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At the park or by the sea: in Rome picnic in box. that's how – Italian Cuisine

From sandwiches to quiches, from bagels to husbands, imagination has no limits and delivery arrives directly to the park chosen for your picnic

Never before has the desire to be outdoors open its way. At the same time, due to the lockdown, many bars, patisseries and restaurants have refined their organization skills for delivery and take away. On the other hand, in times of crisis it is necessary to invent new commercial proposals and, if not already there, to launch a fashion. This is the case with picnics, with boxes that are already beautiful ready to take to the park or directly on the beach. Just arrange the delivery (home or takeaway) in time for departure and you're done. We have selected the five proposals that are depopulating in Rome.

Experience Bistrot Villa Pamphili

Who better than the Vivi Bistrot that is already in the park. For them, the picnic is an art and the precursors in terms of baskets can be defined without fear. On the other hand, the location of one of the offices of the Vivi Bistrot in the heart of Villa Pamphili is a wedding invitation. The game is simple: just order your picnic at least an hour before and everything will be ready to eat barefoot in the park in front. In the Deluxe version you can also book the classic wicker basket with the towel and your front row seat. Consistent with the green atmosphere in which it is located, the Vivi Bistrot is keen to offer rigorously compostable packaging and its proposals range from sandwiches to quiches, from organic salads to hamburgers.

Coromandel

A picnic in Piazza Navona? It has never been easier. Just book your picnic box (but also brunch or any of the appetizing dishes of chef Ornella De Felice) and go to Coromandel, which is just a stone's throw away, to collect it in person. Alternatively, wherever you are, there is Cosaporto that takes you there. Among Coromandel's proposals, sandwiches, bagels, quiches, pancakes and plumcakes, in short, everything that comes to mind is good that can be eaten in a brunch or an outdoor picnic.

Café Merenda

While under the sign Cafè Merenda you can read "Desserts and cuisine" makes it clear how many delicacies can be found in this delightful corner of Marconi. A place where you feel good, but which, if necessary, will reach you anywhere in Rome with its boxes. With the lockdown, the pastry chef / cook Chiara Caruso has specialized in the preparation of boxes for all tastes, from breakfast to brunch, sweet and savory. The leavened products are exceptionally well made, but the savory whims that Chiara prepares for the boxes dedicated to brunch do not disappoint either. Small anticipation, the family picnic box is out, which also includes a children's menu, with gifts for the little ones: a little attention that is appreciated.

Le Levain

The famous Roman boulangerie-pâtisserie led by Giuseppe Solfrizzi has recently launched its online shop, through which you can order all the delights, both sweet and savory, that the pastry chef prepares. Apulian by birth and French by training, Solfrizzi ranges easily from French pastries to focaccias, from baguettes to loaves. He also recently launched the Pic Nic Box, a combination of products for two that contains baguettes, two tasty quiches, a leavened dessert, three delicious macarons and two sweet verrines to combine with a selection of fruit juices. It can be ordered by calling or writing to the shop and on request it is delivered directly to the entrance of the chosen park.

Antico Forno Roscioli

The famous bakery of the Roscioli brothers has also started to deliver throughout Rome, with the collaboration of Cosaporto, with whom it has developed a series of boxes. They are not explicitly designed for picnics, but in any case for a tasty lunch, perhaps with savory croissants, maritozzi, sandwiches, or bagels (or all these things together, it depends on how many you are). There are also sweet proposals and the legendary pizza box of the Roscioli brothers, who can possibly be added to the order for a really tasty picnic.

In Rome it's time for vignarola – Italian Cuisine

From the vineyards to the table, the typical spring dish in the recipe of the chef and host Giovanni Milana, who has created a winning twist with carbonara: the vignarola prepares it in a pan, with poached egg, pecorino fondue and toasted bacon

Never as this year the vignarola will be seen by the Romans as a rebirth. Because, if you want to be rigorous, vignarola is eaten only for a few weeks, when the prodigies of spring make the necessary ingredients coexist: the Roman artichokes, the beans, the peas, the spring onions and the Roman lettuce. Five shades of green that make it a hymn to nature that is reborn, to picnics, out-of-town trips, first outdoor lunches, perhaps near a beautiful vineyard. Because vignarola is a peasant dish that was born from the habit of growing legumes near the rows, since they bring nitrogen to the soil. When it is time to harvest these legumes such as peas and fava beans, it is time for the vignarola, or rather the dish of the winemaker.

Between Rome and its province, it is one of those recipes that you do not always find the same and that gives rise to countless variations. The location at the table also varies according to hunger and circumstances: there are those who use it as a condiment for an excellent pasta (better with egg pasta), there are those who consider it a second dish, some a side dish, some even the basis for a more complex dish.

It is the case of Giovanni Milana, chef, host and patron of Sora Maria and Arcangelo, one of those top-level taverns (Slow Food snail for years) that you have to go and look for, because it is in Olevano Romano, which is an hour's drive from the capital. But it's worth it.

Giovanni la vignarola makes it the basis of a very tasty dish, because it combines a poached egg and a fondue of pecorino romano and toasted bacon. In short, conceptually the result is a very successful mixture of two dishes of Roman cuisine: the vignarola, in fact, and the carbonara. He gave us the recipe, which can be made complete with egg and pecorino fondue, to research the taste of the chef's dish, or for those who want to stop at the base, it is the right start to prepare a doc vignarola.

Pan-fried Vignarola with poached egg, Roman pecorino cheese fondue and crispy bacon

Ingredients for 4 people

For the vignarola
2 Roman artichokes
1 kg of beans
1 kg peas
Some leaves of romaine lettuce
2 new spring onions
Mint a bunch
The juice of ½ lemon
2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
100 g of bacon cut into strips
½ glass of white wine
salt and pepper

For the poached egg
Small saucepan with water, two spoons of white vinegar and a pinch of salt
4 eggs
4 slices of toasted bread

For the pecorino fondue
100 g pecorino romano
¼ whole milk
1 yolk

Method

Shell the peas and fava beans, and aside clean the artichokes by removing all the hard leaves. Once cleaned, cut them into wedges and immerse them in water acidulated with lemon juice. Aside, cut the bacon into strips and spring onions. In the meantime, heat the oil in a pan to which the bacon must be added, which must brown for a few minutes, then it is the turn of the onions, to cook over a moderate flame to make them sweat. Once the onions are browned, add the artichokes and peas to the pan, raise the flame a little and stir to make them flavor well in the sauté. After a few minutes, pour in the wine and, when it is soft, adjust with salt and pepper. After a few minutes, it is the turn of the beans and the mint. Wet with ½ ladle of hot water or vegetable broth, cover and cook for 10 minutes before adding the chopped lettuce, mix, cover and after a few minutes the vignarola is ready.

Apart from preparing the poached egg, bringing the water to a slight boil with the addition of two tablespoons of vinegar and a pinch of salt, with the help of a ladle create a whirl where to break the egg and bring the poached cooking.

Separately, toast some strips of bacon in a pan to give the dish a crunchy note.

For the fondue, bring the milk to a boil, add the grated pecorino cheese and melt it, add 1 yolk as if it were a cream and cook the sauce.

In a small saucepan, put the vignarola, a slice of toasted bread and on top of the poached egg, a spoonful of fondue and toasted bacon, garnish with a touch of mint.

The best delivery in Rome – Italian Cuisine

In time of lockdown, restaurants and gourmet shops focus on delivery, to cheer their customers' lunches and dinners that respect the #iorestoacasa rule

Catering in the times of lockdown it's all in a rider's backpack. At most, it relies on deliveries on its own, but the password has become delivery. Whether it is the shopping for excellent products or a ready-made meal, quality food in Rome knocks on the door. Day after day more and more restaurateurs and shops have been added to the list, becoming real "drug dealers". To orientate yourself and keep you updated on new entrances (day-by-day rooms are added), in addition to our list, you can keep an eye on the site DeliveryRoma, created by a group of volunteers who tried to share all the information that spontaneously came from the exhibitors.
The list of the best pizzerias, fast food outlets, shops that allow you to have quality shopping on your doorstep, ice cream shops and pastry shops, ready to cheer parties and anniversaries. And, again, gourmet restaurants, which alternate simplified dishes only in aesthetics (but not in the taste and richness of ingredients and taste) with kits to reproduce their workhorses at home.

Pizza, ovens and Fast Food

Osteria di Birra del Borgo

After delighting us with his recipes on social networks, Luca Pezzetta returned to his oven to prepare his now famous pizza in the pan, to deliver it throughout the city through the platforms of Glovo, UberEats, Foodys and Cosaporto.

Pizza chef Rome

She had to give up on pizza slices for a while (which she promises will return as soon as possible), but her round pizza does not make her regret at all. The dough is not classifiable, fragrant, crunchy, it comes home perfect even with a slightly more important distance. Not to mention the fried foods, which are amazing. You can order by calling directly in a pizzeria if neighbors, or there is Just Eat.

Yeast – pizza, bread

For the occasion Francesco Arnesano launched his e-commerce, where you can buy bread and other sweet and savory leavened products and shipments also leave Rome. The pizza, both round and in the pan, is ordered on delivery (Deliveroo, Glovo and Just Eat). In addition, Francesco launched a "solidarity" initiative: call to agree and he will give you a piece of mother yeast.

Mother Yeast – Gino Sorbillo

One by one all the pizzerias of Gino Sorbillo scattered throughout Italy are starting to work in delivery mode, to bring home the taste of Neapolitan pizza. Sorbillo is on UberEats, but beware of distances.

Spark

Favilla's crunchy and generously Roman pizza is available in delivery mode on Uber Eats, Just Eat and Deliveroo, however if you want to take advantage of the complete menu designed for home deliveries the advice is to open the Facebook page of the pizzeria, choose your favorite dishes and order them directly in the pizzeria.

In Rota – Eufrosino

Well yes, what you can't do in the restaurant you can do at home, that is to eat in the same meal the very Roman pizza of Sami El Sabawy and the specialties that range in the Italian tradition all of Paolo D’Ercole. You can find them on UberEats and Foodys.

Sesame pizza and cooking

Pizza or Pizzburger? This is the dilemma. Da Sesamo, Luca Belliscioni and Co. left with the delivery service, both with an internal service and with the collaboration of Glovo, UberEats and JustEat.

Antico Forno Roscioli

For Easter they unleashed a firepower based on pastiere and casatielli, but the Roscioli brothers are famous for their pizza (with mortazza in the first place), for the bread, for the fragrant croissants, in short for everything that comes out of their oven. It can be ordered directly from the oven or through Cosaporto.

Legs

Accustomed to home deliveries already in unsuspected times, the boys of Legs have not been found unprepared and offer their full menu that ranges from fried chicken to chips, from burgers (also vegetarian) to coleshaw. There is also a selection of craft beers. It can be ordered on Foodys, Just Eat and Deliveroo.

Oh dog!

The best hot dog in Rome? Here it is, to be ordered directly or on Uber Eats, Just Eat and Deliveroo. In addition there are French fries, hamburgers and churros for a sweet finish.

Bonci

For the occasion Gabriele Bonci went from his legendary trays to the pan, which adapts well to delivery. In addition, there is his bread, but also gastronomy. In order not to disappoint those who want to prepare pizza at home, Bonci also sends the dough to be cooked. For those who are not far from the laboratory of the Triumphal Market, order directly by calling, Cosaporto will take care of those who are out of the area.

Shops

Dol – Of Lazio origin

Just call them and the Farmer Spending strictly of Lazio origin arrives at home. From cheeses to cold cuts, passing through the pantry and the wine shop, the best of the selections of Vincenzo Mancino and Co. directly at home in practical boxes. It is also possible to order the homemade pasta from Pastificio Secondi.

Beppe and his cheeses

Beppe's kitchen is stopped, but the deliveries from the pantry and from the cheese and salami counter have never stopped. Just contact them directly and find out what's available. They have prepared kits, but you can also draw on the long list of gastronomic wonders, including the wine shop.

Pork n 'Roll the shop

While waiting for the pub to reopen, the guys from Pork n 'Roll continue to "peddle" their pork specialties, from home-made cured meats, which are ordered by the pound, to meat already portioned and ready for the barbecue or for the pan. In addition there is a nice selection of craft beers. Direct delivery or through Foodys, UberEats and Deliveroo.

Bottega Liberati

The most famous butcher shop in Rome is open and also delivers to your home, to satisfy even those who are out of the area and cannot personally get there. You can order by sending an email or calling the shop.

Fortunato Agricultural Company

Meat, cured meats, cheeses, vegetables: practically all the best of a complete farm, located a stone's throw from Rome, in that of the Marcigliana, which delivers directly to your home. Due to the large number of orders, they need 3-4 days' notice and can be contacted directly.

Volpetti

One of the most famous delicatessens in the city has its e-commerce site, from which you can order throughout Italy and also deliver to your home (free of charge if you don't go too far from Testaccio, where it is located). The best of national and international production of over-the-counter products such as meats and cheeses, the pantry and the wines available for orders.

Gourmet

The Retrodelivery of Retrobottega

Alessandro Miocchi and Giuseppe Del Giudice anticipate the times as always. Thus was born Retrodelivery, which sends all the taste of their preparations and the products they select in practical boxes. Sandwiches, salads, lasagna to cook, home made pasta and even shopping. You can call them directly, or book delivery with Uber Eats or Cosaporto.

The Convivio Troiani

Angelo Troiani is the first starred chef who got involved in home deliveries. To have a starry dinner directly at home, you need to call a day in advance and agree on the menu. Alternatively, on Cosaporto you can buy his kits, to prepare even his famous amatriciana at home.

Pascucci at the marina

Beach sandwiches (waiting to see one), tuna stewed tagliatelle, lemon spaghetti and squid: not everything can be sent express, but kits can be prepared to cook a starry seafood dish at home. Chef Pascucci thought about it, who with a phone call sends everything you need to your home.

Sweets and ice cream

Café Merenda

Look on their Facebook page if your cap is among those where they make direct delivery, otherwise Chiara Caruso's sweet wonders travel throughout Rome through the Foodys channel. On the menu, from breakfasts with fragrant yeasts to the Easter pastiera, passing through Chiara's workhorses such as cheesecake.

Bompiani

They thought about it a lot, but when Easter approached they gave way, in order not to leave their customers without their legendary and beautiful Easter eggs (sold out in a few days). Find their delicacies on Cosaporto, or you can contact them directly in the pastry shop.

Greed Greedy for Ice Cream

Dario Rossi was unable to stay home too long and so he decided to get back to work in his ice cream shop in Frascati. It is produced until 18 and from 18.30 the delivery round begins, which cross the border of the Castles to arrive in the capital. Contact him directly and organize the delivery.

Mirage

Maria Agnese Spagnuolo's ice cream travels throughout Rome through the Deliveroo and Glovo platforms. But you can also call to order it directly in the stores if you are from the Parioli or Trieste / Salario area or San Giovanni / Re di Roma.

Otaleg

Marco Radicioni's ice cream, true lover of the matter, can be found on Cosaporto. They are in trays ranging from half a kilo to a kilo and you can choose your favorite flavors.