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 One of 1000's of sidewalk
cafes by Jmill42
If you would prefer to sit down and take your coffe, it will cost you at least double, in my experience. Doing this, you do not need to pay first. Just sit down and the waiter will eventually come over to take your order. Leave a Comment
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1° avoid restaurants where the waiters are soliciting tourists onto their terrace. Now it is necessary to distinguish between soliciting the tourist and a pleasant welcome to the traveller looking at the menu.
2° avoid the restaurants with large terraces with too well set tables and well dressed quadrilingual waiters.
3° check that they serve wine "vino de la casa" by the carafe what avoids paying table wine at 20 € the bottle.
4° look if the customers are locals or only tourists. Here the question is how to distinguish them from each other; it is simple, Italians don't wear shorts for dining in the town centre.
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Comment éviter les "restaurants à touristes".
1° éviter les restos où les garçons font du racolage à leur terrasse. Maintenant il faut savoir distinguer entre racolage du touriste pigeon et un accueil aimable du voyageur qui s'intéresse à la carte.
2° éviter les restos avec grandes terrasses aux tables trop bien mises et garçons en livrée et quadrilingues.
3° vérifier que l'on sert du vin de la casa en carafon ce qui évite de payer du vin de table à 20 € la bouteille.
4° regarder si la clientèle est autochtone ou uniquement composée de touristes. Ici la question est comment distinguer les uns des autres: c'est simple les Italiens ne vont pas dîner en short au centre ville.
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 by abarbieri
San Crispino (the best in the World!!)
Via della Panetteria 42
(near Trevi Fountain – closed Tuesday)
www.ilgelatodisancrispino.itr />
Monteforte
Via della Rotonda 22
(next to the Pantheon)
Ciampini
Piazza San Lorenzo in Lucina
(Close to Spanish Steps with tables outside)
Many people including locals do fancy the following too:
Giolitti
Via Uffici del Vicario 40
(not far from Pantheon)
Old Bridge
Piazza Risorgimento
(near the Vatican)
La Palma
Via della Maddalena 20
(near the Pantheon)
A special one is "Il Palazzo del Freddo - Fassi" (open since 1880) but it is not that central being located in the Esquilino area just behind the Termini train station:
Palazzo del Freddo - Fassi
Via Principe Eugenio 65
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 Susan and I pause to think
about "things" by PawtuxetLeave a Comment
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 In virtually any alley
great food could be found by Jmill42
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Unless you are allergic to ice-cream, you cannot go to Rome (or Italy) and not have some ice-cream (gelato). Italy has the best gelato I have ever eaten. The strawberry (fragola) gelato actually tastes like strawberry, instead of just looking pink, like it does here (in Australia). Sometimes you have to go to a few different ice cream parlours before you find a parlour that gives you a lot of gelato for a reasonable price (sometimes they expect you to pay 6 Euro for 2 small scoops - not good enough!).
You can get it in cones or in cups and there are always heaps of flavours to choose from. My favourite was to ask "Vorrei una gelato con cioccolata, fragola e ananas, per favore." Which in my very poor Italian is "I would like one ice cream with chocolate, strawberry and pineapple, please". This was especially enjoyable on the warm summer nights I was there, and my friends and I would just sit in a piazza or stroll along the streets happy with our delicious treats.
You can find ice cream parlours along nearly every main street in Rome, and a whole lot of side streets as well, as it is the traditional dessert in Italy. Buon appetite! Leave a Comment
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 Yummmmmy icecream :)) by Jenniflower
So the Italians were not the first to make icecream! (You learn somehting new every day)
I nabbed this interesting recipe of the net, let me know if you make it, and how it turns out! :)
Renowned for it's ice cream, we were not let down!
We tried a few different types, the only one I didnt like, as it was too strong for me, was a mango ice cream flavour.
Chocolate won hands down of course! :)
These ice cream shops are dotted all over Rome, so you wont have to look too hard to find one when you need one :) Leave a Comment
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 Hungry? by Jenniflower
Here is a sign for a shop, where you can get all yoru miscellaneous needs.. from fruit to bread, loo paper to cleaning liquid.
The insides of these shops are like little mini-mazes themselves too... so unlike the huge, glossy wide aisles in England and South Africa (the two countries I have lived in so can compare with). Leave a Comment
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 L'Antico Forno by Frisbeeace
There is a supermercati in the tunnel that connects Piazza di Spagna with Via Veneto. We used to get our groceries and refreshments there.
Another great point is right on Fontana di Trevi. It's called L'Antico Forno on Via delle Murate 8. Soft drinks cost E 0.80 there and just outside are sold for E 2.50!! Leave a Comment
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 Piazza Barberini by MagicMixer
I learned that it is coming from the mountains around and I can promise........It is clean and better than most expansive bottle-water !!
Lots of wine in the nighttime .....and lots of water in the daytime.
DONT mix it up !! Leave a Comment
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