jltraveler

My wife and I are traveling to Rome in 3 days. She is pregnant and now craving egg mcmuffins from McDonalds-nothing else will do. I found a listing of a few of the McDonalds sites in the city, but 2 are somewhat vague: Via del Corso and Via Nazionale. Does anyone know the cross-streets for these two locations or any other locations? I already go the ones in P. di Spagna, P. della Rotonda, and P. Barberini. Thanks in advance from my wife and I!

Scarlett

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34643236

Here is your thread that has already been posted and answered!

rex

I'm guessing that jltraveler didn't actually expect any answers "there" once he realized that he had made the mistake of posting this question on the US forum.

Yet another casualty of Fodors' failure to instruct new registrants to "click on your own name"?

You couldn't ask for easier to find locations than Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Steps) or Piazza della Rotonda (Pantheon) - - unless your hotel is in the middle of nowhere. Perhaps worthwhile to share its name/location with us?

Best wishes,

Rex

cigalechanta

I don't know about Italy, but most McDonalds in France are smoke free. A good thing for a pregnant woman

Patrick

I've not indulged myself there, but it's hard to imagine a MacDonald's with a more dramatic setting than the one on the piazza facing the Pantheon, with outdoor tables if I recall, also.

LoveItaly

Hi Mimi, all inside businesses are now smoke free in Italy. Smoking is only allowed outside. Take care.

cigalechanta

Thanks loveitaly.
jltraveler, I gave you locations andmy post was removed. Trying again.

McDonalds have about twenty joints all around town now. They first opened here about fifteen years ago with a place in Piazza Di Spagna. At that time Rome city council was very suspicious of the whole idea, so they specified to MacDonalds that they had to build a restaurant which was in character with the historical architecture and culture of the area, both inside and out.

McDonalds responded by building the most bizarre McD's restaurant you'll ever see - The facade is very low key, not the familiar red and yellow corporate colors, but gold lettering on dark grey marble, so it's difficult to spot at first. Inside, you'll find mock-marble replica fountains, real terra-cotta brickwork, fresco murals, salad bars and displays of fresh fruit in wooden barrows similar to those in Campo dei Fiori.

Other branches added later around other districts of Rome are more conventional in appearance. Although there's now a McDonalds in every far-flung suburb of Rome, the main locations you'll need as a tourist in the central Rome area are at:

Piazza Di Spagna
Via del Corso
Piazza Barberini
Via Nazionale
Piazza della Repubblica
Piazza della Rotonda (opposite the Pantheon)
Piazza Sidney Sonnino (in Trastevere)
(tell 'em Sid sent ya!)

There's also one at the beach at Ostia Lido.

That concludes Romebuddy's gastronomic tour of Rome for now. Let us know if you find anyplace else that's good value for money, as we in the free democratic west would define that term.

Happy pigging...


this is by romebuddy.com

AAFrequentFlyer

<b>http://www.mcdonalds.it/risultato.asp?citta=roma</b>

hester

If I remember correctly there is a McDonalds at the Termini. My daughter also had a craving for a McDonalds hamburger when we were in Rome.

alya

cigalechanta

I have to admit I like the McD frontage near Faueuil Hall, it was the first I saw that wasn't 'corporate colors'

alya

Whoops, before the 'spelling police' attack me, I did mean Faneuil Hall