The best restaurants Route de la soie

A good address if you consider the location near the Coliseum, the rather economical dishes and the abundant portions. The atmosphere is rather rustic and informal, and the map offers typical Roman and Tuscan specialties. Try their specialty, generous pasta with luganega sauce (pork sausage).

A few steps from the famous Campo de' Fiori, in a small square characteristic of one of the most ancient districts of Rome, is this charming restaurant where the chef offers recipes from all over Italy, skilfully composed with fresh and quality ingredients. The pasta is homemade and the wine list is remarkable. A delicacy in the art of cooking, an authenticity in the composition and a strong character compose a surprising combination... : guaranteed result! The simplicity and elegance of the place do the rest.

Wine lovers and connoisseurs are here in the right place. The Simposio is one of the best cellars in Rome. In order not to drink empty belly, you are served wonderful cheese trays and hot dishes. A winner in 2002 by the Italian Touring Club, this restaurant in Liberty decorated a cuisine rich in fantasy (like potato cake and flowers of zucchini), while combining local recipes.

An unlikely address between the restaurant and the antique cabaret. In old stables you can find a baroque room and, above all, a terrace with open tables that occupy the whole square, lit by the lanterns. Costume servers, acrobats and musicians, who sing old chants accompanied by their mandolin, give the impression of eating on the scene of a medieval theatre. The kitchen, which offers the large Roman specialities, is correct and maintains reasonable prices. If you don't care about poor service, you'll be able to spend a truly unusual evening in joy and good humour.

Great attention is paid here to the satisfaction of the five senses: colours, materials, furniture, fragrances, Venetian and Tuscan cuisines revisited, kindness and quality of service, intimate and warm atmosphere. Carpaccio from radicchio to pecorino, raw fish, chocolate foam in khaki sauce, a cellar of 90 labels of good bottles from Piedmont to Sicily passing through Sardinia: the foot! The house is provided by stars, such as the butchery Tozzetti Di Mercatale, Via di Fsip (Firenze), or Dario Cecchini from Panzano (in Chianti), the butcher, the usual master of the Dégustation tasting dinners. Chef Iacuzio Domenico sets a different menu every season and it is a treat. The hotel also has a Bed & Breakfast.

This family-run restaurant, located on the road to the Arsenale, offers good risotti alla marinara, spaghetti at dry, bigoli, Sardinian in saor, etc. In sum, the whole range of typical Venetian dishes but at very affordable prices. There is not much room, but in summer you can be served in the small interior garden.

This osteria is located near the fish market, the freshness of the products is guaranteed and the map makes the beauty of the sea. It is on the square of Campo dei Fiori, so necessarily very tourist, but prices remain reasonable, while the view on the square from the terrace is a luxury, the service is pleasant, the generous servings and the taste that of traditional local cuisine.

On a small square at the junction of via Garibaldi and via Cairoli, right next to the Palazzo della Meridiana, an establishment that is both a tea room, a wine bar foraperitivo and a fine dining room for lunch and dinner. Depending on the time of day and the season, you can sit on the terrace, in the room with its large windows, in a second, more intimate space or upstairs for a cosy restaurant break. The semi-gastronomic table is renowned as is the wine list. Takeaway of great regional wines.

After the success of the two trattorie, one on the port and the other Vico della Maddalena, I Tre Merli is a few steps away from the romantic Spianata Castelletto. On the menu, typical recipes of the sponge tradition. Nice exterior for beautiful days.

The top for fans of the true, crisp Neapolitan pizza. In 1995, Stefano Di Michele was awarded the title of better pizzaiolo in Europe. In the aftermath, he opened this place, not far from the Vatican. Today, its pizzeria welcomes a demanding Roman population that enjoys modern, colourful decoration and a relaxed atmosphere.

In a quiet street just a few steps away from Lungotevere, family cuisine has been active and appreciated since the 1960 s. The simple but careful map displays 100% Roman dishes such as the rigatoni alla gricia (pâtes pâtes pâtes pâtes with bacon and cheese), the guts or the calf to the artichokes, to finish with the chocolate fluffy cake or cream cream any homemade made.

It is difficult to find a place for lunch around the Vatican which is not expensive and very tourist. This small restaurant with fine panini and good-quality salads also offers homemade lemonades, coffee, small cakes. The atmosphere is jazzy and connected without being pretentious. You can also take everything to lunch in the Vatican Gardens.

This sandwich and burger bar is one of the most popular in the Il Pigneto district, dear to Pasolini. Open late at night, it is a haven for night birds and young trendy locals. But be careful, here we don't eat burger fat and frozen french fries; special attention is given to the choice of products. Moreover, there is no shortage of vegetarian options. Simple and retro design for a trendy address. A tip: push the white door at the back of the room, a charming speakeasy cocktail bar awaits you there!

Il Pommidoro has been run by the same family since the 1920s. It is said to have been one of Pasolini's favourite restaurants when the San Lorenzo district was still a bastion of the Roman popular left. Today, we meet mainly students here, but Il Pommidoro has kept the same look as before. You will find dishes such as pappardelle with wild boar stew or rigatoni con la pajata, which, in Roman dialect, indicates a sauce with veal intestines fed exclusively on its mother's milk.

This tavern, with baroque appearance, likes to qualify as the first friendly restaurant in the capital. There is a typical kitchen with Mediterranean influences. The service is warm.

A trattoria pizzeria of good quality. Here you will find typical dishes of Italian and Venetian cuisine. Good pizzas. For lunch, do not hesitate to choose the generally rich and cheap «turistico menu». In the beautiful days you can enjoy the terrace.

Next to the Campo dei Fiori, this traditional trattoria serves a cuisine for Roman gastronomy purists. The clientele is made of people who know Teresa well in cooking and her husband Mario in the room. The maison maison are only a few minutes away from the hotel. Reservation warmly recommended.

In a quiet street of the Rione Rione, a nice, trendy and relaxed setting where the meat is here queen; served in all its forms and prepared in all sauces, quality never disappoints. If the lunch buffet is raging among all the young and beautiful employees of the neighborhood, the evening the atmosphere is made more dull and a touch more chic. An address simply "cool".

Kosher restaurant. Nonna Betta uses simple ingredients without meat, a paradise for vegetarians! The menu gives a great place to frills such as artichokes or fried mozzarella. Among the primi: carbonara of courgettes, crests e pepe, or tagliolini to chicory. Among them: dry cod, artichogiana parmigiana and onion and pomodoro omelet or cucuzzette. Home desserts deserve special mention. Bread is also produced on site, and the wine cellar offers a choice of kosher and Israeli wines. The only thing that can be done is the service.

At the foot of the Porta Soprana and the house of Christopher Columbus, this trattoria is just right! The entrance doesn't look like much, and yet the address defends itself well for a regional meal between two visits. The atmosphere is warm, just like the Ligurian cuisine. Among the specialities of the house, let's mention the streppe (variety of pasta) al pesto or the fish fillet and its accompaniment of small vegetables. There are also gluten-free menus and a good selection of wines and traditional beers.

Since 1960, the restaurant of Hôtel Wildner reconsiders the traditional venetian cuisine in a unique setting: veranda on Riva degli Schiavoni and the island of Saint-Georges in the background. One travels across the lagoon, the fish and the tasty vegetables come from the local Rialto market. This search for raw material is inscribed in a approach to safeguard the small production of quality. Stylish service, products worked in finesse and dishes with character.

A good address, a cran above the trattoria to simple. Attentive service, a nice setting, but a little retro and a family atmosphere for a menu that does not betray the great Roman classics. Enlarge the pasta at the amatriciana, cacio and pepe or go gricia, as well as the secondi including the guts and timbale of artichokes. For a good meal.

A typical address in the Sarzano district: young, trendy, hipster and of high quality. As its name suggests, they eat toast, including sandwiches of toasted sandwich bread. Ideal for a snack in a contemporary setting.

Delicious little bistro in a side street off via del Babuino where an air of early twentieth century French train station café linger. So don't expect an authentic Italian trattoria . Active from breakfast, the black coffee sipped at the counter is so good that it only suggests good things to come. Indeed, the lunch and dinner menu that changes every week is very pleasant, with salads, tartars, tasty pasta, club sandwiches and burgers. The little plus? The homemade bread is crisp and silky.

Here, you'll have no choice: the house decides and proposes a fixed menu every evening. Once you're seated, the dishes follow one another without fuss, delighting young and old alike. Simple and hearty, the cuisine at Trattoria der Pallaro is authentic mamma cooking. Paola, in apron and kerchief, passes back and forth between the tables, having her photo taken, with a kind word for each of her guests. In the 50 years she's been cooking here, her reputation has spread beyond the borders of Lazio!

Here is a small address, a few steps from Largo Argentina, where you can find excellent baguette sandwiches to eat on the go at lunchtime, between two visits. Of course, it's not typically Italian, but from the ham and cheese, to the smoked swordfish with brie, or the tasty mushroom and smoked cheese with truffle sauce, this sandwich shop offers a wide choice of fresh and really delicious products! On the menu, there are also salads and some appetizing desserts such as a homemade tiramisù or a fruit salad.

Close to the Pompeii Theatre and the most beautiful palaces in Rome, San Lorenzo offers a sophisticated cuisine made with first-class products. The dark wooden interior, contemporary artwork and lighting create a relaxed and romantic atmosphere. Fish and seafood are in the spotlight and freshness is always there. It is particularly noticeable in crudo dishes, fish served raw and pleasantly seasoned. The staff is taking great care of themselves and the wine list offers a wide choice of great wines.

Pizzeria (with a huge choice of pizzas bianche and rosse, as well as Roman and Neapolitan), San Marco also concocts the classics of Roman and Italian cuisine with respect to the product. On the terrace or in the pleasant dining room (perfect if you are a small group). It's not the most authentic place in Rome, the menu is so vast that you can get lost, but you can eat well and it's a restaurant to recommend in the center. Another address in Rome, in the Prati district, via Tacito 29.

The craze for avocados has reached Rome: this restaurant offers dishes based on this exotic fruit, sought after for its virtues as well as for its taste. Located in the trendy district of Monti, it is discreet and only the initiated come to taste in its colorful and exotic decor snacks (guacamole in the first place) and plates on the go of quite sophisticated dishes. Special mention for the vegetarian dish, which combines avocado with beet hummus and other tasty ingredients. Prices are affordable and you can order to go.

Considering its location, we can understand why the prices are so high there! Just below the second gigantic bridge of the city, this chic restaurant with its undeniable charm will give you a panoramic view of the famous Bosphorus. The service is worthy of a gourmet restaurant. The fish is very fresh and well cooked. On the menu, for example, you will find grilled lobster and fish cooked in a salt crust. A delight for the taste buds as well as for the eyes! The restaurant also offers breakfasts on Saturdays and Sundays.

It is true that Les Retrouvailles does not fall into a definition that is too «restricted» of the lyonnais. This traditional restaurant, open in the evening, does not offer a lyon specialities card. But if you think a cap is a user-friendly place where you can enjoy dishes prepared by a real cook with high quality fresh products, then you can perfectly find it. At Pierre and Odile Muller, -two of the most adorable people in Lyon's restaurants - there are plenty of surprises. Beginning with this incredible feeling of feeling unique by passing to the table and discovering that Odile, trained at the Hotel Ecole d'Arbois, took great care to fold each towel in a different way. There is a lot of attention to find throughout a meal that is rexhotel by the lovely Jura accent of a hostess always smiling. From the room where the throne on a wall is an imposing rider, the eyes naturally go to the open kitchen. In the Retrouvailles, there is only one service and one takes its time to enjoy menu dishes that change regularly, according to the market made by the chef, Saint-Antoine quay. This summer, a Mousse moss with goat cheese, a bowl of homemade poultry livers, a bird soufflé to tarragon, a thousand sheet of calf and aubergines, in sauce or mullet fillets, anchovies sauce. Not forgetting the homemade desserts presented on a beautiful wooden buffet, with a saint-honoré prepared every weekend. A cuisine of great tradition for an address that has the bouchon spirit.

In the south-east of the city, a small wine bar with catering service faithful to the most authentic Italian culinary tradition. Among the best dishes (between € 5 and € 10) are peasant soups, homemade pasta, cold meats and cheeses with raw milk, as well as desserts as unusual as a chocolate foam and its compote compote or a chestnut cream to "minute" whipping.

This small Sicilian restaurant is ideally located just a few steps from the imperial forums, housed in a small, obscure, but very cool room in the summer whose entrance is discreet, from large stairs. Kitchen and family service, goguenardes of the boss, beautiful plates at reasonable prices, the address is perfect for a stopover at noon. Delicious antipasti plate.

Some like it, others find it overdone: The Cantinola is a tourist restaurant where prices are really affordable, but low-priced plates. The whole is nevertheless correct without being exceptional, especially fish dishes, and the boss who speaks all languages offers a rose to the ladies at the end of the meal. Practice on Sunday noon when everything is closed.

Red dominates, between the posts of the portals and the evocative lanterns of Chinese temples. Inside, there is a Zen spirit with incense sticks, Buddha effigies and large, well-spaced tables where one can sit comfortably for a Chinese meal and where only the music, which unfortunately oscillates between old eighties standards and elevator music, can be heard. Let's hope it will be fixed, because for the rest, this is the best address in Bishkek for lovers of fried noodles, fried ravioli and spicy meats!

Among the stalls under the arcades of Sottoripa, Il Gran Ristoro is a legendary address where you come to break bread with a succulent panino. There's a good chance you'll have to wait in line, as this is a very popular address with Genoese, but be patient for as long as it takes: the sandwiches, featuring cold meats, grilled vegetables, tasty sauces and cheeses, are incomparable. Enjoy them with a drink at one of the tables under the arcades, or on the harbor. Follow the advice of the owner, who will show you the best combinations.

On the corner of Via San Bernardo and Vico Vegetti, in the heart of Genoa's oldest district, this establishment has retained the atmosphere of yesteryear, with its checkered curtains and tablecloths. Here, you can discover old regional recipes such as lettuce stuffed with broth and tripe, or classic fried fish and spaghetti with pesto, but also more original recipes such as fried ravioli (a kind of fried pasta that's absolutely divine) or calf's liver in vinegar sauce, all accompanied by an excellent wine list.

The interior is in the Uzbek style: small private rooms and another huge one for special occasions, but where groups will easily find their place whatever their number. If you are alone or in couple, you will certainly prefer the terrace, nicely arranged and protected from the street by a few green plants and curtains. In any case, you can eat excellent Central Asian specialities: soups, salads, shashlyks, plov... The products are fresh, well prepared and the choice is varied: an excellent address for local food.

This Louis Farouk-style establishment is hidden behind a heavy, studded copper door. Like the company's other restaurants, it serves delicious Egyptian and Oriental specialities of the highest quality: tajines, stews, molokheyas, grilled meats... Shisha smoking is also available. Reservations are essential, as the place, a victim of its own success, fills up fast. This is the place to go for good Egyptian food in a subdued yet friendly atmosphere. Refined service. 200% recommended!

It was on the basis of Chinese luck that the Four Seasons chose to name its restaurant of Cantonese specialities. With a modern and elegant decoration, impeccable service and dim sums sums concocted by a chef straight from Shanghai. True connoisseurs of Chinese cuisine may be a little disappointed because the dishes are good but not all of them are excellent. In the Egyptian capital, the 8 remains nevertheless the best address for Chinese cuisine, with the added bonus of a majestic view of the longest river in Africa.

Rôtisserie with typical Venetian cuisine. Enjoy on the thumb (or take away) all truly Venetian dishes, from baccalà (try the tris of baccalà con polenta) in the fish Risotto.

If you have not yet succumbed to Bagel's fashion - which would be unfortunate in our opinion - Best Bagels offers twice as many good reasons to crack. At Best Bagels, it's beautiful like pop art, colorful and stuffy, and it's good as to the States (incidentally, it's better to speak language). Inspired by the American delis, Best Bagels is a unique place in Lyon, where you can both buy products from the United States in the grocery store, but also live on site while having the possibility to read foreign magazines. Bagels Instructions: a small round bread with a hole in the center, cut in two and garned according to the desires. Between the classic lox (smoked salmon, Philadelphia cream cheese and pumplette) to the incredible home recipes (based on pastrami, magic chicken, goat's crotches…), bagels manage to remain delicate, light, yet consistent sandwiches. If you want to test American way of life, you can try sauces, cereals and other cakes, with original and intriguing packaging. The products can be found in the 4 Best Bagels on Lyon, located near Mercière, Ampère, Croix Rousse, Gambetta. A full-style address with wide opening hours. See, ya! See ya!