Café restaurants in Rome
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Necci
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
To start your exploration of this bar-studded area, try the iconic Necci, opened in 1924, where film director Pasolini used to hang out, and where he filmed some of Accattone. More recently it appeared in Francesca Archibugi’s Una questione di Cuore. Gutted by fire in 2009, it was swiftly restored to how it was. It caters to an eclectic crowd of all ages, and has a lovely, leafy garden-terrace (ideal for families out for dinner as the kids have some room to play). There’s wi-fi.
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Caffè Sant’Eustachio
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
A small stand-up place with some of Rome’s best coffee, this is always three deep at the bar. The famous gran caffè is created by beating the first drops of espresso and several teaspoons of sugar into a frothy paste, then adding the rest of the coffee on top. It’s superbly smooth and guaranteed to put zing into your sightseeing. Specify if you want it amaro (bitter) or poco zucchero (with a little sugar).
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Chiostro del Bramante Caffè
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
A well-kept secret: a footfall from Piazza Navona, you can have a drink and snack (or a €30 Sunday brunch) on salads, friselli (Pugliese dried bread, reconstituted with water and loaded with toppings), and so on (€6 to €12), all while making use of the wi-fi, in the peaceful Renaissance splendour of Bramante’s cloister, which hosts regular contemporary art installations.
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Ristofer
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
Technically Ristofer is a railway-workers' canteen, but it's open to the public and is cheerily welcoming and completely institutional. Just go through the massive wooden doors, grab a tray and choose whatever looks good on the day. It's not gourmet food, but if you want a cheap, belly-filling meal, at around €7 for a primo, secondo and dolce it's just the ticket.
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Gran Caffè la Caffettiera
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
This stately café is famous for its Neapolitan cakes – try the babà (sponge cake soaked in rum) for something special, and the southern staple rustici (cheese-and-tomato-filled pastry puffs) for something savoury. Sit in the elegant Art Deco interior, or outside, where you can watch life on the square, overlooked by the ancient Tempio di Adriano.
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La Tazza d’Oro
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
Head here for caffeine heaven. A busy, stand-up café with burnished 1940s fittings, this has some of the best coffee in the capital. In summer, a cooling must is the speciality, granita di caffè, a crushed-ice, sugared coffee served with a generous dollop of cream top and bottom. If you just want cream on either the top/bottom, ask for solo sopra/sotto.
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Moma
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
Molto trendy: this café-restaurant is a real find. It’s sleekly sexy and popular with workers from nearby offices. There’s a small stand-up café downstairs, with a nice little deck outside where you can linger longer over coffee and delicious dolcetti. Upstairs is a cucina creativa restaurant (meals €50).
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Caffè Capitolino
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
This well-kept secret of a café is a lovely spot to take a break from the wonders of the Capitoline Museums and relax with a drink or a snack – the food’s nothing special, but the views from the rooftop terrace are stupendous. You don’t even need a museum ticket; you can enter from the street entrance to the right of the Palazzo dei Conservatori.
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Rosati
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
Rosati, overlooking the vast disc of Piazza del Popolo, was once the hang-out of the left-wing chattering classes. Authors Italo Calvino and Alberto Moravia used to drink here while their right-wing counterparts went to the Canova over the square. Today tourists are the main clientele, and the views are as good as ever.
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Caffè Greco
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
Caffè Greco opened in 1760 and retains the look: penguin waiters, red flock and gilt mirrors. Casanova, Goethe, Wagner, Keats, Byron, Shelley and Baudelaire were all regulars. Now it’s fewer artists and lovers and more shoppers and tourists. Prices reflect this, unless you do as the locals do and have a drink at the bar.
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Caffè Farnese
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
We’re with Goethe, who thought Piazza Farnese one of the world’s most beautiful squares. Judge for yourself from the vantage of this unassuming café. On a street between Campo de’ Fiori and Piazza Farnese, it’s ideally placed for whiling away the early afternoon hours. Try the secret-recipe caffè alla casa (house coffee).
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Café Café
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
This is a hugely popular gem, the kind of pint-sized wine bar, restaurant and café that everyone needs in their neighbourhood. The changing menu features light stuff such as caprese as well as tastes from elsewhere like hummus and tzatziki. The few outside tables overlook the Colosseum at the end of the street.
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Ciampini
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
The graceful, traffic-free square of San Lorenzo is an ideal stop for an al fresco coffee among the well-heeled folk of the neighbourhood. Bring your big sunglasses and little dog. Sitting outside is pricey, so remember it’s an investment and settle. The gelato is also tip-top.
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Canova Tadolini
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
In 1818 sculptor Canova signed a contract for this studio that agreed it would be forever preserved for sculpture. The place is still stuffed with statues, and it’s a unique experience to sit among the great maquettes and sup an upmarket tea or knock back some wine and snacks.
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Volpetti Più
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
One of the few places in town where you can sit down and eat well for less than €15, Volpetti Più is a sumptuous tavola calda, offering an opulent choice of pizza, pasta, soup, meat, vegetables and fried nibbles. It adjoins Volpetti’s to-die-for deli.
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Gina
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
Around the corner from the Spanish Steps, this is an ideal place to drop once you’ve shopped. Comfy white seats are strewn with powder-blue cushions, and it gets packed by a Prada-clad crowd, gossiping and flirting over sophisticated salads and perfect panini.
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Ciampini 2
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
Hidden away close to the top of the Spanish Steps, this graceful café has a garden-party vibe, with green wooden latticework surrounding the outside tables. There are lovely views over the backstreets behind Spagna, and the ice cream is renowned (particularly the truffle).
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Linari
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
Spot this by the crowds of part-of-the-furniture locals. It has the busy clatter of a good bar, with excellent pastries, splendid coffee and barside banter. There are some outside tables, but you’ll have to armwrestle the elderly ladies of the neighbourhood to get one.
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Babington's Tea Rooms
- Rome, Italy
- Restaurants › Café
More English than the English, and right by the Spanish Steps, Babington's has been serving Earl Grey to homesick tourists since the 19th century. You'll need the kind of budget worthy of a grand tour: a full high tea costs around €29, but what else can you do when you have a crumpet craving?
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