Eating in Rome

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Not Rome but Buca Lapi in Florence. Local place. You’ll wish you were spending more than 1 day in Florence

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Giolitti's is a must for gelato, and it's just a couple of blocks from the Pantheon.

Pizza Florida, off the Torre Argentina (also not far from the Pantheon) has good, cheap pizza.

I also like La Taverna del Ghetto, which had a yummy fried artichoke dish.

But really, I don't know that I had a bad meal in Rome, so pretty much anywhere you eat will probably have good food.

My best meals were at “hey, this place looks good” place on a side street and a place with late night pizza and a carafe of house wine.

The good food isn’t hard to come by.

Giolitti is old and famous, but there are much better gelato shops (even in that immediate area, like Dei Gracchi and San Crispino). It does have a nice air conditioned sit down salon, if you need a rest while you eat your gelato (though it costs way more at a table).

But +1 on Pizza Florida. I stepped off the #8 tram one day, jet lagged and starving, and scarfed down a folded-over slab of pizza topped with bresaola, arugula, and shaved parmesan. Also in the Ghetto area—Antico Forno makes a great pizza rossa. Super thin and crispy, with a wash of tomato purée that is slightly caramelized from the oven. Wish I had a piece of that pizza rossa right now.