Nonna Betta — Restaurant in Rome

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What was ordered: Went at 19:00 Wednesday 2 people, only 3 tables were occupied. Ordered fried artichoke (Jewish style) and zucchini flowers as starters, as well as Jewish carbonara (with beef instead of pork) and Lamb entrails as main (to try as we saw the reviews and were really hesitant). Personal comment: I’m travelling 4+ cities this month and visited many restaurants ranging from €10 buffet to €100 meals. This place is more horrible than any place I have been in Asia and Europe. Service: The waiter shouted at me and pointed aggressively at the menu where the expensive wines (35+) are located without letting me know what I asked for (I pointed at the kosher ones (12-25) and house wines (10+)). He then said ‘what do you like???’ (When I said ‘no thank you I’m just querying what this word means’ when I pointed at the dessert wine and house wine section) ‘Dry? Sweet?’ I’m not sure if it’s a cultural thing but he was really forceful and aggressive. These are all about service. Food: As someone who grew up eating intestine, the lamb entrails is a fair dish. The artichoke, stale, not crispy, and small. Overly salted as well (which is true from the comment). The zucchini flower, the batter is really good, proper chippy batter and good saltiness. Obviously the flower needs salt itself otherwise it wouldn’t have flavour so I’d say it served what it’s supposed to be, crispy salty and orangey-ly bright. The carbonara though, mediocre tough beef like the dried out bits your get from the edge of a steak overnight you left out. You know what I mean, and the sauce is a bit too thick, not unbearable like scramble eggs but a bit too thick, hence bread to scrap the dish would not have been useful. Cover charge: compulsory. Like most places. Fair enough. Comes with bread. €1.5 pp.

This post is not targeted to any waiter, employee or dish. It’s our experience, what we heard from the next table and concluding what I saw online as well (and we still went to try). Try it for yourself but will not recommend and not sure if it’s related but we did see people with jewish tradition costume only went to the resto...

Yes, Nonna Betta can be touristy as it is one of the better known spots of the Jewish Quarter but, hey, I'm a tourist. I LOVE artichokes so Ive been wanting to try it for years. The street is blocked from auto traffic so the 6 or so restaurants lining the street sprawl out with tables. We walked to the Jewish Quarter, which had a different feel i couldn't explain, very ancient, and without a reservation, walked up to Nona Betta around 8pm/20:00. My family wanted to sit outside but i personally thought the inside had more character. The waiter was very attentive and immediately said "I bet you are here for the artichokes!" As i usually do in Rome, I ordered a carafe of house wine and we started with the Fried artichokes and liver crostini (think poor man's Foie Gras) The artichoke came out beautifully presented. Crispy and salty on the outside, soft and creamy on the inside. I could have eaten a dozen but wanted to try more off the menu. Being famous for artichokes, they offer all the traditional Roman dishes with the addition of artichoke. Sticking with pasta, we got Gricia a Nonna alla guidia, Tonarelli with Nonnas Ragu and a recommended dish which i can only describe as Amatriciana all guidia with cheese on top and baked in a crock, it might have had chickory too. Based on its uniqueness, my son declared it as the best pasta he had in Rome. The addition of artichoke into everything gave a unique extra splash of flavor, pleasantly surprising. Insisting we try local traditional food, we ordered sweet breads with artichokes as a second for us all to try. The sweet breads were fried in a light, airy batter which gave a nice crunch to the creamy interior. They were good, a fun experiment, but i dont need to get them again. Understand what you are coming for:traditional Roman food, Jewish style. I see people complaining about fatty cuts, etc. Well yes, traditionally people were poor. Thats why traditional Roman food is fatty, slow cooked meats, tripe, liver and sweet breads because no one else wanted to eat it! Embrace it and you...

Two days ago we visited this restaurant for dinner in hopes of some quality food in the Jewish quarter of Rome but sadly we left very frustrated and disappointed. We were seated normally and then the problems began, firstly the waiter forgot to bring us the menu for the first let's say 10 minutes which is fine, after that we waited to order for another 15 minutes and than the.other waiter came to serve us and take our order which was one starter and two mains, we got our starter in about 5 minutes but after that the agony began, we finish our starter and table of 8 behind us orders their food which is 10 to 15 minutes after us btw, every table except ours gets a bread basket we don't get nothing and then we wait for 10,20,30,40 minutes and we are like what's going on our waiter is gone the second waiter is on a smoke break what is happening we ask one of the waiters where is our food he tells us that we need to wait and the funny thing is while waiting the table of 8 behind us gets served by our first original waiter that served us which is pretty funny at this point I must say but after that my partner gets her food which were gnocchi Romana which were fine by all means but I still get nothing and then after 50 minutes I get amatricana ghetto style which were some spaghetti I tomato sauce nothing else and honestly the worst food I had in rome in the 4 days I spent there and just to mention the third waiter brought me food and just handed it to me not like put it on the table or something just handed it to me which is embarrassing I would say and to end this agony when we wanted to pay they didn't know which table is ours, they charged us with the wrong bill and to make up the money difference we were asked to give it in cash plus they tried to charge us for the bread basket mentioned before which we never got. In conclusion this is the worst restaurant experience I had , probably in my life....