Osteria La Quercia

Osteria La Quercia sits on a small, quiet square a short walk from Campo de’ Fiori, close enough to the city’s best-known sights. The kitchen buys from small growers and organic suppliers and lets its dishes shift as the seasons change. Its reputation rests on Roman pasta, with spaghetti alla Nerano, amatriciana and cacio e pepe among the plates people come for, and the meat side of the menu includes cutlets of tender veal.

Ask to sit outside, beneath the square’s oak: even with the noise of Campo de’ Fiori just steps away, that spot ranks among the calmest and prettiest in Rome.