Cul de Sac, Rome, Italy

Cul de Sac is a popular tourist destination. I found out about it when I was doing research for the trip. I seemed to remember this was a place that many people recommended as a good wine bar.

The room wasn't what I was expecting it to look like. I was imagining a place where there's seating at the bar, dimmer lighting and a trendier atmosphere. More like your typical wine bar in NYC. Instead, the place had the most uncomfortable wooden benches, bright lights and was filled with older tourists dressed like they just finished walking all day through the streets of Rome.


It's also not a place to go and just sip on a glass of wine. It was more like a restaurant than a wine bar and I wouldn't have felt comfortable just ordering a couple glasses of wine. So, with our wine, we ordered a baked ricotta app and the pheasant pate with black truffle. Gag! The baked ricotta was the least offensive of the two. It was dry and relatively tasteless. The pheasant pate could've been canned food for all I know. Let's just hope canned food for humans.


This was probably the second to worst place we visited in Italy. Definitely the worst place in Rome. On a positive note, it looked like they had a good, varied wine selection. But, I wouldn't go for just that.


Cul de Sac
P.zza Pasquino 73
Tel: +39-(0)6-68801094