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expensive unless you
go to a supermarket –
various outlets are
dotted around
the city center.
Water from the
drinking fountains is
potable, so it is worth
carrying plastic cups
or small bottles around
with you.
As well as picnic
food from bakeries and
markets, there are lots
of scrumptious take out
foods. Many of them
are appeal ingly messy,
Families enjoying a sunny day in the Villa Borghese Gardens so it is wise to take
paper tissues or moist
and trattorias, and high prosciutto, which is usually towelettes along. Try deep-
chairs are often available for translated in menus as ham, fried fruit and veget ables from
toddlers and babies. If there is cured). The most entertaining Antico Forno Roscioli on Via dei
is no high chair, be prepared pizzerias for kids are the Giubbonari (see p323) and supplì
for the waiters to improvise old-fashioned ones where they al telefono, rice croquettes with
for you with armloads of can watch the chefs pound, a gooey string of mozzarella
cushions or telephone stretch and flip the pizza dough inside, from pizza al taglio or
directories. Most places are before the toppings are added. pizza rustica outlets. A tramezzino
perfectly happy to serve half Restaurants open in the comes quite close to a regular
portions (mezzo piatto), or to evening at or soon after 7pm sandwich and if your kids are
let children share meals. and the best places get busy miserable without their familiar
In trattorias it can sometimes from around 8:30pm, so it is foods, you can find a range of
be difficult to be exactly wise to go early to avoid foreign items at Castroni on
certain what a certain dish having to stand in line. Via Cola di Rienzo.
contains (especially when
there is no menu and the
dishes of the day are reeled Picnics Ice Cream
off, usually at top speed, by Picnics in the parks are ideal, Rome, of course, is famous
the waiter), so faddy eaters and shopping for the food is for ice cream; you and your
are likely to be happier in often half the fun. There is children are likely to be
pizzerias (see pp320–21). no problem finding cartons tempted at every turn by the
Here they can choose their of fruit juice and branded vast range of flavors on offer.
own topping (remember that canned drinks, but these are Real ice-cream fans may even
want to plan their day’s
sightseeing to be sure to take
in one of the best gelaterie
(see pp322–5).
It is much cheaper to buy
either a cone or tub of ice
cream to eat in the street,
but in some of the more
traditional places it is
worth paying to sit down,
as the interiors can be fun
and attractive to children.
At Fassi, they have an old-
fashioned ice cream-making
machine on display and
at Giolitti, you can enjoy
gargantuan sundaes in
the elegant parlor (see p113).
If you are worried that
your kids might have too much
ice cream, look for places that
Rome’s oldest ice-cream parlor Giolitti, in operation since 1890 sell the smaller cono baby.

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