Tempio di Mecenate

A deux pas de la gare de Termini se trouve ce lieu, posé sur une petite place au calme.
Si le temps vous le permet, installez-​vous sur la terrasse.
La pizza y est très bonne, atypique car non ronde, une pâte sans commune mesure avec ce que l’on peut connaitre habituellement, bien cuite et gratinée … :D
Le service est sympa et souriant.
La cuisine est ouverte et on peut donc facilement voir que ça s’agite pour envoyer du lourd.
Je n’ai pas eu de place pour un dessert, mais peut-​être fait-​il vous réserver pour la superbe boulangerie-​pâtisserie qui jouxte ce restaurant: «Panella» ;)
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The Indian guy was a rude but I doubt they care about their Unilocal ratings to even bother reprimanding him. He stated that I needed to sit at a single person table. I reached for a seat and he said no and pushed the table to create a 6 seat table. Like really dude? Who the eff else is in her right now?
Off to a bad start but…
Ordered the Cacio e pepe spaghetti and omg was that amazing. Pasta is freshly made in house and flavor is point on. The Caprese Salad looked like something I could make at home. But I was really craving it.
My chianti was standard. Nothing extraordinary because… It’s chianti.
Got into Rome late. Otherwise I would’ve been dining at the resto down the street.
I’d recommend it for late night dining. Don’t come here for the service.

food was fine, nothing special, nothing bad. rudest waiter have ever met — tarnished the experience a bit.
il cibo era abbastanza buono, niente particolare, ma niente male. però…il cameriere era scortese al massimo. non ci tornerei

My worst experience in Rome. The waiter was extremely rude. As soon he took our order he advised that a 10% tip is required. In addition, there is a service charge of $ 1.50 euro per person (we had 4 people). He took very long to bring out the food and it was all terrible. Our meal was like 40 Euros but we had to pay 6 euros for service and 4 euros for demanded tip (10 euros total). Who the heck demands a tip? I would of tipped anyways but was completely turned off by how shady the waiter is. And I’m pretty sure he lied about the additional tip on top of the service charge. I have no respect for people who intentionally take advantage of others for money. I don’t know his name but believe it was the Indian waiter. Stay away!

My wife and I came here after a recommendation from the hotel we were staying at and the food is good. We had the mussels and clams to start and the spaghetti alla carbonara and a pizza. Service was typical of a European restaurant as it took almost an hour to get our food.

Nice servers, but that’s about it.
The wine was terrible and the food was below average. The only reason I came here is because the restaurant I wanted to go to was fully booked. I imagine that why most everyone there was there for the same reason.
I became pretty sick later on in the evening but I have a feeling that had more to do with the poor quality wine.
Make reservations elsewhere to avoid eating here.

We came upon this restaurant after discovering that the restaurant that we wanted to go to was closed because it is August and half of the restaurants in Rome closes for holiday. It was very busy but we managed to snag an outdoor table. We order the pizza speck which seems to be prosciutto pizza. The pizza was good, true Italian (thin crust and light on pizza sauce), and came out quickly. We also ordered the fettuccine with porcine mushroom and omgosh it was delicious! The pasta is fresh and handmade and the mushrooms were cooked to just the right amount of tenderness. The house red wine for 4.5 euros for the carafe was just fine.
It was a great meal in rome sitting outside for 26 euros and 5 minutes from our b&b and train station. Go try it!

I ordered chicken with pepperoni and cheese not sure how they call it on there menu but I made sure it was gluten free and when my meal came out it was plain chicken with a side of potatoes which was another option on the menu and certainly not what I ordered. The meal was very simple and you can’t really go wrong it was only 12 euro and my hubby got a pizza which was decent and very thin crust the liter house wine was 9 euro which is great but there is A 3 euro per person fee which was no where on he menu or mentioned and that’s he highest we have seen anywhere!!! If it had been stated to begin with we most likely would have not picked this place to try. Food was ok location for us was perfect and I loved the outdoor seating but won’t go back

Big disappointment. Started with stale bread — clearly not from today. The grilled vegetable plate was OK, the penne al’arrabiata was abundant and spicy, but nothing special. Biggest disappointment was the veal scallopine al limone — utterly tasteless. In this neighborhood, at these proces, there are better options. Also service fairly slow and unattentive, but that may only reflect our waiter.

Wow, da haben sie ihrem Ruf mal wieder alle Ehre gemacht, die Italiener …
Eigentlich ganz nett gelegen, zentral, ruhig, eine halbe Sonnenecke und dann wird man vom Service und vom Essen einfach nur enttäuscht.
Mal davon abgesehen, dass ich die Portionen als eher klein empfunden habe bei doch eher durchschnittlichen bis hohen Preisen, waren unsere Pizzen ziemlich fettig. Also eigentlich Teig mit Fett (viel Öl, viel fetttriefender Käse). Nichts Besonderes, aber essbar. Und né verbrannte Käseecke hat man auch hierzulande schon mal.
Richtig schlimm war nur der Service — wir hatten von Anfang an nicht das Gefühl, willkommen zu sein. Nennt es Einbildung, aber wenn ich in einem halb leeren Restaurant ewig warten muss, bis sich ein Kellner an meinen Tisch bemüht und es dann noch nicht mal schafft, mir in die Augen zu gucken, wenn ich meine Bestellung aufgebe, dann nenn ich das schlicht arrogante Ignoranz. Meinetwegen auch ignorante Arroganz.
Fehlende Servietten wurden nicht nachgereicht, man fragte uns auch nicht, ob wir noch etwas bestellen wollen, als unsere Gläser schon minutenlang leer vor sich hin gähnten.
Also noch mal: Wegem dem Essen sollte man nicht hin. Wegen der Gastfreundlichkeit schon gar nicht. Es sei denn, man steht drauf, wie ‘né Küchenschabe behandelt zu werden und dann auch noch per se 3 Euro Servicegebühr mit der Rechnung präsentiert zu bekommen. Ich steh nicht drauf. Mein Freund auch nicht. Deswegen gehn wir da auch nicht wieder hin. Deswegen auch dieser eine Stern.
PS: Offenkundig italienische Gäste wurden sehr herzlich bedient, man kam sogar regelmäßig an deren Tisch um zu plaudern (war ja nicht viel los) und den Hauswein nachzuschenken. Also, ihr Italiener die ihr da wohnet oder zu Gast seid in der ewigen Stadt, einen Versuch ist es — für Euch — vielleicht wert!

I’m on my first trip to Rome (and Italy, for that matter), and in just 5 days we’ve eaten here 3 times. The prices are spot on with other trattorias we’ve been to on this trip, but the food is twice as good. We haven’t had any issues with the staff not understanding English, and the menus are written in both languages, so there isn’t really a problem ordering. My wife and son downed the clams and mussels twice, and although the pizza was good, what really shines is the pasta. Like the last reviewer said, they cook it perfectly al dente so that there’s just a hint of under-​doneness almost, but it also means that it will cook up to a perfect texture as you wait for it to cool off to eat. The Spaghetti alla Amatriciana is a dish of wonder — it is so tasty that I could not stop eating it well past the point of being full. Also worth trying is the Roman Chicken. The lemon and chocolate cakes are great, but the lemon sorbet is the best way to finish the meal — it’s much more a drink than something you eat with a spoon. My wife also said the espresso is done perfectly. Very good wine list, and what’s more fun than pouring it out of a pitcher? Late lunches and late dinners get very busy — I recommend getting here on the early side, being around 1p and 7p in Rome. I really can’t recommend this little find more heartily.

During my trip to Rome, I made a new friend who was traveling solo, and we decided to get some dinner and experience the traditional Italian way of eating dinner since we already ate pizza that day. One of the most frustrating experiences in Rome is finding a good value restaurant that is not expensive and serves good quality food. We walked around, and decided to eat here mainly because we wanted eat dinner badly.
We ordered the following:
Spaghetti alla Carbonara — A quintessential Roman Italian dish. € 8.50.
Lombatta di Vitella — I decided to get some veal. This is a T-​Bone pork chop. € 13.50.
Ravioli — My friend really wanted to order this dish. € 9.
Vitello Tonnato — Veal doused in tuna sauce. My friend decided to get this. € 12.50.
The spaghetti was really good, almost «al dente» style pasta. I really liked the creaminess of the sauce, giving the pasta a nice flavour. The veal steak was freshly cooked, and very tender. It was probably one of the most tender pork dishes I have eaten. My friend enjoyed the Ravioli and I thought it was not bad after eating a piece. The tomato sauce was good and I liked the softness of the pasta. The Veal in Tuna sauce was tender, and tasty, but the presentation looked very unimpressive.
The staff does not seem to know English, so we had to point to which dish we wanted and pronounce the proper Italian words to them. The location is decent, it’s near the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele station of the Rome Metro. The interior is nice, the setting is good for a dinner appointment.
Overall, my new friend and I had a tasty Italian dinner, and we were very satisfied, but it was fairly expensive. The main reason I am giving this place a good rating is because I thought the food was actually tasty and the service was actually effective. It’s not a bad choice to get some food, but I may not come back here again if I am on a really tight budget.