Roman dishes, old-school

Enoteca Corsi, a traditional, inexpensive wine-bar restaurant in Rome, Italy

This dirt-cheap, old-fashioned, utterly genuine Roman enoteca has kept up with the times—but not the prices—so while the wine shop looks every inch the vini olii of 1937, behind it and next door are large, fan-cooled rooms with long tables to accommodate the lunchtime crowds of local workers.

The chalkboard menu changes daily but may run the mill from such Roman standards as penne all'arrabbiata (pasta quills in a "hopping mad" tomato sauce spiked with hot peppers) and saltimbocca (a thin veal scallop layered with sage leaves and prosciutto and cooked in white wine—so good, as the name implies, it literally "jumps-in-the-mouth"), to delectable specials like the zucchine ripiene (baked zucchini flowers stuffed with minced meats) and a tepid pasta e patate soup.

Via del Gesù 88 (off Via d. Plebescito)
tel. 06-679-0821
Open for lunch only
Closed Sunday

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