Pizzería Chicco di Grano — Restaurant in Rome

This is the home of soggy pizza.

I wish I had read the reviews before coming here. But here's one for you to read with everything you need to know.

From the outside it is a cute restaurant, where you are immediately greeted with the sight of the cooks prepping the pizzas, this makes you hopeful of good food! We were seated outside in their covered and heated area, which was adequate, but soon realised this becomes a smokers tent.

Service was slow, we had to call the staff over everything we wanted something.

We ordered house wine, (always get a bottle of the house wine at any place I eat out), and it wasn't fantastic.

The food came quick, and looked okay.

We ordered: Wild board and spaghetti (this turned out to be pretty much spaghetti Bolognese, no specialness or uniqueness about it). 3 pizzas, these come at a suitable 1 person size. The flavours don't matter as all had the same problem....

The outer crust was nice and crispy, but any party of the crust with some toppings on was soggy, mushy and hard to eat. As you are trying to cut the pizza, the toppings get easily moved straight off the pizza base and slide across the plate and into the floor. Leaving this soggy base. Flavours were not great - there was no seasoning on the pizzas.

Bill came to 59€ for 4 dishes and 1 bottle of wine. There are better price and better quality places very near by.

This is a pizzeria so you would expect exceptional quality for its pizzas, but do yourself a favour and buy one from a takeaway - they are better!

This place has been open for over 100 years (if I read the table paper correctly) and I fear the original owner would be embarrassed by the modern day quality afforded to...

So I’m a very forgiving person, the sort of person who says it’s lovely when it’s ok and I have never written a negative review before. Maybe we were super unlucky, maybe it was busy but…… my partner and I ordered the same dish Tonnarelli with pork sausage and porcini mushrooms. The meals arrived about 10 minutes apart. I was served first and waited for my partners meal to come. After 5 mins two small plates were bought saying the second dish wasn’t ready and we should share the first, eat that, then wait for the second. The tonarelli was good , well cooked but the sauce itself was slimey, the mushrooms over cooked maybe tinned, the sausage was barely noticeable, personally I think it was used to season the olive oil. Not a brilliant experience. Then the bill arrived, we were charged 2 euro for coperto, no bread or oil on the table, 2,50 for tap water, lovely bottles filled with tap water, I’m assuming because they wouldn’t let me take it, I’ll accept that was naughty, but I was annoyed. Really sad that in a city so beautiful, so full of magnificent eateries we had to go there. Sorry, but really felt I had...

This was a backup place we found near the restaurant we planned to eat at, but was too busy. It took a bit for our order to be taken. Our server was very warm and friendly, and maintained a casual vibe. Perhaps we made a mistake by not ordering pizza at a place with pizzaria in its name. The food was disappointing given what we have been enjoying in Rome. Each dish was ok, but had defects. The tomatoes for the capresse were too hard (better for cooking), the AR ichoke a Romana had many sections with hard fibers left in (not my experience at other places), the grilled vegetables were a little dry and completely unseasoned, to the cacio al pepe was dry on the top and wet on the bottom, the vegetable soup must have been from a can. The wine selection was excellent with many biodynamic/ organic wines. The waiter gave us each a few ounces of free lemon cello at the end, which got my wife quite silly. My lesson learned, you don't have unlimited nights in Rome, so take the time to know where you will be eating and make sure it's...