Marziali Leone Caffè Srl - Torrefazione caffè dal 1922

you're on via s. gennaro, a quiet residential stretch in the northern reaches of rome where the city loosens its grip a little and everyday life takes over. this isn't the centro storico, no tourists spilling off cobblestones, no queues for the famous bars. marziali leone caffè has been roasting here since 1922, which means they were doing this before specialty coffee had a name, before third-wave anything, before the industry invented ways to talk about what they were already practicing. over a century of roasting in one city accumulates a particular kind of local trust that you can't manufacture. if you find yourself in the northern quartieri and you want something genuinely roman rather than a reimagined version of it, via s. gennaro, 56 is a reasonable place to end your afternoon.