Roscioli

Our best meal and best overall dining experience was at Roscioli, just east of the Jewish Ghetto. Roscioli is part deli, part market, part wine bar and part ristorante and packs all of those elements into a small space. If I were to have a notion of what a quintessential Italian restaurant should be – and I do – this would be it.

Here I had an unusual appetizer of three balls of buffalo mozzarella, each draped with a luscious anchovy from the Calabrian Sea.

And an entree of Ragu di Cortile, stewed white rabbit tossed with pinwheel pasta.

We also had the Polpette della Tradizione Romana, beef and veal meatballs in tomato sauce.