Renella is one of the best bakeries in Rome, I discovered it walking to work every morning when I worked in Trastevere, you could smell the bread baking two blocks ahead. Unlike most bakeries and small shops, Renella is open 7 days a week and I don’t think that they have turned their ovens off in 100 years. They bake a number of different types of bread, but the filone is the classic loaf, called “pane napoletana” by the people who work at Renella. Not terribly Roman in name, though you will find it on the table of almost every restaurant in one of Rome’s most Roman neighborhoods, Trastevere.
