Margherita Pizza is a simple, delicious, classic Italian pizza.
This recipe for gluten free Margherita Pizza is made with crisp gluten free pizza crust, good quality mozzarella cheese, fresh sliced Roma tomatoes, pesto sauce and fresh basil bursting with flavor and fragrant aroma. It’s a real treat!

Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:

* 2 12-inch parbaked gluten free pizza crusts (recipe below)
* 1 cup good quality gluten free pizza sauce (see tips)
* 2 thinly sliced medium Roma tomatoes, remove seeds and blot slices with a paper towel
* 2 tablespoons pesto sauce
* 1/4 cup fresh basil, cut in thin strips
* 8 ounces sliced mozzarella cheese
* 2 tablespoons freshly grated parmesan cheese
* 1/2 - 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, or to taste (optional)

Preparation:
Preheat oven to 450°

1. Divide ingredients evenly between the two pizza crusts.
2. Ladle sauce over crusts, add pesto and spread evenly over crusts with a spoon.
3. Place sliced tomatoes and strips of fresh basil over sauces.
4. Add sliced cheese, parmesan and crushed red pepper flakes.
5. Bake on a cookie cooling rack or a preheated pizza stone for 7-10 minutes, until cheese is bubbly and golden.

Source: Gluten free cooking

I found a place in Rome that can suit your needs: it’s a restaurant that also organizes cocktail parties and aperitifs, it’s a wine bar, a club and a sport café, a pizzeria and a location for parties and events…

This place is named Sport café.

With friends you should go there watching a soccer match and eat a pizza, with your girlfriend you should have a drink on the romantic terrace: they always got an answer!

Try it out…

Italian version

Piazza Navona is a famous city square in Rome, this is the wikipedia’s description.

“It follows the plan of an ancient Roman circus, the 1st century Stadium of Domitian, where the Romans came to watch the agones (”games”): It was known as ‘Circus Agonalis’ (competition arena). It is believed that over time the name changed to ‘in agone’ to ‘navone’ and eventually to ‘navona’.

Defined as a public space in the last years of 15th century, when the city market was transferred to it from the Campidoglio, the Piazza Navona is now the pride of Baroque Roman art history.
It features sculptural and architectural creations by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, whose famous Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers, 1651) stands in the center; by Francesco Borromini and Girolamo Rainaldi, who designed the church of Sant’Agnese in Agone; and by Pietro da Cortona, who painted the galleria in the Pamphilj palace.

The market was again moved in 1869 to the Campo de’ Fiori. The piazza long hosted theatrical shows and horse races. From 1652 until 1866, when the festival was suppressed, it was flooded on every August Saturday and Sunday for elaborate celebrations of the Pamphilj family.

The Piazza Navona contains two additional fountains, sculpted by Giacomo della Porta: the Fontana di Nettuno (1574), located at the northern area of the piazza; and the Fontana del Moro (1576), located at the southern end.”

If you want to visit Piazza Navona you can dine at Navona Notte Restaurant and Pizzeria. There you will taste pizza, pasta and the Roman tipicalties.

Italian version.

Rome is a large city, with many different places and styles inside.

The most tourist areas are the Vatican Dome (San Peter’s Cathedral) and the Colosseum zone.
There’s another historic district that is worth visiting: EUR.
EUR was idealized by Benito Mussolini in 1935 and was supposed to be the expansion of Rome towards the South-West.

As wikipedia says, EUR offers a large-scale image of how urban Italy might have looked, if the Fascist regime had not fallen; wide axially planned streets and austere buildings of either stile Littorio, inspired by ancient Roman architecture, or Rationalism, modern architecture but built using traditional limestone, tuff and marble.
An example is the Civilization Palace, called the Square Colosseum (in the picture).

If you want to go visiting EUR, my advice is to have dinner (or lunch) in Birreria Spaten Restaurant.
An old family run restaurant that offers wonderful typical dishes.
Besides the restaurant pizzeria and the pizza by the slice, Birreria Spaten also takes care of Catering service, parties and receptions.

Italian version.

David is a statue sculpted by Michelangelo at the beginning of XVI century that portrays the King David, the biblical character that challenged Goliath.
This masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture is guarded in Florence (in Accademia Gallery) and has two replicas deployed in the city: one at Piazzale Michelangelo and one outside the Palazzo della Signoria.

The David by Michelangelo is one of the symbols of Florence, and has also named a famous restaurant of the city: Ristorante Pizzeria David.
This restaurant is perfect to spend a “Florentine evening”!

Restaurant pizzeria David
Via della Rondinella, 95/r - Florence

Italian version

There’s a homely trattoria in Rome, a typical restaurant situated in the most homely area of the city.
The Trattoria Moderna is placed in Campo dei Fiori (that means flowers’ field).
Campo de’ Fiori is a particular square: there are no churches, no obelisks, no palaces, but life.

This square has been surfaced with stone just a few centuries ago, and that could explain why it is called “field”. The reference to the flowers is maybe due to Flora, Pompeo’s lover.

Since 1869 it has been the home to a colorful and typical market, that makes Campo dei Fiori a lively area.
In the square rises the monument to the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, that has been burned there in 1600 because of his theories about heliocentrism and the infinity of the universe.

Italian version.

Don’t have much money?
Don’t have much time?
I got the answer!

There’s a kind of fast food in Civitavecchia (near Rome), called Sfizio food (“Sfizio” means something like “fancy”),  where you can eat very well and at anytime, from 8:30 am to 8:00 pm.

There’s also a play-land area for children, where they can have fun with an animator, letting you eat in peace!
I really loved that place, I went there for a birthday and I think it’s really flavorsome and cheap.

Italian version.

… do as the Romans do!
I took a Roman’s advice about a restaurant, and now I give you the same advice: when you’ll visit Rome try out “Il ragno d’oro”, a restaurant/ pizzeria near to the Colosseum.

It’s nice and cheap, and very very central.

Buon appetito!

Italian version.

Winter: time for planning your summer wedding in Rome! Imagine the faces of you relatives and friends when you’ll tell that you want to pronounce “yes” in the Eternal city… they’ll be happy for your wedding and for the wonderful – and free – holiday they’ll spend there.

The biggest problem is, however, that there’s a lot to organize, from the dress (that has to be fabulous) to the accommodation in Rome for your guests, from the church to the location for the party.

If you love Rome but you don’t have idea of the place where to hold the wedding reception, ask for an advice to Eur Cafè: they’ll be glad to recommend you the best solution for your party.

Eur Cafè is a cafè, restaurant and cocktail bar in Rome specialized in food catering for parties and events. They can suggest the best menu for the wedding, and organize everything with a faultless service in the location you’ve chosen or even in their own place.

Eur Cafè has a big terrace with 250 seats, so you can also choose to have there your party with music ‘til late in the night: the restaurant is placed in Eur area, close to the centre of Rome and not far from the main monuments, so it can be easy to reach for the guests.

In the website you can see some photos of a food catering, just to have a little taste of the service’s quality.
Eur Cafè is also a nice place where to spend an evening with friends for an appetizer, a pizza or an after dinner cocktail: is also restaurant, pizzeria and wine bar!

Italian version.

Varese is a beautiful city, named  “the garden city” for its amazing gardens, both of villas and pubblic ones. It’s worth to visit for its old town full of famous  monuments and churches.

To see there is also a beautiful lake called Varese lake.
I can suggest to you a tipical dinner  at Pizzeria Bella Napoli with the Italian specialty: pizza.

It’s the original pizza made like tradition wants, with Neapolitan method. In a rafined and elegant location the Pizzeria Bella Napoli cooks every day different dishes belonging to the italian tradition cuisine. Taste in Varese the original pizza Neapolitan.