Post by kickingfrog on Mar 4, 2013 19:12:41 GMT
Mama Eat! Specialist GF Pizza & Pasta restaurant Trastevere, Rome
Posted by Charlotte, Oxford on 4/3/2013
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This a unique restaurant, new since my last visit to Rome, a branch of a successful place in Naples. The original restaurants in Naples caters for local coeliacs but, not surprisingly, this is gaining a visitor clientele too. There are quite a few restaurants in Rome that can do (bought in) GF pizza (and pasta) but none that make it themselves.
Mama Eat! caters completely (but not exclusively) for coeliacs by having 2 kitchens. There is a huge range of GF pizzas and pastas and more unusual 'breaded' type foods: cheesy croquettes and cakes. The pizzas are large and cost 6-8euros. Some of the toppings might seem quite bland for UK tastes (without a strong tomato base) but this is more typical of local taste eg a mild stringy cheese (called provola) and cooked ham. The pizza base is excellent: crisp but springy - not at all cakey. There are 5 GF beers including Estrella Damm at 5euros. They provide doggy bags. In fact I enjoyed the excellent takeaway Tiramisu (5e) on the plane with my BA cup of tea and I reheated half a pizza when I got home last week and it was just as good!
The non-GF dishes my companion had seemed fine, if again possibly quite bland for UK tastes (but this is how Italians eat a lot of pasta). They cost slightly less (though clearly you can eat normal past and pizza quite a lot cheaper elsewhere).
Very sweet and helpful staff, not all Italian. The menu is translated into English. The restaurant is somewhat clinical and not very atmospheric (at lunchtime at least) but spotlessly clean including the loos (a bonus abroad...). You would feel completely safe eating GF here.
This place alone would make it worthwhile staying in this lovely area of Rome, Trastevere (very accessible to all the sights and the main airport) particularly if you are nervous of eating abroad or holidaying with a coeliac child (they really could be indulged...).
Their website is only in Italian and not over informative - something I will suggest to them they change. I think they are surprised by the foreign interest.
BTW We rented an small quiet apartment in central Trastevere, through Rental in Rome, for 65e a night.
www.mamaeatroma.it/
www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g187791-d2358486-Reviews-Ristorante_Mama_Eat-Rome_Lazio.html
Posted by Charlotte, Oxford on 4/3/2013
GF board
This a unique restaurant, new since my last visit to Rome, a branch of a successful place in Naples. The original restaurants in Naples caters for local coeliacs but, not surprisingly, this is gaining a visitor clientele too. There are quite a few restaurants in Rome that can do (bought in) GF pizza (and pasta) but none that make it themselves.
Mama Eat! caters completely (but not exclusively) for coeliacs by having 2 kitchens. There is a huge range of GF pizzas and pastas and more unusual 'breaded' type foods: cheesy croquettes and cakes. The pizzas are large and cost 6-8euros. Some of the toppings might seem quite bland for UK tastes (without a strong tomato base) but this is more typical of local taste eg a mild stringy cheese (called provola) and cooked ham. The pizza base is excellent: crisp but springy - not at all cakey. There are 5 GF beers including Estrella Damm at 5euros. They provide doggy bags. In fact I enjoyed the excellent takeaway Tiramisu (5e) on the plane with my BA cup of tea and I reheated half a pizza when I got home last week and it was just as good!
The non-GF dishes my companion had seemed fine, if again possibly quite bland for UK tastes (but this is how Italians eat a lot of pasta). They cost slightly less (though clearly you can eat normal past and pizza quite a lot cheaper elsewhere).
Very sweet and helpful staff, not all Italian. The menu is translated into English. The restaurant is somewhat clinical and not very atmospheric (at lunchtime at least) but spotlessly clean including the loos (a bonus abroad...). You would feel completely safe eating GF here.
This place alone would make it worthwhile staying in this lovely area of Rome, Trastevere (very accessible to all the sights and the main airport) particularly if you are nervous of eating abroad or holidaying with a coeliac child (they really could be indulged...).
Their website is only in Italian and not over informative - something I will suggest to them they change. I think they are surprised by the foreign interest.
BTW We rented an small quiet apartment in central Trastevere, through Rental in Rome, for 65e a night.
www.mamaeatroma.it/
www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g187791-d2358486-Reviews-Ristorante_Mama_Eat-Rome_Lazio.html