Drink Kong is a speakeasy in Monti, Rome.
Editorially verified May 20, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Tell the bartender bitter, dry or sweet and let them choose; the menu is a starting point, not a script. The Jungle Room runs live music most weekends.
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Experience a fun pasta and spritz cooking class in Rome, where you'll make fresh pasta, mix 3 cocktails (Aperol, Hugo, and Limoncello Spritz) and learn how to prepare ...
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Join a rooftop cooking class in Rome and learn to make fresh pasta from scratch. Prepare 2 authentic Roman dishes, sip on 3 classic Italian Spritz cocktails, and enjoy...
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Address: Piazza di San Martino ai Monti 8, 00184 Roma, Rome
Coming Out opened in 2001 across the street from the Colosseum and anchors the Via di San Giovanni in Laterano gay strip, with a cafe-bar that runs from morning coffee through late-night karaoke and drag programming that fills the small dance floor on weekends.
TipAlmost never closes, with a 07:00-05:30 daily cycle that makes it the regular after-hours on the strip. Drag on Sundays and occasional Wednesdays.
The Race Club hides a 1930s-styled basement under a Via Labicana shopfront dressed as a mechanic's workshop, with brick vaults, armchairs and a list of ten signatures alongside the classics, including a charity drink series that funds chosen causes.
TipFive euro membership at the door; the basement room is small so book a banquette on weekends. The upstairs garage is the cover, the cocktails are downstairs.
Argot tucks a cavernous downstairs room into the back streets behind Campo de' Fiori, run by three Roman owners as a salotto di casa with dim lighting, kitsch furniture and a weekend live music slot alongside the cocktail programme.
TipAnnual membership card required at the door; the live music runs weekends and pushes the room past 02:00. No kitchen so eat first.
La Punta is the Trastevere agaveria from the Jerry Thomas Project team, with one of Italy's deepest tequila and mezcal back bars paired with a tight Mexican-inspired food menu, and a tucked-in feel that reads more speakeasy than bar.
TipSmall room, no street signage, reservations advised on weekends. Ask the bartender to walk you through the agave list; the back bar is the whole point.
Freni e Frizioni has run a Trastevere ex-garage at Via del Politeama since 2007, with a small inside room, an aperitivo buffet from 19:00 and the river-side piazza outside that fills with a young Roman crowd well past midnight.
TipSix euro cocktails through aperitivo include the vegetarian buffet, the cheapest way to drink in Trastevere. The piazza in front is the room past 22:00.
Coming Out opened in 2001 across the street from the Colosseum and anchors the Via di San Giovanni in Laterano gay strip, with a cafe-bar that runs from morning coffee through late-night karaoke and drag programming that fills the small dance floor on weekends.
TipAlmost never closes, with a 07:00-05:30 daily cycle that makes it the regular after-hours on the strip. Drag on Sundays and occasional Wednesdays.
L'Alibi opened on the slopes of Monte Testaccio at the end of the 1970s and is Italy's longest-running gay club, with three rooms, a rooftop terrace and a programme that swings between drag, house and commercial nights through the weekend.
TipThe terrace runs through the warm months and is the reason to come; the inside rooms can be hot and packed past 02:00. Tessera at the door.
