Enjoy a slice of Pizza in Rome

Millions of tourists visit the Italian capital year after year to see its monuments, visit museums, go to bars and restaurants and even if you have time to shop. However, very few of them know how the Romans eat pizza.

So, here are the steps to eat pizza like a real Roman ...

First you must know where to eat pizza, Rome is full of luxurious restaurants packed with tourists, where prices are soaring. We will try to avoid this, so you should certainly head off the beaten track and down some smaller streets.

Once you have found the pizza, you must know that here you won’t find the well-known traditional circular pizza shape, as this pizza is cut into small rectangles. This is something unusual outside of Italy but very common in the Italian capital.

We know that to stay at these places for more than 15 minutes is not normal for a Roman, as the vast majority of them calling in for pizza eat it on the go, and just eat a slice or 2 to whet their appetite.

You should be ready to take a slice at one o'clock, because it is lunch time in Rome and of course, is when the pizza is coming out fresh from the ovens, so the flavour is better.

Be ready to face a crowd, since these small places fill up at one o'clock and 25 minutes later can be empty. So, if you want to find a hot Roman pizza you may need to fight for a place in the queue.

Once inside ask for two pizzas with different ingredients, variety is a lot so you must try to test different versions of the pizza, but to be honest with two pizzas is more than sufficient as they come in much larger slices than you will be used to.

Before eating the pizza, join the two pizzas as if they were a sandwich, and enjoy the pizza as does any other Roman. Two pizzas at a time will seem like a heavy plate and probably does not sound like something very attractive, but the taste is unbeatable.

Now when you are planning your trip to Rome do not forget to set aside a few hours to enjoy this unusual experience, a modern tradition that lets you take a taste of Rome everywhere you go.