Tenuta del Duca in Fiumicino: A Culinary Stay Before Takeoff

After years of running seasonal beachfront restaurants in Fregene and Focene, two coastal towns near Rome along the Tyrrhenian Sea, husband and wife Rosario Malapena and Cristina Sebastiani embark on a year-round venture in Fiumicino. Just five minutes from Leonardo da Vinci Airport, Tenuta del Duca is their latest project, blending refined cuisine with warm hospitality in a carefully restored 1930s farmhouse. More than just … Continue reading Tenuta del Duca in Fiumicino: A Culinary Stay Before Takeoff

Educazione Marinara: Fiumicino’s New Spot for Authentic Simplicity

Located just off Fiumicino’s renowned dining strip, Via di Torre Clementina, near the point where the Tiber River meets the Tyrrhenian Sea, Educazione Marinara at Via del Canale is more than just a restaurant, it is a project rooted in a clear concept and guided by principles essential to its founders. This seafood-focused eatery, a shared vision of co-owners Riccardo Agus and Chef Davide Mobrici, … Continue reading Educazione Marinara: Fiumicino’s New Spot for Authentic Simplicity

At Le Brocchette in Fiumicino You Eat What the Mediterranean Sea Gives You

For Carmine Carli, proprietor of Hosteria di Mare Le Brocchette, the freshness of the sea is celebrated everyday with an ever-changing à la carte menu at his restaurant. The sea is rich with fresh raw materials and his aim is to surprise his diners with a menu made up of dishes that change daily because what he has in the kitchen always depends on what … Continue reading At Le Brocchette in Fiumicino You Eat What the Mediterranean Sea Gives You

Wondering Where to Eat in Fiumicino, Italy? 18 Places From Simple to Fine Dining

Perhaps you know Fiumicino only as the town where your plane lands as the gateway to Rome and to the rest of the country. It’s true. But it is also one of the main fishing ports on where to get the freshest catch on the Tyrrhenian Sea. In addition to that, it is also known among Romans as the destination to eat good seafood because … Continue reading Wondering Where to Eat in Fiumicino, Italy? 18 Places From Simple to Fine Dining

Fiumicino’s Periferia Iodata Chefs Cook on the Beach For Their First Summer Party

An attendance of more than six hundred people marked a great success for the first party ever organized by the chefs of Periferia Iodata on the first day of August 2022. Among them were also Mayor Esterino Montino of Fiumicino, Vice Mayor Ezio Di Genesio Pagliuca, and President of the Productive Activities Commission Fabio Zorzi, who lauded the significant initiative of the chefs. The setting … Continue reading Fiumicino’s Periferia Iodata Chefs Cook on the Beach For Their First Summer Party

Francesco Cerrato Opens RICE Sushi & Fish in Fiumicino: From Dream to Reality

What was once a dream has turned into a significant reality for Francesco Cerrato when he opened his sushi bar recently in Fiumicino with the support of his wife, Maria Grazia Macri. His passion for cooking had been evident from the time he was young when he was growing up in Salerno. His culinary formation started at the age of 14 in the hotel and … Continue reading Francesco Cerrato Opens RICE Sushi & Fish in Fiumicino: From Dream to Reality

Periferia Iodata: An Association of Chefs of Fiumicino Focalizing on the Excellence of the Territory

Fiumicino is a fishing town along the Tyrrhenian Coast 30 kilometers towards west from Rome. Perhaps it is best identified with the Leonardo da Vinci International Airport of Rome. It’s the main airway hub of Italy so it gets a large movement of travelers who enter and leave the country. But it is also known among Romans as a destination fishing town on sunny weekends … Continue reading Periferia Iodata: An Association of Chefs of Fiumicino Focalizing on the Excellence of the Territory

Fiumicino, Italy: The Twelve Best Seafood Restaurants

Fiumicino is best known as the town that hosts Leonardo da Vinci International Airport of Rome. It’s the main airway hub of Italy so it gets a large movement of travelers who enter and leave the country. But it is also known among Romans as a destination fishing town on sunny weekends because its proximity to the center of Rome validates it as the best … Continue reading Fiumicino, Italy: The Twelve Best Seafood Restaurants

Contemporary Cuisine at Allure Restaurant Patisserie in Fiumicino, Italy

The seaside town of Fiumicino, along the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, welcomes a new addition to its growing number of gourmet seafood restaurants. With its 30-kilometer distance from Rome, it has steadily become a favorite destination for open-air dining of quality seafood in both traditional and contemporary representations of the Italian cuisine. Aside from the local chefs who have put Fiumicino in the gastronomical … Continue reading Contemporary Cuisine at Allure Restaurant Patisserie in Fiumicino, Italy

Altavela: A New Italian Gourmet Seafood Restaurant in Fiumicino

Fiumicino is a fishing town that’s located on the western edge of Rome where the sea is its main source of activity. One of the most popular fishing hub where local fishermen unload and sell their catch, it’s the town where you can definitely get seafood cuisine at its excellence in quality. Its proximity to Rome makes it one of the day destinations from the … Continue reading Altavela: A New Italian Gourmet Seafood Restaurant in Fiumicino

Recommended Takeaways in the Outskirts of Rome: Seafood, Sushi, Pizza, Pastries & Gelato

When the sudden national lockdown was enforced last March in Italy, the restaurants had no choice but to halt business activities and close their doors. Everyone had to adjust to the stringent rules imposed making it imperative for everyone to stay indoors and close doors to the world outside. Food shopping, once pleasurable, became a chore fraught with anxiety and extreme caution: masks and gloves … Continue reading Recommended Takeaways in the Outskirts of Rome: Seafood, Sushi, Pizza, Pastries & Gelato

Sensorial Gourmet Experience at Hotel Tiber in Fiumicino, Italy

Eating is defined as taking in food through the mouth: ingesting, chewing and swallowing in turn. It’s a part of our daily living that we all go through routinely. But what if we slow down, look at it in a qualitatively profound way and employ all our senses in approaching it? The five senses will bridge the reinforcement in experiencing eating where food can be … Continue reading Sensorial Gourmet Experience at Hotel Tiber in Fiumicino, Italy

Celebrating 500 Years of Leonardo da Vinci with Fiumicino’s Best Chefs

Leonardo da Vinci, one of Italy’s most celebrated polymath in the Renaissance period,  was commemorated with celebrations on his 500th anniversary. Following the exhibition of some of his flight machines that were replicated in their natural size and a multimedia area with his drawings on the Code on the Flight of Birds at Italy’s main airport hub, Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Fiumicino, a … Continue reading Celebrating 500 Years of Leonardo da Vinci with Fiumicino’s Best Chefs

Four Hands Dinner with Host Restaurant and Cannolicchio Osteria di Mare

In celebration of the arrival of spring, Chef Alessandro Capponi of Host Restaurant in Fiumicino and Chef Luca Baldacci of Cannolicchio Osteria di Mare in Rome prepared a full four hands seafood dinner accompanied with the wines of Omina Romana at Host Restaurant on 30 April 2019. Both chefs with their own kitchen brigades filled Host Restaurant’s open kitchen with a charge of activity as … Continue reading Four Hands Dinner with Host Restaurant and Cannolicchio Osteria di Mare

The Stories of the Sea at Pascucci al Porticciolo in Fiumicino (Rome), Italy

With the Tyrrhenian Sea right in front of him as an exceptionally extensive supplier that any chef can ask for, Gianfranco Pascucci has a vast source of ingredients where fishes of different kinds are taken to the dock by the local fishermen of Fiumicino. He doesn’t limit his ingredients to the usual sea bass or turbot, because he feels driven to take out the truth … Continue reading The Stories of the Sea at Pascucci al Porticciolo in Fiumicino (Rome), Italy