OK, so it is a big call, but this coffee is divine, maybe literally speaking even. St Eustachio's ,which is in a little piazza of the same name opposite the church of the same name ,in Rome. I googled to find out the story and the church is named after some guy who turned into a deer and became a saint or something, thus the deers head on the church which is used as the logo for the coffee bar. Anyway, they have been roasting their own coffee beens without any chemicals over a wood fire , with the same equipment since the 1930's. And the entire cafe , coffee machines , stools , bar and everything is exactly the same as well. I stumbled in there on our first morning in Rome just after a caffeine fix, as it was just below our hotel. OMG , I stood at the bar surrounded by Italian business men in suits and had the best latte i had ever had. I googled it later to find lots of reviews and people raving about it . So we had coffee there everyday, sampling the menu from expresso to iced coffee , and as our hotel was above we went past at all times from early morning to stumbling home late at night and it was always open and always had people there, so i gather it must be a bit of an institution and I don't even know if it ever actually closes.
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