Pasticceria Dagnino

Their chocolate bars were heavenly (so much so that I’m debating the shipping charge to get more at home!), and the various pastries and dessert delicacies were wonderful. Didn’t eat dinner as it wasn’t really a dinner place, it was obvious their specialty was desserts.

Délicieux petit gâteaux ! Tous hyper frais ! Pas déçu d avoir trouvé cette pâtisserie qui était conseillée par lonely planète. Elle se situe dans une galerie.
Je vous recommande vivement de vous y arrêter. C est vraiment une tuerie !!!

This place might be a good bakery/​café but definitely not a good restaurant. I’m not sure if the fact that we were tourists made them think it was ok to the serve microwave reheated pasta and we wouldn’t know the difference. Very dissapointed and felt as I was taken advantage of, not going back nor recommend it to anyone.

Good place for a quick bite — lots of options for everyone. Gets busy during lunch but it moves fast.

Bear in mind that Dagnino’s forte is not the restaurant part, pasta/​mains are fairly standard.
Dagnino started off as a bakery and if you come here make sure you stock up on Sicilian desserts (cannoli, cassata, almond cookies) which are almost as good as the ones in Sicily.
Says a Sicilian :-)

Dagnino is recommended in many guidebooks as a pastry shop that’s been around for awhile. It’s nestled in an open mall, and open from 7am until late. They service is friendly although not particularly bothered. This place is perfect if you are staying in the St Regis across the street. My wife and I came here every morning for a cappuccino and a pastry — I recommend the crema filled croissants or buns. For less sweet go with the brioche which is lovely. Standing at the bar will save you almost half. For lunch the panini– ham and cheese or tomato and cheese were very good. The calzone was ok. The cannoli gelato was also decent although there are better gelato options in Rome. Another benefit of this place — it’s a bit more relaxed then pastry shops located on the busy street where throngs of tourists and locals alike pack in.

Amazing food! The eclairs were great! Now the service inside sucks more than a dyson vacuum. Wow they were rude and overcharged me because I decided to sit down to eat my food.

This review is ONLY for their cannoli. And their cannoli are ones of the best I’ve eaten in Rome. Crispy flaky dough with fresh ricotta, so good. I wish I could come back more often.

We had lunch here and found it very enjoyable, but somewhat uneven. This is a tavola calda place, which I like, which is a great and traditional fast lunch option in Italy, and which is similar to the Turkish «hizir yemek» place but which will probably turn off many Americans at first impression. This has prepared food ready to go, hot or cold, and one orders at the counter. Most of the food was very good and the arancina (stuffed fried rice croquettes) were delicious. The place is nice with an attractive somewhat art-​deco décor, it’s in a small galleria (shopping mall) with eating at tables out in front. They have many sweetsof various sorts — cakes, chocolate, puddings, candied fruit, etc., to have there or take away. These are pretty good but a number were disappointing. We found the chocolates a bit waxy and bland and hard. Some other desserts were a bit bland and overly sweet. Others were good, though, and we liked the food.

This cute little place, located in a galleria near the train station, is a fun place to stop for lunch and desserts. They have Really great cannolis, Marzipans, Gelato and some savory items.

Let me start off by saying that the pastries are pretty good.
However, that being said, you can find good pastries pretty much everywhere in Rome and not have to spend as much as we did.
My husband and I each had a Cappuccino and a pastry and we were charged 29Euros for it. One should not ever have to spend that much for a pastry. Then to add insult to injury, we had to wait almost 15 minutes just for the guy to charge our credit card, for whatever reason.
Stay AWAY from this place!

MICROWAVED FOOD, RIPOFFS AND POOR SERVICE! AVOID AT ALL COSTS!
Came at 9pm, there were only a few people seated and eating — should have taken this as a sign. My girlfriend tried to order a certain pasta, but the waiter told us they only had 3 out of the 6 pastas listed on the menu! What’s the point of having a menu when half of the food is not available? I was quite hungry by then so I overlooked that. I ordered chicken with potatoes.
The food we had was TERRIBLE! After coming from great food at similar prices in Venice, this was just ridiculously bad. My chicken came as one piece of meat with all the bones in it (like something I would get from McDonald’s or a fast food restaurant), and they actually dared to serve the pasta in the shape of a PIE! Everything was CLEARLY MICROWAVED. The dishes were all dry and gritty, TASTED WORSE THAN INSTANT FOOD. After that, I walked into the shop to see the very same chicken pieces I ordered on the shelf as though it was leftovers for the day!!! I can’t believe they dared to serve people food that look like they were going to go to the trash.
The bill came out to be 29 euro for just 2 terrible dishes. I paid 30 euros, waited for change to be returned, but after 10 minutes didn’t get my change. The server had the audacity to think that the 1 euro was tips/​tried to short-​change us, hoping we’d not notice. When I blatantly asked him for the change, he took really long, and then returned us LOTS OF COINS (.20, .10, .05), claiming that they only had these coins left — from one whole day of service? I doubt so.
In short, DON’T GO HERE. It is the WORST PLACE I’ve been to.
Don’t ruin your trip to Rome like we did with this horrible experience

Great place to grab breakfast, lunch or dinner. The bakery is incredible. Grab a coffee and a cannoli from Sergio our waiter. Walk thru the store and marvel at the home made cakes, cookies and candies. The restaurant is clean, and the staff friendly.
Love it here.
MAKE SURE YOU GET A CANNOLI! JUST THE BEST!

I was definitely disappointed by this place. Maybe I came too late for dinner (~8:00 pm?) but practically everything we wanted to order they were out of. Let me explain.
Basically they have plates of food that are already made (think Kroger) and whatever you order, they just scoop and heat up for you. We didn’t realize this since they handed us menus but quickly found out when they told us they were out of everything we wanted by that time. What’s the point of having a menu then if it really doesn’t represent your inventory, and I can’t order from it?
I ended up ordering the cannelloni which tasted horrible. I didn’t even finish it, and it was expensive. On top of all that, the service was horrible. The cashier seemed upset when we went up to her to pay. «Hey lady, I’m upset your food sucks too, OK?»
Worst restaurant I visited during my 4 day stay in Italy.

Pasticceria Dagnino is where you can get your Sicilian food fix when in Rome. The restaurant is large with lots of outdoor seating and the space is divided in two with the right serving prepared foods and drinks+gelato while the left has baked goods and sweets.
We were in Sicily for a week before arriving in Rome so I must say nothing we had at Pasticceria Dagnino even came close in terms of taste or quality but the place is popular with locals working close by for a quick lunch and if you do have a sweet tooth, the baked goods are decent, especially the almond meringue cookies.
A-​OK but not the best.

Best gelato we had in Rome and super friendly staff!

The day we were to leave Rome, we had no sightseeing plans, just get some food (it was late morning), pack up our room and make our way to the cruise port.
We wandered our hotels neighborhood for a place serving more than pastries at this hour of the day. We came upon this café which had some other breakfast choices.
The café was very nice and big, seating was at tables in the plaza walkway. Staff was very helpful. We both ordered sandwiches and drinks. The sandwiches were very tasteless, we had better sandwiches from street vendors. We got some pastries to go, which were good.
It was a sad ending to our Roman Holiday.

When in, Rome eat where the Romans eat… this is a great spot, it doesn’t just serve desserts but also food and drinks; this place is a «Tavola Calda» where you can just point to the already prepared food, they’ll put it on a plate and bring it to your table…
The service is great, the food is also tast and many desserts to pick from after your meal.
Stop by for lunch and or dinner and I’m sure you’ll love it.
Ciao !

A nice genuine sicilian café & pastecciria. They are originated from Palermo and have opened a branch in Roma. All dishes are homemade with fresh products. Very typical dishes: arancine, pastas, pizze, pasticce, gelati, the place is in a little gallery quite near the piazza della Republicca.

Sweet (and savoury) heaven from Sicily. The Rome branch of Dagnino is tucked away behind the dramatic curve of the Piazza Repubblica, in Galleria Esedra. There is only one other branch, in Palermo, Sicily.
Dagnino is a family owned and run café/​restaurant/​patisserie under cover in an arcade behind the right hand curve of Piazza Repubblica as you approach from Termini Station. Dagnino is the bees knees; the perfect introduction to Rome and Southern Italy. Dagnino is not expensive either!
The youngest of our party was fondly indulged with a mozarella rich Pizza Margherita; he loved it and cooed over it for ages, savouring each delicious mouthful. The child’s parents modestly nibbled a selection of sandwiches. That said, no miserable wet lettuce, soggy tomato or limp ham on Mother’s Pride bread here. No. Dagnino’s sandwiches were made with herb rich and savoury foccacia, drenched in olive oil, with marinated, thinly sliced, flavour rich roast vegetables, parma ham and mozarella. There were probably more fillings than bread in these doorstoppers which fed two adults very well indeed (and just Euro 8.40 or about £7).
The other half had Ravioli stuffed with Ricotta and Spinach which was smothered in a peppery, olive oil rich tomato sauce and was savoured with lip smacking comedic rapture, perhaps the only way to describe the superb, summery, savoury flavour.
I chose roast chicken with potatoes, a deceptively simple dish that is so often the undoing of a restaurant. The chicken was perfectly roasted and flavoursome but moist too whilst the potatoes had a vibrant garlic and rosemary ‘zing’ grounded in perfect, nutty, olive oil — nicely semi-​crisp with an almost buttery interior.
Dagnino is a café, equaly happy to serve you an espresso or capuccino as a full lunch, a single pastry or a gift box — whatever suits you. It seems to dominate the Galleria Esedra with it’s gift shop of Sicilian tablewares, restuarant and café, outdoor seating and superb cake shop.
The cakes are truly to die for, I know I had more than one! I’m still alive. .. but oh, the cakes!