Enoteca Ferrara

Enoteca Ferrara is the most surprising enoteca in Rome - and possibly the best. It's a gastronomic archipelago of rooms: bar, wine bar, shop, gourmet restaurant and more modestly priced osteria with a partly covered terrace. The cuisine serves a menu of Roman ‘cucina povera’ that is not as much ‘peasant food’ anymore as it is traditional, inventive and delicious. The two sisters, Mary and Lina Paolillo, the first chef and architect and the other sommelier, opened this restaurant in 1988. Tables made of painted majolica, wooden beams and exposed stone walls and antique furniture, make the ambience very charming, elegant and warm. Enoteca Ferrara currently count four areas in 500 square meters for a total of 120 covers: the Gourmet restaurant “Enoteca Ferrara”, “Ferrarino” which is the trattoria, and “La Mescita” the wine bar. A very nice outdoor area is for dine and for smokers, too. The dishes, expertly creative by the chef Mary, are the result of a continuous research of traditional Italian recipes. The wine list is so much amazing that in 2003 Enoteca Ferrara won the Oscar awarded for best wine shop in Italy and contains 1,600 only italian labels.