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PIRAMIDE CAFFÈ, PIAZZALE OSTIENSE 11, 00154 ROME

Rating: Standard, low-grade Roman espresso


Nestled onto the Ostiense train station and the Piramide metro station is the Piramide Caffè. This is a very busy cafe frequented by tons of people every day. It serves the Testaccio area and is facing the 1st century BC Pyramid of Cestius.​

The bar is somewhat hidden, but if you approach it from the side, this is what you see, in the afternoons there are lots of people in the patio area. Some are rather shady, others are tourists, and some, if you’re lucky, are either Italian or Romans.​


Asking for a coffee gives you this:​

​Presentation: No water given, straight coffe. The non-slip mat.. is tacky, horrible, simply because the counter is a beautiful marble… but with so many tourists.. maybe this is to help avoid cups breaking with backpacks, etc…? The cup and saucer are maybe supposed to go together… who knows!


Temperature of Cup: Nice touch, it’s at a perfect temperature!


Quantity: A bit too long for this size of cup.


Temperature: Like the cup, the espresso was a just the right temperature.


Volume/Consistency: However, this proved useless as the shot was super watery…

Crema: And although the cream has a nice shiny sheen, it was super thin… and no permanence.​

Odor: None, nothing there.


Taste: Surprisingly it wasn’t too bitter, without that typical punch some of those more horrible cafes serve. So it was bearable.​

​Overall: Not impressed. Not horrible, but not as good as the Trastevere station Bar Baffo. That was a delight to experience, this was simply what you expect from a train station bar, shoddy coffee to help you get through the train ride at crazy hours of the day…


Now to their setup: They had a very nice Brasilia 4 group semi-automatic machine spitting out these sorry espressos using MokaSirs coffee. With this machine and the setup they had (couldn’t make out the grinder they were using), they have the potential to garnish a loyal clientele, or at least if they served a high quality drink to make enough word-of-mouth noise to pick up sales…​


Here’s an interesting souvenir of who’s keeping time. MokaSirs wall clock… I’d love them to fine tune their machine just a bit more so that when I exit this bar, I can look at the clock and think that it was a good 5 minutes spent with MokaSirs cafe… as is, all I’m thinking is damn, I’m late for work!!!​

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Here’s the interior:​

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And a view as you approach it from Piramide:​

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Caffè Piramide,

Deni SRL

Piazzale Ostiense, 11

00154 Roma


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