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Osteria Oliva

4.3 (34 reviews)
ModerateItalian
Closed 12:00 pm - 3:00 PM, 6:30 PM - 12:00 am (Next day)

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Dogs allowed

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Fabulous place, attentive staff & incredible food! Totally recommend if You are in Rome!!!!

Lasagna
Monica R.

Fantastic! Strolled in late looking for dinner. Stopped here because it was busy and a huge local family seemed to be having a great time. Ordered cacio and lasagna. Superb. The Hugo spritz was too sweet but since it was ice cold, it went down east.

Pamela K.

We had the best experience here. So great that we came 2 nights in row. Maria is the best server I've ever had. I love her great attitude, friendly smile and fun rapport! I even recommended it to people on my tour today and they made a reservation!!! Our tour guide is even planning to try it now and provide OO as a recommendation.

Tiramisu

Great restaurant. Outside(mostly) and inside seating. Phenomenal lasagna. Carborana noodles were perfectly Al dente. The Negroni and limoncello spritz were perfect, not too sweet. Tiramisu was the best I've had in time. Would definitely recommend this place for dinner.

Beautiful food, great value and excellent service. We had the stuffed zucchini blossoms and beef tartare to start. Both were excellent. Two in our party ordered pasta- the pasta with mussels was the standout. We also ordered salmon, tuna and chicken saltimbocca. All were great, and the tuna was amazing. For dessert we enjoyed the caprese cake- delicious, just wished for a little more ice cream. Highly recommend if you find yourself in this area of Rome.

Julio H.

Fantastic restaurant!!!! Family and I enjoyed dinner at this fantastic little restaurant. The food was just amazing!!! Service was spectacular! Will definitely visit again prior to us leaving this week!! Highly recommend the pork!

Potato flan

This is a truly special little place, I am surprised there are not more reviews. Our group of nine enjoyed a wonderful meal. The dishes were inventive and full of flavor. For starter I had the potato flan in which every bite tasted just a little like dessert thanks to the the amaretto crumbs on it. I've never had anything quite like this. The bread came in little tins, and the bruschetta was served this way as well with the accoutrements (tomatoes, pesto, and, pate on the side). We called it "build your own bruschetta")! My husband got carbonara which was called something rather fancy, but the server said " carbonara"? I had fettuccini with crispy bacon and the sweetest most delicious carmelized onions, apparently from Tropea an area known for their sweet cippolini onions (had to look that up). This seemed like an upscale variation on a basic amatriciana and it was just beautiful! Our server was lovely and fluent in multiple languages, she was speaking French to a table near us. It was a bit of a queeze at the table, but not uncomfortable. Our server also took our umbrellas for us. Others in our party enjoyed dishes of chicken, meatballs, and veal cheek. Another plus is that they start serving at 5:30 if you wish to dine earlier that the usual start time. Very carefully timed and deliciously crafted meal.

Mercy O.

Delicious food and wine and reasonable prices. The waiter was very fun and friendly. Lol he said I looked like the singer Estelle so I played along and said I was her. The best tiramisu I've ever had

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Wonder suggestions by the host and service was spectacular. Would recommend the tuna and the clam sea water pasta!

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Wonderful service. Cocktails upstairs weee great. Food on the street was perfect for a cap to an exciting day.

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I would not recommend this place. They were out of many of the wine selections and the food was not good at all.

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Pasta was mediocre. Tuna tartare sent me to the bathroom for the evening. Plenty of wonderful restaurants in Rome - pass on this place.

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Le Tavernelle - Lobster pasta

Le Tavernelle

4.5(167 reviews)
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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.

Great first meal in Rome!…read more I loved my artichoke pasta dish with bacon, it was a daily special. The amaretto dessert was delicious! Carbonara was super al dente. Seafood risotto was fresh. Grilled radicchio was like stir fried. Dinner for 3 for 77 euros, impressively busy for a Tuesday night. Friendly staff, easy for English speakers. :)

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Le Tavernelle - Inside dining area

Inside dining area

Le Tavernelle - Squid and seabass

Squid and seabass

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Al Forno della Soffitta

Al Forno della Soffitta

4.6(302 reviews)
1.6 kmTermini
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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.

Rome trip March 2025 This place was hella busy. There was…read morearound a 40 minute wait for inside dining. However, they had apparently started having dining "outside" which consisted of a few tables-for-two on the sidewalk. My brilliant wife came of with the idea of asking if we could just take two of those tables next to each other so she dined with one daughter and I the other. We probably looked a little funny as we got up to share plates between the table but hey, we were seated in 5 minutes. Car traffic wasn't too bad so that wasn't a distraction though it was amusing seeing delivery bikes coming and going sometimes even returning constantly to the restaurant. Clearly a very popular place. I have to hand it to our waiter, he did a fantastic job serving not just the outside but his inside assignments as well. Guy got his steps in for sure and yet he smiled and was kind through the evening. Not a sign of stress at all. Love that. Food-YUMMY! Since we were on separate tables I didn't my normal "Wait let me take a picture first!" moments lol. We got the Fried Mix to start off with which. I personally ordered a pasta carbonara and the daughter I was sitting with got a margherita pizza. My wife ordered the chicken which was thinly cut breaded chicken slices. I ordered a red (Montepulciano d'Abruzzo) to go along with my meal. Don't have all the foodie pictures because of our split tables but trust me it was all fantastic.

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Al Forno della Soffitta - Pizza oven

Pizza oven

Al Forno della Soffitta - Mussel and clam soup

Mussel and clam soup

Al Forno della Soffitta - Taken 3/23/2025

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