Cacio e pepe
Rome, Italy
The read// why locals go
A Prati trattoria on Via Giuseppe Avezzana that named itself after the dish Rome argues about most. Cacio e Pepe sits in the quiet grid behind Lepanto, a residential stretch where the tourist crowds thin out and the tables fill with people who live around the corner. The kitchen works the Roman canon straight: carbonara, amatriciana, pasta e fagioli, cooked the way the neighbourhood expects rather than the way a guidebook photographs. Seventeen independent local sources point here, which in a city this saturated says something. Mains land around €16, ordered à la carte, in a room that has never pretended to be anything grander than a trattoria.
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Via Giuseppe Avezzana 11, 00195 — Rome
The read// why locals go
A Prati trattoria on Via Giuseppe Avezzana that named itself after the dish Rome argues about most. Cacio e Pepe sits in the quiet grid behind Lepanto, a residential stretch where the tourist crowds thin out and the tables fill with people who live around the corner. The kitchen works the Roman canon straight: carbonara, amatriciana, pasta e fagioli, cooked the way the neighbourhood expects rather than the way a guidebook photographs. Seventeen independent local sources point here, which in a city this saturated says something. Mains land around €16, ordered à la carte, in a room that has never pretended to be anything grander than a trattoria.