WILD & DOC CAFFÈ, VIA DELLA GIULIANA 45-47, 00195 ROMA

Rating: Standard, lower end Roman coffee

Back again in the Vittoria neighborhood of Rome, the Wild & Doc Caffè is a large place, very large bar area on the right and lots of seating on your right. When I walked in, there was a client who couldn’t make up their mind about what to have for breakfast. A regular, as the barista would ask her what was wrong with her today. She kept on pacing back and forth, and then when she saw me taking photos of the espresso machine and coffee became very fixated on my drinking my coffee. Either way the late 40s woman, like many people here in Rome, liked to stare, and stare she did… The baristas were in their late 50s, a couple as it seemed, and they ran the place like family, which is what most places here are like. And I like that. There was an older guy, retired, reading his newspaper, who then asked if he could change the channel on the TV and so it was.

This is what I got served:

Presentation: Look at this spoon! It has got to be the coolest, most fun spoon I’ve have encountered here in Rome. It’s like a Dalí spoon or something. I was almost tempted to dump a teeny sized spoonful of sugar into my drink, just for the fun of using this thing. Either way, the cup was clean, crisp, and no water was offered.

Temperature of Cup: It was hot, yup, too hot. Not enough to burn my fingers, but close.

Quantity: Short shot, good, decent.

Temperature: It was also very warm, even after waiting for a good 3 minutes for the cup temperature to cool down.

Volume/Consistency: Thin, watery, runny, simply surprising that it would be this way given the size of the espresso.

Crema: Looked nice, syrupy, and elastic, it kept its presence throughout the drinking experience, yet, a bit over extracted as you can see, and it didn’t do it’s job in giving the espresso some volume.

Odor: Nope. None. Nothing. New.

Taste: A bitter start, that punched me straight to the stomach, then it became acidic, and the thinness of the drink made it cut right through to the bottom of my gut, inducing a feeling that well, you can imagine.

Overall: It was a poor coffee, drinkable, not horrible, but simply not quite good in my opinion. It was simply too bitter, too sharp, and a hint of metallic taste at the end didn’t help either. It could be better, for sure, as this roaster offers better coffee than this.

The setup: They had a very nice Royal Espresso Lyra model, an Astoria/Mazzer grinder, and the coffee was the Roman-based roaster Haiti Caffè, again, a roaster that is very dark etc. but usually doesn’t disappoint.

Wild & Doc Caffè s.r.l.s.

Via Della Giuliana 45-47

00195 Roma

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