La Taverna dei Fori imperiali

       La Taverna dei Fori Imperiali

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Via Madonna dei Monti 9, 00184 Roma, Italia - +39 06 6798643

October 16, 2006, 4:16 pm
Rome Picks and Pans, Part Two
By FRANK BRUNI
La Taverna dei Fori Imperiali. This place is a real find, unmentioned in most travel articles and unvisited by most tourists. It’s about three or four blocks from where my friend Elizabeth Minchilli, whom I mentioned in my post about Trattoria Monti, lives. She told me that she and friends in the neighborhood kept walking by it after it opened — which she said was somewhere between three and five years ago — and wondering if it was any good.
Finally, one day, she dropped in for a meal. And she’s continued to eat there since. It was with Elizabeth, her husband and several friends that I dined here on one of my last nights in Rome.
The restaurant — simple-looking, with red-and-white checked tablecloths that might put someone off but shouldn’t — has a medium-length menu plus a raft of ever-changing daily specials, and Elizabeth advised us to go with specials, whatever they were. We did. more...

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TAVERNA DEI FORI IMPERIALI
The hokey checked tablecloths at Rome’s La Taverna dei Fori Imperiali might suggest the food is hokey too, but that’s misleading: Alessio Liberatore’s restaurant in a tangle of tiny streets is wonderful.
We loved: Fettuccine with prosciutto, pine nuts and sage.
Insider tip: Do as the locals do and order the specials. more..

Taverna dei Fori Imperiali
Description: Another family run restaurant with a husband and wife running the show, a small restaurant with an atmosphere of being in the couple’s home. This place displays the kind Italian hospitality and exposes the beauty of Italian cuisine. Their recipes consists of a variety of Sicilian, Roman and Umbrian food plus chef’s own innovations to add more flavour to each dish. more..
Cuisine: Italian, Regional, European
Reservations: Tel- +39 06 6798643
Opening Times: Wednesday-Monday 12.00pm-3.00pm, 7.30pm-12.00am
Location: Via della Madonna dei Monti 9

The standard menu at neighbourhood favourite Taverna dei Fori Imperiali offers reasonably-priced, classic dishes such as gnocchi and saltimbocca alla romana, though regulars know to always ask about the day's specials for delicacies like home-made pasta with white-truffle ragu. The food at this family-run affair in the Monti area near the Colosseum has been described by former New York Times food critic Frank Bruni as "sensational", and it's all cooked by chef and owner Alessio Liberatore, whose children Aldo and Claudia serve diners nightly at the red-and-white checked tables. more ..

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