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Roman Dining: A Child’s Paradise

With pasta, pizza and gelato on the menu, your kids may think Rome is food heaven.

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Ristorante Il Matriciano

This laid-back family restaurant near St. Peter’s serves regional dishes, outdoors in nice weather. Via dei Gracchi 55, Tel. +06-321-2327. Open 12.30-3 p.m. and 8-11:30 p.m.; you’ll need reservations, because it’s no secret to locals. You can take the Metro to Ottaviano.

Giovagnoli

Typical Roman dishes and plenty of pasta choices in an historic family-run trattoria opposite the Capitoline Steps. Piazza Aracoeli 5, Tel. +06-679-2491. Open Tue.–Sun. for lunch and dinner. No credit cards.

La Sagrestia

Casual and friendly trattoria within steps of the Pantheon serves both pizza and heartier dishes, with good pasta choices. Via del Seminario 89, Tel. +06-679-7581. Open Thur.–Tue. for lunch and dinner.

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What to order

If your children, like ours, have grown up on a diet of new foods and flavors, they will be receptive to a bit more variety when traveling. But by nature kids are conservative eaters, and they will likely be happier spending their mealtime in the company of Rome’s kid-friendly holy trinity: pasta, pizza and gelato. Here are some forms of these favorites, as well as a few other non-threatening choices that kids like.

  • Pasta al Burro: Simple pasta with butter, something that any restaurant can serve, although it may not be listed on the menu.
  • Risotto: Creamy rice cooked in broth, with other ingredients that range from vegetables to shrimp.
  • Pasta Marinara: Served with tomato sauce, although not nearly as much as in America
  • Pasta Bolognese or Ragú: The same, but with meat in the sauce.
  • Gnocchi: Potato dumplings, served with tomato sauce, cheese sauce or butter and sage. 
  • Supplí di Riso: Balls of risotto with cheese in the center, coated in crumbs and  deep-fried. Look for these in bars and on a tavola calda.
  • Saltimboca: Little roll-ups of veal with ham. The name means “jumps into the mouth” and plenty of these jumped into my daughter’s when we were in Rome.
  • Veal Marsalla: Veal scallops cooked in a sweet wine. When she couldn’t find saltimboca she ordered this.

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