Where do the locals actually eat?

Every restaurant Seemor has analyzed carries a reading of the crowd it draws, from firmly local to firmly tourist. Pick up to five cities. Below, in turn: what the local-leaning places serve, what kind of places they are, what they charge and how they score, next to the mixed-appeal places and the tourist-leaning ones.

Rome

Cuisine

Rome: Italian is 89% of local-leaning restaurants, 77% of mixed-appeal ones and 79% of tourist-leaning ones.

What this measures

What each restaurant serves, grouped into cuisines. Cuisines under 15 restaurants in a city are pooled as Other. Under each city: the home cuisine opened up by kind of place (pizzeria, trattoria, pub, diner and so on), read from how each restaurant describes itself.

Rome

5,876 restaurants · 1,344 local-leaning, 3,283 mixed appeal, 1,249 tourist-leaning

All restaurants

80%

Local-leaning1,344

Italian89%

Mixed appeal3,283

Italian77%

Tourist-leaning1,249

Italian79%

Italian89% · 77% · 79%
Chinese4% · 4% · 3%
Japanese1% · 4% · 5%
American2% · 4% · 4%
10 smaller ones in gray5% · 11% · 10%

Figures: local-leaning · mixed appeal · tourist-leaning

Inside the Italian places

80% of Rome · 4,707 restaurants · 1,192 local-leaning, 2,528 mixed appeal, 987 tourist-leaning

Pizzeria leads the local-leaning Italian places (28%); tourist-leaning ones lead with Trattoria (29%).

All Italian places

23%

12%

21%

10%

13%

Local-leaning1,192

Pizzeria28%

Pizza al taglio20%

Trattoria16%

10%

Mixed appeal2,528

Pizzeria23%

11%

Trattoria21%

12%

Tourist-leaning987

Pizzeria14%

Trattoria29%

Unspecified25%

Pizzeria28% · 23% · 14%
Pizza al taglio20% · 11% · 4%
Trattoria16% · 21% · 29%
Bar / wine bar7% · 5% · 3%
Cafe / bakery7% · 4% · 6%
Seafood5% · 8% · 4%
Modern2% · 4% · 8%
Other kinds10% · 12% · 8%
Unspecified5% · 12% · 25%

Figures: local-leaning · mixed appeal · tourist-leaning

Price

Rome: 42% of tourist-leaning places are expensive or above, 29% of mixed-appeal ones and 13% of local-leaning ones.

What this measures

Price band read from menus and reviews, four bands from budget to very expensive. Places with no price reading are left out.

Rome

5,849 restaurants with a price reading

All restaurants

16%

55%

27%

Local-leaning1,336

Budget30%

Moderate57%

13%

Mixed appeal3,270

Budget14%

Moderate57%

Expensive29%

Tourist-leaning1,243

Moderate50%

Expensive40%

Budget30% · 14% · 7%
Moderate57% · 57% · 50%
Expensive13% · 29% · 40%
Very expensive0% · 1% · 3%

Figures: local-leaning · mixed appeal · tourist-leaning

Food, value and setting

Rome: 78% of local-leaning places score 8+ on food, 59% of mixed-appeal ones, 37% of tourist-leaning ones; on setting it is 40%, 55% and 83%.

What this measures

Share of restaurants reading 8 or higher on food quality, and 7 or higher on value for money and on setting appeal, on Seemor's 1 to 10 scale. Bands, not averages.

Food quality 8+

Value for money 7+

Setting appeal 7+

Rome

5,876 restaurants · 1,344 local-leaning, 3,283 mixed appeal, 1,249 tourist-leaning

All restaurants

59%

80%

57%

Local-leaning1,344

78%

96%

40%

Mixed appeal3,283

59%

82%

55%

Tourist-leaning1,249

37%

58%

83%

Neighborhoods

Rome: in Trevi, 74% of restaurants are tourist-leaning and 2% local-leaning; in Centocelle it is 2% and 47%.

What this measures

Share of each neighborhood's restaurants in each crowd band. The whole city first, then the 5 neighborhoods with the most tourist-leaning restaurants and the 5 with the most local-leaning, each group ordered by tourist-leaning share. Neighborhoods are Seemor's own place hierarchy; only those with 25 or more restaurants carrying a crowd reading are drawn. Under it: every neighborhood of every city on one chart.

Rome

4,274 of the 5,876 restaurants sit inside a named neighborhood; 52 neighborhoods with 25+

The whole city

4,274 restaurants inside a named neighborhood

Tourist-leaning 27%

Mixed appeal 55%

18%

Where the tourist-leaning places are

the 5 neighborhoods with the most of them, ordered by share

Trevi140

Tourist-leaning 74%

24%

Centro Storico283

Tourist-leaning 67%

Mixed appeal 31%

Campitelli136

Tourist-leaning 61%

Mixed appeal 37%

Trastevere256

Tourist-leaning 45%

Mixed appeal 53%

Prati196

Tourist-leaning 44%

Mixed appeal 52%

Where the local-leaning places are

the 5 neighborhoods with the most of them, ordered by share

Trieste120

Mixed appeal 67%

Local-leaning 27%

Tuscolano Sud68

Mixed appeal 56%

Local-leaning 38%

Pigneto77

Mixed appeal 62%

Local-leaning 33%

Prenestino-Labicano85

Mixed appeal 58%

Local-leaning 39%

Centocelle116

Mixed appeal 52%

Local-leaning 47%

The same ten on the map of every city

1,549 neighborhoods in 43 cities

If each city's restaurants were scattered across its neighborhoods at random, about 63 of these 1,549 neighborhoods would have a fifth of their restaurants in each crowd. 10 do.

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Cities shown: 5,876 restaurants with a crowd reading (1,484 from full analyses, 4,392 from lighter ones), data from October 2026. Each restaurant carries Seemor's reading of the crowd it draws. The most local places count as local-leaning, the most tourist-drawn as tourist-leaning, and the rest, where most of a city eats, as mixed appeal. Readings come from analysing public reviews and menus; they describe who a place tends to draw, not who is welcome. Shares of restaurants in a band, never individual scores.

Cities with fewer than 100 tourist-leaning restaurants are left out; the kind-of-place split of the home cuisine also needs 50 tourist-leaning places in that cuisine, which 3 of 44 cities do not have yet. Every city has its own page: see the list.