Osteria Ragno d'oro

This restaurant always surprises you!

It was our first time in Rome and we looked up the rating online and decided to give it a try. We ordered the traditional starter deep fried artichoke and Saltimbocca (one of my fav Italian dishes). And the Saltimbocca was unbelievably good with very tender veal and perfect blend of flavors (the light sourness is the secret). Then normally the story stopped there and as a tourist, we normally won’t return to a restaurant a second time. BUT we did.

It was late 10 pm and the restaurant was fully occupied. The same waiter who served us at the first time saw and remembered us and arranged a table outdoors for us, with big smile. Without surprise, we ordered again our favorite Saltimbocca, Panna Cotta and red and white wines. Everything was good and normal if it ended like this. At the end, the waiter was very hospitable and introduced us small shots of dessert wine Zibibbo from his hometown Sicily for free. It is sweet with some bitterness and very lovely! We thought the story would come to an end with such a nice ending. Shortly after, another waiter served us a small plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce for free coz he was not hungry at all and that was his work dinner. Crazyyyyy although we were as full as explosive balloons...... but we didn’t want to waste food so took a bite thinking well, it’s just the normal spaghetti. To our surprise, that’s probably one of the best spaghetti we ever had coz it’s homemade spaghetti.....the chewy texture, called “Al dente” in Italian! This is still not the end of our story. When my husband walked in the restaurant to find the restroom, the executive chef happened to finish preparing some new flavors for the dessert Gelato and asked him if he was interested to try out and give feedback......

No words can describe our feelings to such a restaurant which we had never thought of running into. If there needs to be a wrap up, I would say that “this is a restaurant with human touch!” Grazieeee mille to those waiters and chefs who made our experience in Rome an unforgettable one!