Birreria Chelsea is a bar in San Lazzaro, Parma.
Editorially verified August 27, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Must order: A pint and a hot panino, the house pairing since forever.
Food program: Panini and pub snacks
Tip: It runs evenings only from 19:30; Sunday is a working night here when much of Parma's east side goes dark.
Address: Via Marco Emilio Lepido 22, 43123 Parma
Arte e Gusto runs one of Parma's fuller aperitivo buffets on Via Emilia Est, a refined bar-restaurant hybrid priced around twelve euro a round.
Signature drink: Aperitivo with the buffet spread
Food: Buffet aperitivo and a full menu
Order: The aperitivo round with a full pass of the buffet.
Tip: Come hungry at 18:30; the buffet is generous enough that plenty of locals let it replace dinner outright.
Arte e Gusto runs one of Parma's fuller aperitivo buffets on Via Emilia Est, a refined bar-restaurant hybrid priced around twelve euro a round.
Signature drink: Aperitivo with the buffet spread
Food: Buffet aperitivo and a full menu
Order: The aperitivo round with a full pass of the buffet.
Tip: Come hungry at 18:30; the buffet is generous enough that plenty of locals let it replace dinner outright.
Bastian Contrario Public House taps its own Parma-brewed beers on Strada Inzani: eleven lines plus two pumps, from Miss Matilda to the rotating one-offs.
Signature drink: House-brewed Miss Matilda on tap
Food: Pub kitchen from the brewery's own menu
Order: Miss Matilda first, then whatever rotates on the hand pumps.
Tip: The brewery's taproom and kitchen live at Via Rapallo, with a 1969 trailer as its roving festival bar; this pub is the nightly, no-booking way to the tanks.
Vecchie Maniere fills a Bernabei courtyard in Parma's Oltretorrente with craft taps and live-music nights, the neighbourhood pub the district deserves.
Signature drink: Rotating Italian craft taps
Food: Boards and toasted things for the beer
Order: Whatever Italian craft beer leads the chalkboard that night.
Tip: Check their pages for the live sets; on music nights the courtyard fills by 21:30 and the taps queue after each set.
Highlander Pub is the Oltretorrente's veteran ale room on Via La Spezia, with Friday evening beer tastings and burgers served past midnight.
Signature drink: Cask ales and Friday tasting flights
Food: Burgers and pub plates
Order: A cask ale with the house burger, late.
Tip: Friday's guided beer tastings are the regulars' fixture; book ahead or come Monday to Thursday when the room breathes.
Vanissa C'est la Vie mixes speakeasy-style cocktails behind an easy-to-miss door on Strada Nuova in Parma, all velvet corners and bespoke drink briefs.
Signature drink: Bespoke cocktails mixed to the guest's brief
Food: Small accompaniments
Order: Tell the bartender three flavours you like and take what comes.
Tip: The room is intimate and fills on weekend nights; Tuesday to Thursday you get the bartender's full attention.
Barino works Piazza XXV Aprile in Parma from breakfast espresso to two-in-the-morning spritz, with pizza and a long wine shelf holding the middle.
Signature drink: Spritz rounds with pizza slices
Food: Pizza and light bites
Order: An evening spritz with a pizza to share on the square.
Tip: It faces the park strip near the station side of town, so it collects the pre-train coffee crowd and the post-dinner one alike.
