Barnum Cafe

A pared-back, white-plastered room near Campo de' Fiori — arched niches, natural wood cabinetry, exposed ceiling beams — Barnum runs a genuine day-to-night identity — coffee and breakfast by morning, a full cocktail bar by night, sometimes past midnight. It sits in Parione, one of the dense, atmospheric grids of streets that make up Rome's historic center, a short walk from one of the city's most photographed piazzas.

This reads as more of a well-regarded coffee-and-cocktails destination than a roaster in the specialty-coffee sense.