The Rome Index
Pizza al taglio & street food
Rome's fast, cheap, and genuinely excellent street food scene.
Pizza al taglio
Rectangular, thick-crust pizza sold by weight and reheated to order — a Roman staple, distinct from the thin, round Neapolitan style, and ideal for a fast lunch between sights.
Supplì
Fried rice croquettes with a molten mozzarella center, sold at pizzerias and fry shops across the city — a good, inexpensive snack while walking.
Where to look
Testaccio and the streets around Campo de' Fiori both have reliable, no-frills spots — avoid anywhere with a menu translated into six languages posted outside.
How pricing works
Pizza al taglio is sold by weight, not by slice size — point at the section you want and indicate roughly how much (a hand gesture for thickness works fine even without Italian), and it's cut and weighed on the spot. Prices per hundred grams are usually displayed above each tray.
The toppings rotation
Good pizza al taglio shops change their toppings through the day and across the week based on what's fresh and seasonal — a shop with the exact same eight toppings every single day, all day, is more likely reheating pre-made trays than genuinely baking fresh batches.
