Last week I went to Rome to see Fulham get robbed of a famous victory by a useless ref.
When I was there I managed to find some real ale bars and ate some fantastic pizza.
Here are my recommendations:
The Trastevere district has some great bars and restaurants.
Real ale is on sale at the tiny Che Siete Venuti a Fa (Via Benedetta), also known as the Football Pub as there are scarves up and all matches are screened. They had about 10 real ales on draught and I had a couple of halves (E3.5 each) - a Scottish golden ale from the Brew Dog brewery and an Italian Tipico ale.
http://www.football-pub.com/
Across the road is a more swanky place called Bir and Fud which had about 6 on draught and also did plenty of tasty looking food. They had copies of the CAMRA paper and 'Beer' and also the American 'Beer Advocate' magazine (that looked amazingly like the new Beer magazine and has been around a lot longer). They are very serious about their real ale here with pictures of hopfields and loads of bottles of guest ale. Their (italian) blog is here: http://birefud.blogspot.com/
There are other real ale bars in Rome such as Braserie 4:20. More at: http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson/rome073.html
And an Italian real ale brewer is here:www.birra-amiata.it that produce 9 real ales in bottles. Their leaflet suggests foods to match them with.
I also went to an Oirish bar after the game called the Druid's Den. It was grim - E5.50 for a disgusting pint of nitro Guiness bitter (can't remember its name). http://www.druidspubrome.com/rome_virtual_tour.htm
I also had some fantastic pizza in Trastavere at Dar Poeta - locals packed in like sardines, brilliant bruschetta with canneloni beans and a spicey tomato sauce and a tuna, artichoke and parsley topped pizza, let down by a horrid lager. About E18. 5/5 http://darpoeta.com/home_ingdp.html
And even better pizza at a tiny takeaway called Sisini at Via di San Francesco a Ripa 137. A massive slice of anchovy pizza for E3. Another 5/5.
Great coffee and spinach and ricotta tart at a Lateria in Travestre almost opposite the football pub.
If going to St Peters Sq walk from the river, a block to the north, through the Vatican city wall is a great proper old Rome street with great little shops and bars.
If you get sick of pasta and pizza there's a fine little kebab shop at Via Cavore 50 - I ended up here after the game with a killer falafel kebab and a big beastly cold bottle of Peroni for a bargain E2.50. I went back the next day and got a wrapped kebab to take to the airport for the trip home.
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