Vini E Buffet - Roma

Good simple Italian home food. Great service. Nice and cozy place. Good prices.

Making a point to rate this one 5 stars because I feel overall rating does not reflect how lovely this place is. We had a delicious plate of smoked fish and then two big salads. Everything was fresh and tasty. Service was prompt and friendly. Sweet little family establishment.

Wow! Had to order it twice! The tagliatelle with mushrooms and truffles is amazing. The noodle chew, the truffle flavor. Have to come back! The burrata salad was also quite good. The polenta and goulash was very stewy and meaty, but wasn’t as amazing as the tagliatelle. The scamorza was just melty cheese, but solid.

Non tradisce mai. Insalate e piatti vari e tanto buoni

It 's in a tiny, characteristically Roman piazza, just off the main shopping drag of Campo Marzio and Via del Corso. Vines grow around and over the door (a nice original artisan door). It 's small and pretty with little tables. It serves a selection of very different salads, tasty buffet kinds of dishes like crepe, or soups, or pate 's and has a nice selection of wines, or mineral waters. It 's fun at lunch time because of gorgeous looking men and women who work in Parliament round the corner dropping in for a bite to eat, in a casual sort of way. I went there the first time with my boyfriend to have a 'little ' lunch because it is a very attractive alternative to restaurant lunches or the pizza bars that have sprung up everywhere in the city centre. The price was great. The waiters were friendly, the proprietor was present behind the bar, so service the was pretty good. It 's nice in the evening too, if you like quiet and simple. I went there with a group of girlfriends because we wanted an evening out in the center of Rome, wanted to feel spoiled and eat something different (not the usual first course of pasta, second course of meats etc). We didn 't want a pizza in a pizzeria either. We wanted to catch up and chat and it was a get together more than it was an epicurean eating experience, so we were thrilled. We all ordered different dishes, enjoyed their big menu of salads and wines. We were there for more than four hours. Fun.