Rome on Screen: 5 Film Restaurants

No city has been on the big screen quite like Rome. Among historic trattorias, elegant cafés and dreamlike terraces, the capital is an open-air set. Here are five Roman venues linked to cinema, with the film that made them famous and what to order.

1. La Veranda dell’Hotel Columbus — The Great Beauty

In the frescoed hall of Palazzo della Rovere, Jep Gambardella dines in Sorrentino’s Oscar-winning film. Pure elegance, a stone’s throw from St Peter’s. → La Veranda dell’Hotel Columbus

2. Trattoria Santa Lucia — Eat Pray Love

Near Piazza Navona, it is one of the Roman locations where Julia Roberts rediscovers the pleasure of Italian food. → Trattoria Santa Lucia

3. Da Pancrazio — Eat Pray Love

A historic restaurant built over the remains of the Theatre of Pompey, from the 1st century BC — the very theatre where, according to historical tradition, Julius Caesar was killed: the lower rooms, among Roman arches and columns, are an experience literally inside ancient history. → Da Pancrazio

4. Bar Navona

Among Bernini’s fountains, the perfect café for a break in the capital’s Baroque living room, often a backdrop of cinema filmed in Rome. → Bar Navona

5. Café de Paris — La Dolce Vita

On Via Veneto, a symbol of Fellini’s high-society Rome (now closed, but a piece of cultural history). → Café de Paris

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