Dar Buttero

Sehr nettes Lokal mit hervorragendem Essen. Penne Arrabiata leicht scharf und gut gewürzt. Auch der Vorspeisenteller des Hauses ist empfehlenswert. Gutes Preis-​/​Leistungsverhältnis in einem familiengeführten Betrieb. Leider ist das Lokal auf Unilocal am falschen Standort angezeigt. Siehe Foto.

Absolutely AWFUL! If there was a ‘minus 5 star’ this is the rate it will get.
Well, let me explain how it all began. Me and my boyfriend wanted to celebrate my birthday and after reading some reviews here on Unilocal we decided to give it a shot. I called and reserved a table but when we arrived to the restaurant they more or less forgot about the reservation. They let us stand in the middle of the restaurant for about 10 minutes looking like stupid and without even making any effort of letting us sit done a the empty tables that we could see existed close to the door. Finally we got a table but of course at the worst possible location: in the middle of the restaurant’s highway, where everybody was passing in a rush and pushing us all the time. After a while a big group left the restaurant and we decided to move to another table then. It took about 20 minutes for them to clean one table for us! Again we found ourself standing in the middle of a room looking like stupid while waiting for them. One of the waiters totally ignored us, even though I was speaking to her in Italian! Very very very rude! She even ignored her own ‘tables’. There were two guys who wanted to pay and she totally ignored them. They were about to leave without paying because she refuses to look at them! Finally one of them had to go to the pay desk/​cashier to be able to pay.
When we realized that they forgot about us again we moved to another table where they could see us better and where two other guys recently left because they also were ignored. Well, I now realized that after seeing 3 couples leave the restaurant because they didn’t get any attention we would also have done the same thing. We somehow wanted to give them a chance and decided to stay. Big mistake!
Finally we got the chance order and thought that this could not get worse, oh boy so wrong we were! After waiting for over one hour for the pizza that I order and seeing that tables behind us got their food (including pizza) even though they got there recently, I was ready to stand up and leave but the pizza arrived. Again, I regret that I didn’t leave because the pizza was just awful! Cold and tasteless capricciosa… After a while the second course came in, a carpaccio which cost 18 €!!! The most expansive meal on the menu and it just look so sad… small plate, a small piece of carpaccio and some sad Parmesan… oh what a waste! At this point I decided to no longer stay here, I reached my limits, stood up and left. They not only destroyed the dinner but also my birthday.

My girlfriend and i went there yesterday because of the good recommendstions on Unilocal.We reserved a table at 20:30 in advance. When we arrived, the restaurant was super full and there was no table reserved for us at all. After asking the serveur we were ignored for other 10 minutes (standing in the middle of the restaurant). After asking 1000 times more we finally had a table, which we changed afterwards 3 times!!!
After then we had to wait other 30 Minutes for the drinks and more than one hour for the food. The quality of the food (Pizza & Pasta) was not on a good level too.
Could be, that we just picked the wrong day, but the service was catastrophic and the food average. The location by the way is super cute.

Eigentlich sollte ich über dieses nette Lokal besser nichts schreiben, damit es auch weiterhin so gemütlich bleibt und nicht von immer mehr Touristen entdeckt wird… :-)
Aber ich will ja nicht so sein.
Vor dem ersten Besuch in Rom hatten wir Dar Buttero noch als so genannten Geheimtipp entdeckt und waren gleich begeistert. Mittlerweile haben wir schon von mehreren Leuten unabhängig voneinander gehört, dass dieses Lokal ja wohl der beste Tipp überhaupt ist — und auch noch im so touristischen Trastevere!
Der schlichte und fast zu übersehende Eingang des Lokals steht im Gegensatz zum rustikal geprägten Inneren und dem charmanten Innenhof mit rankendem Grün und nur wenigen Tischen — ideal für eine Mittagspause im Schatten und auch abends während der heißen Sommermonate zu empfehlen.
Die Speisekarte umfasst klassische italienische Vorspeisen (Antipasto, Schinken mit Melone, Bresaola), Minestrone, Zuppa Pavese und Tortellini in Brodo, Pilz– oder Meeresfrüchterisotto, allerlei Pasta-​Spezialitäten, Fleisch– und Fischgerichte (Ossobuco, Dorade, gegrillte Scampi…) und auch etliche Pizza-​Variationen.
Der Service ist freundlich, das Ambiente familiär und nicht zu touristisch geprägt — zumindest bei meinen Besuchen.
Römische Küche nach bester Hausmannsart!
Bei meinem nächsten Mal in Rom auch wieder ein absolutes Muss.

A perfect neighborhood family owned restaurant in the Trastevere area. The night I dined there, the couples were all in the garden patio and there was also several family groups in the main dining area.
They welcome all guests with open arms and I was quite charmed by the young man who is helping serve along with his uncle’s family. He even offered me the wifi password.
Everything is rustic, home style. There are many pastas and main courses to choose from. A little light on the appetizers, but I just got the house antipasto. House red wine is good, you order by quantity, half liter, quarto or 1 liter. I don’t think they have a wine list, it’s not that kind of place. The dessert cake and tarts choices were made by the young server’s mom.
They probably have a hard time competing with the busier side of Trastevere near the Basilica di Santa Maria.

Charming and delicious. Grilled sea bass. Good gnocchi. Great grilled vegetable antipasta. Fresh bread and nice house wine. What more could one want? Chocolate cake of course and that was amazing as well. Lovely neighborhood, cheerful staff. Like visiting a friend’s aunt.. Welcoming even though you don’t really know her.

House wine: first rate. Antipasto: first rate. Pasta: perfect. Saltibuca: ahhhh. A dinner fit for royalty at a commoner’s price. Highly recommended.

This place has a great outdoor rear patio where we sat for hours and basically closed the place down. I even met the nona and thanked her for the wonderful meal.
I wish I was there right now.
The house white wine was a little too sweet so maybe go with the red.

Una de las muchas cosas que tiene Unilocal es dejarse recomendar por otros Unilocalers. En este caso, nuestra primera parada en Roma para cenar, tenía que venir de la mano de tres queridos Unilocalers, que nos recomendaron Il Buttero.
La entrada no llama casi la atención, y menos en una zona tan turística como es El Trastevere, así que casi nos lo pasamos. Cuando entras en pleno mes de Agosto, te lanzas de cabeza al pequeño jardín del fondo, con apenas mesas pero con menos sensación de agobio que en el interior.
Al escuchar nuestro castellano, el camarero cambió automáticamente a nuestro idioma para poder resolvernos las dudas que pudiéramos tener. Al ser nuestra primera cena en Italia, cayeron los platos típicos de la cocina italiana: antipasto para empezar, pizza margarita, risotto …
Para beber medio litro de vino tinto de la casa y, para rematar la faena, tiramisú de postre. Pese a que la comida se notaba casera, el tiramisú no era una gran maravilla. Incluso me hizo pensar que el tiramisú que yo hago está mejor o quizá a este le faltaba un poco de amaretto para mi gusto.
Lo mejor de todo, el resultado final al ver la cuenta: la cena de los 4 nos resultó por poco más de 50 €.
Así que, sin dejarme con la boca abierta, la cena fue correcta y el precio mucho mejor. Gracias Víctor, Julio y Sabine por aconsejarme este sitio.

Sorry. This was very poor Dining experience a very limited menu and no one in the restaurant very poor use of Unilocal.Had we known how desolate we would have stayed in our neighbourhood and skipped the ambivalent service and food quality

My husband and I stayed in an apartment in Trastevere and walked by Il Buttero quite often. It was on my list after reading favorable reviews on both Unilocal and Trip Advisor. So glad we made a point of dining here. Lovely «mom & pop», rustic restaurant. Good, down-​home food. Nothing pretentious. Unfortunately, I’m writing this review a month late so I cannot recall everything we ate but I do remember sharing a delicious seafood risotto with my husband. The arborio rice was cooked perfectly (not always an easy feat). The service was wonderful. The staff was very friendly. We had a table very near to the bread station. It was entertaining watching the server slice 3 loaves at once!
I definitely recommend this restaurant. It is a great value, too!

Allá por junio de 1998 en mi viaje de 3° de BUP fuimos a hacer en bus el típico tour por Italia (Pisa, Florencia, Roma y Venecia) del que guardo gratísimos recuerdos. Pero hay uno que sobresale y es Il Butero (o bien dicho, Dar Buttero).
Uno de los profesores conocía esta hosteria (un restaurante familiar) de haber ido en varios viajes a Roma y unos privilegiados fuimos listos al acompañarle jejeje.
Mi recuerdo de entonces es que el local era pintoresco, algo añejo y, sí, muy italiano de películas. Yo he de admitir que entonces era bastante mojigato con las comidas (cosa que el tiempo ha curado) y que solo me pedí una pizza tonno que era enorme pero me gustó mucho el sitio, y me guarde las señas.
9 años después organicé un viaje con unos amigos por Italia y entre las cosas que quería hacer era volver a aquel restaurante, cosa que hicimos en la estancia en Roma. Y no solo una sino 2 veces fuimos a degustar sus manajares. Aun hoy recuerdo esos gnocchis al pesto, impresionantes, y esos penne all’arrabiatta, picaban muuucho como me gustan mmmm.
Y como dicen que no hay 2 sin 3, 2 años más tarde en una visita express volví a Roma y repetí, esta vez unos ravioli di zuca estupendos.
Tras esta crónica autobiográfica jejeje lo que puedo decir es que en mis 3 visitas alo largo de 11 años, y por lo que me cuentan todos a los que se lo recomiendo y van, es que sigue siendo un sitio fantástico para comer buena comida italiana, que el trato es gratísimo y que para todo lo dicho es muy barato.
Es imprencindible si vas a Roma, si o si.

Il Buttero es una típica y verdadera osteria situada en el conocido barrio del Trastevere en Roma.
Para los amantes de la buena comida italiana casera, este es vuestro sitio.
Precios muy asequibles para la zona donde se encuentra y el lugar es muy acogedor, cuenta con una terraza interior que hará las delicias del visitante si tiene la oportunidad de comer o cenar en ella.
La pasta está espectacular, buena oferta de vinos y el trato de los dueños es exquisito.
La autentica «Mamma» está en la cocina y su marido hace de camarero, lo que convierte al lugar, un sitio donde se respira un aire muy hogareño.
Sin lugar a duda, uno de los mejores sitios en Roma para comer,
Por cierto, nuestros platos: «Saltimbocca alla romana y Bucatini all’amatriciana» estaban espectaculares, qué sabor, qué textura, que … todo…
Si vuelvo a Roma, vuelvo a Il Buttero.

So beautiful it almost made me weep!
We dined at this charming little spot twice while we were in Rome, this was several years ago, but the memory is still fresh in my mind today. The first time we visited for lunch and had a litre of delicious house wine, Gnocchi with Gorgonzola Cream were little pillows of heaven in a thick rich cheese sauce and Bucatini Amatriciana, which my friend raved about. I have to say that it was the most beautiful pasta lunch I’ve ever had (and that’s not just the wine talking)!
This is the sort of Mom and Pop place you search for in Rome, but amid the awful tourist traps and waiters standing outside telling you to come in and eat, this place is an oasis of authenticity.
The second time, my friend and I had dinner there and it was even more delicious than our lunch. They had fried brains, which were yummy. All of their food is so wonderfully done in a lovingly crafted way that you just want to keep eating and eating. During the bustle of the dinner hours a guy showed up playing the accordion and they brought a bottle of Limoncello to our table, which we proceeded to gulp and not be charged for a drop.
The value, quality, food and ambiance here are unparalleled. I dream about this place whenever I crave Italian food and am always saddened that I can’t be there to enjoy. If you visit Rome and aren’t lucky enough to have an Italian Mama cook for you, then please visit this place. Even if you do have an Italian Mama cook for you, go here, anyway, and enjoy everything this little place has to offer.

Looks touristy, but look past this. It’s great
Fantastic pasta, made on site by the Nona working the kitchen… while the men sit around and talk — ahhh Italy (that’s sarcasm ladies, please no hate mail)!
Seriously, my dad said it was the best Amatriciana he ever had. That’s saying something, seeing as he never met a plate, bowl soup pot of pasta he didn’t like.
Great bread from across the street, I would guess. Nice antipasti buffet, but not if you’re not used to Roman food (fried food served cold).
Bathrooms are nice and clean, per my wife. FYI — there is a shower in there…
Great outdoor patio with the coolest retractable roof I have ever seen.
I think the wait staff spoke English as well, but not sure of the quality.