Best-of list · Date Night
The 9 best date night bars in Rome for 2026, from the Hotel de Russie garden to hidden Trastevere speakeasies. Booked, sourced and ranked by us.
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9 ranked rooms follow. How we picked is at the end of this guide.
Rome does date night through hotel gardens and hidden Trastevere rooms rather than big flashy bars, and that suits the city. We judged these on the room, the welcome and whether the bill leaves you anything for the taxi home.
Nine made the cut, from the Hotel de Russie garden to a doorbell-only speakeasy off Piazza delle Coppelle. The full Rome date night bars list and the wider date night bars worldwide guide go deeper, and the Rome bar guide covers the rest of the city.
Stravinskij sits in the courtyard garden of the Hotel de Russie off Piazza del Popolo, all mature trees and fountains. The room was redesigned in 2024 and Salvatore Calabrese rewrote the list in July 2025, fifteen drinks and four mocktails. It is not cheap and it knows it. Book the garden for aperitivo hour, when the light does half the work.
Full listing & hours →The Jerry Thomas Project on Vicolo Cellini opened in 2010 and still runs the password and the five euro membership, which is either charming or a faff depending on your mood. It is tiny, so book ahead. The bartending is genuinely World's 50 Best standard. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10pm to 4am, so go late and go sober enough to notice.
Full listing & hours →Freni e Frizioni turned twenty in 2025 and still packs the old Trastevere body shop by Piazza Trilussa every night. The draw is the buffet aperitivo, 6:30 to 9pm, where the food comes with the drink and the bill stays sensible. The crowd skews young and loud. Go early for a marble table before the spillover hits the piazza.
Full listing & hours →Argot hides on Via dei Cappellari near Campo de' Fiori, open since 2016, with a members card for the back room and live music on Friday and Saturday. Doors run 10:30pm to 4am, so it is a second-drink stop, not a first. The mixing is sharp. Go for the late jazz nights, not the early quiet.
Full listing & hours →Drink Kong in Monti is the World's 50 Best entry, neon-lit and ambitious, open 6:30pm to 2am. The team added a second, calmer venue in Campo Marzio in April 2026 with a Martini focus. Prices match the reputation. For a date the Monti room impresses; the new one suits anyone who finds the original too much.
Full listing & hours →Il Marchese near Piazza del Popolo is Europe's first amaro bar, 600 labels behind the counter and Roman pasta on the table. Open seven days, 12:30pm to 2am. It is a restaurant as much as a bar, so book a table and treat it as dinner with a serious amaro list. The carbonara holds up. Reserve at peak.
Full listing & hours →Bar Locarno turned 100 in 2025, an art nouveau room near Piazza del Popolo that Fellini once used. Nicholas Pinna runs the list, and the secret garden out back is the seat to ask for at aperitivo. The centenary cocktail, La Grande Dame, leans on the garden wisteria. It is grand and not cheap, and the garden earns it.
Club Derriere hides behind Piazza delle Coppelle, a doorbell and a sliding door, then velvet couches and live jazz singers. The Jerry Thomas crew run it, so the drinks are right. The vintage-parlour styling is laid on thick, which is rather the point. Go for a late nightcap when the singer is on, not for a quiet first round.
Full listing & hours →Pimm's Good on Via di Santa Dorotea is one of the busier Trastevere rooms, open 11am to 2am with a free shot of Fernet Branca on the way out. Live music runs jazz to blues, and the kitchen does carbonara and gricia if the date turns into dinner. It rates 4.3 across nearly 5,000 reviews. Go for the music nights.