Chapter Roma

Rome is not short of Italian restaurants, so Chapter Roma went to New York for one. Campocori is modelled on the Italian dining rooms of 1930s New York, wood panelling against exposed brick, though the cooking is classic Roman food, dressed up, so the menu, at least, stayed at home. The building is nineteenth-century, behind an old doorway on a narrow street in Regola, beside the Jewish Quarter, and the ground floor keeps its vaulted ceilings and stone arches. Tristan du Plessis did the interiors, and Alice Pasquini and Warios did the lobby walls. The bar is marble and orange velvet, and looks made for a Negroni. The Solo Pad is as compact as the name suggests. Ask instead for a corner room, which looks out two ways from an orange velvet sofa.

Recommended for grown-ups who would rather walk Rome than be driven round it; children are welcome, but it is better suited to adults. Campo de' Fiori is five minutes on foot, Piazza Navona and the Pantheon seven, near enough to go back for a forgotten hat. Rates are room only, and breakfast is ordered at Market, which opens at seven. The hotel arranges a cooking class with the chef Valerio Cataldo, and a street art walk through Tor Marancia for anyone the lobby has given a taste for it. In summer the roof turns Mexican, with tacos and cocktails at Hey Güey among the cacti and succulents, over the roofs and domes of Rome. Campocori opens Wednesday to Sunday only, which leaves Monday and Tuesday for the rest of Rome.