Flavio al Velavevodetto

A restaurant in a great place with some walls made out of broken pots. You need to reserve in advance. They serve great Italian food with very good selection of wines. It gets a bit loud, but overall the mood is great. They also have English menu. We tried the fried artichoke, looks great and is super crunchy, but is a bit dry (something to be expected though). Very nice homemade pasta, perfectly made. And great deserts. I can recommend the cake with cheese and cherries.

One of the best places to eat in Rome. I had their popular dishes and they were all really good. Home made food and local clients explain their authenticity. The gentleman manager also takes good care of you! It seems outside the city but only two metro stops from Colosseum and 5 mins walk. I highly recommend the place 🍝🇮🇹

An incredibly tasty, family style restaurant. The food here was all very delicious, especially the pastas. Everything felt very homemade. The restaurant is very big and fills up fast.

Quite sure that this restaurant is my all time favorite. The food is incredible and the kind of food that you will miss when you leave Rome. I will always come back to this restaurant.

I had dinner with my girlfriend and everything was amazing, we are foreigners and the restaurant was filled with Italians so it was a great feeling to be there.

fantastic dinner in Rome where they serve typical roman cuisine. very few tourists and almost all locals dining here. when it's a Monday and it's a full house, you know you've picked a good restaurant. you must try the artichoke, it's fried to perfection. we had the artichoke, rigatoni with pork, and the stew in 3 ways. the highlight was most definitely the stew; all three sauces prepared were a tad different, tailoring to the meat served, my favourite meat from the stew was definitely oxtail, almost fall off the bone tender. desserts here were also stellar, we had the tiramisu, mango panna cotta, and the tart cherry cake. my favourite was the tart cherry cake - it could've used a nice ice cream to round the flavours off but stood strong on its own - had a nice balance between being tarty and being sweet with a nice crumbly base. pane e servizio x3 - 7.50€ acqua - 1.00€ spritz x2 - 16.00€ carciofo - 7.00€ matriciana - 13.00€ misto umido - 16.00€ dolce x2 - 21.00€ total for 3 = 83.50€

What an odd experience. I seldom leave reviews, as I'm usually the type to "pay my bill and disappear forever" if the food/service was sub-par. But this was...definitely something that I think is worth mentioning especially if you're a tourist or non-Italian speaker. The service: We were sat in the dungeon-like back of the restaurant, which is fair, I guess, since we didn't have a reservation. We had 3-5 different servers at a time, who left our dining experience feeling distant, cold, and downright unwanted at the establishment. Menus, drinks, and foods were rushly thrown onto our table without even a word before hurrying to the next table. It was incredibly jarring noticing how some of the servers warmed up so easily to the table next to us who spoke fluent-Italian. As more and more people were seated in the back, the more the service became chaotic and sloppy, with servers rushing in-and-out of the dungeon absolutely frazzled. The food: The Cacio e Pepe was dry, cold, and lacking that distinct flavour of cheese and black pepper. It was given to me as if it was just plopped onto the plate and called it a day. I really did expect more, having tried all the delicious pasta dishes from various restaurants in Rome. This was by far the absolute worst, as I took 3 bites and could not bear to finish the rest (and I really hate doing this as I like to make the most of my money!). The oxtail dish was not bad. The grilled steak was underwhelming. I'm sure most of you tourists who stumbled upon this place were either recommended by a local, a friend, or through some deep digging research. I'm a huge foodie and I always try my best to avoid extremely tourist-y places as to avoid being ripped off. I do my research and I cross-reference, but clearly I let my guard down for this one. This place left a bad taste in my family's mouth (literally) in terms of both food and service. Such a shame as this was our final dinner to conclude our week-long Italy trip... I left the restaurant as quick as I could, but I couldn't help notice how completely different the vibe and aura was at the front of the restaurant. It's almost as if the chaos only existed within the dungeon of our dining area, while the main dining area (and patio) were calm, social, and tranquil. I get it, we're tourists. We eat here once, and we never come back again, which can be an excuse for staff to just feed us whatever. But I don't think it's fair to create such a divide in terms of the quality of service (and food?) for us and the locals for that sole reason. As a final thought: perhaps my family just got a little unlucky with staff is all, as it seems to be that there are tons of positive reviews for this restaurant that say the opposite to mine. Visit if you're curious, but as a tourist/non-local: go elsewhere and preserve your dignity; there are much, much better options to choose than this one.

An authentic Italian restaurant that serve great carbonara. Pair it with Italian Amarone, Zenato, a full bodied with solid raisin taste.