One of the best keep secrets in Trastevere! Very friendly staff and a place where the local students hang out often. Very affordable and very delicious place to go. If you are in the area and need something to eat stop here because you will not regret it. First thing is.. Italians love to take their time eating and the waiters there don't push you out of the restaurant to flip the table like they do here in the states. With this in mind, you will have to flag down a waiter to get your order in or a refill. Don't get me wrong they do take care of you but there is a more laid back atmosphere in Italy so if you are in a rush this is not the place for you. That being said the food does take a bit to get to you but they do taste amazing. There is all kinds of stuff on the menu but my go to was the pizza with 3 meats?!? cant remember the name i just knew i liked it when i had it. Following that the pizza margarita is delicious as well. OMG OMG the artichoke is heavenly. I think this is an add on a pizza or you can just order as an appetizer. Now they don't do the cheese and crush red pepper in Italy or ranch so dont ask. Even tho this is a touristy area they do tend to have some 'cheese crumbs' but is not what Americans are used to in the states. If you ask for water they will bring you bottled water unless you ask for tap water. If you are not specific they will bring you sparkling water in a bottle. To avoid this you can just bring your own bottle and fill it up in one of the many flowing water spouts in the city. I drank this water all the time while i lived in Rome and this natural spring water is trusted So this place is spacious and they can accommodate large parties, just go you wont be sorry. read more

The service here was pretty meh. I wasn't happy with them shoving us into a very crowded area and having to sit by the spot where tons of people were walking by me... The result was me having to be shoved up against the table to avoid getting smacked by people walking by. It was uncomfortable to say the least. The food was also just meh. There's better in the area. read more

Carlo Menta - Pizza Near Me - Rome, RM

This was the most mediocre food I ever had in Italy and service was horribly rude. While it has over 18K Google reviews, it isn't good if you know authentic Roman food. It's probably popular with familes of tourists because the price of items is cheap, like €8 for spaghetti with red tomato sauce. Also the portions are quite small even for a primi. About the service: there are not any Italians working there, everyone is from Africa and India so hearing them speak Italian in their native tongue is bizzare! In a way it's very sad to me the warm Italian culture is lost here. They aren't very friendly and walk away if you have questions about menu items or allergies, which is disrespectful. They don't want to bother with catering to customer needs. Very transactional mentality at best. I'll give the establishment props however for being efficient about their system of getting people in and out quickly and up to the door to pay once the meal is finished. Ambiance is what lured me in with old World charm and has a lovely stone archway as a focal point of the interior dinning room and an intricate hand painted ceiling. Outside patio is a good size with heaters making it acceptable even on colder winter nights. There are so many restaurants in this quirky Trastavere neighborhood. If you want fast and cheap it will meet your needs. If you want great food and quality service, don't bother with it. My two cents. read more

Found this great spot while strolling through the neighborhood. Great food and excellent value with fantastic service. The food is not the best you'll find, but is very solid and is less crowded than some of the other nearby restaurants where sometimes you have to wait an hour to be seated. Strongly recommend check this place out if you're in the area and couldn't grab a table at one of the more busy restaurants nearby. read more

Carlo Menta - Pizza Near Me - Rome, RM

This restaurant in Trastevere was so affordable and tasty! We had pizza, salad, seafood pasta, and bread with olive oil. It was a great deal, and the outdoor seating was nice. read more

Carlo Menta - Seafood pasta, pizza, salad, bread - Pizza Near Me - Rome, RM

We are inside in main dining room, we were either another group of ladies. Good service and enjoyed the saltimbocca that was eaten to quickly to take a pic. Very reasonably priced and the food was good, but could have used some elevation of presentation. read more

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We had a wonderful dinner here during our time in Trastevere. I recommend the Cacio e Pepe which was phenomenal and one of the best pastas I had while in Rome. Pizza was also solid. Ambiance is busy and lively, adjacent to the piazza/square. Waiting staff was helpful and friendly! Among a lot of extremely popular restaurants, Carlo Menta offers home cooking in a cozy environment. read more

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I came in right when they opened on New Years day. The staff speak English and Italian. I came here on the suggestion of Fr. Rodderick's podcast. All the courses were delicious and flavorful. The food came out relatively fast compared to other sot down restaurants in Rome. I had a wonderful New Years day lunch! read more

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5 stars earned easily!!! This place was so good. It was our favorite place we ate at in Italy actually! We got 2 plates of pasta, a whole bottle of wine, a coca cola, and bread for less than 40 euros. Extremely fair priced + the food was great. We will definitely be back if we're ever in the area again! read more

Carlo Menta - Carbonara - Pizza Near Me - Rome, RM

This was the best food we had on our trip to Rome, and the prices were fantastic. The neighborhood of Trastevere is very fun to explore, and this restaurant encapsulated all the best parts of it. The house special pasta with cream, ham, and peas was awesome, we loved it! read more

Tourist TRAP!! BEWARE!! I should have listened to the reviews. While the staff were nice and lovely, the pizza was so inauthentic. We only had 3 pizzas and shared them all and it was so disappointing! Do not come here if you're looking for some good, authentic, pizza! read more

Hidden gem!! Gnocchi with Gorgonzola is to die for! Great wine. Piazza diabola and signature Carlo menta penne read more

We're very impressed, food was very good, prices are reasonable, outdoor dining, good wine, great service! The best option in Trastavete!!!

We stopped in here after seeing all the popular restaurants had super ridiculous long lines and this one has many people eating but no line. It was a great decision the pizza was really good and the cacio e Pepe was one of the best that I've tried there. Next door there is a gelato place stop by! They have the real gelato covered in the metal containers read more

Carlo Menta - Pizza Near Me - Rome, RM

Excellent food and a frequently staff. Prices are very reasonable. I would definitely go back here when I return to Rome. read more

Carlo Menta - Pizza and lasagna - Pizza Near Me - Rome, RM

Fine spot in a pinch. Nice location and good wait staff, but just okay food. It's very popular and the tables fill up fast.

First of all, I want to start by saying it takes a LOT for me to give anything below 4 stars. I should preface this by saying, you get what you pay for. Very low prices here, so we fell into the tourist trap. We sat outside, which we were excited to do so, but then we realized all the tables were crammed together and we were sitting in plastic seats. We were practically elbow to elbow with our neighboring table. I was even asked to scoot even closer to the table than I already was so the wait staff could maneuver around me. Atmosphere 1/5. As far as food goes, my date ordered pizza and a mixed salad, I ordered off the Menú Turistico. We also got the liter of red house wine and water naturale. The pizza came out two minutes after he ordered. There's no way that pizza was fresh, it was likely just reheated from a premade stash. The "mixed salad" was lettuce with tomato on it. Nothing else. The complimentary bread was good I will say, but we had to ask for olive oil to go with it. For the mixed salad he ended up adding olive oil for dressing, pepper from the pepper shaker, and parmesan that was provided. The menu turistico - I chose the "homemade lasagna" for my first dish that looked like it came from a frozen dinner. The parmesan was given to me after I was halfway done with it. The chicken and mixed salad second dish was dry, mostly bones, and looked like it came from a rotisserie chicken bought at a grocery store. The "mixed salad" was a couple pieces of iceberg lettuce. That's it. The bruschetta was also a piece of the good bread I mentioned before with diced tomato and arugula on top... not my favorite. Lastly, the house cake for dessert was a small sliver of cake. It actually tasted fine, but I would've rather spent the calories on something else. If my written review didn't convince you to not come here, just let the pictures speak for themselves. Please avoid this place. We came here for our anniversary dinner and were very disappointed. Overall, a cheap tourist trap. read more

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It's raining and it's wet and we want to go to a warm place to be dry. What do we see? Great prices great location so we go in. Authentic style looking restaurant with great prices, food is good and Service is excellent. No complaints we were happy we were full and we were satisfied. I recommend. read more

This is near where we live in Rome and we're happy to find a cute restaurant that offers basic Italian food at half the price of every other restaurant in Rome. Pizza, pasta, tiramisu, everything was well done. Nothing fancy but definitely not disappointing at all. We were in rome during august so we sat outside for dinners, the little piazza was nice as well. read more

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You can definitely find better food in Rome. While the prices are appealing you certainly get what you pay for. The pizza was decent however the muscles tasted very fishy and the chicken Milanese was a glorified chicken tender. Our server was not friendly at all. The service was also extremely slow and it seemed as if our waitress forgot about us. read more

Don't waste your time with all the fancy restaurants in Rome, THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE COME TO EAT! SETTING: Not that familiar with the streets of Rome, but all I know is this place is very easy to get if you ask a cab driver. The location is super cool. Outside patio is very nice and can fit a lot of people. Place is relatively clean and well taken care of. There is an inside seating area but definitely sit outside! SERVICE: Great service here. The waiter barely spoke English, and we barely spoke Italian. But we somehow understood each other very well. They took great care of us and the food came out extremely hot and fresh. Definitely amazing treatment. FOOD: Amazing italian ethnic food here. My favorite pizza in Rome! I enjoyed the pastas so much as well. Everything is homemade and cooked with care. I enjoyed every single plate I ordered here. Can't wait to be back! Average per person: $17-$30 depending how much food you order. FIRE! See you soon!!! read more

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You know what? I would absolutely eat here again when I come back to Rome, and I would order the exact same thing I did last night - the seafood spaghetti dish. I forget it's exact name, sorry. Our hotel concierge recommended this place, and my mother might have asked him what was an "affordable" place in Trastevere. Lol. Because according to her, she can afford literally nothing [insert eye roll]. And when I saw the prices, I was skeptical about how good this could be. Pretty much all pizzas and pastas are about €6 or less. Mine was seafood so it was the most expensive at €8! But my pasta was great. Tons of seafood. Nice sauce. Our waitress was great too. None of it was the best ever or blew my mind, but it was good food for a good price. A better pasta than a really highly rated place in Piazza Navona I made my mum go to the night before, for what it's worth. read more

Carlo Menta - Sorry I started eating it before I remembered to take a pic - Pizza Near Me - Rome, RM

Avoid. You can do better. Avoid. You deserve better food and experience. Avoid. You might think you can get in and out of this place quickly - but it's an illusion. This restaurant is at the beginning of a tourist street lined with restaurants and this has to be the worst by far. The outdoor seating is crammed into several long stretches of communal tables. It's inexpensive and the bathroom was pretty clean and that's all it has going for it. I arrived when there was no crowd and it took 20 min to get silverware and place my order, and at the end another 20 min to get the check. I didn't mind paying at the register, but I do mind the gruff treatment by the staff who out numbered the patrons at the restaurant. Gnocchetti pesto - OK Spaghetti carbonara - too oily Penne "Carlo Menta" (penne with peas and cram sauce) - OK read more

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An authentic trattoria! It was inexpensive and the food was good. I ordered from the tourist menu since it seemed like a good deal (14€ for an antipasto, primo, secondo, and dessert). I enjoyed the bruschetta, pasta all'amatriciana, cotoletta, and dessert of the day. It was a lot to eat, so come prepared with a big appetite if you order from the tourist menu. The wine here is also inexpensive and well-priced. A great spot to eat! read more

Good place to eat delicious and pay very less. Pizza for 6 euro was worth every penny. I've been to this place a few times while in Rome and every time I had an excellent meal. I've tried their lunch special with pasta, bruschetta, pork dish and desert and all I ate was tasty and fresh. Tiramisu was excellent. It gets quite busy but they have a large sitting area outside where you will be surrounded by other people, so it is good place to eat but not good for a nice special dinner where you want to sit not to close to other tables. Here you might be sharing table with others, keep it in mind if you are looking for a more private meal. read more

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Carlo Menta in Trastevere, good food with small prices. Prices have not changed in over five years, which I suppose is quite ordinary for Italy, but a comforting discovery for a frequent visitor from California. On the flip side, the menus have been in use for a long time shuffled by many hands of diners from all over the world. =) For my yelper friends and followers, you guys probably figured out by now the repetitive song of dining in Rome: it's pizza, pasta, gnocchi, panini, Insalata, vitello, pollo, lamb ribs, each of which can have any number of varying sauces or cheeses. The spread is similar from place to place, and the difference lays in the variety offered, the quality of food and service, and of course, the pricing. I have posted photos of my recent visit to Carlo Menta on a Tuesday in June of 2016. I often look for grilled fish, cooked whole and served on a bed of greens or with a side of cubed sautéed potatoes (not your typical American fries). They can plate it for you, but honestly, it's so much fun to work on yourself. =) I'm going in the backwards direction here, but for the apps, they are usually prosciutto and ham or mozzarella based; fresh Roma (of course!) or cherry tomatoes are used to top your salads and pizzas; fresh tomatoes are slightly braised for sauces on your pizza or fettuccini-fettucelle-spaghetti-spaghettini-spaghettoni-linguine-tagliatelle-penne-pennette-pennoni-cannelloni-macaroni pasta; and the sweets... don't get me started! Pastries, fruit tarts, chocolate covered desserts, tiramisu, crema catalana (crème brûlée), panna cotta, Tartufo... Service charge is usually €1.5-2 per person (in place of typical American tips). Young red house wine is usually offered, served in 1 liter carafe jugs (of various sizes, in all actuality), and it could be a tad sparkly, reminiscent of Lambrusco or Brachetto. Bon Appétit! Correction: buon appetito! read more

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My friends and I randomly walked into this joint Bc we were hungry as hell and the place was huge and crowded with people in the patio area. We opted to sit inside w the AC. We all got an order of pizza and it was big. For like 2-3 euros you get a huge pizza (we should have known we are in Italy)... I think prices were cheaper Bc we weren't in the main tourist location of Rome. Pizza was good but not amazingly good. It satisfied our hunger and we all had more than half a pizza left to take back to our hotel (which we are for dinner)... Overall a decent place to eat at. read more

Carlo Menta - Pizza Near Me - Rome, RM

We decided to eat here three times while in Roma. Reason being was that the food was sooooo good, and it was so inexpensive. You can't ask for anything else in my opinion. Also they have an amazing terrace-patio that faces a lively area of Trastevere. On a few nights the CD selling tent across the way would provide us with a good mix of Italian current pop music and trendy music of the day. It was free music while on the terrace. As well, they have a few cars parked outside the patio-terrase so it provided a good barrier so other cars couldn't drive up close. Did I mention the patio-terrase was just awesome in the evening as it was well shaded and service was always pretty attentive and top notch. We did have to flag down the servers by raising our hand but then they were quite attentive to our needs! So on my first evening I ordered off the tourist menu. You get a bruchetta appetizer then a first course of pasta (carbonara) and then a second course (Milenese style cutlet w fries) and a choice of dessert. All of this for wait.......13 euros. Second evening and third evening I ordered the Special pasta with seafood 8 euros and again the Milanese style cutlet. Seriously for a seafood pasta for 8 euros? This would be $22 - $24 back in Montreal. It was just all amazing! My wife ordered different kinds of pizza and we were never disappointed for the price! Pizza Marinara (no cheese) is just 2 euros. Pizza Margherita was just 3 euros!!! Seriously! I'm glad we ate here three times while in Roma as we looked around at a bunch of menus other places and none were as reasonable as this and the food was just amazing! *****keep in mind also they do put a service charge for tip on the bill. Look for it. No need to extra tip! Come check it out, I'd be surprised if you are disappointed! read more

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Carlo Menta was our first ever dinning experience in Italy so I know I personally was super excited to finally taste authentic Italian cuisine. This place was good but not anything amazing. I like how they had tents outside with heaters in them so customers could dine outside without being cold. The only negative about that is that if you're a non-smoker then prepared to be around smokers. It's also a tight squeeze not only in between tables but also in between your own table and chair(s). The service was mediocre. I'm sure a language barrier didn't help but there was nothing really friendly or there was no sense of willingness to help from our waitresses. But anyways, we were seated right away and our food came within I'd say just over 5 minutes from placing our orders. Our bread, however, was soooo bad! Like it was hard rock, extremely dry, and I felt like I could've broken a tooth on it. I ordered the gnocchi with tomato sauce and basil which I loved--the tomato sauce was amazing! I also got the rocket and tomato salad which was also good (it comes dry so make sure to add some olive oil and vinegar on it, though). My niece got the lasagne which she said tasted good but was a tad bit dry and on the smaller size. They also don't separate bills here which seems to be the norm so far in Europe, so be prepared to calculate exactly what you ordered. I wouldn't be opposed to coming back here again if the service improved. read more

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Delicious!! We ordered the bruschetta, gnocchi and a few other dishes and all were very good and CHEAP! That was the kicker! read more

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Sehr gutes Essen, freundliches Personal und für das gebotene sehr preiswert. Sehr gute und preiswerte Hausweine. Schlechte Kritiken kommen vielleicht auch von Nachbarn, deren Restaurants leer sind wenn C.M. gut besucht ist vermute ich. (Rom 10.1.22-17.1.22) read more

This was a very popular restaurant when we were here! We got a table and then a line formed shortly after. The food was all really good and the prices were awesome. We were able to get a bottle of wine, appetizer, lasagna, and pizza for less than $40! read more

It was an outstanding experience having such a good Italian food. Pizza and pasta were incredible.

Amazing restaurant, the best pasta I've ever had!! The Carbonara (5€) was amazing, my mom ate the bolognesa (5€) and my dad had the lasagna (5€) and we had a bottle of white wine for 8€ (homemade) and everything was perfect. But they charge the service per person, so we payed 4,50€, but still it was a very cheap meal and really delicious. read more

Carlo Menta - Pizza Near Me - Rome, RM

Such an amazing restaurant in the Jewish grotto area! We came here two nights in a row infact! The place has a great ambiance, friendly waiters and fun atmosphere. The pasta - cacio e Pepe was perfect! The pizzas were perfectly made as well. It had a mixture of locals and tourists from all over and it was fun. Also located near an amazing walking area, the Jewish grotto areas and it's a nice stroll. Prices were very decent as well for the food :) read more

Excellent restaurant. High quality food and low prices, all together. The house's wine is soft (no super good) and is served in about 400 ml. The food is really tasty and there are a good amount of options. If sitting outside during high season it could be a little bit crowded but that even gives the place some style. Great choice for having lunch/dinner in Trastevere. read more

Carlo Menta - Penne al gorgonzola - Pizza Near Me - Rome, RM

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Reasonably good food for a very good price, perfect for families traveling together. Great portions if you are really hungry and want to make your euros stretch. When we went, there was a 4 course meal for 13 euros which is large enough for two to share. I definitely over ate here. Everyone in our group left happy and full. Wasn't the best Italian meal we had but it was definitely not the worst. Trestavere proved to be our favorite neighborhood for food in Rome. The restaurant was moderately full however the restaurant is large enough to accommodate a lot of people. It would be good for families though they do allow smoking everywhere so that's something to deal with. read more

Avoid this restaurant. Packed with tourists and the food isn't even fresh. The pasta dish was okay, however, the roasted chicken tasted frozen and reheated. Service was lacking as well. Only good thing about this restaurant is that the price is extremely low for each dish. You get what you pay for. read more

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This restaurant in Trastevere was an unsuspecting little surprise. We went here for lunch and thought that the menu prices were great. Large pizzas for under €6. We stayed across the road and at night this restaurant was always full. I suspect to the cheap prices compared to everywhere else in Rome however the food is very comparable for those that you would pay 2-3 times the cost. The staff were very friendly and accommodating on our little Italian but helped us along with our pronunciation. I'd definitely head back here to eat dinner next time. read more

Carlo Menta - The busy tables and queue at night. - Pizza Near Me - Rome, RM

Grail. Legit Roman food and so economical. This historic restaurant deserves a visit if you're in Trestevere. Oxtail is fabulous. Mussels in a nice rich broth. Though service is curt, the ton of patrons they serve are a tribute to how delicious the food is. read more

Carlo Menta - Mussels. - Pizza Near Me - Rome, RM