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The wine bars in Centro Storico give Rome its richest few streets for drinking by the glass, with the Pantheon, Piazza Navona and the Spanish Steps all a short walk apart. Il Convivio Troiani keeps a cellar of some 3,600 labels on a lane off Via dei Coronari, while Imàgo, at the top of the Spanish Steps, opens around 90 wines by the glass. Behind the Pantheon, Gigi Rigolatto pours Giulio Ferrari's Founder's Reserve on a seventh-floor rooftop, and Oro Bistrot serves Etna Nerello Mascalese facing Trajan's Column. Across these 15 addresses the glasses run from Ischia whites and amphora Ribolla Gialla to mature Brunello and Grand Cru Champagne. From Via Giulia to Via Sistina, the old city is pouring beautifully tonight.
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Il Ristorante, Niko Romito Roma
Restaurant · Il Ristorante - Niko Romito Roma, Via di Ripetta, 73 Roma
Via di Ripetta runs south from Piazza del Popolo towards the river, and halfway along it the Bvlgari hotel looks straight across Piazza Augusto Imperatore at the great round tomb of Rome's first emperor. Climb to the fifth floor and Niko Romito's restaurant turns that ancient drum into a backdrop for the evening, from a terrace that is hard to leave once the light softens. For a night in the northern centro storico, it makes the grandest opening act: a glass here before walking down towards Piazza Navona. The list reaches past 60 wines by the glass, older vintages included, chosen by Fabrizio Gismondi. Now is the moment for Giulio Ferrari's Founder's Reserve on the terrace, followed by San Leonardo, the Trentino Dolomites blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmenère and Merlot, or Gravner's skin-macerated Ribolla Gialla from amphora.
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Imàgo - Hassler Roma
Restaurant · Piazza della Trinità dei Monti, 6, 00187 Roma RM
At the very top of the Spanish Steps, beside the twin towers of Trinità dei Monti, the Hassler has watched over the Tridente for generations, and Imàgo occupies its sixth floor. From the tables, the domes of the old city fall away towards St Peter's, which is why this is the room to book for the last glass of a day spent around Via Condotti and Piazza di Spagna. Alessio Bricoli, who has run the wine program since 2017 with sommelier Roman Popovych, keeps around 90 wines open by the glass, setting celebrated labels in several vintages next to small finds. Andrea Antonini's tasting menus suit long pairings. The two current highlights pull in opposite directions: Cotarella's oak-aged Ferentano, a revived Lazio white with real weight, and a Tignanello that marries Sangiovese with Cabernet.
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Acquolina Ristorante
Restaurant · Via del Vantaggio, 14, 00186 Roma RM
Via del Vantaggio is one of the quiet lanes threading between Via di Ripetta and Via del Corso just short of Piazza del Popolo, and The First Roma hotel gives Acquolina a calm ground-floor setting there, away from the shopping crowds. Daniele Lippi's kitchen leans on fish handled with a creative touch, and the room makes a natural dinner stop at the northern edge of the centro storico, close enough to the piazza for a stroll afterwards. The by-the-glass list runs to around 40 wines, with native Italian and Mediterranean grapes doing most of the talking. Right now the pours to ask for are Bollinger's 2015 Grande Année, a broad and creamy vintage Champagne, and Kalimera 2023 from Cenatiempo, a citrus-and-herb white that carries the volcanic soils of Ischia into the glass.
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Il Convivio Troiani
Restaurant · Vicolo dei Soldati, 31, 00186 Roma RM
Vicolo dei Soldati is a narrow lane just off Via dei Coronari, the antiques street that curves north of Piazza Navona, and Il Convivio Troiani has given it a reason for wine lovers to find it since 1990. The Michelin Guide notes an Amatriciana kept on the menu since 1996, but the deeper draw is the cellar of roughly 3,600 labels with verticals reaching back through the decades. That depth makes this the district's essential address for anyone after mature Italian wine, best saved for a slow dinner after an evening walk past the piazza's fountains. Giacomo Scatolini and Massimo Troiani pour more than 40 by the glass. Current treasures include a 1988 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva from Greppone Mazzi, still lively at almost 40, Kurni 2006 from the Marche and Gravner's 1994 Rujno.
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Anima
Restaurant · Salita di S. Nicola da Tolentino, 14, 00187 Roma RM
Salita di San Nicola da Tolentino climbs from Piazza Barberini towards the old Ludovisi quarter, putting The Rome EDITION within a short walk of Bernini's Triton fountain and the top of Via Veneto. Anima, the hotel's restaurant, carries the Dolce Vita end of the centre into a more modern register, with Antonio Gentile cooking a Roman base sharpened by Neapolitan memory. It works best as a dinner reservation that lets the evening drift on to the hotel bar. Benito Colonna, a Knight of Champagne, runs the floor, and sommelier Aires Da Silva keeps around 20 wines open by the glass so the tasting menus can be paired precisely. Three pours mark the current list: the Asili cru Barbaresco from Ceretto, Dom Pérignon from a single vintage, and a Montrachet Grand Cru from Louis Jadot, a rare white to find by the glass.
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Cielo Bar
Restaurant · Via Sistina, 69, 00187 Roma RM
Via Sistina leads from the top of the Spanish Steps towards Piazza Barberini, and Hotel de la Ville stands at its western end, where the street opens onto views across the whole centro storico. Its sixth-floor terrace bar is the casual half of the rooftop, a place for aperitivo with cicchetti rather than a full meal, and it stays open from lunch until midnight. For anyone shopping around Via Condotti or climbing the Steps, it is the obvious place to pause as the sun drops behind St Peter's. Antonio Festa, thirteen years with Rocco Forte, sets a list of more than 20 by the glass built around sparkling wine, from Franciacorta and Trento DOC to Champagne. Bollinger's full-bodied Cuvée Rosé is the pour for sunset, while Azelia's 2021 Barolo suits the cooler evening.
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Cielo Restaurant
Restaurant · Via Sistina, 69, 00187 Roma RM
One floor above the terrace bar on Via Sistina, Cielo Restaurant is the rooftop of Hotel de la Ville, perched where the Tridente meets the slopes of the Pincio and looking down over Piazza di Spagna. Chef Fulvio Pierangelini oversees the Mediterranean cooking, and the room is the dinner counterpart to the drinks downstairs, a place to sit through the sunset with a full menu rather than snacks. In a district known for shopping streets and grand hotels, it gives the area a serious wine address with a view. Antonio Festa keeps more than 20 wines open by the glass, from rosé and Franciacorta to dessert wines. The Italian reds are the reason to come now: Sassicaia 2021, the Bolgheri blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, and Gaja's single-variety Nebbiolo Barbaresco 2021.
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Gigi Rigolatto Roma
Restaurant · Piazza della Minerva, 69, 00186 Roma RM
Piazza della Minerva sits directly behind the Pantheon, with Bernini's marble elephant carrying an obelisk at its centre, and Gigi Rigolatto crowns the hotel above it, Orient Express La Minerva, from its seventh-floor roof. The dome of the Pantheon feels close enough to touch from the terrace, which makes this the most dramatic aperitivo perch in the heart of the old city. The Saint-Tropez brand brings Art Deco styling and a playful nod to 1960s Rome, and the evening tends to start with cocktails before moving to Mediterranean plates. Benedetta Pratesi oversees 24 wines by the glass, with Burgundy, Barbaresco, German Riesling and Champagne in the mix. The bottle to ask for now is Giulio Ferrari's Founder's Reserve 2015, a pure Chardonnay Trento DOC aged for close to ten years on its lees.
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Idylio by Apreda
Restaurant · Piazza dei Caprettari, 56/60, 00186 Roma RM
Piazza dei Caprettari is a small square tucked between the Pantheon and Sant'Eustachio, a minute from the coffee bars that crowd that corner of the centro storico, and The Pantheon Hotel houses Idylio by Apreda at street level. Francesco Apreda's cooking brings the spice of years spent working in Asia to Mediterranean fish and vegetables, and the blue-and-orange dining room makes a quieter alternative to the busier trattorias nearby. It suits a dinner between Piazza Navona and the Pantheon, when the crowds thin. Patrizio Pizzi pours more than 20 wines by the glass, and his range reaches from Jura and Alsace to Barossa, Rioja, Sherry and Lazio. The current pairings to try are Ceretto's 2021 Barolo, all cherry, rose and firm tannin, and Umani Ronchi's 2021 Verdicchio Riserva from the Castelli di Jesi.
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La Minerva Bar
Restaurant · Piazza della Minerva, 69, 00186 Roma RM
Few rooms in the centre are as close to the Pantheon as the ground floor of Orient Express La Minerva, whose seventeenth-century palazzo shares the same piazza as Bernini's elephant obelisk. La Minerva Bar sits beneath a restored glass-and-iron roof, with Rinaldo Rinaldi's statue of the goddess as its centrepiece, and it serves from breakfast to aperitivo. That all-day rhythm makes it a useful retreat between sightseeing stops, somewhere to sit out the midday heat or the evening crowds. Because the bar can draw on the bottles held by every restaurant in the hotel, upwards of 20 wines can be poured by the glass at once, chosen by Benedetta Pratesi and changed with the seasons. The current recommendation is Château de Tracy's 2023 Pouilly-Fumé Mademoiselle de T, a crisp, flinty Sauvignon Blanc from young Loire vines.
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Nomos Ante
Restaurant · Via di S. Paolo alla Regola, 3, 00186 Roma RM, Italia
Via di San Paolo alla Regola runs through the Regola district, the quieter southern edge of the centro storico between Campo de' Fiori, the old Jewish Ghetto and Ponte Sisto, where Nomos Ante is the restaurant of the Nomos Hotel. Roman-born chef Giulio Zoli cooks contemporary food rooted in the city, and the address suits an evening that begins with aperitivo on the Campo before slipping away from the crowds for dinner. Restaurant manager Antonio Cannoniero, formerly of Il Pagliaccio and Patrick Guilbaud in Dublin, shares the wine work with sommelier Federica Bilucaglia. The cellar holds over 500 labels, and around 20 rotate by the glass. Two current pours show its taste for rarity: Lunarossa's Quartara 2017, a Fiano fermented in terracotta amphorae, and Ronco Calino's 2020 Franciacorta Nature, made without dosage.
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Oro Bistrot
Restaurant · VIALE CARSO 23
Oro Bistrot sits on a rooftop at the southern edge of the centro storico, where the old city gives way to the archaeological heart of Rome, and its terrace looks out over Trajan's Column, the Imperial Forums and the white bulk of the Vittoriano. For a night out in this corner of the centre, it is the place to watch the ruins turn gold before heading down towards Monti or Piazza Venezia. The cooking draws on Rome and on Sicily, where the chef grew up. Sommelier Giorgia Capriotti, a University of Tuscia oenology graduate, keeps about 22 wines open by the glass, leaning on Lazio and Sicilian bottles and on small, little-known producers. The pour of the moment is Tasca d'Almerita's Pianodario 2021, an Etna Nerello Mascalese with a Pinot Noir lightness.
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Ristorante Il Pagliaccio
Restaurant · Via dei Banchi Vecchi, 129/a, 00186 Roma RM
Via dei Banchi Vecchi was once the street of Rome's moneylenders, and today it links Chiesa Nuova with the Tiber end of Via Giulia through one of the most handsome stretches of the old centre. Il Pagliaccio is the address that put this quarter on the fine-dining map, and Anthony Genovese's well-travelled tasting menus reward an evening given over entirely to dinner. Star Wine List counts well over a thousand references, and Luca Belleggia, restaurant and wine director, keeps around 30 of them in rotation by the glass. Small growers, older vintages and rarities from Italy and France set the tone. The current glasses are a fine reason to book: Gravner's 2013 Ribolla Gialla, fermented on its skins in buried clay amphorae, and Baron de Brane 2010, the Margaux second wine of Château Brane-Cantenac.
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Alfredo alla Scrofa
Restaurant · Via della Scrofa, 104/a, 00186 Roma RM
Via della Scrofa runs north from the Senate at Palazzo Madama towards Via di Ripetta, a few minutes on foot from both Piazza Navona and the Pantheon, and Alfredo alla Scrofa has held its place on it since 1914. Rooms given over to its Dolce Vita heyday sit above an old Roman cellar, which makes it a lively, unpretentious stop for anyone working through the historic centre. Sommelier Alessandro Novelli, WSET-trained in London, builds a list that pairs naturally with the house fettuccine. It was one of the first restaurants in Italy with its own private-label Champagne, a Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs still served by the glass. Alongside it, look for Monteriolo Chardonnay poured for its fortieth anniversary and I Gaggioli, a single-vineyard Morellino di Scansano made in just 3,000 bottles.
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Per Me Giulio Terrinoni
Restaurant · Vicolo del Malpasso, 9, 00186 Roma RM
Vicolo del Malpasso is a short lane connecting Via Giulia with Via dei Banchi Vecchi, deep in the Renaissance quarter near the Tiber, and Per Me Giulio Terrinoni fills a sequence of small, pared-back rooms along it. Terrinoni's Michelin-starred cooking is built on the sea, and in summer a few outdoor tables let dinner spill onto the lane. After a walk along Via Giulia, it makes the perfect fish supper with a glass in hand. Maître sommelier Fabrizio Picano keeps 13 wines open by the glass, six of them red, plus a lone German Spätburgunder, with Liguria, Abruzzo, Sardinia and Lazio all represented. He also gives Champagne a section of its own. The glasses to try now are a 2018 Brut Nature Franciacorta from Enrico Gatti and a 2016 Dolcetto from San Fereolo in Dogliani, a mature red that pairs surprisingly well with fish.
View Full DetailsFrequently Asked Questions
What are the best wine bars in Centro Storico?
The Coravin Guide lists 15 venues in Rome. Il Ristorante, Niko Romito Roma and Imàgo - Hassler Roma are rated Exceptional (more than 60 wines by the glass); Acquolina Ristorante and Il Convivio Troiani are rated Outstanding (41 to 60); 9 venues are rated Excellent (20 to 40), among them Anima, Cielo Bar, Cielo Restaurant and Gigi Rigolatto Roma; Alfredo alla Scrofa and Per Me Giulio Terrinoni are Greg’s Hidden Gems, a small by-the-glass list chosen for inspiration rather than scale.
Which wine bar in Centro Storico has the deepest by-the-glass list?
Imàgo - Hassler Roma pours 90 wines by the glass, the deepest list in this guide, followed by Il Ristorante, Niko Romito Roma (60), Acquolina Ristorante (40) and Il Convivio Troiani (40).
Where can I drink natural and organic wine by the glass in Rome?
Il Ristorante, Niko Romito Roma, Imàgo - Hassler Roma, Anima and Ristorante Il Pagliaccio give natural, organic or biodynamic bottles a place on their by-the-glass lists.
Which Rome wine bars pour Champagne by the glass?
Il Ristorante, Niko Romito Roma, Acquolina Ristorante, Anima and Cielo Bar are among the 10 venues here that keep Champagne or serious sparkling wine open by the glass.
Which wine bars in Rome have a terrace or outdoor seating?
Il Ristorante, Niko Romito Roma, Cielo Bar, Cielo Restaurant and Gigi Rigolatto Roma are among the 6 venues here that offer a terrace, courtyard or waterfront setting alongside their by-the-glass lists.
Which Rome wine bars have a sommelier on the floor?
Imàgo - Hassler Roma, Anima, Nomos Ante and Oro Bistrot are among the 7 venues here that have a named sommelier or wine team guiding the pours.
Which hotel bars and restaurants in Rome are in the guide?
Il Ristorante, Niko Romito Roma, Acquolina Ristorante, Anima and Cielo Bar are among the 9 venues here that sit inside hotels and are listed here on the strength of their by-the-glass program.
How We Select Venues
The Coravin Guide selects venues based on the depth of their wine-by-the-glass program.
Each venue is rated on how many wines it keeps open by the glass: Exceptional for more than 60, Outstanding for 41 to 60, Excellent for 20 to 40, and Greg’s Hidden Gems for small lists chosen for inspiration rather than scale. In this guide that gives two Exceptional, two Outstanding, nine Excellent and two Hidden Gems. The deepest list is at Imàgo - Hassler Roma, with 90 wines open at any one time.
No venue pays to be included. Ratings reflect the overall standard of the wine-by-the-glass experience, not the broader dining or hospitality offering.
Wine by the glass turns a single evening into a tasting flight, and the wine bars in Rome above show how far a thoughtful by-the-glass program can travel — from grower Champagne to bio-dynamic reds. Use the map to plan a crawl by neighbourhood, and open each venue for opening hours, the current pour list, and booking details.