Restaurants in Rome, NY

Roadfood correspondent Billyboy put it like this: “If you like red-sauce Italian food, Rome, New York, is a city for you. It’s replete with places to get fine pasta, meats, and homemade red sauce.” Billyboy also pointed out a unique specialty of Rome known as chicken riggies, a dish so popular around Rome and Utica that there’s an annual Riggiefest. Riggies is rigatoni and chicken topped with peppers, mushrooms, onions, and olives with a creamy wine/tomato sauce. Hot cherry peppers are an option.