The dining room at Osteria Veggente

Since 1999 · Marino, Castelli Romani

Handcrafted plant-based cuisine, in the Roman Castles since 1999

We make our seitan and tempeh in-house, bake our bread with natural leaven, and roll our pasta fresh. Organic, seasonal ingredients. Traditional recipes — Roman, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern — one hundred percent plant-based, as they've always been.

Twenty-six years of plant-based cooking, made by hand

When we opened, a fully vegetarian restaurant in the Castelli Romani (Roman Castles) was a rarity. Today we still mill our flours every day, knead our bread, and produce seitan, tempeh and desserts in our own kitchen. Nothing has changed — and that's no accident.

1999
Year founded
Pioneers of plant-based cuisine in the Castelli Romani
4.8
Google rating
474 reviews on TripAdvisor · 4.7 on Restaurant Guru
100%
Handcrafted
Bread, focaccia, fresh pasta, seitan, tempeh and desserts — all made in our kitchen

Fresh ingredients,
dishes you won't expect

Everything organic and in season. Our cooking is the same as it's always been — hearty, authentic, no frills.

Organic crespelle with mushrooms and truffle
Organic crespelle with mushrooms and truffle
Light, airy organic crêpes with a warm heart of truffle and woodland aromas
Rustic lasagna with hazelnut cream
Rustic lasagna with hazelnut cream
Hand-rolled pasta sheets, slow-cooked ragù, organic San Marzano tomatoes
Organic seitan involtini alla romana
Organic seitan involtini alla romana
The Roman classic, reimagined plant-based — you'll want to mop up every last drop
Organic pea polpette with yellow pepper cream
Organic pea polpette
Crispy and golden, with a velvety yellow pepper sauce — vegan, gluten-free
Organic tempeh spezzatino with curry and courgettes
Organic tempeh spezzatino with curry
House-fermented tempeh, organic courgettes, toasted sesame — genuine Eastern notes
Vegan Sachertorte
Sachertorte
Dark chocolate glaze, organic jam, plant-based cream — 100% vegan, homemade

Since 1999, the anomaly that works.

Opening a fully vegetarian restaurant in the Castelli Romani in 1999 was going against the grain. More than twenty-five years later, the place is still as small as it was then, we still make everything in-house, and many of the guests sitting here tonight have been coming for years.

"Regulars for 15 years — the quality never changes."
Fully handcrafted
Naturally leavened bread, focaccia, fresh pasta, seitan from organic type-0 and type-1 flours, tempeh and homemade desserts. No pre-made ingredients enter our kitchen.
Mediterranean traditions
Puglia, Lazio, Lombardy, the Middle East. Every dish has a specific origin — plant-based in form, authentic in substance.
Genuine hospitality
A small restaurant, a family atmosphere. Dogs welcome, high chairs available. The kind of place you come back to.
For everyone, not just vegans
Generous portions, familiar flavours, honest prices. You don't need to be vegetarian to eat well here.
Osteria Veggente — chalkboard wall

"The best vegetarian in Rome —
and we're in the Castelli."

From our guests' reviews

Book your table

We're in the historic centre of Marino, just steps from Piazza Matteotti. The restaurant is small — booking is recommended, especially on weekends.

Mon – Tue Closed Wed – Fri 19:30 – 24:00 Saturday 12:30 – 16:00 · 19:30 – 24:00 Sunday 12:30 – 15:30 · 19:30 – 24:00