Caffè Damosso

For years now, the Damosso café-coffee shop, a veritable institution in the Vanchiglietta neighbourhood, has adopted the concept, fashionable today, of specialty coffee: hence quality control, which involves the owners sampling and tasting coffees, selecting origins with a preference for small producers who attach importance to every stage in the cultivation and processing of their coffee. The single origins come from Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, India, Santo Domingo, Tanzania and Papua New Guinea. This world tour is rounded off by selections of arabica, with lines specifically for cafés and restaurants. Daily coffee toasting, performed over a naked flame with a machine nicknamed “Biricchina” (Naughty Girl), is on view to customers.

A new product that deserves a mention is Damosso coffee liqueur, made by macerating particularly aromatic coffee beans in alcohol for at least 50 days. It is 22° proof and perfect at the end of a meal. The café has been run by the Damosso family since 1948. You can pop in for a quick coffee at the counter, or if you prefer, you can sit down comfortable at one of the tables and enjoy the refreshment of your choice with, for example, coffee-flavoured plain chocolate-chip cookies.

Closed Saturday afternoon.

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