This was our meal right before the NYE festivities began. Turned out to be a pretty magical night…read morenear the Colosseum. On one of the busiest nights you can imagine this place allowed us to walk up and grab a seat. Major kudos for giving us this opportunity. The food far exceeded even our most modest expectations. One of the best meals we had while in Rome. And even better for the price of admission. Our waiter here was genuinely one of the funniest people I have ever had at a restaurant. Dry humor but exceedingly animated. Would highly recommend

Food was delicious. Service excellent. Price very fair. Only concern was close to street trafficread more

Walked past this restaurant several times going back and forth to our VRBO, and after looking at…read morereviews decided tonight to stop in for dinner. FOOD: A good-sized collection of Italian standards and pizzas. Everything we ordered was quite tasty. For drinks, they had several beers, but wine seemed to be just carafes of house red or white. The house red was perfectly serviceable. SERVICE: The waiter handling the sidewalk tables was friendly, funny, engaging, and responsive to our requests. He would be hard to improve on. AMBIANCE: The restaurant looks clean and professionally managed. We sat at one of the sidewalk tables, which were nicely set but suffered from constant foot and vehicle traffic passing by, including at least two emergency vehicles, sirens blaring. Not to criticize emergency responders for running their sirens, but be aware of the possibilities when answering if you want an indoor or outdoor table. NET-NET: Good food, reasonably priced, great service, clean glassware -- I'd be happy to go back there again.

Love this place! We were visiting Rome and Da Michelle was recommended. Cannot wait to come back!read more

I would never go back again…read more My friend & I were walking all day over Rome and I remembered eating at a great pizza restaurant in the area. Sadly this was not the one. We sat down at a nice outdoor table & ordered a half carafe of the house Pinot Grigio. Served at a lovely lukewarm temperature. Bread was placed on the table but I know from previous visits to other Rome restaurants it's not complimentary. 2.50€ per person. Did not touch it and asked them to take it away only to find it on our bill at the end. Luckily when paying the cashier & informing him we did not eat any bread the charge was removed from our bill. On to the food. My friend ordered the cacio e Pepe. It didn't look too appealing & the portion size seemed small. My bucatini with mussels was excessively oily. The size of the mussel meat in the shell was very small. I will say the staff were all very pleasant & the restaurant itself is nice looking. But I won't go back.

If you don't count hole in the wall pizza places with no place to sit down that will sell you pizza…read moreslices, Pizza places in Italy are full service restaurants. You can get pizza but you can a whole range of Italian dishes as well. San Marco is a midrange pizza-and-everything-else place in Ludovisi. Ludovisi has tons of upscale expensive and worth every penny restaurants ... And tons of coffee-at-the-counter-or-at-a-sidewalk-table utility cafes. Both types of establishment are wonderful. Midrange places are harder to find. San Marco shows that the middle of the road can be a great place to be. * * * San Marco is actually two adjoining restaurants right next to each other. They get a gigantic businessmen's lunch business. (There are all sorts of banks and foundations in the neighborhood.) So at lunchtime - both sides of the establishment are packed. At night, they close the right one and only open the left one. That restaurant has a large sidewalk space and then multiple rooms one after the other inside. So even at half capacity, they can feed a lot of people. I was originally put off when in the middle of my meal, A large tour bus parked in front of the restaurant and about sixty people got out to eat. This is normally a huge red flag for me. This is one of the few cases I have found where having a tour bus business is NOT a sign of mediocrity. When I thought about it - I already knew that local businessmen who know their Italian food flock to this place in droves for lunch. And the establishment certainly has the room to feed several tour busses. The rest of the crowd around me was locals. So I turned off my "Tour-Bus-Alert-Alarm" and just enjoyed life. I got a five star meal out of it so I can't complain. * * * It doesn't matter that I had sausages and peppers. For what it is worth, I have yet to find an American style "Italian Sausage" anywhere in Rome - and I have had plenty of sausage. Maybe the fennel based sausages we get in the States are a Neapolitan or Southern Italian thing. The sausage I had was the texture of an Italian sausage but with the plain simplicity of an English banger. What differentiated it was a) an amazing char job on the sausage b) pork that was far tastier than any pork you get in a sausage in the U.S. And by that I mean pork that tastes like pig. C) really really good peppers did not hurt the dish, and fresh arugula goes a long way to counteracting the fat in your sausage. d) add charred rye bread to soak up the juices. I was a happy boy. * * * Why do I say that it doesn't matter that I had sausages and peppers? Because the menu at San Marco is absitively posolutely ginormous. It is huge. Pages and pages of pizza. Pages and pages of non-pizza. There is not a common Roman dish you can think of that is not on their menu some place. So the odds of you coming here and getting sausage and peppers is less than a jillion to one. But plenty of people like the other stuff on the menu. Frankly, I am going back to this establishment the day after I write this review because I saw a jillion other things I wanted to have. Look at the other Yelp reviews and you will see praise for many other dishes besides the sausages. Pizza gets a lot of love. * * * I found amazing things to eat all over this fantastic city. I encourage you to eat in as many different places as you can. (Write Yelp reviews about them while you are at it. Nudge. Nudge.) But if for some reason, you just had to eat at San Marco and only San Marco for your entire stay. You would not do badly. You certainly would not run out of new things to experience.

We had our group dinner here on our last night in Rome. Our server was funny and made the…read moreatmosphere great. The house wine was good and we started off with the bruschetta. We had the option of choosing a pizza or pasta dish, so I went with the gricia. It was tasty and came in a good portion size. 2025 #52

I'm pleased with the service. Our waiter was friendly and quick. All the food we ordered is so…read moredelicious. I love them all! The pasta is perfectly al dente. Seafood Linguine is the bomb, the seafood is cooked perfectly. The Lasagna is superb. Cheese pizza and Ravioli are amazing. My tummy was happy. The restaurant is tiny but inviting and homey. The owner and staff are very welcoming. Grazie!

We love this place! The kids asked to go back several times it was their favorite spot and would…read morehave if we stayed in Rome longer! We had great service from our waiter and he made us the best mojitos and the atmosphere was amazing! I love the carbonara and I actually loved everything! The appetizers were delicious and the entrées were delicious and amazing! The mozzarella melted on my fork it was amazing and delicioso! If we're ever in Rome again we definitely have to go back!!!

The real thing, great pizzas and apps. Tucked away outside of Porta Pia this is local place with…read moreproper selections of Roman dishes and both Napoli and Rome pizzas.

A wonderful spot for authentic Italian pasta in Rome! The pasta was fresh, flavorful, and perfectly…read morecooked. The cozy, relaxed atmosphere made it ideal for a casual meal. And the service was outstanding, very warm, attentive, and genuinely welcoming. Our waiter, Andre made sure everything was perfect! A charming place worth visiting for delicious comfort lunch or dinner!

First time in Rome. Stopped for a pizza. WOW! Off the beaten but well worth it!…read moreExcellent service and surprisingly inexpensive.

After a long rainy day of too much walking, too large of a lunch, and too much travel fatigue, we…read morewalked into Pizzeria San Marco on Tacito without a reservation. We had passed by several times, and the place was always packed with locals. By the way, there are two Pizzeria San Marcos. This review is for the San Marco in Prati on Tacito. The other one is across the river. They ushered us to a seat under a TV set with a game on. I loved watching everyone around me. There was so much going on, and it was very entertaining. Prati attracts all walks of like, and this San Marco is a neighborhood hang-out. Our pizzas were great, and the prices were cheap. The space is surprisingly large, with more seats on the other side of the take-out counter. Pizzeria San Marco - the one on Tacito - must do an incredible business during the warmer months with lines waiting for tables. In February, Pizzeria San Marco - the one on Tacito in Prati - is a local show worth attending.

We were starving after a long train ride to Rome, so we ordered a pizza. The pizza was really good,…read morenot my favorite but not the worst. The dough was very soft, the toppings were flavorful, and it was a very filling meal.

We visited Hostaria de Pastini with our family of 6 persons. We ordered several dishes to share at…read morethe table. We ordered the seafood soup, mixed brushetta , caprese salad, margherita pizza and a bottle of house red. My (16) year old son and nieces (13) and (15) enjoyed the pizza and other dishes. This says a lot because they consider themselves a bit of pizza snobs. The seafood was excellent. It had mussels, shrimp, squid, and clams in a delicious broth. I needed help with the caprese salad since it looked like a tomato quartered and a ball of cheese. One of our waiters prepared it and explained how it should be eaten with olive oil, basil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper. The service was above and beyond we could have expected. Dimo our main waiter made sure our drinks were full and that we were happy with our dining experience and food. Next time I would get the regular tomato based bruschetta since that was our favorite. We highly recommend visiting the restaurant and thank you Luigi for bring us in from the outside.

We came here a few years ago and fell in love with Hostaria De Pastini's beautiful atmosphere,…read moreoutstanding staff, and excellent cuisine. We returned recently and had another amazing experience. We were once again greeted warmly, promptly attended to, and given the most delicious meal we have ever had. We savored every second of our visit. Highly recommend!