Looking for modest price eating recommendations in Trastevere
Nov 28th, 2008, 09:07 AM
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Looking for modest price eating recommendations in Trastevere
OK I'm sure there are some here somewhere.
But you all know how rotten the search function is. And with the pound so poorly at present, saving a few lire is really helpful.
So is there anywhere in Trastevere Mrs F and I can get a decent supper for less than €40 a head? Preferably cucina romana.
But you all know how rotten the search function is. And with the pound so poorly at present, saving a few lire is really helpful.
So is there anywhere in Trastevere Mrs F and I can get a decent supper for less than €40 a head? Preferably cucina romana.
Nov 28th, 2008, 09:13 AM
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PS:
"Less than 40" doesn't have to mean 39.99.
If there's still anywhere with paper tablecloths, noisy atmosphere, lots of pasta e ceci and the kind of wine you used to drink at really crap parties for €15 a head, we'll not turn our Roman noses up at it.
"Less than 40" doesn't have to mean 39.99.
If there's still anywhere with paper tablecloths, noisy atmosphere, lots of pasta e ceci and the kind of wine you used to drink at really crap parties for €15 a head, we'll not turn our Roman noses up at it.
Nov 28th, 2008, 10:02 AM
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Greeting, Flanner:
Ah, a fitting way to celebrate the day after we have commemorated the 1621 dinner party your esteemed English ancestors (Myles Standish, John Alden, Maid Priscilla and that crowd)enjoyed with our local peaceful American Indians; Massasoit, Samoset, Squanto and 90 of their closest Wampanoag friends and family. Some banquet, indeed.
Having come from England, the new colonists never had tasted such delicious food as prepared by the Wampanoag maidens and mavens.
So, now you want a suggestion for a reasonably priced mom and pop in Trastevere. As stated above, on this day your request is fitting and proper.
***We enjoyed a delightful supper at a small, colorful trattoria...
"Alle Viale de la Trastevere"..
on the street of the same name, corner of Via San Franceso.
My journal reports that we had small salads, saltambuco, fettucini and porcini, two glasses of wine... for dessert an almond flavored torte with rasperry sauce, big enough for two.
My recorded cost was € 38 for TWO. This was two years ago.
I'm sure you'll find the Romans therein to be every bit as gracious toward UK'ers as were Massasoit and his people in 1621.
Enjoy, just as I thoroughly enoy all of your insightful postings!
Here's to many more centuries of healthy relations between our two nations, as fostered on that cold Massachusetts day nearly 400 years ago.(Yes, I was born and raised just a few miles from "Plimouth Plantation"
stu t.
Ah, a fitting way to celebrate the day after we have commemorated the 1621 dinner party your esteemed English ancestors (Myles Standish, John Alden, Maid Priscilla and that crowd)enjoyed with our local peaceful American Indians; Massasoit, Samoset, Squanto and 90 of their closest Wampanoag friends and family. Some banquet, indeed.
Having come from England, the new colonists never had tasted such delicious food as prepared by the Wampanoag maidens and mavens.
So, now you want a suggestion for a reasonably priced mom and pop in Trastevere. As stated above, on this day your request is fitting and proper.
***We enjoyed a delightful supper at a small, colorful trattoria...
"Alle Viale de la Trastevere"..
on the street of the same name, corner of Via San Franceso.
My journal reports that we had small salads, saltambuco, fettucini and porcini, two glasses of wine... for dessert an almond flavored torte with rasperry sauce, big enough for two.
My recorded cost was € 38 for TWO. This was two years ago.
I'm sure you'll find the Romans therein to be every bit as gracious toward UK'ers as were Massasoit and his people in 1621.
Enjoy, just as I thoroughly enoy all of your insightful postings!
Here's to many more centuries of healthy relations between our two nations, as fostered on that cold Massachusetts day nearly 400 years ago.(Yes, I was born and raised just a few miles from "Plimouth Plantation"
stu t.
Nov 28th, 2008, 09:42 PM
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Well, they were unlikely to have been my ancestors: there's scarcely a single English contribution to the flanner 99.999% Irish gene pool.
If we really can get porcini for €38, it'll be a mireacle, the price they're asking for them all over Rome right now.
But I'll pop over to Via San Francesco this afternoon and check it out.
Many thanks.
If we really can get porcini for €38, it'll be a mireacle, the price they're asking for them all over Rome right now.
But I'll pop over to Via San Francesco this afternoon and check it out.
Many thanks.
Nov 29th, 2008, 06:54 AM
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flanner:
>>>Well, they were unlikely to have been my ancestors: there's scarcely a single English contribution to the flanner 99.999% Irish gene pool.<<<
Dam, another of my wild assumptions gone wrong! Bless you, my son, for your grand old Irish gene pool....
at any rate, hope you're having a grand time in Roma...
stu
>>>Well, they were unlikely to have been my ancestors: there's scarcely a single English contribution to the flanner 99.999% Irish gene pool.<<<
Dam, another of my wild assumptions gone wrong! Bless you, my son, for your grand old Irish gene pool....
at any rate, hope you're having a grand time in Roma...
stu
Nov 29th, 2008, 08:20 AM
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an old thread with Trastevere restaurant suggestions
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=35031888
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=35031888
Nov 29th, 2008, 05:20 PM
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We loved Lemani in Pasta www.lemaniinpasta.com. Via dei Genovesi, 37 tel. 06.581 6017 Closed Monday. It’s a very small, casual place with excellent, fresh food, lovingly prepared. The menu is all in Italian and the waiters are quite helpful and friendly although not much English is spoken here. The people eating there were mostly locals. (no outdoor seating.)
We also had a fabulous meal at Popi-Popi, Via delle Fratte di Trastevere, 45. They have a big outdoor dining area and there were lots of Roman families dining together at 10:00PM. Great pizza, fried artichoke and the best tiramisu I've ever eaten anywhere.
We also had a fabulous meal at Popi-Popi, Via delle Fratte di Trastevere, 45. They have a big outdoor dining area and there were lots of Roman families dining together at 10:00PM. Great pizza, fried artichoke and the best tiramisu I've ever eaten anywhere.
Dec 2nd, 2008, 01:17 AM
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Thank you all for taking the trouble to reply.
Eventually, Mrs F found, among the interminable streams of consciousness in the logbooks of the flat we were staying in, a recommendation that seemed to suit us perfectly.
Da Augusto in the minuscule Piazza de' Renzi off Via delle Pelliccia (not marked on many Roman street plans, and not to be confused with Piazza di Rienzo a km north) may be many people's idea of hell.
No booking, and something of an "I know: let's go over to Trastevere and see if we can get in" institution among thirtysomething Romans, it opens at precisely 2000 and on Saturdays at least it's full by 2001. Queueing starts around 1945: tables start coming free again from around 2050.
Paper table cloths, and ostensibly run by three youngish women, it's the sort of place you expect to be run by one of those middle-aged male "characters" you often find trying to make a go of an English country pub, but mercifully isn't. You're given a choice of 3-4 primi, then, after you've eaten your primi, you're offered a choice of half a dozen secondi, as is all too rare in Italy these days.
Essentially, the food you'd eat at home if you were a good but by no means outstanding cook. Truly awful tiramisu, says Mrs F, but who wastes time on puddings in Italy anyway? Cheese helpings immense: the first time in recorded history I've left a plate of Parmesan unfinished. There is posh wine available, but everyone drinks the rotgut: both our table of two and the one next to us got through a litre each without noticing. Excellent bread - something I thought Italian restaurateurs got their passports taken away for.
A bit of a grownup student hangout, it served copious amounts of authentic, enjoyable food in a terrific atmosphere and will never get within a light year of Michelin. About €40 for three courses for two with rather more wine than my doctor would approve. Whatever Gault and Millau may say, it's 19/20 in my book
Since getting lost on the way is virtually certain, high likelihood you'll stumble over Santa Maria in Trastevere, one of the many places I'd never been to before. Stays open late, and on a cold wet night, its exterior mosaics look glorious, especially if you weren't expecting them. Sadly, the chapel of Henry, Cardinal Stuart - the last Pretender to the English (and, says his coat of arms over the door, French) throne - is closed, but the interior mosaics by Cavallini, when illuminated, are even more spectacular on a really dark and wintry evening.
Eventually, Mrs F found, among the interminable streams of consciousness in the logbooks of the flat we were staying in, a recommendation that seemed to suit us perfectly.
Da Augusto in the minuscule Piazza de' Renzi off Via delle Pelliccia (not marked on many Roman street plans, and not to be confused with Piazza di Rienzo a km north) may be many people's idea of hell.
No booking, and something of an "I know: let's go over to Trastevere and see if we can get in" institution among thirtysomething Romans, it opens at precisely 2000 and on Saturdays at least it's full by 2001. Queueing starts around 1945: tables start coming free again from around 2050.
Paper table cloths, and ostensibly run by three youngish women, it's the sort of place you expect to be run by one of those middle-aged male "characters" you often find trying to make a go of an English country pub, but mercifully isn't. You're given a choice of 3-4 primi, then, after you've eaten your primi, you're offered a choice of half a dozen secondi, as is all too rare in Italy these days.
Essentially, the food you'd eat at home if you were a good but by no means outstanding cook. Truly awful tiramisu, says Mrs F, but who wastes time on puddings in Italy anyway? Cheese helpings immense: the first time in recorded history I've left a plate of Parmesan unfinished. There is posh wine available, but everyone drinks the rotgut: both our table of two and the one next to us got through a litre each without noticing. Excellent bread - something I thought Italian restaurateurs got their passports taken away for.
A bit of a grownup student hangout, it served copious amounts of authentic, enjoyable food in a terrific atmosphere and will never get within a light year of Michelin. About €40 for three courses for two with rather more wine than my doctor would approve. Whatever Gault and Millau may say, it's 19/20 in my book
Since getting lost on the way is virtually certain, high likelihood you'll stumble over Santa Maria in Trastevere, one of the many places I'd never been to before. Stays open late, and on a cold wet night, its exterior mosaics look glorious, especially if you weren't expecting them. Sadly, the chapel of Henry, Cardinal Stuart - the last Pretender to the English (and, says his coat of arms over the door, French) throne - is closed, but the interior mosaics by Cavallini, when illuminated, are even more spectacular on a really dark and wintry evening.
Dec 2nd, 2008, 04:37 AM
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Thanks Flanner, I have printed out parts of your "review" and filed it for future use.
"copious amounts of authentic, enjoyable food in a terrific atmosphere" - sounds almost perfect.
"copious amounts of authentic, enjoyable food in a terrific atmosphere" - sounds almost perfect.
Dec 2nd, 2008, 04:55 AM
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Here's a review (with phone numbers) of Da Augusto and Cassetta di Trastevere (on the same piazza) from the Guardian. I haven't been to Da Augusto, but did enjoy Cassetta di Trastevere.
Da Augusto/Cassetta
There are no frills at Augusto - you have to share a table with strangers, there's only house wine available, and the bill is scrawled on the tablecloth by a rushed waitress - but the food is great and punters flock here from all over the city for proper Roman nosh.
Cassetta lacks the charm and history of Da Augusto, but the food is similarly authentic and (whisper it) even better. Both places are amazingly cheap.
· Da Augusto, Piazza de Renzi 15 (+6 580 3798). Casetta de' Trastevere, Piazza de Renzi 31 (+6 580 0158).
Da Augusto/Cassetta
There are no frills at Augusto - you have to share a table with strangers, there's only house wine available, and the bill is scrawled on the tablecloth by a rushed waitress - but the food is great and punters flock here from all over the city for proper Roman nosh.
Cassetta lacks the charm and history of Da Augusto, but the food is similarly authentic and (whisper it) even better. Both places are amazingly cheap.
· Da Augusto, Piazza de Renzi 15 (+6 580 3798). Casetta de' Trastevere, Piazza de Renzi 31 (+6 580 0158).
Dec 2nd, 2008, 05:14 AM
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Ignore Da Augusto's phone number.
They MIGHT help you find the place if you're lost. But no-one, they claim, is allowed to book. Ever.
Even though they've clearly started going upmarket since the review kybourbon quotes, since they now will, if you ask them very nicely, find posh wine in bottles if the stuff they pour out of their tap into carafes isn't quite your glass of vino rosso.
The rot's clearly started. There'll be grissini on the tables and printed menus soon. Get there quick before the designers move in.
They MIGHT help you find the place if you're lost. But no-one, they claim, is allowed to book. Ever.
Even though they've clearly started going upmarket since the review kybourbon quotes, since they now will, if you ask them very nicely, find posh wine in bottles if the stuff they pour out of their tap into carafes isn't quite your glass of vino rosso.
The rot's clearly started. There'll be grissini on the tables and printed menus soon. Get there quick before the designers move in.
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