Armando al Pantheon

Une trattoria familiale à l'ombre du Panthéon depuis 1961, qui sert toujours, on ne sait comment, d'honnêtes classiques romains à des prix honnêtes, à quelques mètres de la place la plus touristique de la ville. Réserver — ce n'est plus un secret.

Being a two-minute walk from the Pantheon could easily have turned this into a tourist trap decades ago; instead it's stayed a genuinely local trattoria that happens to sit in the most touristed square in the city, which is exactly why it needs booking rather than relying on walk-in tourist traffic. It's closed Sundays, unusually for a restaurant in this location — plan around it if that's the only day you have free.