Rome Food Tour near Vatican

• Start your evening like an Italian, with an aperitivo at La Nicchia Cafè
• Experience the best pizza in Rome from Pizzarium
• Enjoy high-end cheese & cold cuts from award-winning gourmet shops
• Taste Barolo and other famous wines
• Homemade pasta dishes with fine wine at a locally loved restaurant
• Finish up with an artisanal gelato

This food tour in Rome’s Prati neighbourhood, provides a complete insight into Italian cuisine. Taste the very best of Rome, visiting four unforgettable venues.

Begin your evening in typical Italian fashion with an aperitivo at La Nicchia Café. Tasting highlights include truffles, 30-year aged balsamic vinegar drizzled over Parmigano Reggiano, Genovese pesto, the freshest buffalo mozzarella and more treats. Enjoy free flowing fine wine.

Following aperitivo, prepare your taste buds for the famous Pizzarium, Rome’s number one pizzeria. The owner Gabriele Bonci, is described as the ‘Michelangelo of pizza,’ recommended by Anthony Bordain and countless food bloggers.

Choose your toppings from over 50 daily imaginative variations, with the highest quality in-season ingredients.

Popular choices include mortadella and crumbled pistachio, fig with prosciutto as well as roasted potatoes and mozzarella. Burrata and anchovies is Gabriele’s favorite.

Paciotti is the number one gourmet food shop in Rome, offering over 400 types of cheeses and 150 types of cured meats.

Here you will taste the real ‘retro gusto’ and discover the importance of ‘what grows together, goes together’.  Indulge in the best cheeses and cured meats Italy has to offer, with fine wine.

Savor homemade pasta at the locally loved, family owned restaurant Il Segreto. The wine offered is a D.O.C.G Barolo

End your tour ends at the an artisanal gelateria.  Become an expert in gelato, by learning how to spot the real from fake gelato.

Throughout the tour receive essential food tips of the city, to ensure your enjoyment of Rome’s best foods, will not end with our tour.

• 20+ flavours
• Free-flowing wine
• Bottle of water
• English speaking, expert guide

The tours takes place regardless of weather conditions. This tour does not run on certain national holidays (see calendar)

• A healthy appetite
• comfortable walking shoes
• high expectations

The tour takes place in the neighborhood of Prati, located close to the Vatican City.

The meeting point is venue called La Nicchia Cafe located on Via Cipro 4 L. Google Roman Food Tour and press on directions.

Your guide will be holding a sign saying ‘The Roman Food Tour’.

The tour ends near to the Ottaviano metro. Our guides can call a taxi for you, or point you in the right direction of the Ottaviano metro station.

Group sizes are small and intimate to make sure that our guests receive a personal experience.