Pizzeria da Remo, Rome

Eating out
Pizzeria da Remo, Testaccio, Rome, Italy

Remember the other week I wrote about trekking all over Rome to find a pizzeria late at night?

The same thing happened the next evening, too, when we yomped across the city to a closed-down restaurant, complete with tumbleweed rolling past the door.

Luckily, I’d idly canvassed some twitter opinion on decent restaurants when I was still within range of the hotel’s wi-fi and the collective, crowd-sourced wisdom of the masses threw out a name that kept being repeated.

“Best pizza in Rome”, they tweeted,” authentic”, “far enough away from the tourist trail to make it the real deal”. So, a quick look at the map and a happy dawning realisation that it was just over the Tiber in Testaccio and off we set for Pizzeria da Remo.

It’s a bit of a tired cliché, but local people in a restaurant is normally a good sign, and da Remo was packed with Italians…couples, families, big groups of friends, all with seemingly enormous appetites. I know that Italians generally think that a proper meal consists of at least five courses, but the amount of food the tables around us seemed to be eating was mammoth.

And what food it was.

da Remo’s pizza is rightly touted as some of the best in the city, and by a natural consequence according to most Romans, the whole of Italy.

It’s a splendid thing to see…rolled flat and thin to the edges, the crust charred but not burnt, striking that fine balance between bread and the bitter charcoal aftertaste of proper wood-fired food perfectly, spare toppings, rich tomato sauce, top-quality mozzarella. A wonderful thing to see and an even better thing to taste.

da Remo’s buzzes with life, tables spilling out onto the pavement through large open doors, Romans sat happily eating dinner as people mill around waiting for tables to come free. It has the feel of a local favourite, a place that’s loved by its customers, where the slightly brusque waiters know their food is some of the best there is, where their brusqueness melts at the sight of a five year-old blonde-haired English girl, returning in an instant on receiving a rollicking from The Boss for fussing over her ice cream, shrugging it all off with Latin flair.

Bellissima, she was told repeatedly all week, just like da Remo’s pizza.

Pizzeria da Remo

Piazza Santa Maria Liberatrice 44

00153 Rome

Italy

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