Sant Eustachio

#coffeeneuring2026 No. 4; 6.6km round-trip Down in the centro, there are two bars of great note, and everyone has a strong preference for one or the other. No clear winner. Me, I prefer Sant Eustachio. Maybe it’s because I was introduced to it by my lost Italian friend, who would take dessert here after a late dinner downtown, a large espresso with a marron glacé, the sweet and the bitter offsetting one another perfectly provided, of course, that you remember to order your coffee amaro, bitter. Sant Eustachio is the only place I know in Rome that pre-sugars your coffee as they make it, unless you specify otherwise and insist. You can maybe make out the sign on the edge of the counter, below. That photo also shows the somewhat tacky barrier on the side of the coffee machine, to hide what is actually going on back there. It has been there as long as I have been going there. I have no idea what they have to hide. As for the coffee, a double is traditional, and I can say that it has the…