# Famous pasta restaurant in Rome?

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**Created:** [January 2, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-pasta-restaurant-in-rome/222228 "2004-01-02T04:42:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![gentle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eb8c5e/32.png) [@gentle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gentle)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-pasta-restaurant-in-rome/222228/1 "2004-01-02T04:42:42Z")

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There is a restaurant in Rome – or at least I’m pretty sure it’s Rome – famous for serving an ultra-minimalistic dish consisting of just fresh pasta, garlic and butter, possibly with a modest amount of freshly crushed pepper. If I remember correctly it’s named after the owner. Does anyone know?

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**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-pasta-restaurant-in-rome/222228/2 "2004-01-02T06:50:23Z")

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I have no idea about your specific dish, though pasta with garlic and olive oil is a pretty standard basic dish, and I don’t think there’s any one restaurant that’s famous for it (I could be wrong, of course).

But, fettuccine served in a cream and butter sauce, with freshly-ground pepper, is widely known as Fettuccine Alfredo, and Marcella Hazan’s _The Classic Italian Cookbook_ says:

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> There actually was an Afredo, in whose Roman restaurant this lovely dish became famous.

[Alfredo di Lello](http://eat.epicurious.com/dictionary/food/index.ssf?DEF_ID=1662&ISWINE=), to be exact, and according to [this](http://www.m-w.com) dictionary, the restaurant’s name is Alfredo all’Augusteo.

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**Author:** ![gentle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eb8c5e/32.png) [@gentle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gentle)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-pasta-restaurant-in-rome/222228/3 "2004-01-02T06:57:53Z")

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I may indeed be thinking of [Alfredo di Lelio](http://www.alfredos.com/), but I’m not sure. For one, I was under the impression that it wasn’t fettuccine Alfredo it served, just a pasta + butter dish, and in fact not much else. The interior was also rather rustic-looking compared to the interiors depicted in the (all too small to make out all the details) photographs on the site.