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Café Life Rome: A Guidebook to the Cafés and Bars of the Eternal City
 
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Café Life Rome: A Guidebook to the Cafés and Bars of the Eternal City (Paperback)

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"...deserves a spot in you carry-on luggage...also a treat for those who rarely journey beyond their living room. Roger Paperno's photographs and Joe Wolff's descriptions bring the city's drinking establishments to life." -- TimeOut New York "A quirky book with offbeat, sometimes offhand, charm...Photography by Roger Paperno rounds the book out nicely." -- San Francisco Chronicle --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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The cafe is indisputably central to Roman life. Café Life Rome is the first guide book dedicated solely to the cafés and bars of Rome. Instead of relying on city guides with cursory listings, this book, with its rich photography and informed descriptions, steers travelers through Rome's 5,000 bars to the perfect cafe. Café Life Rome focuses on thirty of the best, in four different areas of the city. Some of these establishments are hundreds of years old and some are relatively young, but each has a story to tell. These cafés also offer food and drink at reasonable prices, or a specialty of the house worth a small splurge. Visitors will be able to choose a comfortable bar close to their accommodations, make it a hangout of their own and watch the Romani at close quarters. It may even be a place where Hemingway or Fellini came to unwind, too.

"This book could help a reader easily, and quickly, feel at home in Rome's cafes, not only becoming acquainted with what kind of coffee or gelatin is available, but getting a feel for how the personality and the ambience were created."--Chris Arvidson, Foreword Magazine

"This beautifully illustrated guide is essential for visitors having to choose between the 8,000 caffes--which can mean a café, a bar, or simply a coffee--and why they're so fundamental to the Italian community."--OK! Magazine


Product Details

  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group (February 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1566564220
  • ISBN-13: 978-1566564229
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 7 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #601,279 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Make's you want to pack your bags, February 25, 2002
By "ggamp" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This is more than a wonderfully descriptive book on cafes and bars. The layout of the book sets an ambiance that makes you want to pack your bags to fly to Rome immediately. Reading this book, I traveled to Rome and loved it.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hankering for La Dolce Vita?, March 25, 2002
By Robin Sloan (Novato, CA USA) - See all my reviews
Reading Cafe Life Rome is almost as good as being there. The beautiful photos and the wonderful stories about each of these family-run Cafes and their owners transport you to the Eternal City with its sweet way of life.
An essential part of any trip to Rome is to visit the cafes, relax, enjoy the superb coffee, watch the Romani and soak up their world. This book helps you to find the best cafes in any area of the Centro Storico and should you care to, find one to make your own.

Ready for La Dolce Vita? I recommend this book to help you find it

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars where's the map, October 11, 2002
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I loved this book. The pictures and reviews definitely got me psyched for my upcoming trip to Rome. And, when in Rome, I had the best caffe and granita I could imagine.

But...the book refers to a map, that I couldn't find in my copy. A map would've been very helpful.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Rome like a local
Café Life Rome is best guidebook to unlocking the heart and soul of this city: it's cafes. After reading the delightful, in-depth stories of the cafes and their owners, we felt as... Read more
Published 22 months ago by William W. Bivins

5.0 out of 5 stars Café Life Rome
We haven't visited Rome yet to check out the 22 or so cafés reviewed in this book, but it looks to be a great guide to Rome's cafés. Read more
Published on July 6, 2007 by David Dowell

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing travel guide
I bought this book as a guide for my week-long stay in Rome, and after a few disappointing caffe's and gelaterias, I left the book in my hotel room. Read more
Published on June 2, 2006 by Christina K. Hunnicutt

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent guide to the best cafes
Use this book to do your own cafe tour in Rome. This is an excellent list of cafes and the photos and detailed descriptions make it a joy to read. Read more
Published on October 24, 2005 by Pauline Kenny

5.0 out of 5 stars It gets them all
My favorite place for coffee, with the best latte I have found in Rome is at the Teatro Marcello cafe. Read more
Published on July 11, 2005 by D.K.

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