Kosher food in Rome
All restaurants in Rome are certified by the Beth Din of the Jewish Community of Rome (Chief Rabbi Riccardo Shmuel Di Segni). Most are not Mehadrin or Glatt, but all use only Gvinat Israel (supervised cheese). The two main areas are Piazza Bologna and the Jewish Ghetto .
For fully Glatt kosher meat : Little Tripoli ( Piazza Bologna ) or BaGhetto Meat ( Ghetto ). Everything else is dairy, parve or bakery — see the table. Note: most restaurants close between lunch and dinner .
Recommended restaurants
→ See a full list of Kosher restaurants in Rome on Jewish Compass
Takeout for Shabbat: the Shabbat meal caterers — a separate service, not run by Chabad — also cater during the week with advance notice.
In all restaurants (including the recommended ones), vegetables are not checked by the mashgichim. Avoid items that require checking for insects — artichokes, broccoli, courgette flowers, leafy greens and similar. We also can't take responsibility for each restaurant's ingredients; if you want to be sure everything is mehadrin, ask the restaurant.
How the supervision works
All recommended restaurants have a frum person present at all times. Cooking is on gas or electric stoves left on continuously — not induction (induction, if present, only warms food, it doesn't cook). They don't necessarily use tuna with a hashgacha temidit or that is Bishul Yisrael. Food is prepared as Bishul Yisrael according to the Rama ; those who follow Beit Yosef (Sephardim) can request this when ordering.
At Chabad
Group hosting for meals is available at Chabad Piazza Bologna — Kosher Mehadrin under the supervision of Rabbi Menachem Lazar.
Delivery
Delivery through the apps is within Rome ; for delivery to the airport — or any area outside the city — use a taxi or private driver. (Uber itself does not deliver food; only Uber Eats delivers, and only within Rome.) For kosher products, KosherFood delivers from Milan (next-day) throughout Italy — islands and small towns may take a few extra days.
These are the names of the delivery apps (they deliver within Rome):
Groceries & products
Kosher stores
Mostly dry products with various hechsherim (not all mehadrin). Some kosher stores carry fresh or frozen kosher meat & chicken — some carry Glatt meat — at different levels.
Fresh dairy
Yogurts, cheese and milk are available at Yotvata in the Ghetto .
Gelato
Cholov Israel gelato at the Kosher Gelato shop . Unsupervised ice cream may contain animal fat.
Bread & pastries
Bread/pastries from non-certified stores are usually not kosher — most bakeries use lard.
Milk & cheese
Supermarket milk isn't supervised. Latte Sano was once approved as Kosher Chalav Stam; other brands may share machinery with whey (rendering milk non-kosher), and unsupervised milk could come from a treif animal. All cheese requires supervision , even if you drink Chalav Akum.
At the airport (FCO)
Packaged / frozen-at-source kosher dishes (marked) in departures, after security. Kosher dining point: upper floor of the Plaza, departures zone E — Chef Market.
Trusted certifications
Full local list: the Kashrut-Ari kosher list · how the list works (explanation) · Kosher Products on Facebook · Instagram · Farmacia Misul .
Common kosher products in supermarkets
- Water & seltzer — unflavored only
- Beer — unflavored only
- Coffee — unflavored only
- Coke, Coke Zero, Fanta, Sprite — per European kashrut authorities (not OU / Rabbi Landau)
- Juices — without grapes (uva) or cochineal (E120)
- Alpro drinks (Soy, Oat, Almond, Coconut, Rice) — Badatz Shomrei Hadas Antwerp; code starts with two letters
- Orasì drinks (Soy, Oat, Almond, Rice) — OU symbol on the bottle
- Dry pasta — without coloring
- Kellogg's cereal — with the MK logo
- Heinz Mayonnaise — with the MK logo
- Heinz Ketchup — MK; all plastic bottles, even without the logo
- San Carlo chips (Classica, Rustica) — without the EUK logo (not Bishul Israel)
- Canned tuna — Calippo, Rio Mare, As do Mar (approved, not under supervision)
- Olives — Ficacci with the 1K symbol, Alisa with OU
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil — 100% olive oil
What the labels mean
Menachem Lazar
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19 comments
- I hope you’re well. Please advise what cheeses are kosher in Italy.
- There are no Kosher cheeses without certification.
- Are there any places that are gluten free?
- Baghetto meat is not in the recommended list because it’s not Glatt.
- Does the kosher grocery store in Piaazo Bologna carry all the necessary Shabbos food items? We are staying at the hotel Santa Costanza.
- The Kosher groceries sell just packaged items not ready made food.
- At the moment we don’t know of any.
- No, but the old list is still valid, if you have a specific question you could ask.
- איפה יש חנות שמוכרת בשר כשר?
- מוסבר בדף, בחנויות הכשרות.
- is there anywhere to purchase raw glatt meat
- Yes, most Kosher stores sell.
- Are the 4 fonzie hamburger restaurants kosher?
- Sure, just not Glatt and without a Mashghiach Temidi.
- If I wanted to buy a cup of coffee, could I or all places only have milk? Which may not be cow’s milk. It does not have to be C Y.
- Trying to find some ideas of what to do. I
- Although they carry also Glatt meat, since they don’t have a Mashghiach Temidi, you would need to make sure which meat you are actually getting.
- Hi, Do the Kosher Delight supermarkets only sell foods with kosher certification? Thanks
- They should be selling just certified products.
- Sure, it’s just not certified Glatt.