Salotto 42

Rome, Italy

No. 49 on The World's 50 Best Bars 2010.

Salotto 42 is a cocktail bar on Piazza di Pietra, facing the columns of the second-century Temple of Hadrian a short walk from Via del Corso. Open for close to twenty years, it is run as a book bar with a lounge-like interior and serves from morning coffee through aperitivo to late cocktails.