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Osteria del Cavaliere

4.8 (111 reviews)
ModerateMediterranean, Abruzzese
Closed • Closed

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Casual
Romantic
Moderate noise
Good for kids

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Audrey H.

Maybe you're visiting Roma and trying to figure out how to sift through the thousands of restaurants and reviews like me! Well rest assured this is worth visiting. I spent hours searching and decided to heck with it I'm visiting Osteria del Cavaliere. Molto bene! I loved it. Every part of the service and food was perfect. Please drop in and order a few dishes. I'm too full and happy to continue this review. Go and have a good time.

Back wall to kitchen
Neil D.

A gem in the outskirts of the city. On this visit to Rome we wanted quality food - and as a result, we looked at YELP for some help - go figure!! Good reviews pointed us here, but did not do it justice... The location has difficulty finding parking, so be ready to walk. The pace is very small at about 15 x 25 foot area - hence not many tables. We called and got there late - they had 1 table for us in the corner. The ladies that run the place were amazingly sweet and so welcoming. The menu was small, but we order the specials. And they are highly recommended. The chefs can get creative and it works out very well. We had the pork shank and the pesto gnocchi with dry tomatoes. The pork fell off the bone and was like butter. The gnocchi was very well made with the pesto just lightly seasoned and the tomatoes balancing the flavors extremely well. For desert we had the Amereto Moose - well balanced in flavor with the right amount of liquor. Lastly, the house wine is best you will have. We did the white wine as it paired well. It will feel like water and before you know it, you will be tipsy. This is a Mom and Pop place. And not frequented by too many tourists. Highly recommended!!

Alice B.

Very nice meal in Rome. The service was very good. We started with a house wine and beer. We shared a fettuccine for the primi and had the meatballs and ribs. Both were very good. A bit salty. The dessert was a tiramisu with chocalate and caramel and nuts. That was delicious.

Great wine  pairing

What a fantastic meal and service. We wanted to get out of Rome proper, venture into the neighborhoods and local flavor. We were not dissapointed, the steak was phenomenal, the sides were excellent, the very best Risotto I have ever had bar nun. Desert was amazing . Best dinner by leaps while in Rome. Highly recommended

We enjoyed the house red wine
Archer A.

My wife seemed like she might kill me as we stood out front waiting for the osteria to open. The street was dark, the graffiti was prevalent, and I could tell she was quietly questioning my choice at a deep level. Once we were finally inside and the relaxing music and romantic atmosphere started to sink in, I could tell that I would not die by her hand tonight. By the end of our fabulous dinner, my wife beckoned Serena for a selfie. It was our best meal in Rome and at a very reasonable price

Yep - it's really as great as all the reviews said.... The ribs were insane, atmosphere cozy and service treated you like family.

The signature dish!
Michelle R.

Great dinner here last night with a large group including two small kids. I'm not gonna lie, we're a handful with screaming kids and some with dietary restrictions but everyone enjoyed this place. We started out with the meat and cheese plate and some bruschetta. Both were very good but the tomatos on the bruschetta made it the stand out. Their signature dish, which is rectangular pasta with a sausage ragu was absolutely amazing! My daughter had the spinach and cheese ravioli which she inhaled. Other favorites were the steak and mushrooms (that portion is HUGE) so beware and the tonnarelli with pecorino and black pepper. Everyone enjoyed the meal immensely!

Potato Gnocchi with Smoked Salmon.
Janelle R.

Omg. In my European trip alone, I have gone to Florence, Millan, Venice & Rome and I have to say this is the BEST food I have ate in ALL of Italy. The food is delicious. My family and I ate there and decided to order 3 different types of pasta (When in Rome, am I right?) & all 3 had so much flavor, came out piping hot, were homemade and most importantly, all the pasta was made from SCRATCH. And you could taste exactly that. I'm unsure of the names of dishes we had but I'll try my best to describe them. The pasta I ordered (which was the BEST in my opinion, but the other 2 were AMAZING as well) was the Potato Gnocchi with smoked salmon. I recommend this dish to anyone that goes. The presentation was also A+ as well. I'll post a picture of one of the other pastas we ate and the other one, well I have no clue what it was named but according to the waitress, it is their most popular pasta dish and it also is the first one on the menu. At the end, we were stuffed but decided on getting a dessert. HOLY SMOKES. This thing was HEAVENLY. I'm unsure what it was called again, but the waitress described at as their spin on cheesecake with biscotti and warm caramel. It's not in the form of the American cheesecake we eat back home. It's served in a cup, parfait style. UGHHHHHHH AMAZING. You HAVE to try this if they have it, TRUST ME on this. Next time I come to Italy, I plan to come back and have dinner here once again!

Teri W.

This place is absolutely fantastic! I had 2 of the best meals I've ever had in my life while dining at Osteria del Cavaliere. I found this place because the friend I was visiting happens to live in the apartment building attached to the restaurant (lucky her!). It doesn't look like much from the outside, and is closed up until 7:30 each night. But once inside, it's very cute and not very large. They fill up every night, so you will have to make a reservation to ensure you are able to dine. They turn away walk ins! Everything we had was amazing! The owner floats around the room, while his daughters are the servers and his wife is the chef. Most everything is handmade and cooked to perfection. The sliced filets we shared (one night with mushrooms, the next night with green peppercorns) were the perfect temperature, tender and juicy. Both pastas we enjoyed were delicious as well, and the plate of vegetables we had with our steak was huge! This place is not in the city center, so it's more of a locals restaurant. More reason to find it! Trust me, you will not regret it!

Jenn L.

This was a recommendation from a friend and this place did not disappoint! It is super cozy and cute! The waitress was sweet and helpful! The food is amazing!! The pasta is to die for! I would recommend this place to anyone who comes! The price is was great for 2 people, 1 appetizer, 2 pasta dishes, 2 meat dishes, 2 desserts and a bottle of wine - about $105 US!

This is the sign outside of the restaurant, which is easy to miss because it's in a residential neighborhood and is otherwise nondescript.

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Le Tavernelle - Lobster pasta

Le Tavernelle

4.5(171 reviews)
3.0 km•Monti
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The service here is so amazing and quick! The atmosphere of this restaurant is very clean,…read morewelcoming, and comfortable. Food is literally so delicious and every single meal I had was unreal. Totally recommend this restaurant!

Our first meal in Rome was here, and I'm so glad it was here. We arrived on Christmas Eve and…read morewanted a good meal. Our hotel manager had suggested another restaurant, but I was apprehensive to try, but did later, more on that restaurant review in it's own post. I rather did what I should have done throughout the trip to, which is to search google for local reviews. This tactic I found to be much better than to trust American reviews for restaurants to visit from Youtube or even here, just because the American touristy taste tends to favor bland or Olive Garden style pseudo Italian. The real Italian taste is much different and something one needs to develop. I was familiar with European Italian food, as I had said before in other reviews that Mexico has better Italian food outside of Italy. Additionally, the good restaurants here in Italy do not open before 7 PM. If it does or if someone that looks foreign to Italy is outside trying to lure you in, it's a tourist restaurant with iffy flavor. At this restaurant my husband had the Lobster pasta and I had the spinach/ricotta ravioli, and we both were beyond satisfied. We also had the artichoke as an appetizer, and trusted the waiter with his suggestion for a bottle of wine. He must have been some genius because the wine went well with our meal. The ambience was cozy and very family oriented, however, the rain outside made it romantic for us. Another key point for this restaurant and it traditional flare was that they brought out the olive oil and red vinegar for our salad and of course olive oil for our wonderful home-made bread. I'm so glad we chose this place for those of us Americans who understand culinary cuisine.

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Le Tavernelle - Inside dining area

Inside dining area

Le Tavernelle - Squid and seabass

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Al Forno della Soffitta

Al Forno della Soffitta

4.6(309 reviews)
3.7 km•Termini
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Super pizza place with a lot of other great stuff on the menu…read more I looked with envy at the other tables who were enjoying spectacular plates of spaghetti with mussels. * * * That said, my pizza was a grand slam home run. Many of their pizzas are quite elaborate With all sorts of exotic ingredients. I went super simple. Gorgonzola. Mozzarella. That's it. Just enough Mozzarella to cut the Gorgonzola and make for a good melt. * * * If you have never had a gorgonzola pizza, you have never lived. Just sayin'. * * * P.S. My lovely wife got a Norwegian salmon pizza. The Norwegian salmon was stacked up high on her pizza As if she was in the World Series of Poker and she was a big winner. I have never seen so much salmon on one plate. After our meal, I made a discreet phone call to the Norwegian embassy in Rome asking them if they still had any salmon left. The woman at the embassy assured me the Norwegian salmon supply was fine. That surprises me given all the salmon that was on my wife's pizza.

It was a positive Yelp review that lured us to choose this restaurant for our first night meal…read moreafter traveling from USA. So, I felt that I owed a review of my own in appreciation. Being new to Rome, and having walked 20k steps on our first day, there are an abundance of options a for dining. We wanted something classically Rome nearby to our hotel. The Yelp review of this restaurant was sufficiently positive to entice us. Being American, we appreciate the earlier-than-customary dining options. We arrived at 6pm without a reservation. We were seated immediately. The restaurant is intimate and very well staffed. The wood fire oven is front-and-center and the fresh mozzarella is prominent in display. We ordered a bottle of wine ... all options are very fairly priced. This is nice. We started with a Greek salad to share. It was unlike any American Greek salad ... and a really delight. It is early June but the tomatoes and peppers were ripe and crisp and really fresh. My wife ordered the Marguerite pizza; I opted for the Gorgonzola pizza (the effusive review on Yelp was compelling). Both were solid. We appreciate the thin crust and the crisp edged. The center of both, however, was doughy and somewhat undercooked. Looking around ... the restaurant was over 50% full even at this early hour. Most were Americans. We saw a good number of diners with pasta dishes ... and none were left unfinished. Sadly, we don't have any comparisons to weigh (yet). So, I cannot affirm any "best of" citations, it this is certainly a solid trattoria/pizzeria. The staff are attentive and the food served hot and fresh.

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Al Forno della Soffitta - Pizza oven

Pizza oven

Al Forno della Soffitta - Pizza

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Al Forno della Soffitta - Taken 3/23/2025

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Osteria del Cavaliere - mediterranean - Updated October 2026

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