When in Roma, Eat!

We're back to bringing you photos of food! Did you miss these? We're sure you've stumbled upon dining places and hole-in-the-wall snack bars during the Eid vacation. We did too but we still have a backlog on restaurants we have gone to before Ramadan.

If you ask us where the best Italian restaurant in Riyadh is, we cannot give you a solid answer because we haven't been to many. As a matter of fact, we only have been to one (as far as Sundrenched remembers). But that one restaurant made a really huge impact in our taste buds.

The entrance to authentic Italian cuisine

Pizza Roma is a quaint restaurant across the corner of Localizer Mall and Tahalia Street. If you're just cruising in Tahalia, you'll miss it. You need to turn left on the street running perpendicular to Localizer. Okay, that's not a good way to put it. It's on the ground floor of a SMILE Dental Clinic (the SMILE sign is hard to miss) and near Roma Cafe and Ketchup. Hope that helps further.

Anyway, the place serves pizzas and pastas that are so simple yet so delicious. The authentic taste of the dishes hit the right spots. It's comfort food in an upscale ambiance.

The elegant setting

Free appetizers

2 Flavored Pizza: Pizza Salmone E Gamberi (mozzarella with shrimp and smoked salmon) and Pizza Quattro Formaggi (pizza with four kinds of cheeses)

A dish of 3 pastas: Ravioli di Ricotta (stuffed ravioli with ricotta cheese and tomato sauce), Fettuccine Mare E Monti (fettuccine with shrimp and mushroom cream sauce), and Penne Alla Arrabbiata (penne with garlic and spicy tomato sauce).

Banana split

We are not gonna try to encapsulate the overall taste of everything you see here with lengthy sentences. All we can say is they're delicious and we enjoyed all of them. Even if the presentation and plating are boring, the food delivers! We finished everything, down to the last creamy drop of pasta sauce!

The dining spaces in Pizza Roma are small and the tables are cramped but they have a beautiful bathroom. Lol. Actually, they have a beautiful, elegant ambiance.

If you're craving for Italian cuisine, visit Roma... Pizza Roma!