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Rating: Standard, mid to low end Roman coffee
The Epifani Bar Caffè sits on a busy corner of the Viale Giulio Cesare in the Prati neighborhood. It’s a monolocale, that hugs the corner. The interior is thin and long. If you walk in from the boulevard entrance, you kind of have to squeeze your way all the way to the end in order to pay for your coffee. It was also packed with folk coming and going. More business and lawyer folk, sporting pencil skirts and ties. The barista –with his sleek Roman manicured eyebrows - was busy and took a while to hear my order and to kick out the espresso. He wasn’t necessarily busy chatting to the customers, but somehow kept busy behind the espresso machine.
Lets see what I got:
Presentation: Another Marziali cup in a few weeks. Maybe they’re rolling these out new? Who knows. Like the cup. The drip was messy. It ran all the way down the cup and filled the saucer. No water was offered. But since there were only Italians, probably would have been given without a flinch.
Temperature of Cup: Yup, made my finger tips melt as I touched the darn cup. Way too hot.
Quantity: Short shot. Good.
Temperature: Still crazy hot after I was able to put together my fingers to touch the cup again. I had to wait a good 2 minutes to try to sip at it.
Volume/Consistency: It was thin. Not very oily, and not particularly thick. It did have that sandy texture of powder.
Crema: It was dark as the night. It was persistent. And not too thick. I didn’t feel it added to the drinking experience, oddly.
Odor: Dark dark roasted coffee smell. It’s something, not pleasant. But somethin’.
Taste: It was bitter up front, punchy, yet the lightness of it didn’t make it overwhelming. It was thin and cutting in the mouth, and it had a rancid after taste, that a good 5 minutes after I finished it, turned into a reminiscent nutty taste.
Overall: It was a mid-level, nothing extraordinary coffee. It was on the lower end, simply because it was boiling hot as I got it in the cup.
The setup: They had a setup that could have given me solid gold cream coffee. A nice reissue of the Faema E61. The grinder was also a Faema, and the coffee is the Roman uber dark roasted Marziali Caffè.
Epifani Caffè
Bar Tabacchi
Epifani Anita
Viale Giulio Cesare 59C
00192 Roma