The Little Wonder Restaurants of Rome

Even in the Eternal City's third millennium, you can still enjoy a feast fit for a Roman emperor. The tricky part is finagling a full meal in Rome for less than $12. Your best bet is to hunt down one of a handful of traditional Roman osterie, the sort of down-home, family-run restaurant holdover straight out of a 1950s Fellini film. There are several listed below, but to find your own just listen for the clink of glasses and murmur of Roman dialect emanating from behind the strings of beads hanging in a doorway with no sign and no menu posted...
  

The Secret Hotels of Rome

Twenty exceptional hotels in the Eternal City for under $80 a night.

True budgeteers will appreciate the irony: The only Rome hotel to rival the five-star Hassler (atop the Spanish Steps) for "Best Room with a View" is Albergo Abruzzi, a backpacker's haven overlooking the incredible 1,800-year-old Pantheon. Few cheap sleeps are so well situated, but among the best of the best, each has its own charms...