Amazing food on a nice location. Great service by Fabio. Great stop before or after your visit to…read morePiazza di Popolo

Amazing service & cheap, yummy food! Was close to our hotel, so thought we'd try. Loved every bit!…read moreCheap & attentive. What more could u ask for?!?! Pizza is good! Pasta is good! Focaccia bread is perfection! Do not pass by without trying!

Decent restaurant with ample outdoor seating (that you will share with the occasional passing…read moretraffic). Our pizzas were good and they have a nice selection of wine. I don't think we had the same waiter for any of our interactions, but they were still attentive. The vibe is very enjoyable. Recommend.

AMAZING!!! Near Piazza Novanno - as authentic as it gets…read more I've been to Rome on 3 trips and eaten here on 7 different occasions. The pasta is absolutely amazing, especially the carbonara. Homemade noodles with the perfect al dente consistency makes all the difference. Several of the times we came we actually saw the woman in the front of the restaurant making the noodles. Great selection of red & white wine. We actually ordered a case of the house white to have shipped home. Top 5 tiramisu that I've had in Italy. Service and management is exception. We became rather frequent patrons, so we got to know the waiter and manager well.

Fantastic! Have been here four times now since we first pulled into Rome. Wish I could bring this…read moreplace back to NYC with me - we would eat there every night. Pizza plus fish - what could be better? Loved the fried alici with their aioli to dip. The arancini with mussels were divine. And of course all the pizzas. Service is kind, outdoor seating a pleasure. Have a beer and relax - you are in good hands!

Not the Italian dinner vibes expected. They seated us first and then informed us we have to leave…read morein an hour as the table was reserved for later. Well, everyone knows Italian dinners are laid back and for hours, and if you had reservations, why seat us! They took long to come and get our order which left us even shorter time to finish dinner. The pasta I got, had tuna and the tuna smelled due to not being well seasoned or prop cooked! The pizzas were really good. I won't go here again specifically due to their customer service.

What an amazing little spot!…read more The food was some of the best we had in Rome! Fresh ingredients make amazing pasta! The lady serving us was very friendly and willing to chat about the wine offerings to pair with your meal. This place is on a side street of a side street and not on the main tourist path. Meaning it was more local and less touristy which was great!

Grabbed lunch here with a couple of friends on a recent visit to Rome. It was just off the main…read moretourist tracks so it was both easy to get to and not overrun with the mass of youth that happened to be visiting Rome that week. We sat at their outside seating area and ordered up a couple of Aperol Spritz cocktails. Service was quick and pleasant. Considering it probably serves a lot of tourists, they were more friendly than one would expect, especially with the 200,000 kids visiting. Heck, they were making me crazy! Anyway, we had some Roman pasta staples, cacio e pepe, alla gricia, and amatriciana. All were very good. This place is very close to where we usually stay in Rome so it was a good find for us. We will definitely be back.

This restaurant was literally steps from our Airbnb and constantly crowded when we walked by…read more Tucked on a cobblestone street in a popular neighborhood near Piazza Navona, it doesn't look like much from the outside. We had dinner there on our last night and sat outside on a warm September evening. The seating was tight and we were sandwiched in between two other friendly couples. A locals birthday party was taking place at the next table with 20+ people, so that's a good sign. The service was good and wine fairly inexpensive. I had the fungi pizza which was thin and crispy. Husband had baccala (cod) and enjoyed it. Would recommend for a casual dinner in a cute neighborhood.

Da Francesco is a solid spot for some classic dishes in Rome. It's centrally located and probably…read morefor the best if you make reservations, but they do accommodate walk-ins for outside seating. I tried the fettuccine alla gricia con tartufo nero on my visit. The pasta was cooked perfectly, the guanciale added fatty and crunchy (tad bit salty) bits of pork cheek, and the thicc slices of black truffle kicked the flavor up a notch. The staff were pretty friendly and attentive with orders so it's worth a visit if you're looking for some good Italian food.

Tried a margherita, caccio e peppers and lasagna. Was fine but a bit bland overall (especially…read morecaccio e peppe seemed made with mozzarella not pecorino). Expensive for the quality. Not horrible but not great.

Delicious pizza! This was right by our hotel and we stopped here for a quick lunch. We ended up…read moregrabbing some to take to our hotel the next night. Highly recommend!

Great Pizza! We ate here our first night in Rome…read more Friendly service, great food! Family friendly.

We had a truly lovely dinner here. The fact that we were surrounded by locals immediately spoke to…read morethe restaurant's authenticity. The pastas are all made in-house, and the Tonnarelli alla Carbonara con Pepe Rosa was easily some of the best I've had--the pieces of tonarelli pork cheek were perfectly crunchy and tucked into beautifully cheesy pasta. Our 10 and 12-year-olds loved the pizza, which was excellent, and we all highly recommend the fresh strawberries with whipped cream for dessert. To top off a wonderful night, our waitress stopped us on the way out and gave us two bags of handmade pasta to take home. It was such a touching gesture! We can't wait to cook it and remember our meal here.

I would never go back again…read more My friend & I were walking all day over Rome and I remembered eating at a great pizza restaurant in the area. Sadly this was not the one. We sat down at a nice outdoor table & ordered a half carafe of the house Pinot Grigio. Served at a lovely lukewarm temperature. Bread was placed on the table but I know from previous visits to other Rome restaurants it's not complimentary. 2.50€ per person. Did not touch it and asked them to take it away only to find it on our bill at the end. Luckily when paying the cashier & informing him we did not eat any bread the charge was removed from our bill. On to the food. My friend ordered the cacio e Pepe. It didn't look too appealing & the portion size seemed small. My bucatini with mussels was excessively oily. The size of the mussel meat in the shell was very small. I will say the staff were all very pleasant & the restaurant itself is nice looking. But I won't go back.

If you don't count hole in the wall pizza places with no place to sit down that will sell you pizza…read moreslices, Pizza places in Italy are full service restaurants. You can get pizza but you can a whole range of Italian dishes as well. San Marco is a midrange pizza-and-everything-else place in Ludovisi. Ludovisi has tons of upscale expensive and worth every penny restaurants ... And tons of coffee-at-the-counter-or-at-a-sidewalk-table utility cafes. Both types of establishment are wonderful. Midrange places are harder to find. San Marco shows that the middle of the road can be a great place to be. * * * San Marco is actually two adjoining restaurants right next to each other. They get a gigantic businessmen's lunch business. (There are all sorts of banks and foundations in the neighborhood.) So at lunchtime - both sides of the establishment are packed. At night, they close the right one and only open the left one. That restaurant has a large sidewalk space and then multiple rooms one after the other inside. So even at half capacity, they can feed a lot of people. I was originally put off when in the middle of my meal, A large tour bus parked in front of the restaurant and about sixty people got out to eat. This is normally a huge red flag for me. This is one of the few cases I have found where having a tour bus business is NOT a sign of mediocrity. When I thought about it - I already knew that local businessmen who know their Italian food flock to this place in droves for lunch. And the establishment certainly has the room to feed several tour busses. The rest of the crowd around me was locals. So I turned off my "Tour-Bus-Alert-Alarm" and just enjoyed life. I got a five star meal out of it so I can't complain. * * * It doesn't matter that I had sausages and peppers. For what it is worth, I have yet to find an American style "Italian Sausage" anywhere in Rome - and I have had plenty of sausage. Maybe the fennel based sausages we get in the States are a Neapolitan or Southern Italian thing. The sausage I had was the texture of an Italian sausage but with the plain simplicity of an English banger. What differentiated it was a) an amazing char job on the sausage b) pork that was far tastier than any pork you get in a sausage in the U.S. And by that I mean pork that tastes like pig. C) really really good peppers did not hurt the dish, and fresh arugula goes a long way to counteracting the fat in your sausage. d) add charred rye bread to soak up the juices. I was a happy boy. * * * Why do I say that it doesn't matter that I had sausages and peppers? Because the menu at San Marco is absitively posolutely ginormous. It is huge. Pages and pages of pizza. Pages and pages of non-pizza. There is not a common Roman dish you can think of that is not on their menu some place. So the odds of you coming here and getting sausage and peppers is less than a jillion to one. But plenty of people like the other stuff on the menu. Frankly, I am going back to this establishment the day after I write this review because I saw a jillion other things I wanted to have. Look at the other Yelp reviews and you will see praise for many other dishes besides the sausages. Pizza gets a lot of love. * * * I found amazing things to eat all over this fantastic city. I encourage you to eat in as many different places as you can. (Write Yelp reviews about them while you are at it. Nudge. Nudge.) But if for some reason, you just had to eat at San Marco and only San Marco for your entire stay. You would not do badly. You certainly would not run out of new things to experience.