Vivendo restaurant in Rome’s St Regis Grand Hotel is Rome’s best restaurant, according to a populist annual restaurant review whose name begins with Z. And it has been voted the best for food and décor for four years running. You’ll see why. Chef Francesco Donatelli has created innovative dishes that not only bring the true flavours of the superb local ingredients to the fore, but which also surprise and delight both the palate and the eye. He is simply brilliant. And the setting? While the hotel is a magnificently grand specimen from the 19th century, Vivendo restaurant has several, more intimately-scaled salons with silvery upholstery and wall hangings, luxurious seating, contemporary Roman art, period details like the gilt bas-relief columns, and neo-art deco touches. Groups up to 14 can enjoy the Champagnerie room or a private table in the di…Vino wine cellar surrounded by 600 bins of global wines. Twenty-four Italian labels and available by the glass. The hotel’s fabulous meeting and banqueting spaces accommodate larger parties up to grand banquets, and the service is faultless.