We’ve decided to include this restaurant in our list not only because of the splendid Portico d'Ottavia and the Jewish ghetto, but also due to its relatively accessible prices, above all considering the quality/price ratio. It was opened in 1929 and is certainly one of the best restaurants in the centre of Rome as to fame and tradition, since it offers in its menu traditional recipes from Roman-Jewish authentic cuisine, in a truly “Roman” atmosphere.

The restaurant has five rooms and a bigger room, for a total of about 200 places. The interior is sober and spacious and looks like a trattoria. During the summer you can also eat outdoor, which adds about 120 places to its capacity.

This restaurant uses simple and genuine ingredients to get authentic tastes, just like Roman Jews used to do. One of the most traditional dish of the ghetto is the so called artichoke “alla giudia”, a fried artichoke, cooked with a specific procedure in order to make it well crunchy. Moreover, you should taste fried battered codfish fillet, ox tail “alla vaccinara” (with lard, carrots and parsley), fish soup or bucatini pasta “all’amatriciana” (with tomato sauce, fried bacon and black pepper), together with one of numerous wine bottles of their cellar, partly extracted from the ancient ruins of the Portico d'Ottavia.