Il Frantoio

This was an authentic Italian restaurant that we stumble upon in Ostia Antica. It was very reasonably priced unlike the touristy ones we went to. It came with pasta appetizer with the main meal. The steak was huge and delicious. The seafood appetizer was fresh. It was made to order for this sit down restaurant. The staff was friendly and nice. The waitress tried to explain in English nicely.

I went on a Sunday with fam, busy restaurant cosy atmosphere. The food very good quality and well cooked. The young waitress nice and professional. The price super convenient never eat so good with little price. Recommended 100 percent.

Food is great and the prices even greater. The drink assortment was depressing if you're not in the mood for alcohol, if you also don't want water or cola you won't be able to get anything. They can't speak English, the only words they know in English are "no english" except 1 lovely ober. I feel like this restaurant is only for locals and not tourist despite the multiple English reviews due to how the owner gave us the most inconvenient place and kept giving is dirty looks despite us only asking him "can we sit outside, no? Okay where do we need to sit?" When ordering it could be coincidence it could be because we weren't locals but our food took the longest to prepare, ordered first or second and from 4 tables, more and less people than us we got our food as last. The only menu they have is a huge chalkwood wall written in Italien with 2 tables infront of it, if you're placed there congratulations to the famous life because you will get photos taken if you every minute. Despite it feeling like racism due to the ugly looks, inconvenient placing and never being asked how the food was or talking with us (which was happening to other tables I assume due to laughing and talking) because we talked English and not fluent Italian. The food was incredible and the reviews did not lie about that. Otherwise it would've been 1 star.

Truly one of the worst restaurant experiences I’ve ever had. It’s one thing for restaurants to not want to serve tourists (any reasonable person can understand why, it must be tiring) but this was just awful. The plates were thrown down on the table and we were ignored and disregarded by the waiters who seemed angry. I want to be clear that we understand that service is different in Italy than where we are from but in the years my family have lived here they have never been treated like this. My family are fluent in Italian so there wasn’t an issue of language barrier, they were just so rude we didn’t even finish our lunch and just got out as quickly as we could, with a bad taste in our mouths. We went for lunch, 45 minutes before closing so if they didn’t want to serve us, I wish they had just turned us away, it was a terrible feeling to be treated like that. I am sure this is a much nicer experience for locals, but if you are not a local I would stay away.

There was a free table on the terrace, but we were told not to go there because there were only two of us!!! Allegedly a table for 3-5 people. Because of this I give one star! What difference does it make how many people! If the table is free

Amazing place, great food and similar prices. Fixed price evening meal €15...litre 🍷 €7... Staff are knowledgeable and efficient. Felt like 1 big family ( maybe it is? 🤔😉)

Lovely food, food portions was huge! Staff very friendly and its get very busy. Highly recommended 👌

+ Friendly owner + Really low prices - Not very cozy inside - Meet was disappointing. Very dry, but the owner said that the people in Rome appreciate it like this. So it might be a cultural difference. - Espresso in a plastic cup