Marinari Via Corso Trieste

When we arrived in Rome 2 years ago now, I from Beijing and Will from Ottawa with our dear late Reesie, we lived quite near this famous Roman pastry shop on Via Corso Trieste. We are not very far from it now and we go there from time to time to look at their creations or to have an ice cream freshly made daily next door at their Gelateria counter.

Marinari makes you think of seafood, like in Mare or shrimp cocktail sauce. It is in fact a wonderful cake and pie shops, they also have pound cakes and cookies and biscotti and well everything you can think of. Even if you are on the street, the wonderful smell of fresh cakes and pies draws you near. Their window is also an invitation to gourmandise. Everything they make is from scratch and even the fruits on the cakes are fresh not canned. They use high quality ingredients, a real pleasure, none of the fillings and artificial sweeteners too often use today. You know that in Italy there is a widespread movement called Slow Food, a reaction to fast food, real discussions often on talk shows about food and quality and how to best prepare it, it is a real obsession in Italy. Marinari is one of those stores where quality is the name of the game. If you are in Rome do drop by, if for nothing else to look at the front window. Marinari on Via Corso Trieste near Via Chiana.