Best restaurants in Rome, Italy

Agreed. The less English there is on the menu, generally the better your chances are. Turn off the tourist path, go a couple of blocks, read the menus. Ask whomever is near the front what they like the best on the menu. You'll know.

Marco G is a good low key spot.

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unlike in Paris and some other places in Europe, the restaurants we go to in Rome tend to be on the casual side and not the high end gourmet places

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If you're trying to get the lady to get Instagram impressions, I get going to tourist trap "fine" dining. I'd rather awesome friendly service and great *authentic* food than a Michelin star and foamed sea urchin. The pretension of "fancy" turns me off and is usually a cover for prices and not necessarily quality. I want to know where the locals go for special occasions, or on date nights, but that is probably just me.

There are always Bourdain suggestions. That's "The Layover" which is designed around about a 36 hour trip, which to me is more accessible than many of his longer, more involved episodes about particular cities and regions.

Also, if you check in at a high end hotel with a good concierge, they are typically great places to start. Please notice my qualifiers there; if you check into a business/commuter hotel, they won't give a damn, and will direct you to wherever they get kickbacks. If you are staying in something like a Marriott Autograph or Luxury Collection, they absolutely will direct you to awesome places.

we have reservations here during our trip in a few weeks. Recommendation from a friend who visits Rome annually.

Pierluigi

Any of the small local pizza joints- they are everywhere

The best meal I recall having in Rome was a place called AdHoc.

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Aroma. Amazing experience.

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We didn't go to Aroma because it was booked up months in advance, but we did get a spot at The Court which is their rooftop bar overlooking the Colosseum. Would recommend around dusk if only just for the pictures.

Like others have said, if you just dip off the tourist path and go into a restaurant down some alley where they hardly speak English, you'll get great food. We went to a place called Trattoria Pisciapiano Gioia Mia and explained in broken Italian to the old waiter that it was our honeymoon and he LOADED us with free appetizers, meats, cheeses.