On the walk between the Hotel Teatro di Pompeo (where we stayed 12 years ago) and the bakery, Antico Forno Roscioli was a big, jumbled store of kitchen-wear - great pots and pans and all sorts of bits for kitchens and restaurants. It was 'downstairs' - meaning I remember the windows were low on street level and I walked down a stair or two at the corner into the store. It was messy and not particularly fancy at all - at all. I cannot remember the name and wonder if it still exists in the world of stumbled-upon wonders. Anyone familiar enough with the area to figure this out? I'm finally heading back in September and hoping beyond hope it's there.
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Saint Paul, Minnesota
1605 posts
Not familiar with that part of Rome, but I just took a little "walk" on Google Maps and this was the only kitchen supply shop I found nearby --- does the photo look like what you remember?
C&C S.r.l.
Kitchen supply store
Via del Pellegrino, 195, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
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Minnesota 🎒
16661 posts
This probably isn't it either (12 years is a long time ago) but take a look at Goldstar; restaurant supply store.
Piazza del Teatro di Pompeo, 39, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
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OP
Brooklyn, NY
86 posts
thank you...I can't even find it (as a store) on google maps. when I google that I don't get anything
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OP
Brooklyn, NY
86 posts
I mean I can't get C&C S.r.l.
Kitchen supply store
Via del Pellegrino, 195, 00186 Roma RM, Italy to come up on my google.
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OP
Brooklyn, NY
86 posts
Hmmm...Goldstar - maybe?? I remember it being more jumbled. Don't laugh - the first time I went in was about 30 years ago. My husband and I were newly married (might have been the year before we were married so probably 32 years ago). I found a pasta pot with a full interior removable strainer (that didn't exist in the US at that time) - beautiful stainless - and I hand carried the box home on the plane! Guess what pot I used (that looks like new) to make pesto linguini last night! I visited there about 12 years ago when we brought out daughter to Rome and hoped against hope that it is still there. I'll save both addresses and thank you each so much - maybe do some sleuthing of my own this time.
We are not staying at that hotel but at an airbb near Piazza Navona but at least 4 visits to Antico Forno Roscioli are planned (I still dream of the very simple very amazing cherry crostini we had last time).
Thank you both. In late October, I'll let you know if either of you win the sleuth prize!
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Minnesota 🎒
16661 posts
I'd checked out C&C S.r.l. based on the google map. An actual search brought it up as Via Vincenzo Manzini, 79, 00173 Roma RM, Italy, a long, long way from the area you were in.
Oooh, Leone Limentani might be the one. While not exactly where you might have remembered it being, this descriptor might ring a bell:
https://www.insidersitaly.com/shopping-for-kitchen-items-in-rome/
"Twenty-five years later, Limentani (a store close to 200 years old) is little changed — a few steep and dangerous steps to get into their below-street level shop, the same damp and catacomb-like atmosphere. This is a store where you can roam for hours....."
periscope, you might have won the sleuth award. :O)
Posted by
Saint Paul, Minnesota
1605 posts
Huh.
I get it and a photo and its hours by Googling on:
C&C S.r.l. Via del Pellegrino, 195, 00186 Roma
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Minnesota 🎒
16661 posts
Weird. Wonder why my search came up differently. Oh well,
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1 posts
It could have been Spazie Sette, near Rascioli’s. It closed a few years ago. Sorry.
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OP
Brooklyn, NY
86 posts
PERISCOPE: you DEFINITELY WIN THE PRIZE - it's Leone Limentani, Via del Portico d'Ottavia 47!!! Grazie!
I google walked the street and there it is...a few steps down!!!!!
woohooo
bean
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Northamptonshire, England
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I love it when a plan comes together