Smoked by AI · Rome
The people.
The chefs, critics and writers and bar people, owners and locals whose picks shape the Rome list, grouped by what they do for a living. Every name is a real person with a public track record, and each one appears against a room only where they endorsed that room themselves.
Chefs 20Critics and writers 13Bar people, owners and locals 6
Chefs.
Chefs cook for a living, and a chef who sends you to somebody else's room is putting their own name on it.
- Sarah CicoliniChef9 picks
Roman cooking and the quinto quarto in Rome. Offal, tripe and carbonara, cooked with the Abruzzese hand she brought to them.
- Gabriele GervasiChef4 picks
Contemporary Italian cooking in Rome; the Roman classics as a working chef eats them.
- Marco RadicioniChef3 picks
Gelato, and Roman pizza as an obsessive eater of it.
- Igles CorelliChef2 picks
Italian fine dining and cooking over fire.
- Arcangelo DandiniChef1 pick
Traditional Roman cooking and the supplì.
- Bobby FlayChef1 pick
Where an American chef eats in Rome.
- Davide Del DucaChef1 pick
Contemporary Roman cooking.
- Giada De LaurentiisChef1 pick
Italian cooking, and the Strip restaurant.
- Sara JenkinsChef1 pick
Tuscan and Roman cooking; the old Roman dining rooms she grew up eating in.
- Stefano CallegariChef1 pick
Roman pizza and the trapizzino.
- Andrea AntoniniChefno picks on this list yet
Contemporary Italian fine dining in a Rome hotel kitchen.
- Antonio ZiantoniChefno picks on this list yet
Contemporary Italian fine dining.
- Cristina BowermanChefno picks on this list yet
Contemporary Italian cooking.
- Francesca BarrecaChefno picks on this list yet
Roman trattoria cooking, reworked.
- Gabriele Di LecceChefno picks on this list yet
Seafood cooking over the grill.
- Gianfranco PascucciChefno picks on this list yet
Seafood cooking on the Roman coast.
- Marco BaccanelliChefno picks on this list yet
Roman trattoria cooking, reworked.
- Marco GallottaChefno picks on this list yet
Contemporary Roman cooking.
- Roy CaceresChefno picks on this list yet
Contemporary fine dining.
- Tiziano PalucciChefno picks on this list yet
Contemporary Roman cooking at Barred, the San Giovanni restaurant he runs with his brother.
Critics and writers.
Critics ate the meal, wrote it up under their own name, and the review is linked so you can read it yourself.
- Katie ParlaOwner / operator12 picks
Rome first, then the southern Italian mainland and the islands. Food history and how a regional cuisine came to be what it is.
- Lavinia MartiniJournalist3 picks
Rome openings, terraces and the city's food news.
- Anna TortoraCritic1 pick
New Rome openings and hotel terraces: what is on the plate, what it costs, the wine list.
- Daniela PersicoCritic1 pick
Rome's historic cafés and bars: the pastry counter, the aperitivo, the service and the bill.
- Floriana BaroneJournalist1 pick
Rome's historic forni: who runs them, what they bake and with what.
- Gilles PudlowskiCritic1 pick
Cafés and restaurants he visits in Rome, from a French critic's notebook.
- Glenn BelverioCreator1 pick
One regular's view of the Locarno bar and its drinks.
- Laura ItzkowitzAuthor1 pick
Where to eat and drink by Rome neighbourhood, Piazza del Popolo and Flaminio first.
- Luca PucciJournalist1 pick
Rome's bars and bartenders: the house signatures and the people behind them.
- Pina SozioCritic1 pick
Rome's cocktail bars, gardens and terraces for aperitivo.
- Salvatore CosenzaJournalist1 pick
Rome's pizza al taglio, and the slice to order at each counter.
- Viola ParentelliJournalist1 pick
Rome openings, the chefs and owners behind them, and the city's neighbourhood eating, written for Puntarella Rossa.
- Rachel RoddyAuthorno picks on this list yet
Roman and southern Italian home cooking, written from a Testaccio kitchen. What a dish IS, how it is made, and which market stall it comes from.
Bar people, owners and locals.
Bartenders, owners and locals know the things a review misses, like where the trade actually drinks.
- Daria ReinaAuthor18 picks
Where a Roman tastemaker eats, drinks and buys: the trattorie she is a regular at, the quick-bite counters, the coffee bars and the rooftop aperitivi.
- Gianni OlimpoOwner / operator1 pick
Specialty coffee, and Roman pizza as a devoted eater of it.
- Leonardo LeuciBartender1 pick
Cocktails and the Roman bar trade.
- Ludovico BonaccorsiOwner1 pick
Where a working Italian restaurateur sends a friend in Rome: the bars and rooms a Roman would choose.
- Saku TuominenRestaurateur1 pick
Restaurants recommended across cities through the World of Mouth app he runs.
- Alessandro PiperoOwner / operatorno picks on this list yet
Dining-room service and the Roman restaurant trade.
Publications.
Cited sources rather than people — used when a piece carries no byline. Prefer the writer whenever there is one.
- Vincenzo Pagano3 cited
Rome and the Italian table, reviewed. Restaurants, pizzerias and the price of a plate.
- Puntarella Rossanothing cited on this list yet
Rome restaurants, trattorie, pizzerie, bakeries, gelaterie and wine bars, read neighbourhood by neighbourhood, plus the city's openings, closures and food arguments.