Romaffamata

They are three Romans—polemical, angry, and perpetually famished—who have built a reputation on zero-compromise reviews of 62 restaurants, with not a single recipe published to their name. Their approach is pure, unfiltered critique: they don’t cook; they judge, and they do so with the blunt, weary authority of people who have eaten more than their fair share of bad tagliata and mediocre smash burgers. What makes Romaffamata unique is their uncompromising, almost anthropological obsession with a single, wild ingredient: cinghiale—wild boar. Their signature dishes read like a love letter to this gamey meat: polpette di cinghiale, porchetta di cinghiale, a smash burger of cinghiale e maiale nero, and the mighty padellaccia di cinghiale. Their 68 total appearances span from Roma to Torino, Catania, and even Cava de' Tirreni, but only 43% of their reviews are positive—a sign that they are far more interested in telling the hard truth than in making friends. They speak Italian, and their voice is the sound of a Roman nonna who has seen one too many tourists order a carbonara with cream: sharp, weary, and absolutely right.