This hostelry on lively via dei Serpenti has a range of more than 500 wines, with more than 25 available by the glass. But its real speciality is distillati: dozens of fine...

Horrendous neon lighting, surly staff… and some of Rome's most delicious ice-cream. These are the hallmarks of this long-running bar by the justice ministry. The rice...

When this place opened in 1842 it was the favourite haunt of the Scandinavian painters who lived on nearby via Margutta. A tasteful revamp has retained most of the original...

This friendly place - in a little square off piazza Sant'Egidio - hovers somewhere between Italian bar and English pub. The selection of high-quality brews, stained-glass and...

Naturally, San Lorenzo, the university quarter, has its own book bar - Bar à Book - where weighty tomes mingle with quiches, puddings and rather good wines.

Rome's Antico Caffè della Pace (which is known to all and sundry as Bar della Pace) is eternally à la mode. In cooler months the antiques and flower-filled rooms emit a sense...

If you've slogged up here to visit Villa Pamphili or the site of Garibaldi's doomed battle with the French on the Gianicolo, rest your weary bones on the wooden benches of this...

Green tourists get their coffee or beer on piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere; locals who know better go to this bar. Its harsh lighting would make Sophia Loren look wan, and the...

Stylish interiors - including a bar 50m (165ft) long that wends its way through the whole club - make BarBar a design jewel, one popular with a young label-clad crowd. On...

This exotic baroque locale - in peach and midnight blue, with divans, candelabra and a grand piano - overlooks one of the most exquisite fountains in Rome, not to mention a...

A restaurant, cocktail bar and disco (generally, but not always, on Fridays and Saturdays), Bloom is cooler than ice. A fashionable crowd hangs out in its designer interiors....

What used to be the best-run of the city's centri sociali - and the Roman beacon for hosting the best electronic musicians and DJs in Europe - is now on a decline, and it's not...

Sculptor Antonio Canova signed a contract in 1818 to ensure that this property, in the heart of the old artists' quarter, would remain an atelier for sculpture. The master's...

This is one of the oldest clubs in the Testaccio area, offering a choice of live music and DJs, ranging from jazz to ethnic, Latin American to funky. If you don't feel like...