Dar Filettaro a Santa Barbara specializes in filetti di baccalà a Roman-style battered salted codfish.

This eatery next to Campo dei Fiori seems to get more popular as time passes, with long queues of locals and visitors trying to get a table each night.

As there are a lot of people wanting to dine here tonight, the guy organizing the ‘reservations‘ scribbles our name on a make-shift bookings list. He estimates that there’s a 20-minute wait so you either hang around and wait for your name to come up or you can do some window-shopping in via dei Giubbonari where there are lots of interesting shops, or stroll into Campo dei Fiori.

The square itself is bustling with activity in the evenings, so having to kill 20 minutes is not a hardship.

Dar Filettaro a Santa Barbara, at Largo dei Librari 88, is set in a little piazza just off the Campo dei Fiori square itself. They have tables in the restaurant as well as long wooden tables outdoors which are packed, elbow to elbow with diners. The filletti di baccalà are Euro 5.00 a piece and you can also get the fried cod to take away.