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Rating: Standard, solid mid-range Lavazza coffee
Walking from the Portuense to the viale Trastevere sits another nice and traditionally 80s locale, the Nievo al 51 Caffè. It’s got its own website, and facebook page, which I like. However, I didn’t encounter their ‘Nievo al 51’ cups, but only a generic Lavazza cup so maybe they’ve made a change. Apparantly for the better as the coffee was decent. The interior is rather large and although it’s not ‘old’ per se, it felt somehow of 1980s, something of the curves, the lights, the ‘je ne sais quoi’ of it all was solid 1980s. I liked it. There where four, yes four baristas working one espresso machine and they were all very nice.
Asking for a coffee got me this:
Presentation: It was a clean cup, small spoon to fit. I like the angularity of the rim of the cup. Then the little handle has a bigger than normal opening, feels like the cup has big ear on it. Fun. It was milked for another espresso and you could see the runny side on it’s left side. While there were all these baristas sitting around, none of them offered a water. I was too lazy to ask for one, so we’ll never know what they would have said (probably ‘sure, right up’).
Temperature of Cup: Yup, on the spot good. Nothing more to add.
Quantity: Yes, yes, and another yes! It was a damned short espresso. On the spot, I was happy. It was going to be short and painless, or short and sweet.
Temperature: Great temperature.
Volume/Consistency: It was creamy, good, silky. It was decent!
Crema: It was cakey, wit a thick grain to it, and had a darker more richer portion in the center. It dissipated rather quickly, which meant that in the first two sips I’d taken it all in with the espresso.
Odor: Yes, again, there was a smell of dark roasted coffee! I was doing OK in this place!
Taste: It had a deeply bitter nutty taste, it was silky so it was decent. The only weird thing about this espresso was that it left a really tangy taste in my mouth at the end, actually made it a bit numb. Maybe it was hot front-heavy it was? Or the famous Roman water?
Overall: Overall, aside from that small glitch (which could have been my tongue having a fit after all), it was a very good, decently solid middle range espresso, and a Lavazza to boot!
The setup: They had two Faema E-91 Ambassadors, one that seemed out of commission (see this one)
and another that was four-group that was getting the love and attention of everybody. The coffee being brewed was Lavazza of course.
Nievo al 51 Caffè S.R.L.
Via Ippolito Nievo 51
00153 Roma
Tel. 06 589 4242