Vecchie Maniere is a bar in Oltretorrente, Parma.
Editorially verified August 27, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Must order: Whatever Italian craft beer leads the chalkboard that night.
Food program: Boards and toasted things for the beer
Tip: Check their pages for the live sets; on music nights the courtyard fills by 21:30 and the taps queue after each set.
Address: Borgo Pier Antonio Bernabei 40/A, 43125 Parma
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.
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.
BANG Club stacks Parma's late weekend into one address on Via Ugolotti: dinner and pizza early, cocktails after, DJ sets running to three in the morning.
Signature drink: Cocktails carried from dinner into the DJ set
Food: Pizza and dinner service before the club hours
Order: Dinner early, then hold a cocktail through the first DJ set.
Tip: Friday and Saturday are the club nights; midweek it is a lunch room, so check the programme before planning the evening.
Birreria Chelsea holds its long-running beer-and-panini corner on Via Emilio Lepido in Parma, a neighbourhood pub that opens when the city eats dinner.
Signature drink: Pints with panini rounds
Food: Panini and pub snacks
Order: A pint and a hot panino, the house pairing since forever.
Tip: It runs evenings only from 19:30; Sunday is a working night here when much of Parma's east side goes dark.
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.
