"Head to Bar Roma for great rustic Italian food, and to feel like you just stepped into “Charming Italian Countryside Home” magazine. The space has a lot of wood and distressed furniture, plus bags of flour lying around to remind you that they make all their pasta in-house. There’s an entire menu section dedicated to meatballs, with varieties including spicy BBQ pork and braised beef cheeks. But we like coming here for their pasta—the cacio e pepe is fantastic, and you can’t go wrong ordering whatever pasta is the special for the day." - sam faye, adrian kane, john ringor