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The best Ice Cream in Rome

the warm weather has arrived and is inevitable to mention the best Ice Cream in Rome.

This is the list of the best ‘Gelateria’ in Rome (in touristical areas)

Il Gelato di San Crispino (Via della Panetteria 42 - Trevi / Via Achaia 56 Appio Latino)
For a lot of people it is the best Ice cream in Rome! With two locations one in two steps from the Trevi Fountain, the other in Zone Appio Latino. Ice Cream 100% natural… tastes meringue!

Giolitti (Via Uffici del vicario , 40 - Navona)
A guarantee! Affollato of tourists and Italians it is an ice cream always on top.

Bartocci (Via Alessandria 145 - Porta Pia)
Close to Porta Pia… Viale Regina Margherita … and closte to my house! It is one of my favorite ice cream.
It isn’t in famous list…. because it is an ice cream from simple people … where you will find a lot tastes (try…bartoccioso
when me and my girlfriend go to take an ice cream … I take it from Bartocci …
and she take it at Gelateria dei Gracchi (the seat of Viale Regina Margherita!), just 100 mt distance.

Gelateria dei Gracchi (Via dei Gracchi 272 - St. Peter / Viale Regina Margherita, 212 Porta Pia)
Excellent, 100% natural. One of the best pistachios in Rome. Can an Ice Cream be snob?

La fonte della salute (Via Cardinal Marmaggi, 2 - Viale Trastevere)
One of the best address in the Trastevere area.

La Fata Morgana (Via Ostiense, 32 - Piramide)
One of the most award-winning ice-cream in Rome …. don’t expects to find the usual tastes .. not find them! 

Old Bridge (Graben Michelangelo 5 - San Pietro)
Close to P.za Risorgimento (San Pietro). The line is very long and sometimes more than 10 meters (all on the road).
The ice cream is among the largest of Rome …. but is not particularly good …  I do not like!

Two very famous address out of center:

Lanzalotto - Viale Somalia (front of Bingo )
Tony - Largo Missiroli Alberto, 13 (Circonvalazione Gianicolense)

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Vera, a Vegan girl in Rome

Today, I discovered the Vera’s blog, a girl from Naples, vegan (she doesn’t eating animal products or derivatives, including eggs and milk), that  wrote a very nice article about her 5 days holiday in Rome, with a great enthusiasm. A truly engaging story.

I do not know who she is, but she is nice, Vera’s Rome is so original, including milk shakes without milk,
organic shops, the delicacies of Taverna del Mossob (Eritrean restaurant at Via prenestina … absolutely unknown to me),
with mishaps his friend Nico, the mini statues of Celidonia, lunch at Govinda the Hare Krishna restaurant
a stone’s throw from the ghetto, dinner at Sciam the disappointing Syrian restaurant in Via del pellegrino.
Vera tells a different Rome that probably we cannot find in any city guide.

The story of the journey to Rome from the pages of blog Vera
(Italian Language) - (English Translation By Google)

Organic shop?! The Friars’ Vegetable Garden!

In Rome there are more than 2000 holiday apartments and bed and breakfast … so a lot of tourists have a kitchen and need to buy food and vegetables!

The are a lot of Supermarket and in Campo De’ Fiori there is the most famous market for fruit and vegetables… could be ok, but…

…If you are looking for a special place you have to go to the ‘Orto of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme’ (Vegetables garden of Basilica of Santa Croce), you can buy directly from the Friars… the most organic vegetables in Rome!

The vegetable shop is in Piazza Santa Croce in Gerusalemme.

Opening hours for the sale to the public: :

Tuesday: from 16 to 18
Wednesday: 16 to 18
Friday: from 16 to 18
Saturday: from 10 to 12
Address: Piazza Santa Croce in Gerusalemme (right of the Basilica)Further information on the website of the Basilica:
http://www.basilicasantacroce.com

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The best Pizzerias. Traditional Roman style.

Rome is one of the capitals of pizza, and there is a Roman style!
True ‘Roman’ is thin or very thin  without borders and well cooked…. Very different from that proposed by the Neapolitan tradition and with soft edges well in relief.
Only in Rome you can taste the real Roman pizza always cooked in a wood oven!

Roman Pizza Classic
The real best addresses in town:

Montecarlo - Vicolo Savelli 13 (Navona) Via Alessandria, 106 (Porta Pia)
One of the best pizza in Rome…. Wooden tables side by side….  You can try the good traditional roman pastas  (Cacio e Pepe, Matriciana, Gricia…) and fried plates (Supplì, fiori di zucca…). Also open for lunch.

Ai Marmi  (alias Panattoni… the alias obitorio) - Viale Trastevere 53 (Trastevere)
If at Montecarlo there isn’t  privacy, at Marmi people eats one above the other! If  you what  a romantic dinner is not the place for you.
If you want the best pizza in Rome come here… marble tables that have at least 50 years ( ‘For the Marbles’… is known by the name of obitory precisely!), No tablecloth, waiters quickly, glasses of the century (and sees)…. Very good food, reasonable prices. There is always a line, but usually it is very fast.

Giacomelli - Via E. Faà Bruno 25 (Mazzini Meadows)
A well-known historical pizzeria. All of excellent quality and ability to choose the extent of pizza between small, medium and large…. Also excellent pastas. If you are close to Mazzini area it is  probably your best choice.

Baffetto - Via del Governo Vecchio 114 (Navona)
Excellent pizzera very popular among tourists who prefer to Montecarlo. The two pizzerias  are very similar to each other and perhaps there is a relationship between the owners… both excellent.

Nuovo Mondo - Via Amerigo Vespucci 15 (Testaccio)
Of all perhaps is the least famous pizzeria… a unique… similar to Marmi but possibly even more ugly! They eat less than 15 euros, forget the tablecloth… the classic place where once the account were writing on the table.

Remo - Piazza Santa Maria Liberatrice 44 (Testaccio)
Other address in Testaccio  loved by tourists. More or less a brother of Montecarlo and Nuovo mondo … an excellent pizza at reasonable prices.

Berninetta-Via P. Cavallini 14 (Piazza Cavour)
A good address if you are close to  Piazza Cavour, for an audience that wants a formal service.

Giggetto - Il Re della Pizza - Via Alessandria 43 (Porta Pia)
One of the most famous pizza in Rome. A classic good service.
The pizza is very good, without being better than Montecarlo (just 200 mt in Via Alessandria), prices are a little bit expansive and the environment is decidedly more formal. The most crowded pizzeria in the area.

L’Isola della Pizza- Via degli Scipioni 45 (St. Peter)
It is not known as the best pizza in Rome… because it is not! But  our  list haven’t an address close to Vatican.
L’Isola is a very good and  fun pizzeria! When you arrive you will receive a lot of  starters of all types… Pizza? It also is very good!

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