While rarer in Rome than in other cities, bars and cafes that have wi-fi, and are cool with people using a table to work on their laptop for a few hours, etc. do exist – provided customers buy food and drinks and don’t block the place during busy times. See full list below.
The list below is by no means exhaustive. If you know of a place that we haven’t mentioned that allows this common and growing practice please contact us. Or if you’re a bar or restaurant who is interested in being listed here, please contact us.
Note that attendance in such places has been significantly affected by Covid-19. Many places are still open with social distancing and mask wearing required, but attendance must be booked in advance. Call ahead to avoid disappointment.
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Map of wifi-enabled cafes in Rome
For full details please see the list below.
What about co-working spaces in Rome?
Most “co-working spaces” in Rome are either purpose-built shared or open-plan offices, or they’re desks in existing offices that rent out space. Unfortunately in most cases you can’t simply rock up, pay and get on with work: a lot of of these places demand some kind of registration or membership, and many require you either to subscribe on a weekly/monthly basis or buy a package of days in advance. This page is about casual, unofficial places so co-working spaces aren’t listed.
That said, we will make an exception for our regular haunt, which is a wonderful coworking office in San Lorenzo called The Bunker – beautifully designed inside a WWII bomb shelter, under the world’s first Montessori school. It’s an awesome space, and run by some wonderful people. And here you can in fact just rock up and pay for a day if you want. Highly recommended. Another great place is Office 21 just by Piazza Navona. Limited seating but extremely luxurious.
List of wifi-enabled cafes in Rome
Alembic
Address: Piazza in Piscinula, Trastevere
Opening hours: Mon – Thurs: 10.30am – 1.30am
Fri – Sun: 10.30am – 2am
Angelina al Porto Fluviale
Address: Via del Porto Fluviale 5/F
Nearest metro: Piramide
Opening hours: Mon – Thurs 9am – 2am
Fri – Sat: 8am – 2 am
Babù
Via Carlo Denina, 18
Opening hours: Tues-Thurs: 10am – 8pm
Fri – Sat: 10am – 9pm
Sun: closed
Barnum
Address: Via del Pellegrino, 87
Opening hours: Mon-Sat: 9am – 2am
Sun: closed
Baylon Cafè
Address: Via di S. Francesco a Ripa, 151
Opening hours: 6.30am – 2am every day
Busters Coffee Roma
Address: Commercial Gallery, Tiburtina Station
Opening hours: 6.30am – 8.30pm every day
Caffè dei Pittori
Address: Via Flaminia, 57
Opening hours: Mon-Fri: 7am – 9pm
Sat: 8am – 4pm
Sun: closed
Ex • Circus
Address: Via della Vetrina, 15
Opening hours: 8am – 2am every day
Note: we have been told that this place no longer allows working – however we suggest you check for yourself.
Faro – Luminaries of Coffee
Address: Via Piave, 55
Mon – Fri: 7am – 6pm
Sat – Sun: 8am – 5pm
Please check with the staff beforehand to check if it’s OK to work there.
Gente di San Lorenzo
Address: Via degli Aurunci, 42
Opening hours: Mon-Sat: 6.30am – 2am
Sun: closed
Il Gianfornaio (3 branches)
Addresses:
Via dei Gracchi, 179
Opening hours: Mon-Sat: 7.30am – 8.30pm
Sun: 9am – 8pm
Viale dei Parioli, 95
Opening hours: Mon-Sat: 8am – 9pm
Sun: 8am – 3pm
Via Marmorata, 159
Mon-Wed: 7.30am – 8.30pm
Thu-Sat: 7.30am – 9pm
Sun: 8am – 8.30pm
LONDON LAB
Address: Via dei Volsci, 116
Opening hours: Sat: 8am-12am
Sun-Fri: 8am-11.30pm
Materia Cafe
Address: Via Andrea Provana, 7
Nearest metro: San Giovanni
Opening hours: Mon-Thurs: 8am – 11pm
Fri: 8am – 12pm
Sat: 9am – 12pm
Sun: 9am – 4pm
Meeting Place
Address: Piazza Bologna, 1a
Nearest metro: Bologna
Opening hours: Open 7am – 3am every day
Necci
Address: Via Fanfulla da Lodi, 68
Nearest metro: Pigneto
Opening hours: Sun – Thurs: 8am – 1am
Fri-Sat: 8am – 2am
(Note that this place becomes crowded at mealtimes and it is polite not to dominate a table.)
Nevada Runners Cafè
Address: Via Magnagrecia, 110/112
Nearest metro: San Giovanni
Opening hours: Tues-Sun: 6.30am-midnight
Monday: closed
Rosemary – Terra e Sapori
Address: Via Modena, 15
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 7am-10pm
Sun: 8am-4pm
Nearest metro: Repubblica
Settembrini
Address: Via Luigi Settembrini, 21
Opening hours: Mon – Sat 7am – 1.30am
Sun 8am – 12am
Spritz & Coffee
Address: Via dei Sabelli, 109
Opening hours: Mon-Sat: 6am – 9pm
Tram Depot
Address: Via Marmorata, 13
Opening hours: 8am – 2am every day of the week
Vesper
Address: Piazza Massa Carrara, 5
Nearest metro: Bologna
Opening hours: Monday: 5pm – 12.30am
Tues – Thurs: 12pm – 12.30am
Fri: 12pm – 2am
Sat: 10am – 2am
Sun: 10am – 12.30am
(Note: not suitable for evenings as it gets very crowded)
YEAH! Pigneto
Address: Via Giovanni de Agostini, 45
Nearest metro: Pigneto
Opening hours: Mon-Sat 7.30am – 2am
Sun: 8.30am – 1am
Is there Starbucks in Rome?
Finally, after many years of will-they-won’t-they, two branches of Starbucks opened in spring of 2023 in central Rome. One is in Termini station, and the other is in the centro storico at Via della Guglia. There is also a branch in the Castel Romano designer mall to the south-west of the city, halfway to the sea, that opened in 2022.
Despite the ranting of wannabes and recently-arrived expats, Rome hasn’t fallen for a second time, and life continues as before. It is not a threat to real coffee bars, because its produce is still as sickly and OTT as before.
These branches were not created purely to cater for “ugly” tourists: the majority of customers are local people looking for the novelty a skinny venti vegan decaf soy chai latte with French hazelnut syrup boasting 3,000 calories. And after all, if they want to, why shouldn’t they? When the novelty wears off it’ll just be another fast food import.
Starbucks isn’t a threat because the entire ethos of the place is anathema to the Roman idea of cafe (“bar” in Italy) as mom-and-pop run community hub, a place to exchange news, views, and gossip, as somewhere to go for a quick slurp of tiny, inexpensive, but super-high quality coffee then to be on your way. Even though its Seattle-based founders were inspired by the cafes of Milan, with its huge cups, syrupy concoctions, burned coffee, lingering customers, overpriced cakes, impersonal atmosphere and minimum-wage staff, Starbucks is everything that Italian coffee culture isn’t.
That said many visitors to Rome, tourists and digital nomads alike, do crave the ability to sit for a few hours at a table, use the cafe’s wi-fi, and work, something that most regular bars in Rome don’t offer. Many English speakers mean this when they ask if there’s a “Starbucks-type place” nearby – but be very careful when using this particular shorthand, lest you find yourself on the receiving end of a highly colorful Roman telling-off!
