Tazio is located on the ground floor of the Anantara Palazzo Naiadi Rome (operates independently)…read more This establishment is few things in one, including a bar and a small restaurant. This review is for the restaurant.
The restaurant is upscale and offers interesting food, with service (and prices) to match. The food is hard to pinpoint exactly, but I would call it a high-end variations on the Italian classics. In an actual word of a fellow guest, "it makes me accept pasta".
The food quality is excellent, the presentation is the one to be seen. As is typical for the places of this type, in order to truly enjoy the meal, one has to order a fixed set, we chose the 5-course one (about 150 euro per person, extra 20 or so for the wine pairing). We also tried a-la carte the other day by choosing some dishes from the 7-couse set, it worked well. The portions are small, so a 5-course set (plus amuse-bouche, palate cleanser before the dessert and the selection of sweets that are not listed in the menu) were not overwhelming. Low price for wine pairing makes choosing it a no-brainer. As always, the total quantity of the paired wine is a bit too much for a normal person.
In the off-season (early November) the restaurant was uncrowded, reservations were not necessary. The service was very impressive.
Tips: when ordering a-la carte or choosing wine, ask the staff - we got very good advice.
Overall: after trying the fixed set, we returned on the next day for the a-la carte. Enough said. The old low-star reviews apparently describe the previous establishment with the same name and address, before Niko Sinisgalli took over.