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Rating: Standard, workingman’s daily Roman coffee
So the Cornetto Notte Caffè is placed in a part of the street that is very gritty. Not far from other bars, but it happens to be next to a parking lot entrance, has nice touches of local graffiti artists on its walls, and crying babies and yelling mothers in its interior. It’s decor is definitely not ‘upscale’, it’s all toned down, and barebones. A working man’s no frills cafe, i.e, a real, normal non-snobbish coffee experience here. The workers were correspondingly very nice, which was great!
Asking for the daily fix got me this on the counter:
Presentation: You’ll know that I was happy to see the fluted cup. It was short, and compact. The espresso came without a water, and in this establishment, it could have easily come if I’d been a regular. But I wasn’t, so that’s one point ‘off’ to begin with…
Temperature of Cup: Touched it and was great. Not scalding, but indeed warm.
Quantity: Given that the cup is tiny, the espresso was indeed almost a ristretto.
Temperature: Good.
Volume/Consistency: Not watery but not silky either, had some body. Not sandy, nor crunch. It made it’s presence felt.
Crema: Bubbles, don’t dig it, but still it was nice crema. It was light in its town of brown and persistent.
Odor: Slightly burnt coffee, but do we expect anything else out of a bar serving coffee roasted here in Rome?
Taste: Very strong, but not necessarily bitter and definitely not rancid. But there was no depth to the espresso. It was a flat-like taste of dark roast coffee.
Overall: This was a standard Roman coffee experience, and I’m glad it was. It was a place that saw regular, non assuming Romans and migrants having their Java, and it should be like this. The pastries were good fresh as everybody was getting something with their coffee, even though it was in the late morning when I walked in.
The setup: They had a very nice three group Astoria machine (I am partial to these for some reason!) and two large Mazzer grinders. The coffee they were brewing in these devices was the Gima Caffè a local Roman coffee roaster that we’ve encountered here various times before.
Cornetto Notte
Canassa S.A.S. di P. Canassa Rudnei & C.
Via Ostiense, 77
00154 Roma