If it weren’t for the jitters, you could spend 24 hours a day having a caffe and hardly never having the same one twice. The art of making a cup is more than the flavor.Each barrister has their own fluid style and rhythm with each cup they create.

In Italy, as in most of Europe, a cup is priced ( apart for the type of coffee )  by where you drink it. Top price is sitting outside at a table on a great day, another sitting inside, and the best and cheapest is standing at the bar, where the coffee making show goes on. There you can chat with the barman, lean with the locals and feel like the peeps.

If you go often enough to the same place, they get to know you and once in while slide you something really good to taste extra accompanied with a “Prego”…

I can’t wait to return!

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