Located near Via del Corso, this massive 7,5000 foodie-sanctuary and food emporium featuring a gourmet restaurant, wine bar, pizzeria and kitchenware shop. Housed within a 1930's marble piazza, the ever-expanding selection of restaurants includes a causal first-floor osteria with brick-walls and oversized mirrors utilized for mid-meal primping. There's also a small cheese bar for to-go lunches and even-more casual meals. The upstairs restaurant is more of a serious eating venue with a more tailored décor of club chairs, paneled-walls and separate wine bar for gentlemanly entertaining and lingering business elite.
The Food
Divided between two separate restaurants, the more-casual eatery is a street-level pizzeria specializing in homemade pastas and pizzas offered alongside freshly made salads and simple platters grilled veal, chicken, steak, and fish. More upscale, and somewhat calmer, is the upstairs restaurant featuring a fusion of Italian and Pacific Rim cuisine in such combinations as spaghetti stir-fried with market-fresh vegetables, tempura prawns with spring vegetables and tir-fried scallops with Italian herbs.
Last Word
Not just for food, kitchen-lovers should make use of the gourmet bookstore with one of the largest collection of cookbooks in Rome.
