# Your favorite non-touristy restaurant in Rome?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 6, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-non-touristy-restaurant-in-rome/505569 "2009-08-06T20:42:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-non-touristy-restaurant-in-rome/505569/1 "2009-08-06T20:42:45Z")

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I’m taking the Gasses to Italy in two weeks, first stop is Rome. I want to avoid popular but touristy restaurants and instead go to more off-the-beaten-path places where more locals might go. I speak some Italian and have done well enough in areas in Italy where there is nearly no English spoken, so I don’t need the waiters to speak English, although I suppose that in Rome that’s not an issue in most places.

Our hotel is near Piazza della Repubblica.

Bonus: Same question for Florence, Cinque Terre area, Lake Como area.

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**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-non-touristy-restaurant-in-rome/505569/2 "2009-08-07T00:50:24Z")

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> [@CookingWithGas](#):
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> I’m taking the Gasses to Italy in two weeks, first stop is Rome. I want to avoid popular but touristy restaurants and instead go to more off-the-beaten-path places where more locals might go. I speak some Italian and have done well enough in areas in Italy where there is nearly no English spoken, so I don’t need the waiters to speak English, although I suppose that in Rome that’s not an issue in most places.
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> Our hotel is near Piazza della Repubblica.
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> Bonus: Same question for Florence, Cinque Terre area, Lake Como area.

I’ve got a great little (Pocket sized, 180 pages) Frommers—“Rome; Day by Day 2007” travel guide that is chock full of great places to check out in Rome, and it has a large section related to dining, and had dozens of listing for places just like you are looking for.

Its a great little book, and I think it would be perfect for use as a guidepost for your visit…

If you would like, let me know and I can have it in the mail to you tommorrow.

You are free to keep it, or send it back when you get home, as I probably wont be in Rome anytime soon (Utah dosent have a lottery)

Have a great trip, and again, feel free to take the book----It would be great to have it put to good use!!!

Matthew in Salt Lake