative restaurant in Rome's Trastevere neighbourhood, Glass Hostaria operates Wednesday through Sunday evenings (plus weekend lunches) from a converted carriage workshop on Vicolo del Cinque. Chef Fabio Cappiello leads tasting menus, including a vegetarian option, that reference Lazio tradition while moving firmly in a contemporary direction. La Liste scored it 84 points in 2025 and 82 in 2026.
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12.Modern Italian Seafood Fine Dining
Per Me Giulio Terrinoni
Rome, Italy
A Michelin-starred address on a quiet lane near Campo dei Fiori, Per Me Giulio Terrinoni delivers fish and seafood cooking in a precise, ingredient-led register that sits outside Rome's louder, more theatrical fine-dining circuit. Ranked #314 in Opinionated About Dining's Classical in Europe list for 2024 and holding a White Star from Star Wine List, it combines serious kitchen credentials with a room that remains genuinely calm and unhurried.
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13.Modern Roman Fine Dining
Marco Martini Chef
Rome, Italy
A one-Michelin-star restaurant on Viale Aventino, Marco Martini Chef occupies the first floor of a period palazzo that reads like a winter garden, with greenery, natural light, and decorative floor tiles framing creative cuisine rooted in Roman flavour intensity. Ranked #441 in Opinionated About Dining's Top European Restaurants for 2025, it sits in a mid-tier creative bracket well below Rome's €€€€ flagships, making it one of the more accessible starred options in the capital.
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14.Modern Italian Fine Dining
All'Oro
Rome, Italy
All'Oro holds a Michelin star and an OAD Classical Europe ranking (\u2116459, 2025) for creative reinterpretations of Roman and Italian tradition. Chef Riccardo Di Giacinto, a JRE member, works from a basement dining room in Prati, close to Piazza del Popolo, transforming dishes like carbonara and tir\u00amisù into something recognisable yet unexpected. A dedicated plant-based menu runs alongside the main offering.
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15.Modern Fusion with South American, Mediterranean & Asian Influences
Orma Roma
Rome, Italy
Orma Roma holds a Michelin star and occupies a distinct position among Rome's fine-dining addresses: a fusion-led kitchen on Via Boncompagni where South American and Asian culinary traditions shape the menu alongside Italian produce. Chef Roy Caceres builds two tasting menus around vegetables, some grown in the restaurant's own kitchen garden, placing Orma in a comparable set defined by technical ambition rather than regional orthodoxy.
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16.Modern Italian Fine Dining
Moma
Rome, Italy
Moma occupies a deliberate position inside Rome's modern Italian dining tier: creative cooking that moves away from the city's traditional canon, served across two distinct formats under the same roof. Ranked #258 in the Opinionated About Dining Classical in Europe list for 2025, it draws a crowd that prefers invention over repetition, with a split-level format that works equally well for a working lunch or a considered evening meal.
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17.Modern Roman Fine Dining
Aroma
Rome, Italy
A Michelin-starred rooftop above the Colosseum, Aroma delivers Chef Giuseppe Di Iorio's modern Roman cooking across four tasting menus, including a vegetarian option, with views stretching from the ancient amphitheatre to the Vittoriano. The terrace is covered in winter, keeping the setting accessible year-round. Lunch and dinner services run on different days, making the meal choice a genuine strategic decision.
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18.Modern Italian Fine Dining
INEO
Rome, Italy
Positioned on the architecturally arresting Piazza della Repubblica, INEO brings an internationally inflected kitchen to one of Rome's grandest addresses. Chef Heros De Agostinis draws on experience across restaurants worldwide, producing a menu that moves between European technique and global ingredients. Recognised by the Michelin Guide with a Plate distinction and ranked 137th in the 2025 Opinionated About Dining Classical Europe list, it occupies a specific niche in Rome's fine-dining tier.
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19.Hotel
Palazzo Ripetta
Rome, Italy
Palazzo Ripetta sits on Via di Ripetta in Rome's historic centro storico, a short walk from the Spanish Steps and the Tiber. The property holds a One MICHELIN Key distinction for 2025, placing it among Rome's recognised addresses for hospitality quality. For guests who return season after season, the appeal is less spectacle and more the kind of quiet, well-positioned continuity that Rome's most address-literate travellers understand.
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20.Modern Roman Pizza
180 Grammi Pizzeria Romana
Rome, Italy
180 Grammi Pizzeria Romana has helped define a new chapter in Roman pizza-making from its base in Centocelle, where thin, crisply edged rounds draw from an open kitchen alongside well-executed fried starters and ingredient-led toppings. Ranked #36 among Opinionated About Dining's Cheap Eats in Europe in 2024, it holds a Google rating of 4.4 across nearly 1,800 reviews and has since expanded with dedicated take-out locations across the city.
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21.Traditional Roman Pasta Trattoria
Roscioli
Rome, Italy
On Via dei Giubbonari in Rome's Campo de' Fiori quarter, Roscioli operates as both a deli counter and a sit-down trattoria, drawing on a pantry of carefully sourced Roman staples. Ranked #9 in Opinionated About Dining's Cheap Eats in Europe for 2025 and holding a Michelin Plate, it represents the kind of ingredient-led Roman dining that resists the city's drift toward theatrical tasting menus.
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22.Modern Neapolitan Pizza
Avenida Calò
Rome, Italy
Avenida Calò on Viale Pinturicchio brings a formal register to Neapolitan pizza, with a refined dining room and a double-crunch technique that fries then bakes each base for a crispy exterior over a soft interior. Chef Francesco Calò pairs this with a serious wine list curated specifically around pizza. For Rome diners accustomed to the fine dining axis of the Prati and Parioli districts, this is a different proposition.
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23.Organic Vegetarian Fine Dining
Mater Terrae
Rome, Italy
On the top floor of the Bio Hotel Raphael, steps from Piazza Navona, Mater Terrae holds a Michelin Plate for creative vegetarian cooking in one of Rome's most consequential dining locations. Chef Ettore Moliteo leads a menu built on organic, seasonal produce, with a panoramic terrace that opens in fine weather for rooftop dining above the city's domes and terracotta rooflines.
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24.Contemporary Italian Fine Dining
San Baylon
Rome, Italy
Set within the historic Palazzo Ripetta near Piazza del Popolo, San Baylon occupies the former refectory of a 17th-century monastery and holds a Michelin Plate for creative cooking. The mood runs closer to an animated bistro than a formal dining room, with courtyard seating in warmer months and a menu anchored in classic Italian technique with contemporary inflections.
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25.Modern Italian Fine Dining
La Terrazza
Rome, Italy
La Terrazza belongs to Rome’s polished modern-Italian tier, where regional memory matters more than theatrical reinvention. Fabio Ciervo’s kitchen is framed by Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025, placing the restaurant among the city’s formal dining rooms for travelers who want contemporary Italian cooking with a Roman address and a controlled, high-comfort setting.
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26.Modern Italian Fine Dining
Mirabelle
Rome, Italy
On the penultimate floor of Hotel Splendide Royal, just off the Pinciana gate on the Borghese side of the Aurelian Walls, Mirabelle commands a panorama that sweeps from Villa Medici to St Peter's. Chef Stefano Marzetti's menu works within a classically-grounded, modern Italian register, with consistent recognition from Michelin and Opinionated About Dining across multiple years. The view, the cooking, and the address together place it in Rome's upper tier of fine dining.
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27.Cafe
Faro
Rome, Italy
Faro – Caffè Specialty was founded in 2016 with the desire to spread the culture of specialty coffee, enhancing its supply chain and consumption methods. From the beginning, their goal has been to offer an authentic experience, bringing traceable, sustainable, and carefully processed coffee to Rome – and subsequently to Italy and abroad. At Faro, every coffee comes from single plantations, selected and roasted directly by them under their brand Aliena Coffee Roasters. This allows them to guarant
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28.Modern Roman Trattoria
Trattoria Pennestri
Rome, Italy
A Michelin Bib Gourmand-recognised trattoria in Rome's Ostiense neighbourhood, Trattoria Pennestri serves the canonical pasta preparations of Lazio, carbonara, cacio e pepe, amatriciana, gricia, alongside occasional creative departures. The room is informal and the prices sit at the €€ tier, but demand consistently outpaces capacity, making an advance reservation close to essential.
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29.Traditional Roman Quinto Quarto Trattoria
L'Osteria della Trippa
Rome, Italy
A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient in both 2024 and 2025, L'Osteria della Trippa on Via Goffredo Mameli serves the foundational dishes of Lazio cooking at prices that sit well below Rome's fine-dining tier. Tripe, coratella, cacio e pepe, and artichokes alla giudia make up the core of what arrives at the table: generous, carefully prepared, and rooted firmly in the Roman tradition.
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30.Authentic Roman Trattoria
Romanè
Rome, Italy
A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient for consecutive years, Romanè on Via Cipro delivers the full register of Roman-Jewish and Lazio cooking in a single, reliably busy dining room near the Vatican. Artichokes prepared both Roman- and Jewish-style, quinto quarto offal, and the region's braised and roasted meats anchor a menu that reads like a precise inventory of what this city eats. Book ahead.
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31.Traditional Roman Cuisine
Hosteria Grappolo d'Oro
Rome, Italy
A Michelin Bib Gourmand holder since at least 2024, Hosteria Grappolo d'Oro occupies a corner of Piazza della Cancelleria, steps from Campo de' Fiori, serving Roman classics, amatriciana, cacio e pepe, carbonara, in a simple, always-busy dining room. The 'Percorso Romano' four-course tasting menu at just over €30 makes this one of the most credible-value addresses in central Rome for traditional cucina romana.
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32.Modern Italian
Retrobottega
Rome, Italy
Retrobottega sits at the contemporary end of Rome's dining spectrum, where a Michelin Plate and an Opinionated About Dining European ranking signal the ambition behind its dark, spare interior on Via d'Ascanio. Owner-chefs Giuseppe Lo Iudice and Alessandro Miocchi, both shaped by Italian and international Michelin-starred kitchens, run a kitchen full of ideas that translate into a multi-course format worth planning around.
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33.Modern Italian Neo-Bistro
Bistrot 64
Rome, Italy
In Rome's Flaminio district, Bistrot 64 occupies a classical dining room that gives little away before the food arrives. The kitchen draws on Lazio's culinary traditions while weaving in Japanese technique, a combination that places it in a distinct niche among the city's creative restaurants. Recognised by Michelin and ranked 388th in Opinionated About Dining's Classical Europe list for 2025, it sits comfortably in the €€€ tier.
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34.Contemporary Italian
Palazzo Ripetta
Rome, Italy
A family-owned fine dining address on Via di Ripetta, Palazzo Ripetta sits steps from Piazza di Spagna and combines an art collection with alfresco dining on a private piazzetta. Under chef Christian Spalvieri, the kitchen works within the Italian fine dining tradition. With a 4.5 Google rating across more than 800 reviews and an EP Club member score of 4.8/5, it holds a consistent position in Rome's upper-mid tier of formal Italian tables.
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35.Traditional Roman Trattoria
L'Arcangelo
Rome, Italy
L'Arcangelo occupies a precise position in Rome's mid-tier dining map: a bistro-format room on Via Giuseppe Gioachino Belli where Chef Arcangelo Dandini applies rigorous sourcing to the Roman canon. Holding a Michelin Plate and ranked 95th in Opinionated About Dining's Casual Europe list for 2024, it draws a loyal local following and informed visitors who want depth over spectacle at a €€ price point.
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36.Classic Roman Trattoria
Da Cesare
Rome, Italy
A Michelin Plate-recognised trattoria on Via del Casaletto, Da Cesare has held steady in Rome's mid-priced dining tier for years, drawing a loyal neighbourhood following with Tuscan-rooted cooking and a serious wine list. Ranked #129 in Opinionated About Dining's Casual Europe list for 2025, it sits in the category of places that regulars guard quietly and tourists rarely find without direction.
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37.Modern Roman Italian
Luciano Cucina Italiana
Rome, Italy
At Piazza del Teatro di Pompeo, Luciano Cucina Italiana has built a reputation around what Opinionated About Dining and the broader Roman food community consider the city's reference-point carbonara. Chef Luciano Monosilio anchors the menu in Lazio tradition while pushing into creative territory, and the basement bar Veleno now extends the experience into aperitivo. A Michelin Plate holder ranked 806th in OAD's 2025 Casual Europe list.
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38.Modern Roman Pizza al Taglio
Pizzarium
Rome, Italy
Pizzarium has ranked among Europe's top cheap eats on Opinionated About Dining every year from 2023 to 2025, placing Roman-style pizza al taglio in a category that rewards technique over theatre. Chef Gabriel Bonci's Prati-neighbourhood counter operates on a sell-by-the-weight model that has become a reference point for serious bread-based cooking across Italy and beyond.
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39.Bar
Nite Kong
Rome, Italy
Ranked #467 in the Top 500 Bars (2025), Nite Kong sits in Rome's Esquilino neighbourhood on Piazza di San Martino ai Monti, a square that moves at a slower pace than the city's more trafficked drinking circuits. The bar occupies a position in Rome's growing cohort of internationally recognised cocktail addresses, alongside names like Drink Kong and Jerry Thomas Speakeasy, bringing ranked credibility to a corner of the city that rewards deliberate exploration.
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40.Winery
Molinari
Rome, Italy
Molinari sits in Frascati, the volcanic hill town southeast of Rome that has defined central Italy's white wine tradition for centuries. Holding a Pearl 1 Star Prestige award for 2025, it operates in a region where the interplay of tufo soil and altitude shapes everything poured at the table. For anyone tracing the Castelli Romani wine circuit from Rome, it belongs on the itinerary.
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41.Winery
Pallini
Rome, Italy
Pallini holds a Pearl 1 Star Prestige (2025) and sits in Rome's Ostiense-adjacent quarter along Via Enrico Pallini, positioning it within the city's growing cohort of recognized prestige venues outside the historic centre. Sparse practical details in the public record make advance research advisable before visiting.
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