Da Giovanni Osteria e Cucina

Be the only one in the room not visiting a convict

* Da Giovanni Osteria e Cucina
Via della Lungara 41A (a sunken road parallel to Lungotevere Gianicolense, between Trastevere and the Vatican)
tel. +39-06-686-1514
Closed Sunday and August

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Giovanni's is such a warm and friendly little hole-in-the-wall osteria halfway between Trastevere and the Vatican it's easy to forget that many of its clients, aside from a cadre of neighborhood regulars, are relatives just coming from visiting inmates at the nearby Regina Coeli prison.

Stefano and Domenico (always in his white waiter's coat) bustle about the cozy room serving the 12 tables of hungry customers heaping plates of fettuccine (egg noodles) or agnolotti (tortellini) in tomato sauce, trippa alla Romana, pollo (chicken) alla cacciatore, roast coniglio (rabbit), or a bistecca di vitellone (yearling veal steak).

The house wine comes from the Castelli Romani south of Rome, and with no reservations accepted, there's always a clump of people patiently waiting just inside the strings of plastic beads hanging in the doorway.

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