Carciofi alla Giudia (the Italian name for Jewish Artichokes) are a typical Roman recipe.
I found it on Food Network.

Ingredients

* 12 young artichokes
* 2 fresh lemons
* Salt
* Freshly ground black pepper
* 2 cups olive oil
* Grated Pecorino Romano, for garnish

Directions

Trim the outer leaves of each artichoke and the stem to 2 inches long. Using a peeler, peel the stems of each artichoke. In a bowl, combine the artichokes and juice from the lemons. Cover with ice water and allow to sit for 2 hours. Drain well. Using your hands, flatten each artichoke to the shape of a flower.

In a large earthenware pan, over medium heat, add the olive oil. Add the artichokes, side by side and stem up. Cook the artichokes until tender, turning the artichokes several times for overall browning. Using a wooden spoon, press each artichoke firmly to the bottom of the pan so that the leaves flatten out. Continue to cook for 10 minutes.

Carefully sprinkle a little water over the artichokes, this will crisp the artichokes. Continue to cook for 2 minutes.

Place the artichokes on a large platter and serve. Garnish with grated Pecorino Romano.

If you are visiting Rome and you don’t want to eat in a touristic place my suggestion is Fresia.

Fresia is the Italian word for the flower Freesia.
Fresia is a bar, a restaurant and a wine-bar where Romans go daily for a cappuccino at breakfast,  for a brunch during the lunchbreak, for a drink in the late afternoon (during the happy hour), for  dinner or  after…

There you can taste traditional Roman cooking and Italian wines while listening to live music.
So, for a sandwich or a drink, with your family or for a romantic dinner, try out Fresia.

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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…

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Elegant gentlemen with sophisticated tastes smoking cigars in a stylish cafè… those were the days!
In the heart of Rome, near the Colosseum, you can experience this ancient high society personally.

There’s an historic cafè, called Caffè Martini, that keeps this world alive.
Caffè Martini, besides the famous restaurant and coffee bar, also offers a Cigar bar, where to taste wines and spirits, while smoking a quality cigar.

Feel like a nineteenth-century intellectual!

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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.

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As you well know, food is really important for Italian people and, if you want to say that you visited Rome, you have to taste what they use to cook there: ancient recipes and typical flavors.

If you want to eat what Romans eat, try Osteria Le Streghe.
It’s a restaurant in the centre of Rome, but not in a tourist area.
It is a real Italian trattoria, that offers typical Roman specialties.
It’s perfect for those who want to really live Rome and its traditions, without dining in tourist restaurants.

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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.

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The traditional Roman cuisine is very rich of particular recipes, like the Abbacchio, the Pasta all’amatriciana or the Pajata.
On wikipedia I found the description of the Roman Pajata.

Rigatoni alla Pajata is a classic dish of Roman pasta from the region of Lazio. The dish can still be found in some traditional trattorias in Rome.

Pajata is the term for the intestines of an “un-weaned” calf, i.e., only fed on its mother’s milk. The intestines are cleaned, but the milk is left inside. When cooked, the combination of heat and the enzyme rennet in the intestines coagulates the milk and creates a sort of thick, creamy, cheese-like sauce.

These can be served simply seasoned and grilled (also very common in Argentina and Uruguay, where they are called chinchulines or chotos) or in the traditional Italian dish in which pajata are stewed in a typical tomato sauce and served with Rigatoni.

If you want to taste this and many other typical Roman dishes, you can try out Da Palazzo 2 restaurant, a traditional trattoria in Rome.

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It’s cool and we are friends on Facebook.
Who am I talking about?

The answer is the 4 Colonne Restaurant. Take a look to their website and you’ll understand…
It’ s a really fashionable place, it’s no accident that this restaurant is attended by celebrities!

The Ristorante 4 Colonne is placed in Navona Square, in the centre of Rome, and I think that having dinner there is just like an experience…

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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.

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