Cafés open late in Trieste

Piazza Unità and the old town at night

Caffè degli Specchi serves until 00:00 Monday to Saturday and until 21:00 on Sundays. Its menu includes bistro dishes and chocolates made by Peratoner.²

Knulp, the bar-bookshop on Via della Madonna del Mare, keeps the same closing time, 00:00, and hosts exhibitions; it opens at 10:00 and closes on Wednesdays.³

Caffè San Marco and Viale XX Settembre

Caffè San Marco stays open until 23:00 on weekdays and 23:45 on Saturdays, and besides espresso it makes its own coffee-flavored vermouth.⁴ The avenue nearby has the Politeama Rossetti theater and the city's historic cinemas.⁵ Lettera Viva, at Viale XX Settembre 31b, a bright room with plants on its balcony, runs until 22:30 most days and 00:00 on Fridays and Saturdays, with chai latte, crêpes and cupcakes.⁶

Bar Ulpiano on Via Giustiniano and Ale Caffè on Via di Cologna close at 22:00 on weekdays, and Gran Bar Excelsior on Largo Don Francesco Bonifacio opens at 07:00 and stays open until 02:00, nineteen hours a day from Monday to Saturday.

The Borgo Teresiano

Caffè Stella Polare on Via Dante keeps the same hours every day, 07:00–22:00, at the Via Dante address where Joyce read his early stories to his brother in 1907–1908.⁷ Trieste Centrale handles about six million passenger movements a year, and DIVAN, on Via Carlo Ghega near the station, runs 07:00–22:00 daily for late arrivals.⁸ Carducci Cafe on Via Giosuè Carducci opens at 06:00 and closes at 23:30, and on Sundays it starts at 14:00.

Roiano and Barriera after dark

Kama Caffè sits on Piazza tra i Rivi, the Roiano square named in 1903 for the four streams of its valley and home to its 19th-century parish church, and opens 07:00–02:00 every day with tables outside.⁹ Bar F, on Via dei Piccardi in Barriera, opens only in the evening, 17:30–01:00 daily, with Wi-Fi and a smoke-free room.

Sunday evenings

Sunday hours are shorter, and Lettera Viva does not open on Mondays. Caffè San Marco opens 09:00–21:00 and Caffè degli Specchi closes at 21:00, while Gran Bar Excelsior does not open at all. Ale Caffè splits its Sunday into 10:00–13:30 and 17:00–20:30, Lettera Viva opens 10:00–22:30, and Kama Caffè and Bar F keep their usual late hours.