In the last days your wanderer explored for you the charming labyrinth of alleys round Piazza Navona: quarters Ponte and Parione, and these are the tempations you should give away to.
Where to eat and drink
BAR PASQUINO
Old City Center - Navona Via del Governo Vecchio, 79
Tel. 06.68802529
Open from Monday to Saturday until 02.00 a.m.
Average price for an aperitif, a glass of wine, a cheese or pork meats selection, a salad and a dessert: EURO 25
In one of the most typical street in Rome, with a nice outside space, for breakfast
you can taste a good variety of fresh pastries and croissants, with an excellent
coffee. At lunch there’s a huge selection of cold pastas, salads, stuffed pizzas,
sandwiches and filled rolls, changing every day and always fresh. In the afternoon
you can have a the or a tisane, with biscuits or slice of cake. But don’t forget
aperitif time, with nice cocktails, a very good wine list, all available by
glass, and cheese and ham pastries, cheese or pork meats dish, and various appetizers.
There’s also a good selection of champagne and shorts you can hardly find in
other bars, and of beers. (by Giovanna Specchio)
Old City Center - Navona Via del Governo Vecchio, 76
Tel. 06.68802108
Close on Wednesday
Covers 100
Average price excluding wine EURO 30
The owner is an antic dealer crazy for good cooking, and some years ago decided to started up this charming restaurant inside his antic shop. There are still traces of it in the well-trimmed forniture; even in the nice downstairs room, in which a beautiful ancient column, found during the renovation of the restaurant, still stands out. They make a tasty Roman cooking, and following the tradition, the menu changes some dishes according to the day of the week. There is also good argentine meat and fresh fish; but don’t
forget a good pizza. Pasta and desserts are all home made. The wine list chimes
well with the menu and is often updated.
(by Giovanna Specchio)
BLOOM
Old City Center - Navona
Via del Teatro Pace, 30
Tel. 06.68802029
Covers 70
Close on Sunday, open only in the evening.
Average price
excluding wine EURO 60
One of the
most beautiful places in Rome, deserving a visit even
only to the fantastic bar and the stair leading at
the sushi-bar, a strictly no-smoking area where you
can taste a huge variety of sashimi, sushi, rigiri
or the Bloom Special Selection, all made with very
fresh fish. At the restaurant you’ll find, for example,
an imperial prawns sautè with Colonnata lard and mashed
chick peas; dried salted cod salad with anet and steamed
stringbeans; trofiette (a kind of pasta) with pecan
nuts mush and larded ricotta cheese, basil and mint;
ostrich roulades with sautè endive and cherry tomatoes
sauce; chocolate demì soufflè with Grand Marnier sugared
pears. On Friday and Saturday, after dinner, you can
dance with the best italian and international dj. Monday
is “Bloomonday”, lounge party, and not only this, you
can do a charity work buying special t-shirts. On December,
in collaboration with the famous maison de champagne
Laurent-Perrier, there’ll be Chill Eat Chill Out, the
posh happy hour, and you ould taste little food tempatios
by the chef Luciano Tona, drinking a flûte of champagne
Laurent-Perrier, listening chill out music.(by Giovanna
Specchio)
BLOOM