favorite coffee houses in Rome, Italy

moneywiese caffè (coffee) accounts for about one fourth of a daily turnover in a roman bar.

(no name Bar) in San Lorenzo, Largo degli Osci 20 (Monday-Saturday, 05:00-23:00)
'Un caffè', 'due capuccini e un cornetto', 'un caffèun pocco macchiato', 'un caffé correto': 9AM in the small local Bar in San Lorenzo (a 'workers' quarter of Rome), Eugenio runs everything with a smile at his Bar. As in every Bar, you pay first the cashier, give the 'bon' (with a small tip) toe tha bar-keeper, watch the caffé-machine boiling, drink the coffè in one pull standing (sitting costs more), chatting. Enjoy the local workers athmosphere, great and strong caffè.

Antico caffè Greco, Via Condotti 86, 08:00-22:00 (very near the base of the spanish stairs.
Opened in 1760 by the levantine Nicola Della Maddalena, this 'noble' coffe house (red velvet polstery) did already host Wagner, Mendelssohn, Stendhal, Liszt, Casanova. Goethe did write here (under the 'aka' of Phillipp Möller) scenes of ?Iphigenie in Tauris; Gog ol wrote parts of 'dead souls'. The calabresian painter Stelario is still a daily guest and paints often live here in a corner, for 25 years already.

Tazza d'oro, Via degli Orfani, 07:00-20:00 (near the Pantheon)
the smell of fresh roasted coffee-beans will not let you just pass by. Famous for 'Granita di caffè con panna' (don't think/count calories), the cooffee been mix is from Columbia, Costa Rica, few from Jemen (those are very strong and may be a little bit critical for some stomacs).

near by the Tazza d'Oro is also Gran Caffè La caffeteria, Piazza di Pietra 65, 07:00-21:00.
Meeting place for the stock-exchange people mixing with politicians