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(12 Via dei Pastini. Tel. 06 679 0798) A pleasant restaurant where Pietro and his family will take good care of you. Try the fresh pasta rolled in a great big hunk of Parmiggiano.
(30 Piazza delle Cinque Scole. Tel. 06 687 4216) Typical Roman-Jewish cuisine in the heart of the old ghetto. Sample the delights of home-made pasta with cacio cheese and black pepper, or Roman-style tripe.
(53 Via Monte della Farina. Tel. 06 686 9473) This tiny restaurant has a similarly small but regularly changing menu that reflects the owner’s Friulian origins. Try the asparagus risotto or savour the cold meats and cheeses.
(49 Via Ludovisi. Tel. 06 4781 2752) This rooftop restaurant offers spectacular views over the city and serves modern Italian cooking. Try the casonelli pasta with pumpkin and almond biscuits, or the divine chocolate mousse. Of course you could just go for the fresh fish, caught by the restaurant’s own fishing boat!
(73 Piazza Pasquino. Tel. 06 6880 1094) A popular wine bar, near Piazza Navona, that offers wines from around the world. There are outside tables and a selection of food, from onion soup to wonderful desserts.
(43 Via Guglielmo Pepe. Tel. 06 4434 0262) Near Termini station, this renovated art-nouveau theatre offers traditional Italian and jazz music, as well as great stand-up comedy.
(20 Via degli Argonauti. Tel. 06 574 6999) Boogie on down to a range of hip hop and house music. Open Thursday to Saturday nights.
On the ground
Shop
Kinder on your wallet than Via dei Condotti, Via del Corso is the city’s longest and main shopping street. Great for clothes, CDs, sunglasses, shoes and leather goods.
Insider Tip
Piazza Vittorio contains the relics of the 17th-century house of the Marquis Massimiliano Palombara. Known as the Porta Magica, the door of the villa holds a coded and undecyphered inscription with instructions on how to turn base metals into gold.
Key Area
Monti is a narrow maze of lovely streets and alleys off Via Nazionale, dotted with wine bars, restaurants and cafés. Homesick Brits can even catch a Premier League match at Finnegan's pub on Via Leonina, then go for an Indian meal on nearby Via dei Serpenti.
This month
Catch the exhibition The Legend of Speed: Art, Motorization and Society in 20th-century Italy at the newly reopened Palazzo delle Esposizioni (until 18 May. 194 Via Nazionale).
Day Tripping
Sabina
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Just 50 kilometres north of Rome, Sabina boasts some of the lushest and loveliest landscape in the Lazio region. It's also home to the vast medieval monastery at Farfa, once considered a rival to the Vatican as the centre of Christendom, and very much worth a visit.
No way!
The Vatican may be the world’s smallest nation state but it contains one of the world’s biggest museums.
