Where to eat and drink in Trastevere: restaurants, trattorie, bars

As a guest in a Bed&Breakfast in Trastevere, you have to fear no hunger: Trastevere could be one of the neighbourhoods in Rome with the biggest amount of restaurants and bars. Here is a selection of the food-and-drink offer of the neighbourhood, sorted by the kind of meal you have in mind,

For a quick lunch

If you are thinking about a quick meal to eat on the fly, Via San Francesco a Ripa – where the Bed & Breakfast is located – is a great starting point: here you will find Sandwich House “Fame Nera”, several pizzerias and the Antica Caciara, a store with cheeses, hams and other specialties where you can get gorgeous sandwiches.

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Just around the corner – in  Via Natale del Grande – you will find another “norcineria” (cheese and ham shop), Iacozzilli, as well as Planet Kebab, maybe one of the best kebab houses in Trastevere.

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For a typical roman meal

Trastevere abounds with tipical restaurants and trattorie, often family run, esssential to the eye but absolutely genuine when it comes to the flavors. Two of these restaurants are located in Piazza de Renzi, few steps from Vicolo del Moro and 5 minutes from Via San Francesco a Ripa: Corrado and Augusto. In both these placese you will find a very simple aestethics, but a rich cuisine. It’s adviceable to show up early, as queues form quickly here.

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Not far from Piazza De Renzi, in Vicolo del Moro 53 you will find Mario’s, another trattoria where you will taste the best of roman cuisine, alongside with a nice rosetta bread.

For an ethnic meal

Even though Trastevere is a strongly roman neighbourhood, it has its share of ethnic cuisine. If sushi is tickling  your fantasy, then head for TakeSushi (Viale Trastevere, 4), not far from Via San Francesco a Ripa. Otherwise you can enjoy a dinner in Miyabi 2, serving japanese cuisine (also kaiten) as well as vietnamese.

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Strolling on Via Francesco a Ripa you will first find yourselves in India, with the indian restauran Jaipur (Via San Francesco a Ripa, 66), then in Greece with greek restaurant Akropolis.

For an aperitif

Trastevere offers you a wide choice for the aperitif, too. First of all, it is definitely worth to take a short walk to Freni e Frizioni (Via del Politeama, 4), one of the most loved bars for the aperitif people.

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Ombre Rosse, with its tables in the very pictoresque Piazza Sant’Egidio, is another favourite of Trastevere’s people.

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Plus, for the pub lovers: choose Big Hilda, Vicolo del Cinque, 33.

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Good Morning, Trastevere! Living in a Bed & Breakfast in the ancient heart of Rome

Spending some time here in Trastevere - be it for holiday, study or work – is a good way to understand Rome.

Trastevere Bed and Breakfast offers its guests the chance to immerse themselves into the atmosphere of a forgotten Rome, few minutes from the tourist sights but in a whole different rhythm.

Trastevere used to be – until not long ago – a sort of a village with its own rituals, facing  Rome “of the Colusseum” on the other side of the Tiber (still today, Trastevere’s inhabitants call themselves “noantri”, “ourselves”).

Furthermore, Trastevere is a perfect neighbourhood to be experienced in a Bed & Breakfast, a kind of accomodation that allows you to know the city more as a local than as a tourist.

Those who know Rome for its imposing monuments and roman ruins always end up surprised when they see Trastevere’s medieval streets, its shops, often unchanged since the 60′s, the trattorie in small hidden squares.

From the early morning Trastevere shows its relaxed and pleasant nature. The bars - Trastevere is sure not lacking bars – are crowded with romans and Trastevere locals, who enjoy exchanging jokes with the barman as they wait for their caffè e cornetto (coffee and pastry). Some lone seagull diverts from the river to land among the fish stalls in Piazza San Cosimato’s market. Shops open with no rush, and you can see the first passers-by and cars. The smell of oven-warm bread spreads in the streets of the neighbourhood. It’s adviceable to live the morning with all the quietness that Trastevere allows: having breakfast outside, under a nice spring sun, away from the traffic of the big arteries.

The day in Trastevere is lively but not stressing. The whole neighbourhood is a big network of restaurants, trattorie, osterie, pizzerie, clubs, bars. You will have plenty of choice, both for lunch and dinner (we will explore the subject soon), and there’s always people sitting at the tables outside. From there, you can enjoy a perfect point of view on the flowing mankind of the neighbourhood.

Night in Trastevere is young. The small sleepy streets of the zone get crowded with youth coming from all of Rome to have fun in the bohémienne atmosphere of this “former village”. At dusk, Trastevere changes its face and many trendy clubs just appear, scattered among the old family-owned restaurants. They don’t come here for disco, but rather to have a drink with friends, chatter, stroll and enjoy some breeze from the river, maybe while having some prosecco from Freni & Frizioni, one of the most trendy aperitif bars.

At a certain time of the night, the people of the clubs withdraws, leaving the streets silent and sleepy. In the meanwhile, bakers start making bread for the next morning.