Books, wine, and vinyl in one tiny room beside the Conservatorio. Three decades of cheap drinks, a different DJ most nights, and the best loitering in the centro storico.
Perditempo means time waster, and the room delivers on the name: a bar that is also a bookshop that is also a record shop, on Via San Pietro a Maiella beside the Conservatorio. Petit Fute files it as a bar; Yelp files it under vinyl records; both are right.
It has anchored this corner of the centro storico for around 30 years. You come for a cheap glass and stay because the shelves and the soundtrack keep giving you reasons.
Inside, shelves of books and records press in on a small counter, and reviewers call the selection accurate and far from obvious. A handful of chairs go early.
Like every good bar on this stretch, the room extends onto the street, where Conservatorio students and their instruments fill the gaps between locals.
Students from the Conservatorio next door, musicians after rehearsal, and the alternative end of the neighborhood mix with travelers who found the place by accident. Wanderlog's aggregate calls the crowd diverse and the mood friendly.
Weekends bring DJ sets and a fuller street. The loud music and limited seats are the only repeated gripes, and neither counts as news here.
What to order
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A glass of honest wine
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A bottled beer for the street
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Another, when the DJ changes the mood