Ai Tre Scalini

Monti’s Ai Tre Scalini is a traditional wine bar, known for a broad range of wines alongside a good choice of beer. Drinks here run from wine poured by the glass to craft beers, Menabrea among them, as well as unhurried aperitifs. Romans and visitors both gather in the room, and the tone is easygoing and sociable, suited to an evening out with friends. The bar fits into the night at either end of dinner, drawing people before they sit down to eat and again when the meal is finished.

Ask for wine by the glass or a Menabrea and make the bar your stop before dinner, after it, or both, since people who live in Rome find the room works at either moment. In Monti, Ai Tre Scalini is the wine stop residents go to by default, and their advice is simply to join them: drink in the bar the neighbourhood has already settled on.