Manuele, ever the gracious host, set us up with a gratis tasting of their tap beers while we noshed on various bryschette and pizze. Very creative food, mostly pizza and other beer accompaniments, and an amazing range of all-Italian micros. Worth going far out of your way to try.

Manuele and company are running a most excellent restaurant focusing on delicious and inventive cuisine and a plethora of Italian craft brews on tap and in the bottle. Here are more details about my visit there: http://www.babblebelt.com/articles/via benedetta.html

Visited here a couple of times and as mentioned is a great Italian beer experience with Ma Che Siete Venuti a Fa just across the street. The staff are very friendly and the knowledge of Italian beers is extensive. We had a great conversation about the Italian craft beer scene and once again the passion for quality beer is fantastic. The food was remarkable and was matched to the beer superbly. Definitely stop by for another amazing beer experience in Rome.

Visited twice during a recent visit to Roma (Oct ’12) once for a few drinks in the evening, once for lunch. Busy with a good vibe and a young crowd on the evening visit (11pm) but there was only one other table of people here on the late lunch visit (2.45/3pm). Service was friendly (good spoken English once again and good beer knowldege) and efficient. Choice of (2 or 3) cask handpulls plus a good 15 keg taps comprising Italian craft beer (didn’t notice anything from other countries and didn’t look at the bottled menu). The food here was first rate. A fantastic pizza from the wood fired oven, one of the best I’ve had, and an excellent buffalo mozeralla salad and at a very reasonable price for both the quality and quantity. Highly recommended and you can’t fail to hit on it as it’s just across the street from Ma Che !

Great food with Italian beers, which is the real reason I was drinking in Rome. Pizza and Mozzarella with roasted veggies were amazing. Tap list was impressive, not as impressive as Ma Che, though. The bottle collection seemed even more interesting, actually, though I only tried a couple that Manuele opened (both amazing). An absolute must for trying Italian beers paired with great food.

Bir&Fud (in Italian is pronounced "beer and food") is so much like Pizzeria Paradiso in Washington DC it is uncanny. But Bir&Fud puts Paradiso to shame. The prices are always 5 Euro for drafts, which rotate very quickly. The beer pours are always stellar. I think one out of fifteen beers I tried there did not have a 5/5 for appearance. These bartenders are trained so well to pour the beers. Bartenders were also very knowledgeable about the beers: what style they fall under, what notes to expect. Their recommendations were all spot on. Many flat out told me, "This beer sucks. Here, try this one instead." I’m giving a 15/15 for selection since Bir&Fud shares a cellar with Ma Che Siete so it is impossible to rate the selection differently at these places. Food was fabulous: very well prepared, well presented, quick, delicious. Atmosphere was crowded, loud, fun, beer oriented, group oriented. Why can’t every place be like Bir&Fud.

The last place I visited in Rome and I concluded my trip with a bang! Wow, simply Wow! First thing first, unlike Ma Che Siete Venuti a Fà on the other side of the street (same owners) the Bir&Fud is all about Italian beer (and food). Italian beer and nothing but Italian beer. Not a single import. Tap selection is about 10 to 12 carefully selected beers. All cool Italian micros. Many of them are draught only beer. And what’s even more cool is that most of them I did not see anywhere else in town. You’ll want to drink them all. Then there is the bottle menu. Very well done, not just a list of names. I did not count how many. A lot. You can even take a chance and ask for something not on the menu. I was looking for Birra del Borgo Duchessic (a strange blend of lambic and Saison) that I did not find anywhere in town. A rare one. It wasn’t on their menu. I asked for it and my waiter brought me a bottle!!! You need to understand that the owners of Bir&Fud are not only the owners of Ma Che Siete Venuti a Fà but also the owners of the Domus Birrae bottle shop, most likely the best selection of Italian micros on the planet. And then there’s the food. Creative and eccentric pizzas that go perfectly with beer. No ordinary pizzas here. The pizzas really are awesome as long as you’re willing to take a walk on the wild side. You cannot ask for a better and more knowledgeable service. It may not be the best beer selection I have seen in my life or even the best food I have eaten the combination of both, the location and the atmosphere is something special. There are very few beer places on the planet where I’d like to go back as much a Bir&Fud. AWESOME!

We came here about an hour or so before they opened for food order, and while we waited the very friendly staff let me buy 100ml tasting samples of some of their the Borgo beers. Delicious pizza and mozzarella cheese. About 15-17 beers on tap added by a fridge with bottles that could be consumed on the spot or taken way. The beer menu is displayed at a board on the opposite side of the bar. Nice little patio outside. Narrow entrance, but it opens up towards the rear end of the room. Popular place that became quite busy during this particular Friday evening. Bir&Fud in the Trastevere area of Roma gave a very positive impression with tasty ales, good food and eminent service (visited 30.03.2012).

Solid offerings on tap and on the bottle list. Unfortunately, i was never there late enough (after 7:30) to get any food, which disappointed me, but is more of a cultural difference than a problem with the place. Great space and kind staff, but I enjoyed my experience across the street a bit more.

A great restaurant with lots of taps and bottles. A cozy atmophere and friendly service. Had a pretty good pizza and Maltus Faber Extra from tap. Just around the corner from Ma Che Siete. (20 meters) Must visit!