Hostaria Da Pietro

Wow this place was terrible. The service was really nice but the food was God awful. The people reviewing this must not be Italian. You can get better dollar pizza in NYC. I’ve had much better neopolitan pizza in other venues around

On our first night in Rome, I asked the concierge from our hotel for a great, rustic, restaurant recommendation. She sent me to some fancy, overpriced, stuffy place that my wife and I immediately walked out of. We then wandered around and I saw a lot of people eating outside in an alley and thought — lets check that out. I’m so glad we did! Hostaria da Pietro is what we found. For 2 tourists on our honeymoon, we were pleasantly surprised that almost everyone eating here was Italian. We figured that was a good sign. Pietro was a funny character and even though we didn’t speak much of the same language, he made us feel like friends and family. He got us a table and our server was amazing. He gave us great food recommendations and a few extras because it was our honeymoon. The prices were VERY reasonable and the food was great. It was exactly what we were looking for. We came back to our hotel and told them about it — hopefully we’ve taught our concierge from a 5 star hotel a little something.

We had an excellent late lunch here… pasta cooked to perfection and a glass of the house white wine… highly recommended, need to try for dinner

On a normal night the maître d’ will ruin your dinner with his typical attitude… at which point the food will no longer matter…

Rome has the best food in Italy in my experience. I ate here three times on a five day stay. That’s all that needs to be said.

im giving this 5 stars because of the impeccable service we received…
the food about 3.5 stars
we came here based on a suggestion from our tour guide. we just came from pompeii, really tired and hungry… we had to wait a bit for a table but in the end it was worth it…
our server would not let us leave… he literally kept coming back to give us FREE, and i mean FREE desserts, wine and more desserts! lol. since we were one of the last tables for dinner service, i believe they were just trying to get rid of the food that wasn’t served. but hey free food is good stuff. lol.
i would def recommend =)

For the love of God… keep walking.
On our first night in Rome, my friend and I picked this restaurant based off the reviews here on Unilocal.Actually breaking one of my rules for Unilocal usage… they need at least 10 reviews. However, we gave it a shot as all the reviews were so good. Maybe we hit them on a bad night… but it was obvious everyone around us was having a similar experience. In fact when returned to our hotel (Rome Cavalieri — Waldorf Astoria) we ran into a couple who was siting beside us at the restaurant, and they concurred with our assessment.
Our first surprise was the location, it is hidden in a little ally street and most of the dining area is on this street, hardly wide enough for a tiny euro car to pass through. Inside the restaurant there are about 4 tables, seating about 16 snuggly, compared to the 3 tables in the street which each could hold 6 – 8 diners. I’ve had plenty good meal in ‘hole in the wall’ restaurants, so I was still willing to give it a go.
I want to say, the staff was EXTREMELY friendly and attentive, if the review was based on them it would be 4, maybe even 5 stars.
We ordered drinks, it was very hot so i skipped any alcohol and ordered still water and a coke light, my friend had a glass of red wine. The meal started off fairly well, I had the Mozzarella, Tomato and Basil salad and my friend had the Calamari. Both arrived quickly and were fresh. This was served with crusty soft bread along side the standard olive oil and balsamic vinegar. If the dinner had stopped there it would be a three star review… our mistake was ordering pasta in Italy.
I can not believe how bad the pasta was! I really can’t.
I ordered ravioli with a cream and nut sauce, my friend ordered the pasta carbonara… nothing too extreme. They were both horrible, there really is no other word. My friend’s pasta was one huge glob which needed a knife to separate in order to even taste it. My ravioli was cold and the sauce bland, the stuffing was just barely detectable in the chewy pasta.
We made the choice to skip coffee and dessert and find it elsewhere.
One additional nice feature was they brought fresh cherries to eat with the bill, so that was a nice service touch, but again it really can’t make up for pasta this bad in Rome. I want to reiterate that the wait staff and their aide were great, very attentive and making jokes… but the pasta… oh how they boiled away that wonderful carb.
As other prospective diners arrived near the restaurant looking at their phone, possibly for Unilocal reviews, I earnestly tried to give them looks to keep walking… much like this review.
Maybe it was a bad night, but I say that you have been warned… I wish we had been.

Definitely authentic Italian. More than half the patrons are Romans. Awesome Saltimboca and the pastas were all amazing. We got lost getting there. Who would have thought there was a Via Gesu and a Via Gesu Marie. Worth the wait though.

We tried this place because we wanted to get away from all of the tourist places. It’s a small place off a side street frequented mainly by locals. For starters they have great house wines for 10 Euros per bottle or 6 Euros per half. The pasta was good — gnocchi was tasty. The Osso Bucco was tender and flavorful with a nice tomato sauce. They also gave us free appetizers (Zucchini flowers) and two types of dessert for free. Service was very friendly and attentive.