Restaurants Near Trevi Fountain Rome

You would think restaurants near Trevi Fountain would be mostly touristy and over-priced. 

But you would be wrong.

Restaurants Near Trevi Fountain - plenty of great options

Yes, there are the touristy restaurants near Trevi Fountain, too.

But as we ran a boutique hotel at Piazza Barberini, 5-minutes' walk to the Trevi Fountain, we became very well-acquainted with, and quite the experts on the many places to eat in this area. 

• Family-run Roman trattorias
• Italian restaurants, but with a twist
• Pizza
• Upscale dining
• And a few extra spots I recommend (a beer hall, a deli, and gelato!)

Surprisingly local restaurants near Trevi Fountain

Looking for some really local Roman restaurants near Trevi Fountain, that aren't over-priced, and offer delicious, authentic Roman food?

Believe it or not, there are quite a few excellent options:

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Piccolo Arancio

Piccolo Arancio is one of my go-to restaurants near Trevi Fountain, actually one of my faves all around.

They are located on a quiet little street just minutes' walk from the Trevi Fountain.

Mara and Carlo, the owners, are there nearly every night.

The staff is gracious and helpful.

You will find plenty of choices on the menu (pasta, meat, fish) but don't let it overwhelm you.

Everything is good. 

I love any of their fried appetisers such as fried zucchini flowers and fried baccalà (codfish); seafood, including their smoked swordfish appetizer, clams and mussels sauté, and octopus salad; and all their pastas, especially a recent spaghetti with anchovies and pecorino I had.

I usually can't make it to dessert, but once in a while I indulge...and I will say their homemade panna cotta is divine.

• Address: Vicolo Scanderbeg, 112
• Phone: +39 06 678 6139
• Hours: Tuesday - Sunday: 12 - 3:30 PM, 6:30 - Midnight | Monday closed
  
• Reservations recommended for dinner
  
• They do have a few tables outside

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Sora Lucia

Sora Lucia is one of the few really Roman restaurants near Trevi Fountain. 

It is family-run, there is no tourist menu, and the food is simple and lovely.

The specials of the day are written on a chalkboard and they are usually worth investigating.

You will find most classic Roman fare here, such as cacio e pepe, amatriciana, carbonara (all pastas), and usually typical (simple) meat and vegetable dishes, always fresh and homemade.

I love their vegetable display and my personal choice it to just get a platter with a bunch of them all!

Their desserts, which change daily, are also homemade and excellent. 

• Address: Via Rasella, 138
• Phone: +39 06 679 4078
• Email: ristorantesoralucia@gmail.com
• Hours: Tuesday - Sunday: 12:30 - 3 PM, 6:30 - 11 PM | Monday closed
  
• Reservations recommended
  
• No outside dining (actually in summer I've seen a few tables they stick outside, but it's not really set up for that and is a bit ad hoc)

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Hostaria Romana

Hostaria Romana is another local favorite, and not just of mine. 

It's actually pretty difficult to get a reservation here, because it's full of Romans!

If you go on the early side (7:30pm when they open), you may stand a better chance.

But it's best to just book.

They serve all the typical Roman dishes here, but also have a really nice antipasto bar (I often make that my meal.) 

The service is friendly and consistent, and the ambiance is a bit chaotic and cramped but cozy and warm.

The pasta comes in big comfort-food-sized bowls (the above photo is of a half-sized portion I ordered, which is why it's not in the fun, deep bowl.)

I typically get pasta here but everything is good.

One favorite dish of my uncle's is straciatella soup, and they do it nicely here.

• Address: via del Boccaccio, 1
• Phone: +39 06 474 5284
• Hours: Monday: 7:30 - 11 PM | Tuesday - Saturday: 12:30 - 3 PM, 7:15 - 11 PM | Sunday closed
• No outside dining
  

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Trattoria della Stampa

Trattoria della Stampa seems like it belongs in a local Roman neighborhood, not smack in the center of Rome.

It's easily one of the most overlooked restaurants near Trevi Fountain, but if you want simple, traditional Roman fare, this is it.

There is a menu posted to the doorframe outside, but ignore it.

When you sit down, the daughter will come and tell you what they have that day. 

It will be very plain, but it will be homemade, on the spot, and wonderful.

They go to the market every day, and get what they get.

You can count on real "home cooking" here, and very fair prices, considering where you are.

• Address: via dei Maroniti, 32
• Phone: +39 0689018741
  
• Hours: Monday - Sunday: 12 - 10:30 PM
  
• No outside dining
  

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Restaurants Near Trevi Fountain - Italian, but with a twist!

The below are all among my favorite restaurants near Trevi Fountain.

They are Italian without a doubt, but definitely not Roman, or at least not serving exclusively Roman food.

In some cases, and where I note it, the food is from another region.

In others, the restaurants strive to offer something more.

At most of these restaurants near Trevi Fountain, you will find a section of the menu called something like "Roman specialities", with items such as carbonara, amatriciana, etc.

But if you really want those dishes, I'd suggest some of the more local restaurants I mention in the first section, and instead, at the below restaurants, try something different, new, or more typical of that restaurant.

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Colline Emiliane

Colline Emiliane is considered by many to be one of the top restaurants in Rome, and it's one of the best among the restaurants near Trevi Fountain. 

Their specialty is food from the Emilia Romagna region of Italy (as I've said on other pages, Italian food is all regional, and many Italians will tell you that the Emilia Romagna region has some of the best cuisine in Italy.)

This is the place to come for stuffed pastas like tortellini soup or pumpkin ravioli (sublime.) 

And if you are looking for "spaghetti bolognese", which is NOT an Italian dish, you want to come here and order their sublime fettucine al ragù, which IS in fact what you want.

Typical appetisers from the Emilia Romagna region include cold cuts, such as mortadella, culatello, and prosciutto.

If you love these, get them here. 

Meats are also front and centre with this cuisine.

On the menu, they are listed as "boiled meats", but don't let that turn you off.

And if you really want some serious comfort food, and have an appetite, don't miss the slow-cooked veal stew with mashed potatoes.

You won't find anything like this elsewhere in Rome.

• Address: via degli Avignonesi, 22
• Phone: +39 06 481 7538
• Hours: Tuesday - Saturday: 12:45 - 2:45 PM, 7:30  - 10:45 PM | Monday & Sunday closed
  
• No outside seating

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il Chianti

Il Chianti is one of the few restaurants near Trevi Fountain I can recommend that have outdoor seating.

They specialise in Tuscan food (as you might have guessed from the name), although they have Roman specialties too.

But I'd get their antipasto plate, which comes with nice Tuscan cold cuts and cheeses.

And if you really want to stay in the Tuscan theme, try the pappardelle al ragù di cinghiale, (long, flat pasta with boar sauce), or a nice ribollita (vegetable bean soup) and possibly a chianina steak or rabbit alla cacciatora if you are a meat-eater.

• Address: via del Lavatore, 81
• Phone: +39 06 678 7550
• Hours: Monday - Sunday: 12 PM - 1 AM

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Baccano

Baccano is one of the newest restaurants near Trevi Fountain.

It sprang up a few years ago, inside a large space where an old bank used to be.

So it's got this huge, vault-like main room, with very high ceilings and big glass windows all around.

The first few times I walked by it, I thought, that looks like something from New York, or maybe Paris: a cross between a modern American bistro, and an old-fashioned French brasserie.

And in a way, it is.

But it's also Roman.

We discovered they were open daily, until late, and sent some of our hotel guests there for New Year's eve...and they raved.

Then my husband and I both tried it, and we just loved it.

And I've been eating there a lot since.

The ambiance is fun but most importantly, the food is fantastic: fresh, innovative, well-presented and just well-prepared.

You can get superb Roman food (and I do recommend it, they have some of the best carbonara in Rome), but you can also get foie gras, big juicy burgers and fries, and a chicken caesar salad (very un-Roman, but sometimes you just want a big Caesar salad.)

Another thing that is great about it is this: It's open daily, all day long, with different offerings at different times.

So during breakfast time, you get a breakfast menu, and then somewhere along the way it turns into time for the brunch menu, eventually morphing into lunch-time and a lunch menu.

And from about 5pm, there is happy hour and the oyster bar.

Eventually you will find the dinner menu, and there is even a late-night menu.

Literally, something for everyone, but also something for every time!

• Address: Via delle Muratte, 23
• Phone: +39 06 6994 1166
• Hours: Monday - Sunday: 12 PM - Midnight

There are a few tables outside, but I think the inside ambiance is much nicer.

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Restaurants Near Trevi Fountain - Pizza

I get asked a lot where to eat pizza near the Trevi Fountain.

Frankly, this is just not the neighborhood for it.

Rome has certain areas that are known for pizza and this is not one of them.

But, I do know of just a few good pizza restaurants near Trevi Fountain, so here you go:

• Il Chianti, above, also has pizza, and it's quite good.
• If you go to the end of via del Lavatore, and cross over the big road, and start walking up via degli Avignonesi, there is Olimpio, which makes very simple and inexpensive pizzas, which are ok.
  
• On via del Lavatore is Piccolo Bucco. That means "small hole" and that's pretty much what it is. A very tiny space. The pizzas are good although not my fave as the crust is really high. Thanks to social media, it always has a long wait to get in.

Upscale Restaurants Near Trevi Fountain

Do you want a special or romantic meal out in Rome's center?

These restaurants near Trevi Fountain offer lovely, subdued ambiance, but more importantly, amazing food.

Crispi19

Crispi19 is one of my absolute favorite seafood restaurants in Rome.

And definitely one of the best overall restaurants near Trevi Fountain.

The chef has taken culinary creativeness to a new level, and it all works beautifully.

Crispi19. An elegant downtown fish restaurant, with wainscoting and whitewashed walls, offers a menu balanced between the curated raw selections and the most popular roman seafood plates.

There are a very few items on the menu that are not seafood, so just in case someone in your party does not want seafood, you will find a limited, but wonderful selection of non-seafood items as well.

But if you are a seafood lover, Crispi19 is a must.

The fish is fresh, and very beautifully prepared, so be prepared to pay more.

Dinner without wine will likely be around 40-60 Euros per person.

• Address: via Francesco Crispi, 19
• Phone: +39 06 67 85 904
• Hours: Wednesday - Monday: 12:45 - 2:30 PM, 7 - 10:15 PM | Tuesday closed
  
• Open all through the Christmas holidays and most of August
• No outdoor dining.

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Moma

If you want someplace special for dinner, right in the historic center of Rome, try Moma.

This, along with Crispi19 above, is one of the best restaurants near Trevi Fountain.

The young Roman chef is really good at innovation, and takes Italian food to new levels of beauty and creativity.

I love the serene, quiet ambiance, the very friendly, professional service, but most of all, I love the food at Moma.

First, the bread "basket" is the best I've ever found in Rome, with everything made in house.

There is a delicious variety of breads, even including Sardianian flat bread.

Then, you get a fun selection of inventive amuse-bouches, all on the house.

Even the simplest dishes of pasta, fish and meat are innovative, in taste and in presentation.

After dinner, even when you think you don't have room for dessert, you will still be presented with the prettiest, most delectable little plate of micro-desserts...it's hard to know which one I like the most so I just have them all!

• Address: Via San Basilio, 42
• Phone: +39 06 4201 1798
• Hours: Monday - Saturday: 12:30 - 3 PM, 7:30 - 11 PM | Sunday closed
  
• There is also an outdoor space, for drinks or dining, and a very small bar on street level, nice for a coffee, or a very affordable drink/happy hour
  
• The restaurant is upstairs (or outside)

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il Falchetto

I found out about il Falchetto when my parents were here visiting.

A Roman colleague of my dad's had highly recommended it to him, even though it had been a while since said colleague actually lived in Rome.

But this person raved to my dad and said he had to try the tagolilini al limone.

So off we went.

As it turned out, they do not make this dish any more.

But upon hearing the story, and why we were there, they offered to make it for him.

The rest of us had other Roman dishes. Everything, including, and perhaps especially, the tagliolini al limone, was fantastic.

I suppose I should not be recommending the above dish, since it's off the menu, but I did want to point out how gracious they were about it.

I've eaten at Il Falchetto quite a lot and have sent many of our guests there. I love it and so do they.

The traditional Roman dishes, such as artichokes alla Romana, spaghetti carbonara or amatriciana, are all good, but so are their other dishes. 

• Address: Via dei Montecatini, 12
• Phone: +39 06 679 1160
• Hours: Monday - Sunday: 12 - 11 PM
  
• Outdoor seating available

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Other places to eat near the Trevi Fountain in Rome

Birreria Peroni

Birreria Peroni is a casual, inexpensive beer hall near the Trevi Fountain.

They have excellent grilled meats, and their specialities include all manner of wurstel and other sausages...perfect for washing down with their other specialty, beer.

They also serve basic Roman food (fried appetizers, pasta etc.)

Eating here feels like going back a bit in time, as Birreria Peroni is one of the oldest restaurants near Trevi Fountain. It's been around since 1906.

• Address: Via san Marcello 19
• Phone: +39 06 679 5310
• Hours: Monday - Saturday: 12 PM - Midnight | Sunday closed
• No outdoor seating

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Salumeria Fratelli Ciavatta

Salumeria F.lli Ciavatta is not so much a place to eat near the Trevi Fountain as it is a wonderful old-fashioned deli (In Italian, it's called an alimentare, meaning grocery, or salumeria, meaning a place to buy cold cuts.)

Look on either side of this place when you walk down via del Lavatore towards the Trevi Fountain.

It is chock-a-block with garish tourist shops.

But Salumeria Fratelli Ciavatta stands out.

You can see it's from another time.

Indeed, it's one of the last holdouts of local shops near the Trevi Fountain, and has been there since 1956.

This is a great place to get some special foods to take back home (a great choice for gift as well) : vacuum-sealed cheeses, dried pastas (the good stuff, not the touristy stuff), balsamic vinegars (they even have the real thing, which is over 100 Euros an ounce.)

They will also make you a fresh sandwich if you like. And the best part?

They are friendly and helpful.

• Address: Via del Lavatore 31
• Phone: +39 06 679 2935
• Hours: Monday - Saturday: 8 AM - 8 PM | Sunday closed

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Gelateria san Crispino

There are a lot of gelaterias near the Trevi Fountain.

And while none of them are among my favorite gelato in Rome, the best one in the area is San Crispino. 

The flavors are simple, mostly natural and delicious.

And the best part?

The fresh whipped cream!

• Address: Via della Panetteria, 42
• Phone: +39 06 6948 9518
• Hours: Monday - Sunday: 11 AM - 12:30 AM
  

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Restaurants Near Trevi Fountain - a map

I've given address and directions to each of the above restaurants near Trevi Fountain.

But just in case, here is a map with all of them.

It opens in a new window.

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