Molino – Rome
Molino, a bakery cum pizzeria, is open early and closes late. Enjoy a full egg breakfast with bacon and croissant and a hot cup of coffee. It just happens to double as the city’s best spot for pizza for the slice.
Babylon Café – Rome
No list of breakfast hangouts would be complete without one in Trastevere making the list. Babylon Café opens early breakfast and stays open late for cocktails and beer. Pancakes, eggs, scrambled or fried, omelets and Eggs Benedict. They even have an English Breakfast, complete with grilled tomatoes and sausages.
Centro – Rome
Centro Café is reminiscent of a North American diner, but with an Italian personality. The clean and comfy décor and the consistently good execution of the menu by the guys in the kitchen make Centro one of the city’s best locations for breakfast or brunch.
Life Ristorante – Rome
With both seafood and meat main course menu items offered at 25 euros or less, Ristorante Life is one of the most reasonably priced upscale dining options in Rome. Life also offers a full page of dishes featuring white and black truffle. Life promises an understated contemporary décor with formal touches of white tablecloths, expensive cloth napkins, and high-end tableware, yet prices equivalent to many local osterias with way less class. First class execution and service.
La Pergola – Rome
At the hands of internationally acclaimed chef, Heinz Beck, restaurant La Pergola, sitting atop Waldorf-Astoria’s Cavalieri Hotel, is Rome’s only true world-class restaurant, also being the only restaurant in Rome to have earned 3 Michelin stars. La Pergola, whose décor boasts more fine Italian works of art than many museums, is a fine dining experience that rivals many of the best
Hopdaddy Burgers – Madrid
Hopdaddy is a small fast-casual restaurant with several locations in Istanbul offering a very good burger at better than reasonable price, about half of what you’d pay for the gourmet burger at Nusr-et or Saltbae.