via Po.  At right, what was our coffee bar a year ago, now being remodeled for a dress shop. The most extraordinary aspect of this ph...

First, a primer: buon giorno is "good day" or "good morning"; buona giornata is "have a good day," or "ha...

Americans have plenty of cozy coffee shops, but few are in hospitals, where visitors usually find themselves in bleak cafeterias or pushing ...

We’ve been called a lot of things, but “retro snobs” may be the best fit. Imagine our shock – and delight – to find that the tiny no-one-kno...

Last time we were at the Sant'Eustachio coffee bar, we noticed a yellowed clipping, probably from the 1970s, of Henry Kissinger having a...

Complimenti to Alexander Booth, of Rome, who identified the mystery photo (here) as the Fascist-era post office on via Marmorata in Testacc...