Within six minutes on foot of the square there is a bakery pulling pizza bianca from the oven all morning, a coffee bar that bakes its pastry on site, a trattoria cooking Roman oxtail pasta and a formal dining room across from the Chiesa Nuova. The six places below take you from breakfast to a late dinner.
The short list
6 places, in the order they appear below.
- 1Forno Campo de' FioriHot pizza bianca filled with mortadellaWalk from Campo de' Fiori: about 1 minKind of place: Bakery
- 2RomolettoCrocchettoni and the Giulia pizzaWalk from Campo de' Fiori: about 1 minKind of place: Restaurant, pizza
- 3BarnumHand-brewed filter and almond croissantWalk from Campo de' Fiori: about 3 minKind of place: Café, bakery
- 4Slow - Specialty Coffee & Pastry LabSeasonal laminated pastryWalk from Campo de' Fiori: about 6 minKind of place: Café, breakfast
- 5Cesare al PellegrinoRigatoni with coda alla vaccinaraWalk from Campo de' Fiori: about 6 minKind of place: Restaurant, pasta
- 6PiperoRomaA long, formal dinnerWalk from Campo de' Fiori: about 6 minKind of place: Fine dining
Where can you grab a quick bite on Campo de’ Fiori itself?
Two addresses on the piazza are worth the stop, both about a minute from the middle of the square. Forno Campo de’ Fiori is the morning stop for hot pizza bianca, sold by weight. Romoletto is for sitting down: Roman pasta, fried snacks and thin pizza from a wood-fired oven. You can eat well here without leaving the square.
Pizza bianca comes out of the bakery’s ovens on long peels, blistered and salty, and goes into paper while it is still too hot to hold. Tomato and filled versions sit alongside. Market traders and builders empty the trays all morning. The filled one comes from a smaller counter around the corner, not the main bakery. There the bread is split open and filled with mortadella, a snack meant to be eaten on the spot before it cools.
Forno Campo de' Fiori
Hours: Mon–Sat 08:00–14:30, 16:30–19:30 · Sun closed
Address: Campo de' Fiori, 22, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
Romoletto’s menu includes carbonara and rigatoni alla gricia, along with thin, crisp pizza and a cocktail bar for after dinner. If you want something fried, order the giant crocchettoni over the classic supplì. On the Giulia pizza, with yellow tomatoes and stracciatella, a sprinkle of lemon zest cuts through the richness.
Romoletto
Hours: Mon–Sun 09:00–01:00
Address: P.za Campo de' Fiori, 47, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
Where to have breakfast and coffee near Campo de’ Fiori?
For breakfast, walk a few minutes off the square to one of two specialty coffee bars. Barnum, about three minutes away on Via del Pellegrino, bakes its viennoiserie in the building and serves pancakes as well as pastry. Slow is a little further, about six minutes along Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, and its counter is known for laminated pastry with seasonal fillings. Both take the coffee as seriously as the pastry.
Barnum moved a few doors along into a former foundry. Three shopfronts were opened into one room around a five-metre counter, built low so nothing stands between you and whoever makes your coffee. More than thirty European micro roasteries rotate through the grinders. Order the hand-brewed filter, which changes with the roaster of the week, and have it with the almond croissant the pastry chef bakes twice. There are no reservations. The low stools are easiest to get first thing in the morning or in the early afternoon.
Barnum
Hours: Mon–Sun 08:00–15:30
Address: Via del Pellegrino, 63/65, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
At Slow, come for the counter: carefully extracted specialty coffee beside croissants and Danish with very precise lamination. Look out for the limited weekly and monthly editions, which follow whatever the market has at that moment. Depending on the season, the morning case can hold a Danish made with fresh figs that lasts only a few weeks, or a savoury pastry built around vegetables from the market.
Slow - Specialty Coffee & Pastry Lab
Hours: Mon–Sun 08:00–20:00
Address: Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 73, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
Where to eat a Roman dinner near Campo de’ Fiori?
For dinner, our two picks suit very different evenings. Cesare al Pellegrino cooks classic Roman pasta and long-cooked meat in the old rooms of a long-loved trattoria. PiperoRoma, across from the Chiesa Nuova, is the formal option: a long seasonal dinner of contemporary Italian meat and fish, the kind people book for anniversaries. Pick by the evening you want.
Cesare al Pellegrino is the centro storico outpost of Leonardo Vignoli, the chef behind Da Cesare al Casaletto, and it occupies the former Trattoria Settimio al Pellegrino. Start with the rigatoni with coda alla vaccinara: oxtail braised slowly in a dense, sweet-sour tomato stew. Then have the picchiapò, shredded beef simmered for hours with caramelised onions and a little spice.
Cesare al Pellegrino
Hours: Mon–Tue 12:30–15:00, 18:30–23:00 · Wed closed · Thu–Sun 12:30–15:00, 18:30–23:00
Address: Via del Pellegrino, 117, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
PiperoRoma carries the name of restaurateur Alessandro Pipero. At the stove, chef Ciro Scamardella, who grew up in Campania and trained in Rome’s kitchens, writes a seasonal menu of contemporary takes on Italian meat and fish. The dining room is small and fills most evenings. Reserve well ahead, and plan on a long, formal meal.
PiperoRoma
Hours: Mon 19:00–23:30 · Tue–Fri 12:00–14:30, 19:00–23:30 · Sat 19:00–23:30 · Sun closed
Address: Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 246, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
Which place near Campo de’ Fiori fits which meal?
Use the table to match the meal to the place. Everything is within a six-minute walk of the piazza, so distance rarely decides it. Time of day and pace do. The bakery and both coffee bars cover breakfast, and Romoletto suits a casual meal on the square. The two dinner rooms are for sitting down properly.
A morning stop and a dinner fit easily into the same day. Opening days vary, so check each card before you set out.
