🇮🇹 Where Bourdain Ate in Rome

Stanley Tucci visits this legendary Roman salumeria and restaurant to explore cured meats, cheeses, and the iconic Roman pasta cacio e pepe. The restaurant is renowned for its extraordinary selection of Italian and international ingredients, and Tucci samples some of the finest guanciale and aged pecorino romano on offer.

Tucci visits this iconic street food spot to try the quintessential Roman snack: supplì al telefono, a fried rice ball filled with ragù and stretchy mozzarella. The name comes from the long string of cheese that pulls apart like a telephone wire when you bite into it.

Tucci explores this vibrant covered market in the working-class Testaccio neighborhood, long considered the culinary heart of Rome. He browses stalls selling offal, fresh pasta, local cheeses, and seasonal produce, getting a vivid sense of how Romans shop and eat day to day.

Tucci visits this iconic Testaccio restaurant to taste coda alla vaccinara (Roman oxtail stew) and other traditional quinto quarto — offal and lesser cuts — dishes that define the cucina romana of the working-class Testaccio district. The restaurant is built directly into Monte dei Cocci, an ancient mound of broken amphorae.