In a small, off-the-beaten-track street in Frascati, there is a unique and intimate restaurant where you can eat sushi on a swing. The restaurant is called Filologico and has been open for a few years, in a place that used to be a café with games and cards. Now, instead of hot chocolate, you will find interesting fish dishes and sushi. It is not an all-you-can-eat restaurant; you order à la carte.
The sushi restaurant in Frascati (Rome)
Filologico has modern and welcoming décor, but it is not large. The unique feature is the tables for two on the right as you enter, where you can choose to eat on a swing. It’s a chance to return to childhood and enjoy dinner in a different way.
What to eat
At Filologico, you eat fish. Among the first courses on the menu, we find spaghetti with garlic, oil, chili pepper, and sea bass (€15) or cacio e pepe with lime-marinated shrimp (€16). But if you like to share dishes, you can start with the house appetizer for two (€40), which includes seven courses:
- Sea bass carpaccio with truffle oil
- Tuna tartare
- Octopus salad
- Salmon tataki
- Bao with creamed salt cod
- Seared shrimp
- Takoyaki
As for sushi, you can order the €30 set, which includes 25 pieces.
Among the 8-piece uramaki rolls , there are Kya Rolls (€13) with tempura shrimp, salmon tartare, spicy mayo, avocado topping, and toasted almonds; Truffle Rolls (€13) with salmon, avocado, scampi tartare, truffle oil, and kataifi; El Dorado Rolls (€12) with sea bass, avocado, chopped pistachios, chopped scampi, and mayo.
If you don’t like sushi, an alternative is roasted octopus, tomato confit, and stracciatella cheese, accompanied by baked potatoes (as a side dish to be ordered separately).
To finish on a sweet note, there is cheesecake mousse with digestive biscuit crumble, chocolate flakes and a choice of toppings:
Nutella, homemade berry coulis, and homemade salted caramel.
Where: Via Giacomo Matteotti, 46, 00044 – Frascati. Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. To book: 06 8376 7041.