Propaganda Italian Cuisine

I have a bit of a love affair with Caffè Propaganda. It’s a beautiful Parisian inspired space separated into bar in front and restaurant in back. It has soaring ceilings with white subway tile clad walls, glittering crystal chandeliers, and handsome leather booths. It was the perfect place to sit, sip an espresso, order some gnocchi for breakfast, and put pen to paper.

I was craving for some good food and Propaganda served it perfectly on time. I had salmon with veggies on wok. Juicy, mouth watering taste. Staff is very friendly. Great place right next to Colosseum.

We came here on our first day exhausted and starving and also slightly unaware of the lunch/dinner kitchen times where the menu isn’t fully available, but seeing our American despair they helped us out, and gave us a great meal anyway and every one of the four people we spoke with were great to us. We tried the ravioli and spaghetti a cocktail and the ovomisu dessert. All were highlights of our trip to Italy.

A coffee shop with a welcoming atmosphere, tastefully furnished in every space, an excellent location with riches selection of soft drinks , coffee, cappuccino, gingen, organic juices , Champagne and more. Taste, relaxing and enjoy your wonderful breakfast or lunch with your family or friends. Una mervillosa cafeteria elegante decoro junto a la agradable atmosfera donde leer tranquilamente con una amplia seleción de bevidas desde El clasico cappuccino, ginseng, jugos bio a las bevidas soft y mucho mas, queda solo a relajar.

For being so close to such a tourist attraction expectations sometimes seem to dwindle.. no need to lower them here. Espresso, food, ambience, Roma romance, Campari spritz break, we recommend after your Colosseo gander.

I loved this place so much, I've been there twice in a week-end. The cocktails are pretty good and fairly priced (9-12 €). The food is great, and the service is friendly. Good value, fair price, not overcrowded: recommended

Do you see my profile photo? Exactly. Caffè Propaganda will always be for me the iconic "65 degrees egg" with seasonal vegetables (in this case Procini muchrooms), a must after visiting the Colosseum. And fon't forget the great burgers and colorful desserts!

Food was delicious and area was great. Not very pricey for how close it is to the colleseum. The service was also amazing :) would def recommend if you're in the area

I have a bit of a love affair with Caffè Propaganda. It’s a beautiful Parisian inspired space separated into bar in front and restaurant in back. It has soaring ceilings with white subway tile clad walls, glittering crystal chandeliers, and handsome leather booths. It was the perfect place to sit, sip an espresso, order some gnocchi for breakfast, and put pen to paper.

I was craving for some good food and Propaganda served it perfectly on time. I had salmon with veggies on wok. Juicy, mouth watering taste. Staff is very friendly. Great place right next to Colosseum.

We came here on our first day exhausted and starving and also slightly unaware of the lunch/dinner kitchen times where the menu isn’t fully available, but seeing our American despair they helped us out, and gave us a great meal anyway and every one of the four people we spoke with were great to us. We tried the ravioli and spaghetti a cocktail and the ovomisu dessert. All were highlights of our trip to Italy.

A coffee shop with a welcoming atmosphere, tastefully furnished in every space, an excellent location with riches selection of soft drinks , coffee, cappuccino, gingen, organic juices , Champagne and more. Taste, relaxing and enjoy your wonderful breakfast or lunch with your family or friends. Una mervillosa cafeteria elegante decoro junto a la agradable atmosfera donde leer tranquilamente con una amplia seleción de bevidas desde El clasico cappuccino, ginseng, jugos bio a las bevidas soft y mucho mas, queda solo a relajar.

For being so close to such a tourist attraction expectations sometimes seem to dwindle.. no need to lower them here. Espresso, food, ambience, Roma romance, Campari spritz break, we recommend after your Colosseo gander.

I loved this place so much, I've been there twice in a week-end. The cocktails are pretty good and fairly priced (9-12 €). The food is great, and the service is friendly. Good value, fair price, not overcrowded: recommended

Do you see my profile photo? Exactly. Caffè Propaganda will always be for me the iconic "65 degrees egg" with seasonal vegetables (in this case Procini muchrooms), a must after visiting the Colosseum. And fon't forget the great burgers and colorful desserts!

Food was delicious and area was great. Not very pricey for how close it is to the colleseum. The service was also amazing :) would def recommend if you're in the area

5 minutes from the Colosseum providing great food, drinks and house made desserts. English spoken. Carpaccio and Salume/ cheese board to start, pastas and local white wine during a blistering hot July day. Waitstaff were friendly and we could hear the Chef bellowing in the kitchen! Flavors were outstanding, bold and pronounced. Pricing was fair, considering where we were and the quality delivered. We really enjoyed it! Highly recommend if you are in this part of Rome.

Good place for a decent meal near the Colosseum. We made reservations on-line and arrived on time. We were promptly seated, but had to sit near the door and bar. There was a huge party in the main dining room and no seats available. Service - prompt and attentive. Our server was always available and the courses moved smoothly. We were offered (and happily accepted) an additional mid-dinner sampling of carpaccio with a raspberry sauce - although I was skeptical of the combination, it was delicious. Food - all the dishes we had were good. The carpaccio and raspberry sauce as a standout dish. We also had an interesting and tasty beet amuse bouche. Atmosphere - classic cafe with bar and dining room seating. It's very nice. Overall - surprisingly good for a restaurant that is in the heart of tourist central. I recommend Caffe Propaganda.

Beautiful cafe. Pricey for a place that doesn't have much of a breakfast selection at all. There were only a few items to choose from, the best of which was an omelet. Small for €9. €3.50 for coffee. It's an elegant and romantic setting more for the night time than a bite to eat in the morning. But a gorgeous bar - wow. If I'd do it again, I'd come here for a light dinner and a drink. Location is perfect; close to the Colosseum and other major Roman attractions like the Roman Forum, Imperial Forum and Palatine Hill.

Very clean, love the music and atmosphere. The coffee was delicious and my very first pastry in Rome was delicious. This is walking distance from our Airbnb so happy may come back for dinner .

WOW! The CARBONARA... What an unexpected surprise! This restaurant is everything you wish for in a trip to Italy but with a twist- total concept restaurant. So the carbonara is tortellini and the carbonara is INSIDE.... what???? How the heck do they get the delicious carbonara inside the tortellini? Pancetta and all- it was so delicious we ordered it twice! The service, the drinks.. I don't want to give it all away because it is so worth the surprise in every dish. If you are going to Italy this is a must try! Oh ya... and it's a 1/2 a block to the colesseum

Save room for dessert. It will be hard because the specials on the board are excellent. We came two days in a row and ordered what our server recommended. Gricia a Roman pasta dish was delicious. We sat near the bar so we could see the food coming out of the kitchen and it looked perfect. Not a huge menu. But you don't need one. Get the specials. Dessert. Omg the tiramisu is amazing complete reimagined dessert and worth ordering for presentation but the taste is even better than It looks. What can I say except that we came two days in a row and had to taxi the second day to get back on this side of Rome.

This nostalgic café is found near Colosseum in Rome, Italy. They have a wide spread of pastries, cookies and probably one of the best tiramisu around. It is a must try! Their coffee is good but temperature can be hotter. Bueno!

Rude woman manager, over priced food . Got here because google search for cafe near by showed it on the first page , but I guess that one is biased , or propaganda, yelp review is much lower . I will not go back to this one

Absolutely loved this place! So much that we went back twice during our stay in Rome. Had delicious carbonara pasta for dinner and the omelette for lunch. Loved the decor as well. We felt right at home the minute we walked in.

Perhaps because we do not speak Italian or perhaps just because - the service was terrible. Really poor. The food was worse. We just wanted pasta- The fettuccine pomodoro was made with canned tomatoes and the pasta was under cooked. The spaghetti with Parmesan and truffle was truly disappointing. It was over cooked pasta and dry par Sean with bits of truffle- no olive oil or any cream to mix the 2. I actually had to add olive oil to make it smoother and salt and pepper to add taste as the truffle was really not very strong. we've had much better Italian food in nyc (where we live)

The tea selection alone is worth coming here. The biscotti may be a disappointment (at least in the size if they pick the smaller ones for you), and the macarons will give you only one of the two flavors that they're labeled for. But the cheese and the prosciutto were delicious, and the cocktails were nothing short of masterpieces. This was a fantastic place to enjoy all of these in a lively atmosphere. My traveling companion and I basically camped here for a couple hours on a rainy Rome afternoon and loved the atmosphere -- a combination of warm dark wood and white modern tile, accented with the colorful glass of liquor bottles and chandeliers. The service is on the slow side, but we've found that in Rome if the service is fast then the food is probably just okay. The music got loud right around 5pm (it started out as 80s adult contemporary and then moved to a full-fledged Sinatra marathon right around then), and we left just as it was getting hard to hear each other.

Worst experience in Rome. We entered, were ignored, after 15 minutes finally got the menu from one of the waiters, again ignored for 20 minutes and left without ordering anything.

Very unique Roman rendition of the classic French bistro. Great staff, helpful with menu and wine list. The crispy eggplant antipasti may have been the best eggplant dish I have ever tried, and the carbonara melted tortello was excellent.

We went here twice, for dinner and lunch. After the first mediocre dinner experience, we decided to try them for lunch to give them another chance. After all, the decor is cute, near our airbnb, and the food is actually good. However, both visits they did not have what my husband wanted to order. For lunch, we ordered at 12:50pm and they were already out of a menu item that is only served from 12-3:00p. It wasn't even busy and it was a Tuesday. Additionally, I advise asking if a menu item is available before you order your drink to match. The hostess both times was a bit standoffish and seemed irritated that we didn't speak Italian. On our visit for lunch, they also gave us bread and charged us for it despite not ordering it. The prices, in comparison to some other excellent restaurants in the neighborhood, were high. 12 euro for a salad I probably could've gotten somewhere else for a few euros less.

The worst service we had in Rome. The worst. Rude server. Rude staff in general. We have been here 2 weeks. The worst experience of our visit.

Do yourself a BIG favor and try it. We've been here enough times to know that the bad experiences that others spoke of are flukes. It's not America, so let that expectation go and you will have a perfectly lovely experience. The wait staff is a but younger, so maybe the service is not the same as the old Italian gentleman in the crusty places. In our visits, the staff has always taken care of business in a delightful and more than efficient manner. We've been treated horribly by so many other eateries in that area that we always look forward to going there, knowing we will have fun and eat good food and drink great wine. If you want a bowl of $12.00 pasta that tastes like every other place in the hood, and rushes the tourists in and out, then by all accounts, this is not your place. If you want innovative and clever food then this is your place. The Food... I can't say enough. We crave it and have even gone home to try and recreate some of the dishes. The reconstructed tiramisu is beyond!!! Cocktails are so good and we loved trying some new wines. Some say the music is loud. We love the vibe there and music only seems loud if it clears out super quick later at night. Just say something, they will turn it down. I still cannot believe the negative reviews. It's our favorite and we stay in that neighborhood just so we can eat there as often as possible.

This place is horrible. Wee were ignored and had a horrible attitude from our waiter on a Tuesday at 2:30.. can't imagine how bad they would be when they are busy. Nasty dry sponge cake, fake coffee and horrible service.

We enjoyed lunch here after our tour of the Forum and the Colosseum. This place is relatively new and seemed to be catering to local Romans as opposed to the many pizzerias in the area for tourists. That being said the food was a little hit or miss. Maybe the greatest dish of the trip so far was an appetizer of artichokes prepared 3 ways, including fried in extra virgin olive oil. Great cured meat and cheese plate. The carbonara and amatriciana were too salty, maybe as a result of the big thick slices of guanciale. I had a fava bean pasta in season that was excellent.

This place had absolutely amazing food and drinks and is located one block from the Colosseum. Could not recommend it more highly-one of the best meals we had in Rome!

This place is so perfectly unexpected. It's not typical and that was a treat. Don't hesitate, just go! To reiterate, it's not expected and what I mean by that is: they didn't rush us, they made recommendations and were so fun. It's not the same 5 items that every other place in the area serves, with the same older grumpy guy who obviously hates he's serving foreigners. If your looking for a $10 bowl of spaghetti and a piece of pizza. This is not for you. It's a chef who's innovative and using fresh local ingredients and the food put in front of you is non the typical bowl of pasta from your Nona's 300 year old recipe but rather someone who has that knowledge but takes risks too. The staff (the times that we went ) were a big younger but competent , helpful and friendly. They even remembered us!!! The only bummer is if you fall head over heals for something it might not be there on your next visit of it's a different time of year because they use local, in season ingredients. If they were in San Francisco we'd go every week! We love the vibe and the 80's music. I personally adore this place and think of it often. Ahhh, the tiramisu. I don't even like tiramisu and I could get enough of it. Will be back very soon.

Very trendy and good vibe. Awful service tonight. Took 3 asks to request more wine with dinner and finally after 30 min and finishing main courses it came. Food was average. Pitty.

My wife and I found Caffe P. just a short walk down a quaint street after our visit to the Colosseum. It has charming decor and very friendly service. The mozzarella caprese and wine were flavorful and refreshing, but the homemade Fettuccine Della Nonna was spectacular. We finished our meal with espresso and deconstructed tiramisu and walked away with smiles on our faces and full bellies.

Very charming restaurant. Designed as an old café. Excellent for brunch or a cup of tea in the afternoon. It is also possible to have a lunch.