Well, no one will deny the fact that the best pizza can be found only in it`s Motherland. And consequently, if Rome is the heart of Italy, the best of pizza restaurant will be tasted there. In fact, to visit Rome and not to taste the true Italian cuisine seems something like a blasphemy.
The pizza as bread with different stuffing- vegetables, meat, olives, dairy products - was the meal of commoners and the Roman legionaries. In 1772 the King of Sicily Ferdinando I was impressed by the variety of food and the quality of the cooking process. But the delicacy spread all over the court only in the 18th century. And the name of this pizza sort was "Margarita"- after the name of FerdinandoII wife Margarita of Savoy. Since that time this kind of pizza is the most beloved food of each Italian, from prince to peasant.
The Italian pizza cannot be compared to anything that you tasted under this name outside the country before. Pizza cooking in Italy is estimated as art, all edges of which are seen in Rome best pizza restaurants only.
La Renella in Rome is one of the best pizza restaurants, situated in bohemian quarter Trastevere on the address 15-16 Via del Moro, Trastevere. Here you can order a pizza with sausage, cheese rocklet, orgondzola and salad radicco, made of a potato and parmesan, with white mushrooms and many other toppings. While eating all these tidbits, you can watch the pizza-cooks perfecting their skills - a great window to the kitchen is done for these purposes.
Panificio Dal Sor Giovanni, Via del Governo Vecchio 29, was opened in 1914 by Hugo Paladini and became a success immediately - during the World War First it was one of at least some bakehouses, which distributed bread. Though these times have already passed, fresh white bread is the symbol of the pizzeria, but pizza is it`s draw in any way. The owner of the best pizza restaurants - Emiliano Paladini, grandchild of the first Paladini, invented a very interesting way of pizza cooking. He refused from the menu with fixed kinds of Italian food, but offerred customers to create their meals themselves. Entering the premise, you are surrounded by refrigerating boxes, made of transparent material, full of vegetables - beef, tomatoes, olives, mushrooms, cheese, sausages, etc You choose the stuffing for the future pizza and then wait for the order, enjoying nice Rome landscape.
If you are in search for a more democratic place, you'd better visit best pizza restaurants, like Ai Marmi, Caffe San'Eustachio, Ai Monasteri and practically each Italian pizzeria. All of them offer perfect food, using both traditional recipes and modern inventions of cuisine.
The only thing you are to know, is that in Rome pizza restaurants "pizza" means not entirely the whole circle, but a portion of it, which sometimes is not small at all. This type is marked in menu as "pizza al taglio". It is very convenient, cause gives an opportunity to taste many kinds of that divine Italian food - pizza!