Café entertainment in Italy
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I Tre Galli
Spacious and rustic, this is a fabulous spot for a drink any time, but most people come for the gourmet aperitivi snacks served on a buzzing pavement terrace. Meals cost about €15.
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Diva Caffè
This daytime café turns into a showy evening hub, where the suntanned come to take a cocktail in the square. It stays open until about 03:00 on Friday and Saturday in summer.
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Bar Majore
This is Nuoro's oldest café, and it's much loved by the locals. The interior is richly decorated with fancy gilded stucco, old fittings and an extraordinary frescoed ceiling.
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Pasticceria Fratelli Nurzia
An elegant old café celebrated for its cakes and coffee. Speciality of the house is the caffè Nurzia, a delicious concoction of coffee, cream and chocolate.
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Café De Paris
A modern café-bar that is especially busy for the summer evening aperitivo, and until about 22:00. On Friday and Saturday nights it can also get busy much later.
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Jamaica Inn
Drop in to this cheerful place for a beer and bruschetta (a rather un-Sardinian snack of toasted bread that can be covered in all manner of toppings).
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La Caffetteria del Borgo
A hip place to start the night (or drop by for coffee during the day), the atmosphere here is made all the homier by the timber furnishings and stone floor.
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Cavour Gran Caffè
The Cavour Gran Caffè makes a pleasant drinks stop, whether on the terrace or inside beneath the colourful frescoes.
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Caffè Zucca
The city’s most historic cafe overlooks Piazza del Duomo, with a mosaic interior dating from 1867. Sip coffee but skip the meals.
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Caffè San Carlo
Perhaps the most gilded of the gilded, this sumptuous cafe dates from 1822. You’ll get neck ache admiring the chandeliers.
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La Drogheria
La Drogheria’s sofas are coveted by a fun, unpretentious studenty crowd enjoying cheap drinks and aperitivi fare.
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Caffè Mexico
Make a beeline for Naples’ best-loved espresso bar, where old-school baristas serve up the city’s mightiest espresso.
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Caffè Mediterraneo
With its arched windows and polished-wood bar, this stylish cafe attracts a young, good-looking crowd.
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Caffè Italiano
Along Via Roma a popular spot with the business crowds and lunching couples is Caffè Italiano.
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Caffè Elena
Wood-panelled cafe once patronised by Nietzsche, these days with Starck-designed chairs.
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Biblios Cafè
A recommended drinking spot in Ortygia is the literary Biblios Cafe.
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Caruso Jazz Café
Thursday and Friday nights see jazz musicians take the stage at this popular bar.
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Platti
Sweet-laden coffee, cake and liquor shop with gilded 1870 interior.
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