Rome guide
  Rome city guide & tourist information
  13th May 2008
 
 

English & Irish pubs in Rome

Italian wine can be delicious and inexpensive, and one of the great pleasures of a holiday in Rome is sitting at a table outside a traditional Italian bar and watching the world go by. However, there are still times when only a pub will do. A cool, dark room, where the beer (preferrably Guinness) comes by the pint, there's football on the TV screen and the staff all come from Manchester. Fortunately, there are plenty of pubs in Rome that fit this description.

Recommended

Scholars Lounge
(Via del Plebiscito, 101/b, Tel. 06 69202208.) Possibly the most central of the Irish bars, Scholars Lounge is just round the corner from Piazza Venezia, and almost next door to Berlusconi's Rome apartment. Billing itself as an 'Irish bar & club', it's open until 3.30am.

The Albert
(Via del Traforo 132, Tel. 06 4818795.)

Druid's Den
(Via San Martino ai Monti 28, Tel. 06 48904781.) A popular pub with a familiar mascot on their sign. Just a few minutes' walk from Termini station, down Via Cavour.

The Abbey Theatre
(Via del Governo Vecchio 51-53, Tel. 06 6861341.)


Drinking in Rome