Taverna Cestia - Menu

This is a real Roman institution. They serve traditional fare very well to a waiting line of grateful patrons. The food is excellent and reasonably priced.

Great food, super efficient and friendly staff and eating there with its brickwork and in the basement is do fun! We ate here two nights of our 5 nights in Roma! We were able to sneak in both nights but highly recommend making a reservation!

I arrived a few minutes after they opened for dinner and got a table outside. Within about 10 minutes there were about 50 people in line and they just kept coming. I got the Paccherri Pachino, stracciata e pesto di basilico it was amazing ... and vegetarian. Very delicious.

This place was pretty good. Still dreaming about their fried artichoke! Their food was pretty good too, I didn't like their Carbonara pasta, but my wife loved it. They were pretty busy but we got in quick maybe waited about 10 minutes outside max. The ambience is cute, nothing to rave about but the food was pretty good.

We loved our experience at this restaurant, we highly recommend making a reservation (we did) as the queue was long if you had no reservation. The staff were attentive in just the right way, wine recommendations and food suggestions. The food tasted so fresh and full of flavour! Pace yourself, if you do all the courses you will be stuffed!

We came here with our hotel's recommendation, and it's indeed very charming. The decor was authentically Roman, tastefully blending rustic and modern elements. That's the end of what makes this place special. The place was jam-packed the entire time, and because of it, the service was very slow. Pizza was very good, but pastas were way too rich.

We have had 9 meals from Venice, Florence to Rome. This ranks amongst the top 2. Not based on price but based of food. We dined a more expensive places and it did not come close to this meal. We enjoyed the octopus carpaccio, all the various pastas, and fried artichoke. This casual dining place had great service. The food came out fairly quick. Highly recommend this quality establishment.

I'd say this place is worth the hype. I made a reservation for right dinner. We were sat inside ordered fairly quickly and the appetizer was served within two minutes of ordering. The pasta was more than enough food for dinner, but we opted for ossobucco to try which was delicious. Service wasn't overly attentive, but more geared on running out food. They run a tight ship and it's best to get in and out to allow others to get their seats and start their meals.

My family of 3 had dinner here last night. Good thing we had a reservation (for 7pm when the restaurant opens), as when we got there right at 7, we saw a line stretching a block. The line was for those that did not have reservations. There was a smaller line of ~30 people for those with reservations. When the restaurant started seating people, they took a bunch of people from the non reservation line first, which I thought was a bit weird. Since we ended up getting seated, I assume so did everyone else who had a reservation did as well. The restaurant is at basement level and old school decor. They squeeze people in. Our party of 3 got seated at a table meant for 2 with an extra seat placed...