Michelle M.
Yelp
I've never been that impressed with Roman cuisine, and this place sort of fell in line with that. The ambience was perfect -- just across the way from the obelisk water fountain of Piazza Navona. We went on a Saturday December night, and there was a lovely street fair carrying on outside. The outdoor seating had lovely lamps to keep us warm.
We went for some standard fare - I had the zuppa di fagioli (what you might call the Italian equivalent to chili), and my friend had the lasagna al forno (homemade lasagna). I found the fagioli to be very different from what I've had before. I'm no expert in Italian food, so perhaps I was envisioning Napoli's pasta fazul. Nevertheless, mine was nice and hot (great on a December evening), filling, and had a pleasant but unexpected spicy kick to it.
My friend's lasagne was disappointing. It had more of a creamy red sauce than a pure red sauce. I tasted what I thought were pine nuts in the sauce. The disappointing part was more the lukewarm temperature than the taste. It made my friend feel like it was not homemade at all. Thankfully, there was the wine that sort of muted out the food. The bottom line, we were on a United plane the next day back to the US, and he thought the plane lasagna in economy class tasted better and was hotter...
Overall, I like the ambience of this place, and I would go back again and order something else.
Here's their website: http://www.panzirone.it/it/