What to eat in Rome
This Rome information blog is written for the guests of the Bed and Breakfast Chaplin Hostel Rome
Rome tourist menu
Almost every restaurant in Rome, whether centrally located or in quarters that are slightly more off the beaten track, will have a special tourist menu, usually in both Italian and English (the translations tend to be very funny sometimes), sometimes also in other languages.
A full dinner in Rome
If , when in Rome, you want to do as the Romans do, however, you need to follow this order: start with an antipasto, then have a primo (usually a plate of pasta) followed by a secondo (meat or fish) with one or more contorno’s (side dishes, usually potatoes, salad or vegetables). After this you can have the dolce (dessert) or a piece of frutta (fruit) and then the caffè (an espresso, and definitely not a cappuccino, since to drink milk after a meal is blasphemy for Italians) and an after dinner drink (which is an amaro or a limoncello, and supposed to be free, yet another tradition that is sadly disappearing).