Gelato Celebrates Autumn Harvest

For all of you passionate about gelato, or food and flavour lovers in general, here is something delicious to do this weekend. As part of a City of Rome promotion, 'La Campagna in Citta', on 3th and 4th October, 5 gelaterie in Rome will be serving specially prepared gelati featuring selected high quality seasonal fruit, mainly from orchards in the nearby Castelli Romani hills which you can clearly see from many parts of the city.

One of the fruits being used in this initiative is the very distinctive 'pizzutello' grape, a white oval-shaped grape with peculiar pointy ends. It's especially sweet and firm and much loved by Romans. When it hits the markets in September, the vendors often mark it as 'da sogno', to dream about (or 'to die for'). It's mainly grown on the Tivoli slopes but also in other parts of the Castelli area.





Gelateria Carassale
Via L. Filippo De Magistris 72-78

Melon, blackberry and local organic milk



Gelateria Greed
Via Vestricio Spurinna 97-99
www.gelateriagreed.com

Fig from Zagarolo
Blackberry from Zagarolo
Late harvesting peach from Palestrina
Ricotta Romana
Primo Sale (a bland, smooth cheese)
Carrot from Maccarese



Gelateria I Mannari
Via di Grotta Perfetta 125

Grape, pear, fig, persimmon, ricotta romana/fig




Il Gelato di San Crispino
Via Acaia56
Via Della Panetteria 42
Piazza della Maddalena 3
Terminal A, Aeroporto Fiumicino
www.ilgelatodisancrispino.it

Peach and 'pizzutello' grape from the Castelli Romani



Gelateria Giuseppe Bartocci
Via Alessandria 145-147

A selection of freshly harvested fruit from the Roman countryside

Nightlife Lungo Il Tevere

Summer event nightly from sunset till late

12th June - 30th August
http://www.lungoiltevereroma.com/ristoro.html


If you're picky and haven't found anything to do (yes, some people DO have this problem, even in Rome if you can believe it), this event, a combination bazaar/food festival/wine bar-pub crawl, is just the place. Located between Ponte Sisto and Ponte Palatino, lining the banks of the Tiber River, you will find a host of bars, informal eateries, craft stores and music venues. It's a casual place for a night stroll where at leisure you can choose a place to stop and have a drink or something tasty to eat. Here is a small selection of things to do:



Plenty of wine bars and pubs with dj's and pounding house and live music but also quiet venues where you can savour the reflected lights of the city on the river. Some of the bars have been very creatively set up as lounges with mood lighting and design furniture to create a club theme.


A dance floor for tango lovers where you can even have a free lesson. Dress up with sequined 10cm heels (plenty of them last night) or fun just to watch.


An Arab carpeted tent... with belly-dancing customers and cous cous


Esco Pazzo ("I'm Going Crazy") cooking with flair using centuries old Roman recipes.


You're most likely not here in Rome to eat sushi but Fujisushi has a reasonably priced midnight to 2am special. And a riverside sushi bar is not something you see every day, at least not here.


La Sponda Steakhouse


La Paranza specializing in fried fish (and chips!)


Nanni' Pizza by the Slice


"Piccolo Teatro Del Belli" a small stage & seating where you can listen to jazz, bawdy Roman, country Western and other live music.