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Rating: Standard, low-end Roman coffee
In the heart of the posh area next to the Piazza di Spagna sits the D’Angelo Bar Caffè. As classic as any cafe here in Rome, the D’Angelo is not only a ‘cafe’ in the US sense, it’s a pastry shop, a ice cream parlor, and of course, a restaurant. What’d you expect from the heart of one of the city’s most touristy – and expensive – areas? Either way, it’s got an air of old 1940s decor that has become part of the ‘charhhhrm’ of shabby-chic Rome. With that said, I walked in at a point when it wasn’t so busy and then, just 10 minutes later, it got quite busy. If you take the espresso at the bar, it’s a normal price (ca. 80 cents), but if you take it at the table, it’s a nice 3.5, just like we Americans like!
Asking for a coffee got me this:
Presentation: No water given, I’d have to pay the a crazy amount for sure had I asked. But you never know. The cup was clean, it had “El Chisciotte” on it, or El Quixote… Oh-oh, should I be worried? Are we to imagine that this is a ‘good’ coffee when it isn’t? Are we being duped? Lets read on…
Temperature of Cup: Ohh… Yes! It was damned hot! I missed these scalding white-hot cups so typical of Rome! It’d been some days since I had an espresso with such a hot cup! Well yes, super hot.
Quantity: Suuuper short. I liked this. A ristretto by US standards, I was happy. Hot, but short, not a bad combo.
Temperature: So I waited, and waited, and waited for more than 3 minutes for the coffee to cool. Once I took the plunge, it was still way hot. Too hot actually and burned the tip of my tongue.
Volume/Consistency: Yup, yet again, another Italian success story. Runny, thin, dirty water but hey, it was indeed still an espresso. In short, it was thin.
Crema: The crema was dark, looked bitter and yet had no oil profile. Was shiny as a dark brown nail polish, and yet was thin, and not persistent.
Odor: Nope, not here either and that’s what we expect of the traditional Roman coffee.
Taste: Well it was bitter, razor thin and almost, just almost bordering on rancid. But it wasn’t.
Overall: Had this coffee been rancid, then it would have been quite a terrible deal. But it staid on the intensely bitter side and that makes it a standard coffee. The fact that the cup was damned hot, the coffee also, and such lack of oil profile makes it a low-end coffee. Not much more, not much less.
The setup: They had two Wega machines, side by side squirting out the brew. I dug it. I couldn’t see the grinder. Now to the coffee. No, it wasn’t the Don Quixote coffee as seen on the cup. I asked the barista and he told me that it was Marziali Caffè. And that explains everything. Marziali is a super strong Roman coffee, almost to the tune of Palombini, and it’s been rare- indeed rare- that I’ve enjoyed a good cup of their coffee.
D’Angelo Bar Caffè,
Fratelli Ciccazzo RCS SRL
Via della Croce 30,
00187 Roma
Telephone 06 6782556
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