Piperno Restaurant — Restaurant in Rome

Traditional Italian restaurant serving Roman-Jewish classics. Difficult to find, down a small side street, but well worth seeking out. The interior has glossy dark parquet flooring and green felt on the walls. Waiting staff wear white jackets and black bow ties. This is a restaurant of smallish, intimate and somewhat romantic spaces.

Mrs T and I started with the Piperno selection of mixed fried things; globe artichoke (crispy and savoury), cheese (deep frying; the only way to make cheese even better), courgette flowers (stuffed with cheese and anchovy), croquet (with a pleasing nutmeg undertone) and arranchini (rice, tomato and cheese goodness in a crispy coating). This was all most excellent.

Next we shared a portion of gnocchi amatriciana; this had a great sauce of tomato and un-smoked bacon over soft, yielding gnocchi and was dressed with a grate of tangy pecorino. Our waiter split the portion between two plates at the table for some added theatre.

I then had saltimbocca, the wife had sliced beef with rocket and we shared a side of chicory. This was all as equally tasty.

I had room to squeeze in a creme caramel; which was high in eggy caramel sweetness.

We washed everything down with a pleasing (somewhat floral) and fair priced (35€) bottle of Italian gewurztraminer, some mineral water and a couple of coffees at the end.

The meal wasn't revolutionary or especially memorable, but it was all well executed and we would definitely seek this place out during any future visit to Rome. The service was particularly noteworthy, being friendly, professional/skillful, accomodating and welcoming, without any pretence or conceit; this only served to lift the whole experience...

The food was excellent—best carbonara I’ve ever had and the pelle del nonno for dessert was really interesting and delicious.

I’m docking a point here because I got scolded upon entering for not wearing long pants. To be clear—this restaurant is very nice and deserves a nice outfit, but after a long day of walking around in the heat I mistakenly assumed kakhi shorts would be acceptable. I knew nothing about the restaurant and tried to research if there was a dress code in advance.

There is absolutely zero information about a dress code, anywhere. Not in the website, not in reviews from other customers, not in information section in google maps, nothing. So how on earth am I supposed to know this unwritten rule? PLEASE PUT DRESS CODE INFORMATION ON YOUR WEBSITE, OR LITERALLY ANYWHERE IF IT IS IMPORTANT TO YOU. I spent the entire meal feeling uncomfortable because I broke a rule that I had no way to know existed before stepping through the door.

So to any stray Internet traveler researching this place as I did:

This restaurant has a dress code! Long pants are required, and I’d recommend at least a nice...

Great disappointment, trust the bad comments. Not amazing, not a great cuisine, small portions, not a great service, and so expensive that it looks a little to a robbery (I would have been happy to pay that much if it was just an amazing restaurant which is clearly not the case) The fried artichoke is not bad, but that's not something you will tell to your friends when you'll come back from your holidays, 9 euros for that one artichoke. The fried zucchinis was not that good even with mozzarella. Fried mozzarella only would have been a much better satisfaction. It was a small portion, 5 pieces for 15 euros. For that price you can have a main good plate in most of Roma restaurants. 5 pieces also of riccota spinachi raviolis. Again a small portion and really expensive, 22 euros for those 5 raviolis.

Great marketing and nice place but at the end we forgot the place and we were so disappointed by the food and the taste. We have lost a night to enjoy a nice restaurant (so...