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Taste of Rome
Our Rating........................... 6 Sea Lions
1000 Bridgeway, Sausalito Phone: 415-332-7660
Website is here. Menu is here. Formerly called Caffe Trieste. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Most recent editor review: December, 2008. Price range (for Dinner) at time of most recent review: $7.50-$14.00.
Small parking lot (free) in back, metered street parking nearby, city lots nearby and free street parking a few blocks north.
If you go for dinner, call ahead to see if they'll have live music. #7 on our Shorts Top TenTM list of the best casual restaurants in Sausalito for December, 2008
Fast Forward SummaryTM: A nice little cafe in Downtown Sausalito, an area that has several unremarkable cafes aimed at visitors and avoided by locals. Some locals use it as a coffee place, and they have a full breakfast menu and especially-delicious pastries. Draws locals for decent food, inexpensive prices (for downtown Sausalito) and a nice ambiance. Free wi-fi, live music some nights. A great place to stop if you're passing through Sausalito on your bike and want a light meal in a place where you feel like you fit in. Both inside and sidewalk seating, and this is one of the better places in town to sit and watch the world go by. You order from the counter and then they bring your food, so service is not a key part of the equation. Taste of Rome occupies the location formerly called Caffe Trieste. Google Map Instructions: Use the "+" and "-" buttons to zoom in and out, the arrow keys to scroll the map, and the SAT button to see the satellite view.
Taste of Rome: The Details
Right on the border between the downtown Sausalito area visitors frequent and the neighborhood where local people eat and shop, and it serves both constituencies well. They have free wi-fi, and their tables are actually big enough (barely) to hold your meal and your laptop at the same time. Seems obvious, but how many places offer free wi-fi and then give you postage-stamp tables?
Salads and sandwiches are good here, and hand made after you order them. The pizza is generous on good cheese, but light on sauce and with only an average crust.
They have a full breakfast menu, and a warm breakfast on a foggy winter morning with a good cup of coffee will cure a lot of things that ail you. Their pastries are expensive, but so good that our editors have been known to buy them without complaining. If you've read many of our articles you know that we're big on "value for the money" for Sausalito visitors, so expensive pastires have to be VERY good for us to call them out.
The feel here is a cross between coffee shop and cafe. Some tables are packed close together inside, so at busy times the middle of the room is like a shared table for 12 instead of six tables for two. But there are other tables along the walls, and in nice weather sitting outside is the way to go here.
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