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Rating: Poor, low-end coffee served
This is another one of those places that doesn’t have a name. Or a remarkably distinct name at least. Maybe to locals its got some very cool rubric, who knows. As far as I know, it’s another one of those many Caffetteria Snack Bars, as the receipt says and nothing else. Whatever the dea is, it’s situated in a very very touristy area, right off the via del Corso, between Piazza Venezia and Piazza del Popolo, aka, prime location and potential to blast through mediocre coffee and establish a hot spot of Third Wave brews… Its interior is light, not gaudy, and the staff are super nice and charismatic, it’s all there! There were about 5 guys all in their early to late 50s serving drinks and chatting away with the clients. It was a great place to have coffee. But the brew itself, unfortunately, didn’t add up.
After I asked the cashier if I had to pay first or could just order, he said, as long as you leave the door having paid you can do what you want, so I proceed to shout for a coffee, and here’s what I got:
Presentation: Nice clean cup given, no water offered to me, but given to somebody else when they asked. There was no logo on this baby so I got interested in the coffee. Maybe, I thought, they roasted their own beans!
Temperature of Cup: Wow, it was boiling hot!
Quantity: It was a rather large cup, and the espresso was actually quite short in this. It was probably a regular size shot.
Temperature: Quite hot still after waiting for over a minute… and in a busy Roman cafe, that’s quite a lot.
Volume/Consistency: It was watery, not thick, and no real consistency.
Crema: It was kind of caky, and seemed like a cappuccino froth. No real personality.
Odor: Nope, none here!
Taste: Here was the sad part, the disappointing part, it was an extremely rancid coffee- Deeply bitter, and rancid.
Overall: I wanted this cafe to be really good, as the locale and staff were great, but unfortunately, at least the drink I was given, was simply a low end coffee. It was so poor that I couldn’t finish it.
The setup: So let’s see why. I thought that they had their own beans, but when I asked them what they were serving, the barista said Palombini Caffè that explains it! So unfortunately these guys were brewing the wrong thing…. The espresso machine setup was a nice late 80s, early 90s three-group Faema, could have done a lot better.
Caffetteria Snack Bar,
Lavieri Rosario
Via delle Muratte 33/34, 00187 Roma
